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. 

Chair:  Howard Adams

Meeting Dates and Deadlines (9/26/07)

Forms

• Application for Approval of Credit Courses
• Curriculum Action Form
• Appendix C2- Distance Ed
• Non-Substantial Change to Approved Program
• SLO-Course Level Form
• Special Topics Course Approval

Handbook

Curriculum Procedures and Resources Manual

Links

• Curriculum Committee

• General Ed Committee

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.

Institutional Effectiveness Chair/SLO Coordinator:
Morgan Barrows, Ph.D.

SLO Facilitators:
To be appointed

IE Committee Link:
Institutional Effectiveness Committee

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COMPLETED SLO/AUOs (PROGRAM AND COURSE LEVEL)

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

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COURSE-LEVEL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

The following documents provide information on the implementation of course-level SLOs and resources for writing course-level SLOs:

• Guide to Writing Course-Level SLOs
• SLO-Course Level Form
• Work-around to submitting SLO Form
• Annual Report Update on SLO's (2007-2008)
• SLO Course-Level Process (4/08)
• Resources for Writing Course Level SLO's (4/08)
• Letter to the Faculty (4/08)

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PROGRAM-LEVEL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

The following documents provide information on the implementation of program-level SLO/AUOs and resources for writing program-level SLO/AUOs:

• A Guide to Developing and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes and Administrative/Service Unit Outcomes at Saddleback College (revised 9/29/05)
• SLOs Made Easy (8/25/08)
• ParScore Examples
• SLO Assessment Resources
• IE Presentation on SLO/AUO (1/13/08)
• Student Learning Outcomes:  Where We've Been and Where We're Headed (8/13/07)
• The Strategic Planning Process:  Institutional Effectiveness (8/17/06)
• SLO/AUOs:  Moving through the Columns (8/16/06)
• "SLO Assessment Made Easy" In-Service Presentation (1/3/06)
• Presidents' Breakfast In-Service Presentation (8/16/05)
• Division Meeting In-Service Presentation (8/16/05)
• Letter to the Faculty (8/05)
• SLO Implementation Timeline (2005)
• Proposal for the Establishment of the SLO Implementation Team (6/28/05)

Forms:

• SLO-Program-Level Form
• AUO Form
• Program-Level SLO/AUO Writing Worksheet

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