2019-20 General Catalog 18.1MB | Addendum A: Microsoft Word | Major Code List   

Catalog Archive

• 2018-19 General Catalog 14.3MB | Addendum A: Microsoft Word

• 2017-18 General Catalog 6.0MB | Addendum A: Microsoft Word

• 2016-17 Pierce General Catalog 6.00MB | Addendum A | Addendum B

• 2014-16 Updated Pierce General Catalog 9.13MB

• 2014-16 Pierce General Catalog 6.09MB

• 2012-14 Pierce General Catalog 6.00MB | Addendum A | Addendum B

• 2011-12 Pierce General Catalog 5.00MB

• 2010-11 Pierce General Catalog 2.00MB | Addendum

• 2009-10 Pierce General Catalog 3.13MB

• 2008-09 Pierce General Catalog 6.78MB | Addendum

• 2007-08 Pierce General Catalog 3.56MB

Student Catalog Rights

The following are Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees rules that govern what degrees and certificates a student may earn during their educational career at Los Angeles Pierce College.

Generally, the student's curriculum during their educational career is determined by the General Catalog that corresponds to their enrollment year. For example, if a student enrolls for the Fall 2017 semester, they would use the 2016-17 General Catalog to determine their current curriculum and requirements to graduate and/or transfer.

■ 6201.13 Competency Requirement.

Students must satisfy the requirements for meeting competency in written expression and mathematics. Through the collegial consultation process, the Chancellor, acting on behalf of the Board of Trustees, shall rely primarily upon the recommendation of the District Academic Senate, to establish procedures for determining competency.

■ 6203. Catalog Rights.

For these purposes, a catalog year is defined as beginning with the fall semester through the subsequent summer. A student remaining in continuous attendance in the Los Angeles Community College District may elect to satisfy the degree, certificate or graduation requirements in effect at the college from which the student will either earn his/her degree, certificate or graduate:

1. at the time the student began such attendance at the college, or
2. at the time all graduation requirements are met, or
3. any intervening catalog term between the time the student began continuous attendance and the time all graduation requirements were met.

For the purposes of implementing this policy, the college may develop a policy to:

1. authorize or require substitutions for discontinued courses; or
2. require a student changing his/her major to complete the major requirements in effect at the time of the change.

A student who no longer maintains catalog rights may apply to be awarded a certificate or degree that was completed while s/he maintained catalog rights. In such a case, it shall be awarded retroactively in the last term of the period in which the student maintained those rights in which the certificate or degree requirements were completed.

The college's policy shall be developed in consultation with the college Academic Senate in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XVIII of the Board Rules - ACADEMIC SENATE AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SHARED GOVERNANCE POLICY, and published in all college catalogs under appropriate headings.

This policy does not apply to college programs which are governed or regulated by outside government agencies or which require licensure or certification through one of these agencies.

■ 6204. Continous Attendance.

"Continuous attendance" means no more than one semester absence within a school year, excluding Summer Sessions and Winter Intersession.

Students granted a "military withdrawal" or a grade of "EW" under the provisions of Board Rule 6700, will be considered to be in "continuous attendance" for their required period of military service or excused withdrawal.