Policy on Acceptance of Quarter Hour Credit to the AGEC
Proposed by the General Education Articulation Task Force, November 30, 1999
Accepted by the Academic Program Articulation Steering Committee, June 27, 2000.
The following guidelines are for the purpose of applying course work transferred from institutions using quarter-hours to the Arizona General Education Curriculum (AGEC) and all transfer degrees in the transfer model.
1. "A minimum of 15 semester credits of course work must be completed within the community college district of the college certifying completion of the AGEC" (Overview of the Arizona General Education Curriculum, 12-12-97).
2. 1.00 quarter hours = 0.67 semester hours.
3. Quarter-hour courses applied to the AGEC must be equivalent to a course in the granting institution’s AGEC list as determined by the articulation process at the community college.4. Quarter-hour courses may be applied in each AGEC category using the following formulae:
5. The minimum credit hours for the AGEC (35 semester hours) must be met for the granting institution to certify an AGEC. A deficiency in an AGEC category due to quarter-hour application must be recovered by additional credits within the same or another AGEC categorical requirement.a. No fewer than four quarter-hours of coursework are required to fulfill a 3 semester AGEC categorical requirement (4 quarter-hours for 2.68 semester credits).
b. No fewer than five quarter-hours of coursework are required to fulfill a 4 semester-hour AGEC categorical requirement (5 quarter-hours for 3.35 semester credits).c. No fewer than eight quarter-hours of coursework are required to fulfill a 6 semester-hour AGEC categorical requirement (8 quarter-hours for 5.36 semester credits).
d. No fewer than twelve quarter-hours of coursework are required to fulfill a 9 semester-hour AGEC categorical requirement (12 quarter-hours for 8.04 semester credits).
TIMELINE/PROCESS FOR QUARTER-HOUR PROPOSAL
February 17, 2000 APASC receives the Quarter-Hour Proposal (11-30-99)
APASC requests feedback from Arizona post-secondary institutions.
June, 2000 APASC acts on feedback from Arizona post-secondary institutions
Fall, 2000 Implementation of Quarter-Hour Proposal, retroactive to the institution's implementation of the transfer model.