Curriculum Resources

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CurricUNET User Guide: CurricUNET Reference Guide
Committee Orientation and Stand-Alone Training This resource put together by the Curriculum Chair provides an overview of the functions of the Curriculum Committee, and important information from training materials provided by the Chancellor's office and Systems Advisory Committee on Curriculum (SACC).
Curriculum Committee Annual Report 2011-2012
Curriculum Committee Annual Report 2010-2011
The Taxonomy of Programs: The T.O.P. manual contains a list of all the T.O.P. codes currently in use.
Resources for Curriculum Developers: The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges provides additional information about best practices for curriculum development that faculty developers and college curriculum committees will find useful.
Bloom's Taxonomy: What verbs should you use when putting together course objectives? You will find this link extremely helpful.
The Inventory of Approved Programs: The inventory is accessible on the Chancellor's office website - which is periodically updated with the latest approvals.
Distance Education Regulations and Guidelines: The Academic Affairs Division of the Chancellor's office has prepared this publication which was prepared collaboratively with the Education Technologies Advisory Committee (ETAC).
The Course Outline of Record: A Curriculum Reference Guide: A useful document prepared by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges in 2008 - for curriculum committees.
The Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer (ASSIST) database: Major-specific articulation information for most campuses can be found in this database.
The Labor Market Information System (for CTE only): This resource provides occupational demand data by county on established occupations - i.e. those that have Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) codes that serve medium to large employers.
Prerequisites_Guidelines_55003 Final.pdf Policies for Prerequisites, Corequisites and Advisories on Recommended Preparation

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