| (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,
2015. For a course approved after January 1, 2011 and subsequently
revised and approved as required by this section, a school may no
longer offer the prior version of the course for core or related credit.
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.
(h) The Texas Real Estate Commission adopts by reference
the following forms.
(1) PRINS 1-0, Principles of Real Estate 1 and PRINS
2-0, Principles of Real Estate II approved by the Texas Real Estate
Commission in 2013 for use in obtaining approval to offer a Principals
of Real Estate I or II course. This document is published by and available
from the Texas Real Estate Commission, P.O. Box 12188, Austin, Texas
78711-2188, www.trec.texas.gov.
(2) LOA-0, Law of Agency approved by the Texas Real
Estate Commission in 2013 for use in obtaining approval to offer a
Law of Agency course. This document is published by and available
from the Texas Real Estate Commission, P.O. Box 12188, Austin, Texas
78711-2188, www.trec.texas.gov.
(i) Each core course must cover all topic areas associated
with the course in the Act unless otherwise authorized or amended
by this subchapter. Course topic areas required by the Act may be
further divided into subtopics by this subchapter. Subtopics may contain
subject matter from a single topic area or a combination of topic
areas. Subtopics required to be addressed in each core course may
be further divided into units. A subtopic may have a required time
period ascribed to it by rule.
(j) A core course submitted to the commission for approval
must comply with any rule or form adopted by reference which divides
selected core course topics into subtopics and units, and must devote
the assigned amount of time to each topic or subtopic.
(k) If a form has been adopted by the commission for
that purpose, a school applying for approval or revision of a core
course shall use the form to indicate the inclusive page numbers where
the course materials address each topic or subtopic as required by
this subchapter.
(l) If the commission adopts a form that divides topic
areas into subtopics and units for a core course required by the Act,
a school must revise and supplement a previously approved course no
later than 12 months after the effective date of the form adoption.
Alternative delivery courses that must be recertified by a distance
learning certification center acceptable to the commission must be
revised, supplemented, and recertified no later than 15 months after
the effective date of the form adoption. A school must provide proof
to the commission of the revisions to the course using the form adopted
by the commission. A school may not offer a previously approved course
for core credit more than 12 months, or 15 months for alternative
delivery courses, after the commission has divided topic areas into
subtopics unless the commission has approved the revisions required
by this subsection.
(m) A school seeking approval of revisions to a previously
approved core course pursuant to subsection (l) of this section must
pay the fee required by §535.101(b)(13) of this title. If the
school paid a fee for the previous approval, it shall receive a prorated
credit for the unexpired time remaining on the approval. The commission
shall calculate the unexpired credit by dividing the fee paid by 48
months and multiplying the monthly prorated fee times the number of
full months remaining between the date of approval and the expiration
date of the prior version. A revised course approved under subsection
(l) of this section expires four years from the date of approval.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §535.64 adopted to be effective January 1, 2011, 35 TexReg 11679; amended to be effective March 6, 2013, 38 TexReg 1363; amended to be effective September 5, 2013, 38 TexReg 5731; amended to be effective November 17, 2013, 38 TexReg 7951 |
