Academic Senate Council Curriculum Executive Committee

1. Reviewing • Repeatability • Rethinking • Repeatability • Reshaping • Repeatability Academic Senate Council Curriculum Executive Committee

2. Board of Governors Perspective • Students should not need to repeat a course once they have passed it. • The state should not have to pay for students to take the same course more than once if they have passed it. • Repeatability has been abused in many cases. If we followed the existing rules, there would be far fewer issues.

3. Why do this now? • Clarity for everyone! • Particularly, the curriculum committee and faculty • Ultimately, for the students • Consistency across our curriculum • From one course to another course • From one area to another (where applicable) • Compliance with current regulations • Ensure state funding (apportionment) • Avoid paying the state back if audited • Be perceived as having a “mechanism for the proper monitoring of such repetition”

4. Impact on Students • Take too many courses that do not transfer or “count” • A 2 year Ed Plan now becomes 4 or 5 years • Creates an additional and unnecessary cost • Financial Aid has new regulations • Allowed only 1 repeat per course – Ouch! • Limited to 60 units total • GPA and other restrictions apply • Reducing student choices will help

5. Title 5, Section 55041 • (a) The district policy and procedures on course repetition adopted pursuant to section 55040 may designate as repeatable courses only those courses described in this section. • (b) If a district permits repetition of courses regardless of whether substandard academic work has been recorded, repetition shall be permitted, without petition, in instances when such repetition is necessary for a student to meet a legally mandated training requirement as a condition of continued paid or volunteer employment. Such courses must conform to all attendance accounting, course approval, and other requirements imposed by applicable provisions of law. Such courses may be repeated for credit any number of times. The governing board of a district may establish policies and procedures requiring students to certify or document that course repetition is necessary to complete legally mandated training pursuant to this subdivision.

6. (c) The district policy adopted pursuant to section 55040 may also designate courses of the types described in this subdivision as repeatable courses, subject to the following conditions:  • (1) The district must identify the courses which are to be repeatable, and designate such courses in its catalog. • (2) The district must determine and certify that each identified course is one in which either:   • (A) the course content differs each time it is offered; or • (B) the course is an activity course where the student meets course objectives by repeating a similar primary educational activity and the student gains an expanded educational experience each time the course is repeated for one of the following reasons: • (i) Skills or proficiencies are enhanced by supervised repetition and practice within class periods; or • (ii) Active participatory experience in individual study or group assignments is the basic means by which learning objectives are obtained. • (3) Activity courses which may qualify as repeatable courses meeting the requirements of paragraph (2)(B) of this subdivision include, but are not limited to the following: • (A) Physical education courses; or • (B) Visual or performing arts courses in music, fine arts, theater or dance.

7. Title 5, Section 55041 • (4) foreign language courses, ESL courses and nondegree-applicable basic skills courses are not considered “activity courses” for purposes of paragraph (2)(B of this subdivision). (5) The district must develop and implement a mechanism for the proper monitoring of such repetition. • (6) Students may repeat a course pursuant to this subdivision for not more than three semesters or five quarters. For purposes of this subdivision, semesters or quarters include summer or intersessions. • (7)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, where a college establishes several levels of courses which consist of similar educational activities, the repetition limitation in paragraph (6) of this subdivision applies to all levels of courses that involve a similar primary educational activity regardless of whether the repetitions reflect multiple enrollments in a single course or in multiple courses involving the same primary activity. (B) Visual or performing arts courses in music, fine arts, theater or dance which are part of a sequence of transfer courses are not subject to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph. • (d) When a course is repeated pursuant to this section, the grade received each time shall be included for purposes of calculating the student's grade point average.

8. Last Spring • Reviewed a list of all courses with repeatability • Addressed (A) course content differs each time offered and the following was agreed: • Focus on GE/Transfer courses first – clear cut place to start • Use tiers/chunking to prioritize remaining courses • Then agreed to wait on the following: • (B) activity courses which may qualify – physical education, music, fine arts, visual/performing arts, theater or dance • CTE, ESL & Basic Skills courses - broader discussion needed

9. Columbia College Y’all come back now! • Repeatability variations in our catalogs. • NO • Not Required • YES – 0 times • YES – 1 time • YES – 2 times • YES – 3 times • YES – 4 times • YES – 5 times • YES – 10 times • YES – 15 times • YES – 20 times • YES – 32 times • YES – 40 times • YES – 99 times

10. Reviewing • Repeatability • Rethinking • Repeatability • Reshaping • Repeatability Next Steps: Curriculum Committee will Review, Rethink, Reshape by Department

11. What we Know • Board of Governors approved changes to Title 5 language concerning repeatability at the 7/9/12 meeting. • The publication of those changes are not available yet. • Changes made to repeatability to meet new guidelines need to be in effect for Fall 2013. • Curriculum Committee will be approving major modifications which effect the 2013-2014 catalog through week 14 of Fall 2012. • Changes to repeatability will be permitted to be published in electronic form and not necessarily in the catalog.

13. Scope of the MatterDepends on where you look.

14. Repeatable Types of Courses • Three major types presented for new Title 5 language. • Meets Major Requirements of CSU or UC • Intercollegiate Athletics (including related conditioning courses) • Intercollegiate academic or vocational competition • Courses must be identified as repeatable • All takes of a course (D, F, W, P, NP, etc.) will count in the GPA

15. PE and Athletics Visual and Performing Arts • PE and Athletics • Code all courses appropriately • Physical Education • Athletics (including conditioning courses) • Dance • Kinesiology (new TOP code) • Visual and Performing Arts • Courses required to repeat to complete a B.A. degree • Such courses are repeatable to all students, not just majors • In addition for PE, Athletics and Visual & Performing Arts • Specific families can be defined locally • “Courses Related in Content” (families) • Be conservative in definitions

16. More on “Families” • “Those courses with similar primary educational activities in which skill levels or variations are separated into distinct courses with different student learning outcomes for each variation.” • The “Swimming” Family • Swimming 1 • Swimming 2 • Swimming 3 • Beginning Swimming • Master’s Swimming • Distance Swimming Remember 4 takes total!

17. Alternatives • Leveled courses (Span 1A, Span 2B) • Separate courses (Esc 35DV, Esc 35LT) • Non-credit (HHP 300 - stacked) • Not-for-credit (Return of Comm. Ed.?) • Audits (Available; no apportionment) • Other options? • Additional curricular issues to consider • C-ID • TMCs

18. Reality of Repeatability • Compliance can be checked at anytime • State has revealed their viewpoint • Change is on the horizon