How Do You Spell IGETC?

1. How Do You Spell IGETC? A description of IGETC policies and procedures used to inform students about successful transfer.

2. What is general education for the UC? • Effective oral and written communication; • Critical thinking; • Familiarity with styles of inquiry from a range of disciplines; • Ability to work in groups; • Skills to solve complex problems; • Tolerance for ambiguity; • An understanding of a variety of cultures, including one’s own.

3. And the District also says: • The ability to think and communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing; • To use mathematics; • To understand the modes of inquiry of the major disciplines; • To be aware of other cultures and times; • To achieve insights gained through experience in thinking about ethical problems; • To develop the capacity for self-understanding.

4. IGETC • AREAS • ENGLISH COMMUNICATION • MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS • ARTS AND HUMANITITES • SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES • PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES • LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH • IGETC HANDOUT

5. What is articulation? • The process of developing a formal, written and published agreement that identifies courses on a “sending” campus that are comparable to or acceptable in lieu of, specific course requirements at a “receiving” campus • CIAC, 20006 California Articulation Policies and Procedures Handbook • In other words, articulation identities courses students should take at CC in order to meet university degree requirements

6. Importance of Articulation Agreements • Articulation insures course to course agreements are honored and students don’t have to repeat the same course • Articulation provides a guide to what students need to take for major and general education or pre-requisites or elective credit to their CSU or UC of choice • Articulation ensures faculty that their courses are transferable and meet university standards

7. How Courses are Articulated and Reviewed by Four-Year Institutions • Transfer Course Agreement (TCA) • Faculty must first submit courses to Articulation Officer to submit for transferability to ASSIST.ORG through OSCAR • Courses submitted through OSCAR are only done once a year (summer) • Community colleges are told when they can submit • Short time frame when Articulation Office may submit courses

8. TIMELINES • June-July: new courses submitted in summer • October: Re-submission for appeals • November: submit courses for following Spring • December: submit for placement into IGETC area; i.e. science courses will be placed into physical and life science area with lab placed into 5C • April: community colleges are informed if courses from the TCA are accepted into IGETC AND Fall 2012 courses

9. THE ROLE OF THE COURSE OUTLINE OF RECORD • Official Course Outline of Record is used to review courses for acceptance into the TCA • COR is used when UC reviews any discipline. • The UC reviews a discipline every year, this year is history, Next year is counseling courses • If the COR is not detailed enough, the UC will require course syllabi fill in the gaps

10. ASSIST • How to use it and what it can do for you and your students. • Online student transfer information system • Try the online “Assist Help Pages” • Can guide students to select appropriate general education courses to CSU, UC • Can inform instructors on articulation to the CSU, UC in • General Education courses • UC transferable courses • CSU transferable courses