Determining the Sentence –
How Many Hours for Lab Vs
Lecture? Noncredit vs. Credit?
Mark Wade Lieu, Michelle Pilati,
Vicki Warner
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July 13
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
CC’s purview.
• The curriculum committee's main role is to
assign accurately and appropriately
student units.
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July 13
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 collegelevel 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
(A) English as a Second Language (ESL)
(B) Immigrant Education (citizenship/civic ed and
workforce preparation, ESL, basic skills)
(C) Basic Skills
• Adult Basic Education (ABE)
• Adult Secondary Education (ASE)
• Supervised Tutoring/Learning Assistance
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Eligibility Areas
(D) Health and Safety Education
(E) Education programs for persons with
substantial disabilities
(F) Parenting
(G) Education programs for home economics
(H) Education programs for older adults
(I) 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
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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
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