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SFCC College Catalog 2010-2011, pp. 19-28Student Services | SFCC College Catalog 2010-20113.4.4Educational Programs: All acceptance of academic creditThe institution has a defined and published policy for evaluating, awarding, and accepting credit fortransfer, experiential learning, advanced placement, and professional certificates that is consistent withits mission and ensures that course work and learning outcomes are at the collegiate level andcomparable to the institution’s own degree programs. The institution assumes responsibility for theacademic quality of any course work or credit recorded on the institution’s transcript. (See Commissionpolicy “The Transfer or Transcripting of Academic Credit.”)JudgmentCompliant Non-Compliant Not ApplicableNarrativeSouth Florida Community College (SFCC) has a defined and published District Board of Trustees(DBOT) Policy 3.11 for evaluating, awarding, and accepting credit for transfer, experiential learning,advanced placement, and professional certificates that is consistent with its mission and ensures thatcourse work and learning outcomes are at the collegiate level and comparable to the institution’s owndegree programs. SFCC assumes responsibility for the academic quality of any course work or creditrecorded on the SFCC transcript.The following related procedures outline and identify the parameters in which academic credit is awardedfor transfer, experiential learning, advanced placement, and articulated non-credit courses: SFCCAdministrative Procedures 3111, 3112, 3113, and 3114.The Florida Department of Education Statewide Course Numbering System (SCNS) facilitatesthe transfer of students among Florida’s postsecondary institutions. Courses that have similar academiccontent and are taught by faculty with comparable faculty credentials are given the same prefix andnumber, and are considered to be equivalent courses. By Florida law, an institution accepting a transferstudent from another participating institution must award credit for equivalent courses. Credits awardedmust satisfy the requirements of the receiving institution as though the student had taken the courses atthe receiving institution.Excluded from this guaranteed transfer are:• college preparatory and career/technical preparatory courses• applied courses in the performing arts (dance, interior design, music, studio art, theater)• clinical courses in health related areas• skill courses in criminal justice programs• courses with the last three digits ranging from 900 – 999• courses not offered at the receiving institution• graduate coursesAll students enrolling at SFCC with transfer course work must have the transfer credit evaluated by theRegistrar or Assistant Registrar according to regulations for it to be posted on students' SFCC transcripts.All lower-division transfer credits awarded by a regionally accredited institution are accepted for transferto SFCC. If credits were awarded by a non-regionally accredited institution or by an institution that is notpart of the state-wide articulation agreements, then the Registrar and appropriate faculty/departmentchair will evaluate each course individually and will make a decision regarding equivalency based onavailable documents. To ensure that the transfer course is fully equivalent to that taught by SFCC andSouth Florida Community College Page 93 / 202results in student competencies at least equal to those of students enrolled in the comparable course atSFCC, the following documentation on the transfer course must be submitted by the student: The course