| (A) Any student who first enrolls in an institution
of higher education following high school graduation in fall 2014
or later shall be subject to the current Texas Core Curriculum requirements.
(B) Any student who is admitted under the terms of
the Academic Fresh Start program and who first enrolls under that
admission in fall 2014 or later shall be subject to the current Texas
Core Curriculum requirements.
(C) Any student who first enrolled in an institution
of higher education prior to fall 2014 shall, after consultation with
an academic advisor, have the choice to:
(i) complete the core curriculum requirements in effect
in summer 2014; or
(ii) transition to the current core curriculum requirements,
in which case, previously completed core curriculum courses shall
be applied to the current core curriculum requirements under the same
terms as those that apply to a student who transfers from one institution
to another. The student shall then complete the remaining requirements
under the current core curriculum.
(c) Transfer of Credit--Completed Core Curriculum.
If a student successfully completes the 42 semester credit hour core
curriculum at a Texas public institution of higher education, that
block of courses must be substituted in transfer to any other Texas
public institution of higher education for the receiving institution's
core curriculum. A student shall receive academic credit for each
of the courses transferred and may not be required to take additional
core curriculum courses at the receiving institution.
(d) Concurrent Enrollment.
(1) A student concurrently enrolled at more than one
institution of higher education shall follow the core curriculum requirements
in effect for the institution at which the student is classified as
a degree-seeking student.
(2) A student who is concurrently enrolled at more
than one institution of higher education may be classified as a degree-seeking
student at only one institution.
(3) If a student maintains continuous enrollment from
a spring semester to the subsequent fall semester at an institution
at which the student has declared to be seeking a degree, the student
remains a degree-seeking student at that institution regardless of
the student's enrollment during the intervening summer session(s)
at another institution.
(e) Transfer of Credit--Core Curriculum Not Completed.
Except as specified in subsection (f) of this section, a student who
transfers from one institution of higher education to another without
completing the core curriculum of the sending institution must receive
academic credit within the core curriculum of the receiving institution
for each of the courses that the student has successfully completed
in the core curriculum of the sending institution. Following receipt
of credit for these courses, the student may be required to satisfy
the remaining course requirements in the core curriculum of the receiving
institution.
(f) Satisfaction of Foundational Component Areas. Each
student must meet the number of semester credit hours in each foundational
component area; however, an institution receiving a student in transfer
is not required to apply to the fulfillment of a foundational component
area requirement semester credit hours beyond the number of semester
credit hours specified in a foundational component area.
(g) A course may only apply to a single foundational
component area. If the SCH for a course in a foundational component
exceed the number of SCH allotted in that foundational component area,
the excess SCH must either be applied to the Component Area Option
or as part of the specific degree requirements, such that the additional
SCH will not increase the number of required SCH to complete the degree.
(h) Transcripts. All undergraduate student transcripts
should indicate whether a student has completed the core curriculum
satisfactorily, and which courses satisfied a requirement of the institution's
core curriculum. Identifying numbers recommended by the Texas Association
of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (TACRAO) must identify
each completed core curriculum course on students' transcripts, in
order to indicate courses utilized to satisfy core curriculum foundational
component area requirements as follows:
(1) Communication = 010;
(2) Mathematics = 020;
(3) Life and Physical Sciences = 030;
(4) Language, Philosophy and Culture = 040;
(5) Creative Arts = 050;
(6) American History = 060;
(7) Government/Political Science = 070;
(8) Social and Behavioral Sciences = 080; and
(9) Component Area Option = 090.
(i) Notice. Each institution must publish and make
readily available to students its core curriculum requirements stated
in terms consistent with the Texas Common Course Numbering System.
(j) Substitutions and Waivers. No institution or institutional
representative may approve course substitutions or waivers of the
institution's core curriculum requirements for any currently enrolled
student, except as provided in subsection (k) of this section. For
students who transfer to a public institution from a college or university
that is not a Texas public institution of higher education, courses
the student completed prior to admission should be evaluated to determine
whether they apply to one of the institution's core curriculum component
areas. Only those courses the institution has accepted for transfer
that can demonstrate fulfillment of the foundational component area
content descriptions, core objectives, and semester credit hours required
for the appropriate foundational component area or areas should be
applied to the institution's core curriculum.
(k) Accommodations.
(1) An institution of higher education may, on a case-by-case
basis, approve an accommodation of a specific core curriculum foundational
component area requirement as described in paragraph (3) of this subsection
for a student with a medically-documented learning disability, including
but not limited to dyslexia, dysgraphia, or Asperger's Syndrome.
(2) Accommodation shall not include a waiver or exemption
of any core curriculum requirement.
(3) An institution may approve for core curriculum
applicability a course the institution offers but that is not approved
as a part of the institution's core curriculum, if the institution
demonstrates that the course has been approved to fulfill the same
specific foundational component area requirement at five or more other
Texas public colleges or universities. The Texas Common Course Numbering
System course number may be used as evidence of the suitability of
the course under this subsection.
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