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About Catalog Production
The CU Boulder catalog constitutes the official record of the curricular requirements and course descriptions that apply to students who formally entered an academic program in that academic year.
The catalog also contains:
- A summary of campus policies and requirements
- Descriptions of colleges, schools and departments
- Faculty listings
- Program learning outcomes and recommended plans of study
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To view previous years' catalogs, visit the CU Boulder catalog archive.
2023–24 Catalog
This catalog is currently under production. Learn more about the current catalog cycle below.
Production Information
Monday, Oct. 24, 2022: Deadline to submit workflow updates.
Monday, Oct. 31: Catalog staff begin to initiate workflow for academic program pages (i.e., pages containing curriculum requirements; catalog edits begin.
Monday, Nov. 7: Catalog & curriculum training session. (View session recording)
- Deadline for all academic department reviewers to approve academic program catalog pages.
- Catalog staff initiate workflows for all other catalog pages; edits to these pages begin.
- Deadline for all college- and school-level reviewers to approve catalog pages.
- Deadline for all other reviewers to approve pages.
Monday, March 6: Degree audit team reviews all academic program pages and begins making degree audit changes based on requirements as defined in the catalog. Degree audits for 2023–24 will be available by June 1, 2023.
Friday, March 24: Catalog team completes final review of all catalog pages for consistency, structural improvements and style guide alignment.
April 2023: CU Boulder 2023–24 catalog published.
Attend a one-on-one virtual catalog working session with the catalog team to get your catalog questions answered, including how to:
- Access, edit and approve your catalog pages.
- Navigate course tables, plan of study grids and shared/borrowed content.
- Update information that displays in the catalog but cannot be edited directly through your pages (i.e., faculty updates and course revisions).
Available by appointment on select dates in November and early December.
Submit an Update
All course proposals and revisions are managed through our curriculum inventory management system (CIM). To learn more, see Course Proposals.
All program proposals and revisions are managed through our curriculum inventory management system (CIM). To learn more, see Academic Programs.
Only the catalog production team has access to modify the catalog's faculty database. To learn more, see Faculty Lists.
If you've had staff turnover or otherwise need to adjust the workflows of who should edit, review and approve any of your pages, either submit the form below or contact your college or school's workflow coordinator.
2022–23 Catalog (Live)
This catalog was published in April 2022 and is now closed to corrections or revisions. See below for information about the catalog production cycle.
Production Information
Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021: Catalog staff send call for workflow edits to catalog news subscribers.
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021: Deadline to submit workflow updates.
Late October & early November 2021: Catalog & curriculum training sessions held.
Monday, Nov. 1, 2021: Catalog staff begin to initiate workflows for academic program pages (i.e., pages containing curriculum requirements); catalog edits begin.
Early November–early December 2021: One-on-one virtual catalog working sessions held.
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Deadline for all academic department reviewers to approve academic program catalog pages.
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Catalog staff initiate workflows for all other catalog pages; edits to these pages begin.
- Deadline for all college- and school-level reviewers to approve catalog pages.
- Deadline for all other reviewers to approve pages.
Friday, March 4, 2022: Degree audit team reviews all academic program pages, and will encode degree audits based on requirements as defined in the catalog.
Friday, March 25, 2022: Catalog team completes final review of content for consistency, structural improvements and style guide alignment.
April 2022: CU Boulder 2022–23 catalog published.
Revised 10/25/2021
As many of you are aware, this is the first catalog to feature program content that's fully integrated with our curriculum inventory management system (CIM). The last phase of that project, commonly referred to as CIM for programs, wrapped up in late September 2021.
To make sure users were comfortable with the new integration, we slightly delayed the start of program page review so you could attend one of our vendor-led training sessions:
- Monday, Nov. 1, 2–3 p.m.
- Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
These sessions provided a high-level overview of the curriculum update and approval process from the perspective of a catalog reviewer, including how to:
- Locate curriculum records in CIM
- Submit revisions for existing programs
- Navigate CIM's automated review and approval workflow
- Approve submitted revisions
To view a recording of the last of those training sessions, click the button below.
The catalog team hosted one-on-one virtual catalog working sessions by appointment on select dates in November and early December.
Previous Catalogs
To view catalogs from previous academic years, visit our catalog archive.
Contact Us
Resources
Whether this is your first time approving catalog content or you're a returning reviewer, please refer to our training resources and other support information:
- Catalog & Curriculum Training Session (Video)
- Catalog Process Changes & Known Issues (Webpage)
- Catalog Support Slides (PowerPoint)
- Editing Borrowed & Shared Content (Webpage)
- Style Guide (Webpage)