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Allan Hancock College, Allan Hancock Joint Community College District 46 of 613. The college shall formally establish a challenge process including:a. Who makes the determination of whether the challenge is valid. For challenges concerningacademic qualifications, the initial determination should be made by someone who isknowledgeable about the discipline, preferably someone qualified to teach in the discipline, butnot the person who is the instructor of the section in which the student wishes to enroll.b. What possibility of appeal exists. If the validity of the challenge is determined by one person andnot a committee, there must be an opportunity to appeal.c. The student has the obligation to provide satisfactory evidence that the challenge should beupheld. However, where facts essential to a determination of whether the student's challengeshould be upheld are or ought to be in the college's own records, then the college has theobligation to produce that information. vC. Curriculum Review ProcessThe curriculum review process at each college shall at a minimum be in accordance with all of thefollowing:1. Establish a Curriculum Committee and its membership in a manner that is mutually agreeable tothe college administration and the academic senate.2. Establish prerequisites, corequisites, and advisories on recommended preparation (advisories)only upon the recommendation of the academic senate except that the Academic Senate maydelegate this task to the Curriculum Committee without forfeiting its rights or responsibilitiesunder Section 53200-53204 of Title 5. Certain limitations on enrollment must be established inthe same manner. See II.C. below.3. Establish prerequisites, corequisites, advisories on recommended preparation, and limitations onenrollment only if:a. The faculty in the discipline or, if the college has no faculty member in the discipline, thefaculty in the department do all of the following.(1) Approve the course; vi and,(2) As a separate action, approve any prerequisite or corequisite, only if:(a) The prerequisite or corequisite is an appropriate and rational measure of astudent's readiness to enter the course or program as demonstrated by a contentreview including, at a minimum, all of the following:i. involvement of faculty with appropriate expertise;ii. consideration of course objectives set by relevant department(s)(the curriculum review process should be done in a manner that is in accordance withaccreditation standards);iii.be based on a detailed course syllabus and outline of record, tests,
Allan Hancock College, Allan Hancock Joint Community College District 47 of 61related instructional materials, course format, type and number ofexaminations, and grading criteria;iv.iv.specification of the body of knowledge and/or skills which are deemednecessary at entry and/or concurrent with enrollment;identification and review of the prerequisite or corequisite whichdevelops the body of knowledge and/or measures skills identifiedunder iv.v. matching of the knowledge and skills in the targeted course (identifiedunder iv.) and those developed or measured by the prerequisite or(i.e., the course or assessment identified under v.); andcorequisitevii.maintain documentation that the above steps were taken.(b) The prerequisite or corequisite meets the scrutiny specified in one of the following: II.A.1 a. through A.1.g. and specify which. vii(3) Approve any limitation on enrollment that is being established for an honors course orsection, for a course that includes intercollegiate competition or public performance, orso that a cohort of students will be enrolled in two or more courses, and, in a separateaction, specify which.(4) Approve that the course meets the academic standards required for degree applicablecourses, non-degree applicable courses, non-credit courses, or community servicerespectively. viii(a) Review the course outline to determine if a student would be highlyunlikely to receive a satisfactory grade unless the student hadknowledge or skills not taught in the course. If the student would needknowledge or skills not taught in the course then the course may beapproved for degree applicable credit only if all requirements forestablishing the appropriate prerequisite have been met excepting onlyapproval by the Curriculum Committee.(b) Review the course outline to determine whether receiving asatisfactory grade is dependent on skills in communication orcomputation. If receiving a satisfactory grade is sufficiently dependenton such skills, then the course may be approved for degree applicablecredit only if all requirements have been met for establishing aprerequisite or corequisite of not less than eligibility for enrollment toa degree-applicable course in English or mathematics, respectively. ix(c) A course which should have a prerequisite or corequisite as providedin (a) or (b) but for which one or more of the requirements forestablishing a prerequisite have not been met may only: x(1) Be reviewed and approved pursuant to the standards for non-degree applicablecredit, non-credit, or community service; (Section 55002) or(2) Be revised and reviewed as required to meet the criteria for establishing thenecessary prerequisites or corequisites. xi
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