Our long-term goal is that this class will take off and manifest itself into its own degree.  In order for this to happen, we first need to receive course approval through a process within Lafayette.  We are unfamiliar with such process at Lafayette, but we have found information on how other schools do it. More specifically, at Virginia Tech there are strict guidelines to get courses approved. We took these guidelines straight from the Virginia Tech Registrar’s website:

• Each proposal must first be approved by the respective College Curriculum Committee (CCC).
• After CCC approval, the proposal(s) is submitted for 15 day review to the Provost, University Registrar and all Colleges. (During this review, suggestions and comments on the proposal(s) may be directed to the initiating college.)
• After completion of, or simultaneous with (upon committee request) the 15 day review, the proposal(s) is forwarded to the Committee on Undergraduate Curricula (CUC) for undergraduate items and the Graduate Curricula Committee (GCC) for graduate items.
• Following approval by CUC and/or GCC, final approval is granted by either the Commission on Undergraduate Studies and Policies (CUSP) or the Commission on Graduate Studies and Policies (CGSP).
• As items move through the governance system, we will provide approval status information on both undergraduate and graduate courses as well as undergraduate degree checksheets.
• A detailed course proposal is available. Complete and return this to the Registrar office.

We believe that we have covered all grounds to gain approval for implementation at Lafayette College.  Once approval is obtained, the course will need to be advertised to potential students through campus-wide emails, flyers in individual mailboxes, word of mouth and our interactive website with course information.  Our vision is that the professor teaching the course would be someone who is enthusiastic about sports and is willing to work with a multitude of guest professors from a variety of different fields.  There would not be much additional work required since we provide a detailed day-by-day syllabus in which the instructor can easily follow.  In order to teach the course the instructor would just need to read and understand the books to know how they fit into our syllabus.  Following the success of the interim course that we expect, we hope that future engineering studies students will be able to continue the work that we have done and turn this course into a series of courses, a minor, and eventually a major program at Lafayette College.