Four Primary Goals

Those principles are foundational to the project’s four primary goals. The C-ID System will pursue these goals:

Goal 1: Create and maintain an organizational infrastructure to support an ongoing course identification system to accommodate new and revised courses and emerging majors in both transfer and vocational areas in the coming years.

Goal 2: Create and review C-ID descriptors and subsequently qualify courses through processes developed and promulgated during this grant period; discipline faculty will determine the utility of descriptors drafted and forwarded by other professional groups, by LDTP, and the IMPAC project, to avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts but to ensure full intersegmental collaboration.

Goal 3: Create and maintain a web portal for public and internal use, for reference by constituent groups, and for Faculty Discipline Review Groups (FDRG) to conduct their responsibility for developing descriptors and qualifying courses; FDRG postings resulting from those qualifying processes will reflect faculty agreement on course content, student experiences and competencies, and the full interdisciplinary elements of major preparation and course sequencing. (Watch this site for more information about Faculty Discipline Review Groups and the course review and qualification processes that they will perform.)

Goal 4: Promote C-ID objectives and functions/processes to sustain project’s future as anticipated in SB 1415 and enable the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to “report to the Legislature on the plans to implement a common course numbering system for the majors” beyond the 20 highest demand majors in the CCC system (Education Code Section 66725.3 (b)).

To accomplish these goals, this project will develop an automated system to enable the following:

  1. submission of course outlines to qualify for a common identifier;
    archived database containing historical CAN records, matrices, and prior descriptors;
  2. a website established and maintained as a tool for faculty, counselors/ articulation officers/transfer center directors/ and by other segmental partners—all of whom work directly with students;
  3. on-going evaluation and revision of descriptors and qualification of courses in subsequent cycles;
  4. on-going submission of courses for FDRG C-ID qualification as courses are revised or created within the 5/6-year CCC curricular review cycle; and
    a means of broadly disseminating information.

Ultimately, this project, in addressing the mandates of SB 1415 and SB 1785, will also meet the needs outlined above and examine courses in the highest demand majors within the CCC system. Upon the Department of Finance’s approval of this project, the C-ID System participants will begin with these disciplines in the first reviews: Agriculture, Biology, Business Administration, English, History, Mathematics, Political Science, Psychology, Communication, Radio/Film, and Sociology.