Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Common Course Outlines

It's almost registration time!  Thank you for your cheerful help to the students printing many forms to finalize their admissions and financial aid.

You may be called upon for another kind of help, as I was today on chat.  A former student is trying to get credit for a GPC class at another school, which can be a complex process. The registrar at the new institution needs to examine the course contents for equivalency. Having a syllabus to review is one way of doing that, but this student no longer had the syllabus and took the class a few years ago from a professor no longer here at GPC. 

There are two web pages from the GPC Registrar where each academic department has filed outlines of the essential content in each course (called common course outlines).  This first page is for current classes, and the second page is for classes before Fall, 2011.The former student I helped was very happy to find a resource that might save many hundreds of tuition dollars!

The first page could also help students trying to decide which classes to take based on content.  As most of you know, the schedule of classes can be found in the Student Information System (SIS)  under Class Schedule. (Find the SIS under Quick Links from the college home page.)

Isn't education exciting?

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