California Code of Regulations › Title 10 - Investment › Chapter 6 - Real Estate Commissioner › Article 24 - Private Vocational School and Supervised Course of Study Approvals › Section 3000 - Equivalent Courses of Study at Private Vocational Schools

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) In making a determination under authority
				of section
				10153.5 of the Code as to whether
				a course of study at a private vocational school is equivalent in quality to
				real estate courses offered by colleges and universities accredited by the
				Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the commissioner shall consider,
				but shall not be limited to the following criteria:
(1) An attended course must provide at least
				45 periods of classroom instruction, each of which shall be not less than 50
				minutes duration. A correspondence course shall consist of not less than 15
				separate lesson assignments.
(2)
(A) An attended course must provide for a
				final examination administered and supervised by the school in a classroom
				setting.
(B) A correspondence
				course must provide for a final examination administered and supervised by a
				person designated by the school for that purpose. The school shall send the
				final examination materials to the person so designated and the completed final
				examination shall be returned to the school by the person so
				designated.
(3) The
				school must provide instructors, instructional material and classroom
				facilities adequate to achieve the objective of the course offered.
(4) The school shall maintain records for
				each student sufficient to allow for the preparation of a duplicate certificate
				upon request by a student.
(5) The
				school shall not use advertising or other promotional devices that are
				deceptive or misleading.
(6) The
				school shall, within 15 days of a student's successful completion of the
				course, deliver a document to the student evidencing such completion. The
				document shall contain the following information:
(A) Bureau of Real Estate course approval
				number.
(B) Name of
				student.
(C) Course
				title.
(D) Dates of course
				completion.
(E) Name and address of
				school.
The school may include such additional information in this
				  document as it deems necessary.
(7) The school shall have an appropriate
				method of assessing student knowledge of the subject, such as, but not limited
				to, multiple choice, essay or oral examinations.
(8) Instructors must have credentials issued
				by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges or by a
				comparable California teacher-credentialing agency or meet the qualifications
				established in Sections
				53400 et seq. of Title 5. The
				commissioner may approve instructors who in his or her judgment meet the
				qualifications, or who otherwise evidence their teaching qualifications by
				education or experience or a combination of the two. An instructor shall not
				teach a course if the instructor:
(A) Does not
				satisfy the criteria in this subdivision.
(B) Has engaged in any violation of Article
				24 (commencing with Section
				3000) of these regulations or has
				engaged in conduct which would have warranted the denial of an application for
				approval or withdrawal of approval of an equivalent course of study.
(C) As a real estate licensee has had that
				license suspended, revoked or restricted as a result of disciplinary
				action.
(D) Acted or conducted
				himself or herself in a manner which would have warranted the denial of his or
				her application for a real estate license.
(9) Beginning on January 1, 2004, the school
				shall notify each student that an evaluation form is available on the Bureau's
				internet website for on-line evaluation of courses and
				instructors.