Course Action Request Forms are submitted on-line via the Course Inventory Management System (CIMS). 

CIMS is designed to be used by staff and faculty to manage the approval process for UCLA courses. To use CIMS, you must have a BOL or AIS account. The application is designed to be used with the Internet Explorer browser. For questions or assistance, call the Registrar’s Office at 67045 or 64055. 

Subcommittees

The Council has four main policy subcommittees: the Committee on Admissions, the Committee on Curriculum, Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes, and the Committee on Student Development.  In addition, there is an Administrative Committee of the Council.

• Committee on Admissions:  The Committee on Admissions meets with the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (CUARS) to determine standards and criteria for undergraduate admission in accordance with the provisions of SBL 311.C.1; and monitors campus procedures for recruitment, outreach, and informational services to schools.
• Committee on Curriculum:  By delegation from the Undergraduate Council, the committee holds course approval authority. It will review proposals for majors, minors, concentrations, and other undergraduate initiatives before sending them to the Council for action. In the areas of innovative education, it will work with Faculty Executive Committees (FECs), with the Office of Instructional Development (OID) and its oversight committee, the Chancellor’s Committee on Instructional Improvement Programs (CCIIP), and with the Office of the Provost and other relevant entities.
• Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes:  The Committee is responsible for the development of awards policy to further the aims of undergraduate education. The Honors, Awards and Prizes Committee will select the Regents Scholarships, the President’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF’s), the Teague-Melville-Elliot Prizes, and will interview candidates for other scholarships such as the Wal-Mart scholarship or Women in Communication Award.
• Committee on Student Development:  The Committee develops strategies and policies to improve and enrich student intellectual and academic life and foster a sense of academic community at UCLA.  The focus is on undergraduate life outside the classroom and on developing connections between course work and extracurricular activity and between life on campus and in the community.
• Administrative Committee:  Consisting of the UgC Council Chair and Vice-Chair, the subcommittee chairs and co-chairs, and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, previews the program review reports submitted by review teams and establishes the agenda for Council meetings.

Membership

The Council consists of 25 members: 21 appointed members with vote and 4 ex-officio members without vote as follows - the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Director of the Office of Instructional Development, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools.  In addition, there are four undergraduate student representatives and two graduate student representatives, appointed in accordance with Bylaw 45.  The Chair and Vice Chair are designated by the Committee on Committees.

Also, please refer to relevant Appendices.

For further information, contact:
Tom Nykiel, Principal Policy Analyst
(310) 825-1194
nykiel@senate.ucla.edu