Transcript COURSE REPETITION - Santa Monica College

COURSE REPETITION…
or lack thereof
Changes to Title 5
Fall 2013
Why?!
Ultimately this is a cost-saving measure. The
state of California does not want to pay colleges
to teach the same thing to the same student
multiple times.
And the state does not want to pay us to teach a
student the same type of skill (world dance,
soccer, drawing) more than four times.
Bottom line…
My new mantra:
There is no such thing as a repeatable
course at SMC… with very few exceptions.
Which courses?
• I am talking about courses that were
previously designated as “repeatable” such as
those in the visual and performing arts,
cosmetology, and kinesiology/physical
education.
• I am NOT talking about repeats for
substandard grades and W’s (math, English,
etc.)… yet.
• A student receiving an A, B, C or P cannot
enroll in that course again unless an exception
to the general rule applies that allows an
additional enrollment(s) in that course.
REPEAT
No “clean slates”
• This is applied to all students and includes all
past enrollments. There is no “grandfathering”
or “clean slates.”
• All enrollments “count.” F’s and W’s “count.”
• Military withdrawals do NOT count against the
student.
Repeatable Courses
Type 1. Courses for which repetition is necessary
to meet the major requirement of CSU or UC for
completion of a bachelor’s degree
Type 2. Intercollegiate Athletics
Type 3. Intercollegiate academic or vocational
competition
Type 1
Courses for which repetition is necessary to meet the major
requirement of CSU or UC for completion of a bachelor’s degree
Example– Music ensembles, Music 92
COURSE
COURSE TITLE
Music 64 Piano Ensemble
# COURSE
REPEATS*
GROUP #
3
GROUP
INCLUDES:
Comments
Evidence/Reason for allowed repeat
Course may be taken a Music majors at the CSU/UC are required to participate
total of 4 times.
in an ensemble every semester.
The “evidence” is maintained in the Office of Academic
Affairs.
Type 2
Intercollegiate Athletics
Anything called VAR PE can be repeated once (2
enrollments) because 175 hours are permitted
per year, and a student has two years of
eligibility.
VAR PE 60 can be repeated because it is “out of
season” training– up to 175 hours per year.
However, Kin PE can NOT be repeated.
Type 3
Intercollegiate competition
Debate, dance performance, theater arts
performance, Corsair…
COURSE
COURSE TITLE
Dance
57B
World Dance
Performance
# COURSE
REPEATS*
GROUP #
3 131
GROUP
INCLUDES:
Comments
Evidence/Reason for allowed repeat
Course may be repeated four times; All Dance performances are submitted to the intercollegiate
group (55A, 55B, 57A, 57B, 59A) may competition, American College Dance Festival and, therefore,
performance be taken a total of four times.
may be repeated up to four times.
Substandard grades in “repeatable”
courses
A student can repeat a “repeatable class” to alleviate a
substandard grade, but the total number of enrollments
can NOT exceed the established maximum of 4.
Suzy takes Music 64. She gets…
1. W
2. F
3. W
4. D
She’s done! No more enrollments of this course at SMC.
Other exceptions… Recency
Significant Lapse of Time
… if the course is required by the district as a
recency prerequisite, or another institution to
which the student seeks to transfer requires the
student to have taken the course more recently
than the student’s last enrollment.
• No less than 36 months.
• Student must petition for the exception.
Other exceptions… Recency
Significant Lapse of Time
Example– SMC Nursing program requires that students take
prereqs within 5 years of admission.
If Suzy took Anatomy in 2003, stopped out to care for an
ailing family member, returns to apply for Nursing in 2008…
she would be permitted to repeat those prereqs.
Other exceptions… Extenuating
Circumstances
District policy may permit a student to enroll again
in a course if the student’s previous grade in that
course was due to extenuating circumstances
(illness, accident, floods, fire…). This is allowed if:
• The student achieved a grade in the previous
enrollment ,
• The student files a petition,
• The district finds the previous grade was a result of
extenuating circumstances
Other exceptions… special classes for
students with disabilities
The District may permit students to enroll again
in special classes in the following circumstances:
1. Student’s success in other classes is dependent upon
additional repetition of this special class.
2. Student needs to enroll again to be prepared for enrollment
in other classes or
3. The student’s educational contract specifies a goal in which
additional enrollments in the special class will help further
that goal.
Other exceptions… legally mandated
courses
District may permit a repeat if the course is
“required by statute or regulation as a condition
of paid or volunteer employment.” Example–
CPR. Two-fold requirement:
1. The course is required by a statute or regulation as a
condition of employment AND
2. The student is employed or seeking to be employed for a
paid or volunteer job for which the course is required.
Other exceptions… significant change
in industry or licensure standards
District may permit repeat where there has
been such a change in industry or licensure
standards that repetition of the course is
necessary for employment or licensure.
Active Participatory Courses
… one in which “individual study or group
assignments are the basic means by which
learning objectives are obtained.”
Typically this term refers to physical education,
visual arts, and performing arts.
Courses “related in content”
Students are limited to four enrollments in
courses that are “related in content.”
Courses are related in content when they have
“similar primary educational activities in which
skill levels or variations are separated into
distinct courses with different learning
outcomes for each level or variation.”
Courses “related in content”
Example– Kin PE 48 series
COURSE
COURSE TITLE
# COURSE
REPEATS*
0
GROUP #
GROUP INCLUDES:
Comments
Kin PE 48A
Beginning
Swimming
21
swimming
Kin PE 48A, 48B, 48C, and 48D are all swimming classes and related in content.
Therefore a student may not have more than four experiences in the group,
including substandard grades and W's.'
Kin PE 48B
Elementary
Swimming
0
21
swimming
Kin PE 48A, 48B, 48C, and 48D are all swimming classes and related in content.
Therefore a student may not have more than four experiences in the group,
including substandard grades and W's.'
Kin PE 48C
Intermediate
Swimming
0
21
swimming
Kin PE 48A, 48B, 48C, and 48D are all swimming classes and related in content.
Therefore a student may not have more than four experiences in the group,
including substandard grades and W's.'
Kin PE 48D
Advanced
Swimming
0
21
swimming
Kin PE 48A, 48B, 48C, and 48D are all swimming classes and related in content.
Therefore a student may not have more than four experiences in the group,
including substandard grades and W's.'
What to do?
• Current students may get “caught in the
middle” of this new regulation.
• We can create “levels” of courses related in
content, but they must be distinct from one
another in objectives and SLO’s and content.
• We must have a clear, logical, defensible
rationale.