This guide provides step-by-step procedural instructions for completing and submitting a New Specialization Proposal in Kuali. It focuses on navigating the form, including what to select or enter in each field.

*In Kuali, Specializations are also known as Sub-plans, Options, Tracks, and Concentrations.

The guide is organized by proposal section (panel), so you can jump directly to a section when you need help.

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This guide does not provide guidance on course content or academic decisions. Consult your department and applicable curriculum committees for questions about developing the course itself.

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Specialization Modification Proposal Walkthrough

Before you begin

Understand URI’s Curricular Process

Familiarize yourself with URI’s curricular process before beginning your proposal. This will help you understand the steps involved in the curricular process and accurately estimate how long your proposal may take to reach approval.

How the Curriculum Process Works

Approval Calendar

Make Sure You Can Access Kuali CM

You will need access to Kuali Curriculum Management (Kuali CM) to propose any curricular item.

Kuali Basics

Start the Proposal

1. From your browser, navigate to Kuali Curriculum Management (CM).
2. Select Curriculum to open your Dashboard .
3. From the left-hand navigation menu, select Specializations.
4. On the Programs page, select + New Specialization in the upper-right corner.

The following sections of this walkthrough are grouped by section of the proposal form.

Contact Information

Complete the following fields with your contact information.

• Proposer Name Your name is automatically populated based on your Kuali account.
• Proposer Title Enter your university role.
• Proposer Email Enter your URI email address. This is the email reviewers will use if they have questions about your proposal.
• Additional Proposer(s) Use this section to identify additional individuals who can speak to the proposed program. Individuals listed here will not receive Kuali notifications or have access to edit the proposal. Their inclusion simply provides transparency to the reviewing committees about who else is involved in or can speak to the proposal.

Parent Program

• Inherit From Begin typing the name of the parent program, then select the program from the list.

Specialization Information

• Effective Term & Year Select the term and year in which you intend the specialization to become effective. If the selected effective term has passed the applicable deadline by the time the proposal reaches the Faculty Senate, it will automatically be updated to the next available term.

• First Graduation Term Select the term and year in which you anticipate the first students will graduate with this credential.

• **Level** Select the level of the specialization: Undergraduate, Graduate, or Dual Dual applies to ABMs and 4+1 specializations.

• 🔽 The following field will appear only if Dual is chosen for Level.

  • Dual Type Refer to the linked pages above to understand the difference between ABMs & 4+1s

• **Academic Calendar** Select the academic calendar for the specialization: Accelerated 7-week through URI Online, or Traditional 14-week with Summer and J-Term Sessions (must coincide with parent program).

• College Select the college in which the program is housed.

• Department Select the department in which the program is housed.

• Is this interdisciplinary? The intent of this question is to identify whether the parent program of this specialization is jointly owned by multiple academic departments. If yes, the percentage of ownership assigned to each department must be provided in the curriculum worksheet.

• 🔽 The following field will appear only if “Yes” is chosen for Is this interdisciplinary?

  • Additional Department(s) and College(s) Enter departments sharing ownership of this program.

• **Academic Specialization Title** Enter the title of the specialization. See the linked page for title formatting guidelines.

• Specialization Description List the requirements of the specialization. Only specialization-specific requirements should be listed here, and no program requirements should be duplicated.