FDRGs, as senate-appointed discipline faculty, play an important role in the
Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC) process. The FDRG members are responsible for
drafting and reviewing feedback on the Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC) and
actively work to finalize the TMCs developed for their disciplines.
FDRGs are also assembled to discuss, develop, review, and revise course
descriptors for C-ID. Each discipline group is comprised of faculty from
the community college, CSU, and UC systems. Since C-ID is predicated on
faculty-to-faculty dialogue, each FDRG is facilitated by a lead discipline
faculty member, or FDRG Lead, to carry out the tasks described in greater detail
below. Members of the FDRG are responsible for a variety of tasks, including:
- Identification of those courses already widely articulated in their field, particularly those lower division, pre-major, or major courses in their discipline that are beyond the introductory core courses. The FDRGs must determine which courses within the discipline need descriptors and a C-ID number.
- Assignment of a supranumber to those prioritized courses based on the C-ID numbering protocol.
- Development (or review) and approval of C-ID descriptors for those numbered courses. Individual lower division courses awarded a C-ID number will reflect the published descriptor and will further assure transfer institutions that students successful in those classes should be well-prepared for upper division work.
Faculty members can also be active in reviewing submitted community college
courses as Course Outline of Record Evaluators (COREs) and assigning appropriate
C-ID designations to those courses – a process facilitated through the C-ID
website.
Please let us know if you would be interested in serving your discipline as a
member of the Information Systems FDRG. If you cannot commit to being an
FDRG member at this time, but would consider serving as a CORE (course
reviewer) with regard to your discipline, please also let our office know of
this interest.
Best Regards,
Holly Demé
Program Specialist
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 525
Sacramento, CA 95814
phone: 916.445.4753, ext. 108
fax: 916.323.9867
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