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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.
2025–26 Catalog
This catalog production cycle will open for review in the fall. More information coming soon. (See below for information about previous catalog production cycles.)
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.
2024–25 Catalog (Live)
This catalog was published in April 2024 and is now closed to corrections or revisions. See below for information about the catalog production cycle.
Production Information
Monday, Oct. 23, 2023: Deadline to submit workflow updates.
Monday, Oct. 30: Catalog staff begin to initiate workflow for academic program pages (i.e., pages containing curriculum requirements); catalog edits begin.
Friday, Dec. 15:
- 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.
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024
- Deadline for all college- and school-level reviewers to approve catalog pages.
- Deadline for all other reviewers to approve pages.
Monday, March 4: 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 2024–25 will be available by June 1, 2024.
Friday, March 22: Catalog team completes final review of all catalog pages for consistency, structural improvements and style guide alignment.
April 2024: CU Boulder 2024–25 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.
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)