It is a professional duty for all faculty members to take responsibility for curriculum and program development in their fields of expertise. Title 5, section 55002, clearly states that the faculty must be an integral part of all curriculum decisions, and that, in fact, their input must be primarily relied upon as the professional and disciplinary experts at the College. Therefore, the Curriculum Committee is a standing committee of the Academic Senate, and all decisions of the committee must be approved by the Senate before being sent to the Board of Trustees for approval.
The Curriculum Committee is responsible for recommending approval of both credit and non-credit courses on the basis of such standards as grading policy, units, prerequisites, academic rigor, course content, course objectives, repeatability, assignments, instructional methodology, and methods of evaluation.
Curriculum Chair: David Francisco
Meeting Dates and Deadlines (8/3/2009)
Forms
Handbook
Curriculum Committee ByLaws Approved 3/25/09
Curriculum Procedures and Resources Manual---Under Academic Senate revision
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The Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) assessment process is a means to discover if students, are, in fact, learning what they are expected to learn in courses and programs throughout the college. The accrediting agency for California Community Colleges (ACCJC) has elected to use SLOs as an integral part of its accrediting standards. This is, in large part, a response to the U.S. Department of Education call for colleges and universities to engage in a process of continual self-examination and reflection with the goal of improvement. All student support and administrative service units will also engage in a Administrative Unit Outcome (AUO) assessment process.
EPA Chair: Claire Cesareo-Silva
SLO Facilitator: Rachel Ridnor
Forms
Handbooks
Modifying and Creating Course-Level SLOs in Curricunet (9/2/09)
A Guide to Developing and Assessing StudentLearning Outcomes and Administrative/Service Unit Outcomes at Saddleback College (revised 9/29/05)
Guide to Writing Course-Level SLOs
Resources
COMPLETED SLOs AND AUOs
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