Review guidelines for submitting proposals, access links to proposal forms, and find information about approval paths for courses.
New course proposals
Please submit a new course proposal form to propose a new course (at McGill or with/by another institution).
Guidelines and forms
- Guidelines: New course proposal
- Form: New course proposal (Minerva)
- Form: Only for new subject codes, course split, or Continuing Studies courses
- Completed form example
- Course consultation form
- Consultation report summary table
How do new courses impact a program?
- New course in a new program: Must receive approval prior to, or at the same time as the new program.
- Required course: If revisions to a program are required (i.e., deletion of a required course, increase in required credits, etc.), a program revision form will be required along with the course proposal form.
- Complementary course: Does not require a separate program revision form. Simply include a notation in the Course proposal form and the consultation report that this course is complementary in a program (include complete program name).
Approval timeline
New courses take approximately 2 - 4 months to be approved. teaching_programs.provost [at] mcgill.ca (Contact us) for status updates.
Approval path for new courses
Type of proposal | Unit approval | Central approval | |
|---|---|---|---|
Unit, Faculty | APTAP | APC* | |
New course | ✔️ | ✔️ |
|
New course taught with/by another institution | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Existing courses: Revisions, retirements, and reinstatements
Please submit a course revision form to propose revisions to an existing course, as well as for course retirements and, in some cases, reinstatements.
Guidelines and forms
- Guidelines: Course revision
- Form: Course revision (Minerva)
- Form: Only for new subject codes, course split, or Continuing Studies courses
- Completed form example
- Consultation form
- Consultation report summary table
Do course revisions require program revisions?
- Required course: If revisions to a program are required (e.g., deletion of a required course), a program revision proposal will be required along with the course revision form.
- Complementary course: Does not always require a separate program revision form. You could include a notation in the course revision form and the consultation report that this course is complementary in a program (include complete program name). teaching_programs.provost [at] mcgill.ca (Contact us with questions).
Course revisions
- Course title
- Course weight
- Course number / subject code
- Course description
- Prerequisites, corequisites
- Schedule type-course activity, hours per week course activity
- Restrictions, slot status, supplementary information
- Administering Faculty / unit / teaching department
- Modality (online, hybrid, in person)
- Additional course fee
Course retirements and reinstatements
Please submit a course revision form for:
- Course retirement
- Reinstatement of a retired course – with modifications
Please teaching_programs.provost [at] mcgill.ca (contact us) for:
- Reinstatement of a retired course – no modifications
Approval timeline
- Revisions of existing courses take approximately 2 - 4 months to be approved.
- Retirements and reinstatements take approximately 1 - 2 months to be approved.
- teaching_programs.provost [at] mcgill.ca (Contact us) for status updates.
Approval paths for revisions and retirements of existing courses
Type of proposal | Unit approval | Fee approval | Central approval |
|---|---|---|---|
Unit, Faculty | Student Fee Advisory Commitee | APTAP | |
| Revision to existing course | ✔️ |
| ✔️ |
| Additional course fee | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Change in grading(Approved teaching_programs.provost [at] mcgill.ca (via memo) to APC , does not require a course revision form) | ✔️ |
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| Course retirement | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Reinstatement of retired course(if no modifications required, teaching_programs.provost [at] mcgill.ca (contact us) instead of submitting a form) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |