For many years, the University of California and the California Community
Colleges have worked together to establish articulation agreements
that enable students planning to transfer to maintain continuity in
their programs. There are basically two categories of articulation
agreements. One type of agreement determines the general transferability
of community college courses at the university-wide level, and the
other, done at the campus level, determines the acceptability of transfer
courses in satisfaction of specific degree requirements in various
academic programs.
General Transferability of Courses
The Office of Outreach, Admissions and Student Affairs (OASA), in
the UC Office of the President, develops and updates articulation
agreements with community colleges. This responsibility has been delegated
to OASA by the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS),
a standing committee of the UC Academic Senate. The Office maintains
current and historical lists for 109 community colleges.
In developing the articulation agreements, OASA follows policies established
by BOARS regarding the acceptability of courses for advanced standing
elective credit toward a university degree. The basic principles used
in determining the transferability of community college courses are:
- Courses should be comparable to those offered at the lower division
level at any of the UC campuses; and
- Courses not equivalent to any offered at UC must be appropriate
for a university degree in terms of purpose, scope, and depth.
Courses listed as transferable are accepted at the point of admission
for unit credit toward the total units required for the UC baccalaureate
degree.
Articulation agreements are updated annually by UC articulation
staff.. During the course review process, UC staff uses UC and community
college catalogs, expanded course outlines, regulations established
by BOARS governing the maximum amount of credit allowed in certain
subject areas, and recommendations developed by UC faculty and deans
in special areas, such as architecture.
Community college articulation officers are encouraged to review
their agreement carefully and to bring any concern to the attention
of the UC articulation staff. Appeals of course denials are acceptable.
In these cases, UC staff may require the articulation officer to
send expanded course outlines providing information on items such
as: prerequisites, purpose of the course, and detailed descriptions
of the course content, method of evaluation, and reading lists.
The UC articulation staff is able to resolve routine appeals. Occasionally,
however, course outlines are forwarded to appropriate university
faculty to solicit an opinion on the transferability of a denied
course.
Note:
UC has not established any specific policies that preclude
the articulation of Distance Education courses, therefore, community
colleges are expected to follow Title V Regulations and contact
Jeff Spano from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
at (916) 327-7252 or at: jspano@cccco.edu
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