In December 2005, the CIC Deans of Liberal Arts & Sciences launched an effort to establish a voluntary, systematic method of sharing courses to enhance access to specialized graduate and low-enrollment offerings for all participating CIC universities and their students. The CourseShare initiative focuses primarily on offerings that can be “technology facilitated” to eliminate barriers of time and distance. While the initial focus has included less commonly taught languages, the project is intended to support course sharing across the arts and sciences curriculum, and some institutions have formed significant partnerships to offer advanced seminars in a number of areas. Additional information is available on the CIC Course Share web site.

The CIC's master list of proposed courses is available here. If there are courses from other CIC institutions that students at Iowa would like to register for, we can make arrangements to have those courses available for registration through ISIS, under University of Iowa course numbers. Similarly, if you would like to offer a course via Course Share, that can be arranged.

updated February 2008