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With funding from the California Department of Education,
UCOP is creating an online resource for counselors who advise
high school students taking community college courses for
high school credit.
The resource will consist of course lists from each college, showing
which “a-g” high school subject requirement their courses satisfy.
College course lists will be added on UC’s high school articulation
website, Doorways – not on ASSIST.
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An act to add Section 66205.7 to the Education Code
The request: “…develop an online resource that lists the academic and
technical courses offered at each of the 109 community colleges in this state
that, when completed by high school students, satisfy one of the subject area
requirements of the ‘a-g’ admission requirements to the University of
California”
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For high school students:
High school students will benefit because they and their counselors can
more easily plan college coursework knowing which courses will clear
UC’s “a-g” subject requirements for freshman admission
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For counselors:
High school and community college counselors will benefit because the
course lists take the guesswork out of choosing courses that satisfy the
UC subject requirements
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For freshman admission, high school seniors must complete the following
coursework: the “a-g” Subject Requirements:
History/Social Science (a) – 2 years required
English (b) – 4 years required
Mathematics (c) – 3 years required; 4 years recommended
Laboratory Science (d) – 2 years required; 3 years recommended
Language Other than English (e) – 2 years required; 3 years
recommended
Visual & Performing Arts (f) – 1 year required
Elective (g) – 1 year required
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The “a-g” project will consist of at least two phases.
In the first phase:
• Courses are assigned “a-g” categories – since March 2011, about 35% of
California community college reviews have been completed
• UCOP database administrators create the new pages for Doorways (MarchJune 2011), handling thousands of community college courses
• The online resource will go live by July 1, 2011
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Review process starts with the TCA list of UC-transferable courses from
ASSIST
UCOP course reviewers use the college catalog to determine which “a-g”
category the courses satisfies
For high school credit, college-level courses must be UC-transferable and at
least 3 semester units (meaning: 1- and 2-unit VPA courses, for example, do
not satisfy the “f” requirement)
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Some differences between high school and college requirements:
IGETC and UC Eligibility codes and “a-g” do not line up exactly. Examples:
courses approved for IGETC area 3, Arts and Humanities, may be “f” Visual
and Performing Arts or “g” History/Social Science
“d” laboratory science courses must have corresponding labs (meaning:
survey courses without labs are not “a-g”)
“g” laboratory science courses outside the traditional major science areas of
biology, chemistry, and physics but with labs can satisfy the “g” lab science
elective (“g” examples: environmental science, geology, oceanography)
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Find course lists: Click on “School, Program and Community College”
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Enter name of institution
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Click on name of institution
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Course list for Santa Barbara City College: Courses arranged by “a-g”
category
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Doorways’ course-list search is easy to navigate and use
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High school articulation staff at UCOP maintain and support Doorways
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Course lists are updated annually (by the high schools for their course lists,
by UCOP for community college course lists) – in time for high school
students to choose their courses
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Review of nontransferable math and English courses will begin in fall 2011
• Catalog review
• “a-g” categories assigned and courses are added to online resource course
lists with 2011-12 update cycle
• The integration of academic content into high school CTE courses has
allowed for a dramatic increase in approval of these courses for "a-g"
credit. For the 2010-2011 school year, there were almost 10,000 UCapproved CTE courses on high school course lists. They include such
diverse offerings as auto physics, marine biology, medical arts and
sciences, and graphic design. (For more on high school CTE, see the
Doorways website: http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/cte/)
• In the Community College “A-G” Project (AB 876), a small number of UCtransferable community college courses – about 5% of those reviewed thus
far – have been identified as possibly allowable for CTE high school credit.
• These courses (examples: accounting, business administration, culinary
arts) will be reviewed during Phase II of the “a-g” project with an eye
toward approval for high school CTE credit.
Deborah McCaskey (project contact)
Administrative Analyst, Student Affairs
[email protected]
(510) 987-9437
Don Daves-Rougeaux
Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions,
Articulation & Eligibility
Nina Costales
Administrative Analyst, Student Affairs
Doorways staff contact: [email protected]
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature
worked to reverse the under-funding of CTE, including providing grant
funds for specific initiatives and pilot programs. Key priorities include:
o developing more and stronger CTE courses, especially in high-growth and
emerging industry sections
o expanding student exposure to career options through apprenticeships,
internships and training
o providing more professional development opportunities for CTE teachers
and career counselors
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Administration of Justice
Aviation Maintenance/Aviation Operations
Child Development
Computer Business Technology
Criminal Justice
Digital Media
Direct Current Circuit Analysis/Direct Current Circuit Laboratory
Emergency Medical Technology
Fire Protection Technology
Graphic Arts
Introduction to Engineering
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Legal Assisting
Military Studies
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UC currently participates in approving CTE courses only at the high school
level.
It would not be advisable to promise students that they will get any credit
beyond high school “a-g.”
Community college articulation officers who are asked to sign CTE contracts
using credit by exam as an avenue for UC transfer credit should be aware
that UC does not guarantee that credit will be allowed for campus GE or
major prep. UC transfer and IGETC credit should follow the same levels of
scrutiny as courses taken outside community colleges.
Transcripts from a community college with CTE credit awarded will most
likely be questioned at the campus level.
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Estela Narrie
◦ Articulation Officer
◦ Santa Monica Community College
Lynn Fowler
◦ Articulation Officer
◦ Cosumnes River College
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Verify CCC faculty collaboration for credit-by-examination authorization
before allowing CTE courses to be placed on your official transcripts as
comparable to approved UC transfer courses
Exams should be taken at CCC facilities or with CCC faculty member
involvement
CTE in Photography, at one CCC, has a pilot to give credit on portfolio review
and oral test by the CCC department chair
Advise students that any identified CTE units may be awarded high school
“a-g” credit only
Send questions regarding CTE credit to UCOP and UC campus articulation
officers before signing agreements
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Lynn Fowler
CRC Articulation Officer
[email protected]
(916) 691-7235
Estela Narrie
SMC Articulation Officer
[email protected]
(310) 434-8557
Dawn Sheibani
UC Transfer Admissions and CCC Articulation
[email protected]
(510) 987-9569
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Statway, an initiative of the Carnegie Foundation, is focused on statistics,
data analysis, and quantitative reasoning. Statway is designed as a yearlong
pathway that culminates in college-level statistics.
Statway is structured especially to serve students who plan to transfer and
continue further studies in humanities or social science
Participating colleges include: American River, Foothill, L.A. Pierce, Mt. San
Antonio, and San Diego City
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CSU has had a pilot program for 3 years
Positive discussions with UC faculty have occurred, but more materials are
needed
UC BOARS members are being deliberate about this request because it
affects all UC transferability and may serve as a gateway to additional
policies affecting UC admission criteria
At this point, UC hopes to create a new permanent policy rather than to
approve a pilot
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Elizabeth Atondo
L.A. Pierce Articulation Officer
[email protected]
(818) 710-2516