Given the necessity of the system to develop such a taxonomy under SB1415, the committee requests that this resolution be declared moot and removed.
Whereas an increasingly large number of students take courses at more than one California community college, and
Whereas it is often difficult for students to identify the role of a course as transfer, degree applicable, or nondegree applicable, especially when moving to a new college, and
Whereas some colleges use a numbering system (numeric taxonomy) that associates a range of numbers with a particular type of course (for example, <100 = transfer, 100 - 199 = applicable nontransfer, 200 - 299 = nondegree applicable), and
Whereas course numbering is an academic and professional matter so that establishment of such a numbering pattern as an option for colleges should be a matter for the Chancellor and Board of Governors to rely primarily on the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges,
Resolved that the Academic Senate explore the feasibility of a common numeric taxonomy so that the range of course numbers would identify the role of a course (transfer, degree applicable, non degree applicable, noncredit), and
Resolved that if the Academic Senate develop such a taxonomy, its use should be at the option of the local district, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate find that both the development and establishment of such a taxonomy and the decision by a district to adopt such a taxonomy are academic and professional matters.