Procedures for Offering a New Course

To offer any new course at UPNG, the following procedures must be completed by 1 June of the academic year preceding the year in which the course is to be offered. All new courses require the approval of School or Centre Board, and Academic Senate.

Steps:

1. Complete all of the appropriate sections of this application form.
2. Complete a UPNG Course Outline.
3. Submit both documents to your School Board in the form of a proposal.
4. After approval by the School Board, the Executive Dean will present the proposal to the Senate for final approval.

Application to Offer a New Course

1 Submitting Division

2 Course Title

3 Course Type, Credits, and Award

3.1 Undergraduate or Postgraduate

3.2 Credits

3.3 Certificate or Professional Qualification awarded (if any)

4 Divisions Offering Course

4.1 School or Centre

4.1.1 Academic staff

4.1.2 Support letter from Executive Dean or Centre Director

4.1.3 Support letter from Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies

4.2 Other Contributing Schools, Centres, and Institutions

4.2.1 Support letters from Executive Deans and Centre Directors

4.2.2 Support letters from Institutional Heads

5 Rationale for Offering Course

5.1 General Role in Study Programs at UPNG

5.2 Contributions to PNG's national needs, and to the University and School Strategic Plans

6 Intended Students and Projected Enrolments

6.1 Description and Size of Targeted Consumer Groups

6.2 Enrolments for the First Five Years

7 Required Resources

7.1 Staff

7.2 Teaching and Laboratory Facilities

7.3 Information Technology and Library Resources

7.4 Specialty Resources and Equipment

8 Proposed Fees and Cost Recovery (If offered on fee-paying basis)

8.1 Course Costs

8.2 Student Fees

8.3 Cost Recovery Model

8.3.1 Staff salaries

8.3.2 General overhead

8.3.3 Life costs for repair and replacement of specialty resources

9 Description of Course Development Process

9.1 Review of Current Offerings and Decision to Develop a New Course

9.2 Contributions from Industry and other Stakeholder Organisations

10 Course Description

10.1 General Course Description

10.2 Assumed Student Knowledge Base

10.2.1 Description

10.2.2 Pre-requisite Courses

10.3 Course Objectives

10.3.1 Description

10.3.2 Contribution to UPNG's Graduate Profile

10.3.3 Contribution to Graduate Profile of specific study programs (Discuss the study programs for which the course is required, or describe the course's role as an elective.)

10.4 Learning Activity Structure and Delivery

10.4.1 Schedule of Learning Activities

10.4.2 Matrix illustrating that Learning Activities meet Objectives. (List the objectives across the top by number, list the learning activities down the side, and check all that apply.)

10.5 Options for Flexible Delivery

(Attach letter of support from the Director of IDCE)

11. Quality Assurance Strategy

11.1 Internal Review Mechanisms

11.1.1 Support letter from Director of Teaching and Learning Centre

11.2 External Review Mechanisms (Including professional bodies if appropriate).

12. Provisions for Students with Special Needs

12.1. International Students

12.2. Disabled Students