About the Process

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As you may know, AB 1111 requires CA community colleges to modify existing courses to ensure that they will have the same course number to comparable courses across our system. The 11-character standard provides course identification consistency across all California community colleges. Here is an example of the new course taxonomy: 

ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing  

The initiative will take several years to complete. The first three phases have been defined as follows:

Phase I

For SBCC, the first phase included ten courses. Our faculty participated in surveys and workgroups on the creation of course templates. Once the templates were developed, the Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC) worked with our articulation office to determine which of our courses best aligned with the templates. CAC worked with faculty to develop course modifications, which were submitted to, and approved by, the state earlier this year.  The last step will be to submit these course modifications to the UCs in June for rearticulation. Phase I course modifications go into effect the Fall 2025 semester. 

Phase II

Phase II is much more ambitious. Initially, Phase II consisted of about 35 courses, all to be implemented by Fall 2026. Once again, our faculty participated in surveys and workgroups to revise the course templates for these 35 courses, but it quickly became clear that the California Community Colleges, CSUs and UCs were not in agreement over the content of the templates. To resolve the issue, the Chancellor’s Office - along with representatives from the the state Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) workgroups, suggested dividing Phase II into two Parts: Part A and Part B.

Part A, which goes into effect in Fall 2026, consists of:

  • Two History courses 
  • Two English courses
  • Two Economics courses
  • Two Art History courses

The templates have been released, which you can find here. CAC and the articulation office will be working together to see which of our courses align with these templates. It is important to note that the templates are a starting point for a Course Outline of Record (COR). Departments can add to these templates, ensuring both our high quality of instruction, as well as our complex articulation agreements with many universities. If your department has course offerings in Part A, you will be contacted first by our Articulation Officer, Laura Castro, to discuss which of our courses best align with one of the templates (and yes, there are lots of questions over what to do if we do not have a course that closely matches a template). Once the course has been identified, departments will be contacted by CAC chair Tara Carter to help start the process of creating a course modification proposal. As with Phase I, CAC will take the lead to create most of the modification proposal, but will ask departments to review and add to the drafts. Once CAC approves the drafts, the proposal will be added to a Board of Trustees agenda, and then submitted to the Chancellor’s Office database (COCI) by CAC,  and lastly submitted  to ASSIST by Laura Castro for articulation.

Part B templates are expected to be released to colleges in late April or May 2025, and will go into effect by Fall 2027. Part B will include courses in the following departments:

  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Math
  • Astronomy
  • Anthropology
  • Communication
  • Sociology
  • Early Childhood Education

Once we have the templates, the process will be the same as Part A, with departments first being contacted by Laura Castro, and then by Tara Carter. 

Phase III

The Phase III list of recommended courses was compiled by the Development Workgroup, vetted by the Steering Committee, and confirmed by the Council. Forty-seven courses are being recommended as part of Phase III. This listing is based on criteria established by the Task Force. Initial drafts of the templates have been created, as well as surveys for faculty to complete to offer feedback on these initial drafts. Tara Carter contacted department chairs with potential courses in Phase III, providing them with links to the surveys. Multiple people from each department are encouraged to complete the survey, including part-time faculty. Additionally, we have asked department chairs for potential participants for the Phase III convenings, which will be held virtually over summer 2025. At these convenings, hosted by the state Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC), feedback from the surveys will be reviewed, providing an opportunity for faculty to voice their opinions, concerns, and suggestions for the course templates. Please remember that the templates are a starting point for a Course Outline of Record (COR). We can add elements to a course that are either missing from the template or are not clearly articulated.