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Active teaching faculty and authorized staff use the Course Inventory Management System (CIMS) to create new courses, revise existing courses, delete obsolete courses, and submit Fiat Lux seminars, Honors seminars, and variable topics sections. Course approval requests are processed through the Course Inventory Management System (CIMS), a secure online application that collects course data and routes it through the approval process. CIMS allows users to request approval for new courses, revised…
Step-by-step instructions for routing course forms in the Course Inventory Management System. CIMS Routing Help Save Form When you are first initiating a CIMS form you can save it and come back to it later by going to “Retrieve Saved Forms” on the Main Menu. Once a form has been routed to anyone, including yourself, if you want to save changes, route the form to yourself and retrieve it from “Courses requiring my approval” on the CIMS main menu. Initial Routing Click the "Route Form Now"…
Available guides cover graduate and undergraduate course and program approval, proposal reviews, course numbering, and more.
Guide to the official standardization of course listings to recognize entry-level research experiences as well as advanced departmental research seminars and upper-division tutorials. The Undergraduate Council (UgC) approved the standardization of course listings to recognize entry-level research experiences as well as advanced departmental research seminars and upper-division tutorials. The standardization also makes it possible for the UgC, as well as College and school administrators and the…
Total Instructional Effort (TIE) Reporting Total Instructional Effort or TIE is method of classifying and reporting classes. Three TIE classifications describe the faculty's instructional goals for students and conveys the faculty's changing role as students move from introductory classes to more independent and scholarly activity as they approach graduation. Transmitting the Knowledge Initiating Intellectual Independence Emphasizing Independent Inquiry The eighteen Faculty Instructional…
Guide and FAQs for creating one-unit courses numbered 89 and 189 for honors seminars and advanced honors seminars. Honors Seminars Course numbers 89 and 189 are reserved for honors seminars and advanced honors seminars. The seminars are one-unit adjuncts to primary lecture courses at the lower- and upper-division levels. By using standard course enrollment procedures, faculty and students receive appropriate workload credit. The one-unit honors seminars are designed to provide students enrolled…
To produce the UCLA General Catalog, a call for updates is sent. Deadlines for CIMS forms and other approvals, and call return, must be met to ensure Catalog publication. Return of Catalog copy updates—also known as the call—by established deadlines allows the Registrar’s Office to incorporate as many approved changes a possible, as late as possible, while still meeting publication deadlines. How to Submit Catalog Updates To make copy updates, follow the Adobe Acrobat and Reader instructions…
Codes and abbreviations for current and discontinued premajors, majors, minors, and specializations are available.
Undergraduates can choose from 141 majors and enter a pre-major when it is required before admittance to the major. Majors and pre-majors can be viewed by name, abbreviation, code, school, or division. Updated July 2023 Click any column heading to sort by that column.
Most enrollment functions take place in MyUCLA. Enrollment policies govern who can enroll, special programs and groups, limitations and restrictions, and other activities.