Thank you for your interest in offering a course for credit through UM Continuing Education. We are pleased to work with sponsoring organizations and UM academic departments to facilitate courses in Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. We feel these courses provide an important professional development and personal enrichment facet of higher education to the community.

As an instructor or sponsoring agency, you'll be asked to complete a Course Proposal Form, detailing information about your course, prepare a syllabus to describe the course content, and provide an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae for the instructor of record. When your course proposal packet has been received and reviewed by Continuing Education, we'll forward it to the appropriate academic department for the necessary signature approvals.

After your course has been fully approved, you'll receive a registration packet and instructions to help students register to receive academic credit. We will process academic credit registrations and provide you with a grade roster to assign grades.

We'll provide all the forms you'll need, definitions, guidelines, information on how to prepare a syllabus and we'll consult with you throughout the process.

Important Information about Proposing a Course for Academic Credit

• A minimum of 15 hours of instruction over a 2-3 day period is required for each academic credit offered.
• Instructors must possess a master’s degree to teach undergraduate credit or a combination of undergraduate and graduate credit, or a doctorate or other terminal degree to teach a course for graduate credit only.
• A minimum of six to eight weeks is required between the submission of the Continuing Education Course Proposal packet and the course start date. This allows time for academic review and signature approval.
• Courses may not be advertised for academic credit until signature approvals have been obtained.
• Students will be charged a flat $135 credit recording fee for up to 5 credits for each course in addition to the fee charged by your agency.

Contact

For more information or to receive or submit the Course Proposal Form, Guidelines and Definitions and Required Elements of a Syllabus, contact:

Janie Spencer
Program Manager
Extended Courses and Degree Program
UM Continuing Education
406-243-2705, or email janie.spencer@umontana.edu