Curriculum development is the process by which the University assures the quality of the courses that it offers to students. The University achieves this by allowing changes to courses to ensure that the content is updated to reflect current academic knowledge and practice, and also by ensuring that course structures provide the best learning experiences possible for students. Course and module convenors are able to propose changes for consideration at their Faculty Education Committee (FEC). Please refer to the Curriculum Development Handbook 2024/25 [DOCX 162.68KB] for details of the processes for approving all types of curriculum change (including creation or withdrawl of courses).

The following curriculum changes should be considered at FECs:

• Changes to course or pathway structures
• Changes to course or module level learning outcomes
• Addition of new modules to courses
• Suspension or withdrawal of modules
• Changes to module titles
• Changes to assessment modes
• Changes to assessment weightings
  
  

  The forms provided below should be used to submit proposals to FEC:

  Change to a course or pathway [DOCX 30.58KB]
  Module change form [DOCX 34.26KB]
  Withdrawal or Suspension of a Module
  Proposal for a New Module Form

Please contact aqpcurriculum@sussex.ac.uk if you have any questions.

For Spring and Summer 2026 Boards of Study and Faculty Education Committees, the following curriculum documentation should be submitted:

• Wherever curriculum change is being proposed, this should be submitted to the relevant committee on the existing module/course change forms (see below)
• Where this change also impacts the module or course-level info and a relevant module descriptor or course spec already exists, the updated module descriptor or course spec must be submitted alongside the change proposal form.
• Where the change impacts module or course-level info and the module descriptor or course spec does not yet exist, faculty are encouraged to develop one (templates below), but are not obliged to. 

Module Descriptor Template AQP V1 Feb 2026 With Guidance Version [DOC 122.50KB]

Module Descriptor Template AQP V1 Feb 2026 [DOCX 66.28KB]

Course Specification Template AQP with Guidance Version February 2026 [DOCX 146.87KB]

Course Specification Template AQP V1 Feb 2026 [DOCX 115.80KB]