Determining the Sentence

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Determining the Sentence How Many Hours for Lab
Vs Lecture? Noncredit vs. Credit?

• Mark Wade Lieu, Michelle Pilati, Vicki Warner

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Overview

• Quick introduction
• Lecture Vs Lab
• Noncredit
• Noncredit alignment project
• What is and is not noncredit
• Clearing up noncredit confusion

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Lecture Vs Lab

• What is the difference?
• Why is it important to know the difference?

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55002. Standards and Criteria for Courses and
Classes

• (2) Standards for Approval. (B) Units.
• The course grants units of credit based upon a
  relationship specified by the governing board,
  between the number of units assigned to the
  course and the number of lecture and/or
  laboratory hours or performance criteria
  specified in the course outline.

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55002. Standards and Criteria for Courses and
Classes

• The course also requires a minimum of three hours
  of work per week, including class time for each
  unit of credit, prorated for short-term,
  laboratory, and activity courses.

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From the Course and Program Approval Handbook

• In laboratory or activity courses, it has not
  traditionally been expected that the student will
  study outside the classroom.
• the number of units earned is generally based
  entirely on the number of hours of laboratory or
  activity work performed on campus under the
  immediate supervision and control of a qualified
  academic employee.

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Note

• In the natural sciences, it is standard
  university practice to base the number of units
  awarded only on the in-class hours.
• Issues related to faculty load are not the CCs
  purview.
• The curriculum committee's main role is to assign
  accurately and appropriately student units.

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55002. Standards and Criteria for Courses and
Classes

• (b) Non-degree Credit Course. A credit course
  designated by the governing board as not
  applicable to the associate degree is a course
  which, at a minimum, is recommended by the
  college and/or district curriculum committee

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(1) Types of Courses. Non-degree applicable
credit courses are

• (A) precollegiate basic skills courses..
• (B) courses designed to enable students to
  succeed in college-level work
• (C) precollegiate occupational preparation
  courses designed to provide foundation skills for
  students preparing for entry into college-level
  occupational courses or programs

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(1) Types of Courses. Non-degree applicable
credit courses are

• (D) essential occupational instruction for which
  meeting the standards of Section 55002(a) is
  neither necessary nor required.
• 55002 (a) Associate Degree Credit Course. An
  associate degree credit course is a course which
  has been designated as appropriate to the
  associate degree

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Noncredit Alignment Project - Goals

• Clarify the nine areas of noncredit instruction
• Review curricular processes for submission of
  noncredit courses
• Align noncredit short-term vocational and credit
  vocational programs

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Project Accomplishments

• Clarification of differences between credit and
  credit
• Development of Definitions and Guidelines for the
  nine areas

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Next Steps

• Finalize Recommendations to BoG
• Work with SACC on curriculum handbook revision
• Align noncredit and credit vocational programs

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(c) Noncredit Course

• A noncredit course is a course which, at a
  minimum, is recommended by the college and/or
  district curriculum committee and approved by
  the district governing board as a course meeting
  the needs of enrolled students.

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(c) Noncredit Course

• In order to be eligible for state apportionment,
  such courses are limited to the categories of
  instruction listed in Education Code section
  84711, and must be approved by the Chancellor's
  Office as noted in Title V, section 55150.

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Eligibility Areas

• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Immigrant Education (citizenship/civic ed and
  workforce preparation, ESL, basic skills)
• Basic Skills
• Adult Basic Education (ABE)
• Adult Secondary Education (ASE)
• Supervised Tutoring/Learning Assistance

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Eligibility Areas

• Health and Safety Education
• Education programs for persons with substantial
  disabilities
• Parenting
• Education programs for home economics
• Education programs for older adults
• Short-Term Vocational Programs with High
  Employment Potential

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Short-term Vocational

• Labor market study and analysis
• Does not represent unnecessary duplication
• Reviewed in the context of the district/college
  vocational plan
• Demonstrated effectiveness as measured by the
  employment and completion success of students

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Reasons for Returned Applications

• Outdated application
• Incomplete application
• Course outline is not attached
• Signatures and dates are missing
• President
• Chief Instructional Officer
• Chair of the Curriculum Committee

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Reasons for Delay in Approval

• Does not meet eligibility criteria
• Wrong eligibility criteria or TOP Code
• Improper coding of need for vocational education
• Course outline does not meet basic criteria

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Reasons for Delay in Approval

• Insufficient hours for students to accomplish
  learning objectives
• Title 5, 58130 is not adhered to
  (dance/recreational physical education
• Course is in conflict with the open course
  provisions for Title 5, 51006 and 58051.5(a)(b)

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Reasons for Delay in Approval

• Courses designed for special target populations
  are not designed for specific target group
• Measures for determining student achievement are
  inadequate
• Quality of COR indicates it did not go through
  the normal college/district CC