The Butte-Glenn Community College District offers Career and Technical Education programs designed to prepare students to enter their selected career or occupation, and to advance socially, economically, and professionally within their selected careers. The District’s plan for Career and Technical Education is an educational sequence that offers the potential of a Baccalaureate Degree but has the flexibility of preparing and allowing students to leave the sequence with gainful employment skills short of the attainment of this Degree.
These programs are for students who want and are capable of the ultimate in a community college education: employment skills plus General Education development. Upon completion of the Associate Degree program, that student may enter skilled to semi-professional employment or advanced career education at a state university.
These programs are for students who want to take virtually all their work in specialized employment preparatory courses. Upon obtaining a Certificate of Achievement, the student can enter skilled employment or continue schooling an additional year for the Associate Degree.
Courses will be offered at the community college for a variety of occupations on a number of levels depending upon the expressed needs of people in the college community.
Certificates of Completion are given to indicate a student's satisfactory completion of short-term courses or programs, such as the Nursing Assistant Program.
Certificates of Achievement are given to indicate a satisfactory level of achievement in selected programs requiring less than two years of full-time study. Some programs require full-time registration; others may be completed over an extended period of time in the regular day and Evening College classes.
Certificate of Achievement programs are comprised of either (1) a complete curriculum pattern, or (2) a major and related courses selected from an Associate Degree curriculum on the recommendation of the appropriate advisory committee. The following restrictions apply to such programs:
Upon completing state and local academic requirements and filing an Application
for Graduation, students may be awarded an Associate Degree.
An Associate in Sciences degree is awarded to those graduates who have
a major in engineering or science or any career/technical field.
An Associate in Arts degree is awarded to graduates in all other majors.
To be eligible for a second Associate Degree, a student must complete the
additional required courses for the major and pay any required fee. In addition,
if there has been a break in enrollment between the first and second or subsequent
degree without an approved Leave of Absence, and the student returns to complete
additional major requirements, the Catalog Rights as defined on pages 43-44
apply.
This rule will encompass the Health requirement (except in approved Allied
Health careers) and competency requirements. Any exceptions must be approved
by the Academic Council.
Students must complete a minimum of 18 units in one of the established Associate Degree majors listed on page 56. A 2.0 grade point average must be maintained for major requirements.
Students must complete a minimum of 20 semester units of General Education, distributed according to the following pattern:
Note: the DD 214 may be used to satisfy Area F.
Students must complete competency requirements in writing, math, reading, and multicultural breadth. See a counselor and/or page 59 for more information.
Students must complete an overall minimum of 60 semester units.
Students must file a formal Application for Graduation by the deadline published in the Semester Class Schedule. Applications are filed through the Counseling Center. Students may apply to graduate in either fall, spring, or summer. Official transcripts of prior college work attempted must be on file in the Office of Admissions and Records before the application can be considered.
Note: These limitations are not subject to waivers.
Remedial coursework refers to pre-collegiate basic skills courses in reading, writing, computation, learning skills, study skills, and English as a Second Language which are offered as nondegree credit courses. Beginning Fall Semester 1990, no student shall receive more than 30 semester units of credit for remedial coursework. A student who does not attain full eligibility status for college level work within this unit limit shall be dismissed and referred to adult, non-credit education courses.
The following students are exempt from the limitation on remedial coursework:
A student may, upon successful completion of appropriate coursework or upon demonstration of skill levels which will reasonably assure success in college-level courses, request reinstatement to proceed with college-level coursework by filing a petition and receiving approval from the Academic Council.
Students must maintain a minimum overall grade point average of 2.0 ("C" average) in all college course work.
Students must complete a minimum of 12 semester units at Butte College. Units earned through Credit by Examination do not apply towards this residency requirement.