(a) An applicant shall submit a Course Application
form and pay the fee required by §535.101 of this title (relating
to Fees) to obtain approval to offer a course. Prior approval is required
for another school to offer the same course.
(b) A school shall submit an instructor's manual for
each proposed course. The commission may require a copy of the course
materials and instructor's manual to be submitted for each previously
approved course a school intends to offer. Subsequent providers shall
offer the course as originally approved or as revised with the approval
of the commission and shall use all materials required in the original
or revised course. Each manual must comply with Instructor Manual
Guidelines approved by the commission.
(c) The commission is not required to approve a course
sooner than 30 days after the filing of an application for course
approval.
(d) For the purpose of approval of courses, a correspondence
course offered by a school in association with an accredited college
or university in accordance with §535.62(f) of this title (relating
to Acceptable Courses of Study), is equivalent to a correspondence
course offered by an accredited college or university.
(e) Schools may offer a course using an alternative
delivery method such as computers if the course satisfies the requirements
for such a course contained in §535.62(g) of this title.
(f) A course approval expires four years from the date
of approval. A course that has been approved by the commission may
be offered by the original applicant until the expiration date, except
that courses approved prior to January 1, 2011 expire December 31,
2014. If any school other than the original applicant obtains approval
from the commission to offer the same course, the expiration date
remains unchanged.
(g) Course renewal. No more than six months prior to
the expiration of a course approval, a school may obtain a course
approval for another four year period. Approval or disapproval of
a course shall be subject to the standards for initial course approval.
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