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

• Curriculum Action Form
• Appendix C2- Distance Ed
• Non-Substantial Change to Approved Program
• Special Topics Course Approval

Handbook

Curriculum Committee ByLaws Approved 3/25/09

Curriculum Procedures and Resources Manual---Under Academic Senate revision

Links

• Curriculum Committee

• General Ed Committee
• Local Approval of Stand-Alone Credit Courses documentation
  • Handouts

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

• Program-Level SLO Form
• AUO Form

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

• ParScore Examples
• SLO Assessment Resources
• SLO Course-Level Process (4/08)
• Resources for Writing Course Level SLO's (4/08)

COMPLETED SLOs AND AUOs

• Completed and In-Progress Program-Level SLO/AUOs
  
  
• Completed Course-Level SLOs