California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 6 - California Community Colleges › Chapter 6 - Curriculum and Instruction › Subchapter 1 - Programs, Courses and Classes › Article 1 - Program, Course and Class Classification and Standards › Section 55000 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
						definitions shall apply:
(a) "Active
					 participatory courses" are those courses where individual study or group
					 assignments are the basic means by which learning objectives are met.
(b) "Advisory on recommended preparation"
					 means a condition of enrollment that a student is advised, but not required, to
					 meet before or in conjunction with enrollment in a course or educational
					 program.
(c) "All units attempted"
					 means all units of credit for which the student has enrolled in the current
					 community college district of attendance.
(d) "CR" means "credit" and is a symbol used
					 to denote that a student received credit for at least satisfactory work in a
					 course taken on a "credit-no credit basis" prior to the Fall 2009 term, or at a
					 different institution which uses the "credit-no credit" symbol. This symbol is
					 the equivalent of "pass" in a "pass-no pass" grading system.
(e) "Community Services Offering" means a
					 fee-supported community services class authorized pursuant to Education Code
					 section
					 78300 and
					 approved pursuant to subdivision (d) of section
					 55002 for which state apportionment
					 is not claimed and credit is not awarded.
(f) "Content review" means a rigorous,
					 systematic process developed in accordance with sections
					 53200 to
					 53204, approved by the Chancellor
					 as part of the district matriculation plan required under section
					 55510, and that is conducted by
					 faculty to identify the necessary and appropriate body of knowledge or skills
					 students need to possess prior to enrolling in a course, or which students need
					 to acquire through simultaneous enrollment in a corequisite course.
(g) "Contract Course" means a course which a
					 community college district offers under a contract pursuant to Education Code
					 section
					 78021 with
					 a public or private agency, corporation, association, or other
					 organization.
(h) "Corequisite"
					 means a condition of enrollment consisting of a course that a student is
					 required to simultaneously take in order to enroll in another course.
(i) "Course" means an organized pattern of
					 instruction on a specified subject offered by a community college pursuant to
					 subdivisions (a), (b) or (c) of section
					 55002.
(j) "Course repetition" occurs when a student
					 who has previously received an evaluative symbol in a credit course, as set
					 forth in section
					 55023, re-enrolls in that course
					 and receives an evaluative symbol.
(k) "Courses that are determined to be
					 legally mandated" are courses that are required by statute or regulation as a
					 condition of the student's paid or volunteer employment.
(l) "Courses that are related in content" are
					 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 level or variation.
(m) "Educational program" is an organized
					 sequence of courses leading to a defined objective, a degree, a certificate, a
					 diploma, a license, or transfer to another institution of higher
					 education.
(n) "Enrollment" occurs
					 when a student receives an evaluative or nonevaluative symbol pursuant to
					 section 55023 in a credit course.
(o) An "emergency condition or extraordinary
					 conditions" is a condition meeting the requirements of section
					 58146, subdivision (b).
(p) "Intercollegiate academic or vocational
					 competition course" is a course that is designed specifically for participation
					 in non-athletic competitive events between students from different colleges
					 that are sanctioned by a formal collegiate or industry governing body. The
					 participation in the event must be directly related to the course content and
					 objectives pursuant to subdivisions (a) or (b) of section
					 55002.
(q) "Intercollegiate athletic course" is a
					 course in which a student athlete is enrolled to participate in an organized
					 competitive sport sponsored by the district or a conditioning course which
					 supports the organized competitive sport.
(r) "NC" means "no credit" and is a symbol
					 used to denote that a student did not receive credit for a course taken on a
					 "credit-no credit basis" prior to the Fall 2009 term, or at a different
					 institution which uses the "credit-no credit" symbol. This symbol is the
					 equivalent of "no pass" in a "pass-no pass" grading system.
(s) "Necessary and appropriate" means that a
					 strong rational basis exists for concluding that a prerequisite or corequisite
					 is reasonably needed to achieve the purpose that it purports to serve. This
					 standard does not require absolute necessity.
(t) "Noncredit basic skills courses" are
					 those courses in reading, writing, computation, and English as a Second
					 Language which are designated by the community college district as noncredit
					 courses pursuant to subdivision (c) of section
					 55002.
(u) "Nondegree-applicable basic skills
					 courses" are those courses in reading, writing, computation, and English as a
					 Second Language which are designated by the community college district as
					 nondegree-applicable credit courses pursuant to subdivision (b) of section
					 55002.
(v) "Prerequisite" means a condition of
					 enrollment that a student is required to meet in order to demonstrate current
					 readiness for enrollment in a course or educational program.
(w) "Satisfactory grade" means that, for the
					 course in question, the student's academic record has been annotated with the
					 symbol A, B, C or P as those symbols are defined in section
					 55023.
(x) "Special classes" means those
					 instructional activities designed to address the educational limitations of
					 students with disabilities who would be unable to substantially benefit from
					 regular college classes even with appropriate support services or
					 accommodations as set forth in section
					 56028.
(y) "Substandard academic work" means course
					 work for which the grading symbols "D," "F," "FW," or "NP" (as defined in
					 section 55023) have been
					 recorded.
1.
						Repealer of chapter 1 (subchapters 1-3, sections
						55000-55144, not consecutive) and
						new chapter 1 (articles 1-2, sections
						55000-55180, not consecutive) filed
						12-21-81; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 81, No. 52). For prior
						history, see Registers 80, No. 11; 77, No. 45; and 71, No. 9.
2.
						Amendment filed 3-4-91 by Board of Governors of California Community Colleges
						with the Secretary of State; operative 4-5-91 (Register 91, No. 23). Submitted
						to OAL for printing only pursuant to Education Code Section
						70901.5(b).
3.
						Editorial correction of HISTORY 2 (Register 95, No. 20).
4.
						Amendment filed 7-17-2007; operative 8-16-2007. Submitted to OAL for printing
						only pursuant to Education Code section
						70901.5
						(Register 2007, No. 35).
5. New subsections (a), (c)-(d), (j)-(l),
						(n)-(r) and (x)-(y) and subsection relettering filed 12-27-2012; operative
						1-26-2013. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Education Code
						section
						70901.5
						(Register 2013, No. 1).
6. Amendment of subsection (k) filed
						4-22-2015; operative 5-22-2015. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to
						Education Code section
						70901.5
						(Register 2015, No. 17).
7. Amendment of subsections (a), (d), (o),
						(r) and (y) filed 9-20-2022; operative 10-20-2022. Submitted to OAL for filing
						and printing only pursuant to Education Code section
						70901.5
						(Register 2022, No. 40).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  66700 and
						  70901,
						  Education Code. Reference: Sections
						  70901 and
						  70902,
						  Education Code.