COS Basic Skills Courses:

See attachments and descriptions below for definitions of Basic Skills Courses.

Courses sumbitted to Chancellor's Office:

What constitutes a Basic Skills course?

• Memo from the Chancellor on TOP codes for Basic Skills Courses
  

• MIS data – CB 08 and CB 21—For CB 21 classes are 2 levels below college level—non-degree applicable courses http://www.cccco.edu/SystemOffice/Divisions/TechResearchInfo/MIS/DED/CourseDataElements/tabid/267/Default.aspx
  

• Title 5 definition of basic skills
  Definitions pulled out of the attachment:

§ 55000. Definitions.

(i) "Noncredit basic skills courses" are those courses in reading, writing, computation, and English as a Second Language which are designated by the community college district as noncredit courses pursuant to subdivision (c) of section 55002.

(j) "Nondegree-applicable basic skills courses" are those courses in reading, writing, computation, and English as a Second Language which are designated by the community college district as nondegree-applicable credit courses pursuant to subdivision (b) of section 55002.

§ 55002. Standards and Criteria for Courses

(b) Nondegree-Applicable Credit Course. A credit course designated by the governing board as not applicable to the associate degree is a course which, at a minimum, is recommended by the college and/or district curriculum committee (the committee described and established under subdivision (a)(1) of this section) and is approved by the district governing board.

(1) Types of Courses. Nondegree-applicable credit courses are:

(A) nondegree-applicable basic skills courses as defined in subdivision (j) of section 55000;

(B) courses designed to enable students to succeed in degree-applicable credit courses (including, but not limited to, college orientation and guidance courses, and discipline-specific preparatory courses such as biology, history, or electronics) that integrate basic skills instruction throughout and assign grades partly upon the demonstrated mastery of those skills;

(C) precollegiate career technical preparation courses designed to provide foundation skills for students preparing for entry into degree-applicable credit career technical courses or programs;

(D) essential career technical instruction for which meeting the standards of subdivision (a) is neither necessary nor required.