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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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2025–26 Catalog

Production Information

Oct. 28, 2024: Deadline to request updates to your catalog page workflows. (See workflow revision request form.)

Nov. 4: Catalog staff begin to initiate workflows for academic program pages; catalog edits begin.

Dec. 15: 

  • Deadline for all academic department reviewers to approve academic program catalog pages containing curriculum requirements. (Learn more below, under Submit a Curriculum Update.) Ensure updated program learning outcomes are included in your submission for any degree and certificate programs.
  • Catalog staff initiate workflows for all other catalog pages; edits to these pages begin.

Feb. 15, 2025

  • Deadline for all college- and school-level reviewers to approve catalog pages.
  • Deadline for all other reviewers to approve pages.

March 3: 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 2025–26 will be available by June 1, 2025.

March 21: Catalog team completes final review of all catalog pages for consistency, structural improvements and style guide alignment.

May 2025: CU Boulder 2025–26 catalog published. (Revised 3/20/25)

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.

  Sign up for a catalog working session 

Submit an Update

All course proposals and revisions are managed through our curriculum inventory management system (CIM). To learn more, see Course Proposals.

  Submit a Course Proposal or Revision 

All program proposals and edits to curriculum details including program requirements, plans of study and program learning outcomes are managed through our curriculum inventory management system (CIM). To learn more, see Academic Programs.

  Submit a Program Proposal or Revision 

Once program edits have completed all reviews and approvals in CIM, they’ll sync automatically on the program's corresponding catalog page. (While still pending approvals in CIM, the catalog page will display the most recent previously approved curriculum details.)

  • During the catalog production cycle, please approve both the program's CIM form and catalog page once you’ve submitted any edits to move them forward in queue for the next reviewer(s).

Only the catalog production team has access to modify the catalog's faculty database. To learn more, see Faculty Lists.

  Request Faculty Edits 

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.

  Request Workflow Edits 

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.

  Sign up for a catalog working session

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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:

Previous Catalogs

To view catalogs from previous academic years, visit the catalog archive.

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