Guiding Notes for Cal-GETC Course Review

In the fall, CCC articulation officers submit courses by entering new or substantially revised course outlines into ASSIST. Course outlines submitted with “substantial changes” must include an explanation of revisions. 

Substantial changes for re-review include any changes to the following aspects of a COR: cross-listing courses, or changes in content, student learning objectives, modes of delivery (only if student learning objectives or content are affected), prerequisites, contact hours and/or decrease in units, or methods/criteria of assessment.

Technical changes include changes to the following aspects of a COR: prefix, number, increase in units, title changes and/or updates of representative texts and/or resource materials. Technical changes alone do not require re-review.

Note: Substantive and technical changes also apply to CSU American Institution (AI) course submissions.

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CCCs will indicate the pattern, Cal-GETC and/or CSU AI Areas to which proposed courses are applied. Reviewers use area-specific criteria as well as the following, which apply to all submitted courses:

1. Any course submitted for Cal-GETC must be both CSU and UC transferable and baccalaureate level. For Cal-GETC, courses must be UC-transferable (on the UC TCA).
2. Course has appropriate number of units for the Cal-GETC Area.
3. Course content should reflect a balance between breadth and depth appropriate for lower-division work.
4. Variable-topics courses are excluded (directed-study or independent study).
5. Course outline includes at least one textbook; laboratory science must include a lab manual.
6. Representative textbooks are current and published within 7 years of submission year or identified as a “classic text” or “discipline classic”.            
7. Course outline includes methods/criteria of assessment and college-level assignments.
8. Course outline contains enough detail to decide whether it is appropriate to fulfill the proposed Cal-GETC Area.
9. Course outline should make sense to the reviewers.
10. Course outline is in English.
11. Course outline is complete.

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GE review requires CCCs to have curriculum approved (e.g., college curriculum committee or college/district board) for cross-listing before submitting course outlines of record. Course outlines of record for cross-listed courses are identical in title, description, objectives, content, methods of instruction, methods of evaluation, textbooks/readings, and assignments but may have a different prefix. All approved cross-listed courses must appear together or with an annotation in official college publications.

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