| (a) In accordance with Texas Education Code, §61.823,
the Board is authorized to approve Field of Study Curricula for certain
fields of study/academic disciplines. The Board delegates to the Commissioner
development of Field of Study Curricula with the assistance of the
Texas Transfer Advisory Committee, as defined by Title 19, Subchapter
V, Chapter 1. The Texas Transfer Advisory Committee is responsible
for convening Discipline-Specific Subcommittees. Discipline-Specific
Subcommittees shall provide subject-matter expertise to the Texas
Transfer Advisory Committee in developing Field of Study Curricula
in specific disciplines.
(b) A complete Field of Study Curriculum will consist
of the following components:
(1) Selected Texas Core Curriculum courses.
(A) Selected Texas Core Curriculum courses relevant
to the discipline may be included in the Field of Study Curriculum
for that discipline.
(B) Discipline-Specific Subcommittees are responsible
for identifying discipline-relevant courses from a list of all Texas
Core Curriculum courses provided by the Board that may be used to
satisfy core curriculum requirements. Each Discipline-Specific Subcommittee
shall recommend identified Texas Core Curriculum courses to the Texas
Transfer Advisory Committee.
(C) The Texas Transfer Advisory Committee shall recommend
the Texas Core Curriculum courses selected for inclusion in a Field
of Study Curriculum to the Commissioner who may approve or deny the
inclusion of the recommended Texas Core Curriculum courses in the
Field of Study Curriculum.
(D) Each institution of higher education must publish
on its public website in manner easily accessed by students the Texas
Core Curriculum courses selected for inclusion in a Field of Study
Curriculum with the cross-listed TCCNS course number.
(2) Discipline Foundation Courses (DFC).
(A) Discipline Foundation Courses are a set of courses
within a major course of study selected for inclusion in a Field of
Study Curriculum for that discipline. These courses will apply toward
undergraduate degrees within the Field of Study Curriculum at all
Texas public institutions that offer a corresponding major or track,
except for those institutions approved to require alternative Discipline
Foundation Courses under §4.35 of this subchapter (relating to
Petition for Substitute Discipline Foundation Courses).
(B) Each receiving institution must apply the semester
credit hours a student has completed in a Discipline Foundation Course
upon the student's transfer into a corresponding major or track. The
sending institution must indicate Discipline Foundation Courses on
the transfer student's transcript.
(C) Discipline-Specific Subcommittees are responsible
for identifying discipline-relevant courses for inclusion on the Discipline
Foundation Courses list. The Discipline-Specific Subcommittees must
select from courses listed in the Lower-Division Academic Course Guide
Manual. Each Discipline-Specific Subcommittee shall report this course
list to the Texas Transfer Advisory Committee.
(D) The Texas Transfer Advisory Committee shall recommend
the Discipline Foundation Courses selected by the Discipline Specific
Subcommittees for inclusion in a Field of Study Curriculum to the
Commissioner. The Commissioner may approve or deny the Discipline
Foundation Courses recommended by the Texas Transfer Advisory Committee
for inclusion in a Field of Study Curriculum.
(E) General academic teaching institutions may submit
a request for a substitute set of Discipline Foundation Courses for
a specific program of study according to the process in §4.35
of this subchapter.
(F) Each institution of higher education must report
to the Coordinating Board and publish on its public website in manner
easily accessed by students the Discipline Foundation Courses with
the cross-listed TCCNS course numbers for each course.
(G) The Commissioner must publish the list of Discipline
Foundation Courses for each approved Field of Study Curriculum on
the agency website with the cross-listed TCCNS course number for each
course.
(3) Directed Electives.
(A) Directed Electives are a set of courses that apply
toward a major course of study within a Field of Study Curriculum
at a specific general academic teaching institution.
(B) Faculty from each general academic teaching institution
may select a list of Directed Electives for the major course of study
corresponding to each Field of Study curriculum. Faculty must select
the Directed Electives only from courses listed in the Lower-Division
Academic Course Guide Manual.
(C) The Chief Academic Officer of the institution shall
submit the list of Directed Electives for inclusion in a Field of
Study Curriculum with the cross-listed TCCNS course number to the
Commissioner not later than forty-five (45) days after being sent
the request from the Coordinating Board. The Coordinating Board shall
publish the list of each institution's Directed Electives for each
approved Field of Study Curriculum on the agency website with the
cross-listed TCCNS course numbers for each course.
(D) An institution that does not submit its Directed
Electives in accordance with subparagraph (C) shall be required to
accept any Directed Elective courses that appear on the Board's list
for the Texas Direct Associate Degree for any institution's Field
of Study Curriculum.
(E) Each institution of higher education must publish
on its public website in a manner easily accessed by students Directed
Electives with the cross-listed TCCNS course number.
(F) An institution shall accept and apply directed
electives for fields of study upon transfer as long as the directed
elective was active on the Coordinating Board's inventory of directed
electives at the time the student completed the course at the community
college.
(c) Standard Field of Study Curriculum. The standard
field of study curriculum shall include the following:
(1) Selected core curriculum courses as prescribed
in subsection (b)(1) of this section.
(2) Up to twelve (12) semester credit hours of Discipline
Foundation Courses as prescribed in subsection (b)(2) of this section.
(3) At least six (6) semester credit hours of Directed
Electives as prescribed in subsection (b)(3) of this section.
(4) The Directed Electives and Discipline Foundation
Courses combined components of the standard field of study curriculum
may not exceed twenty (20) semester credit hours in total.
(d) Alternative Field of Study Curriculum. The alternative
framework for field of study curriculum shall include the following:
(1) Up to thirty (30) semester credit hours of selected
Texas Core Curriculum Courses as prescribed by subsection (b) of this
section.
(2) A minimum of eighteen (18) semester credit hours,
not to exceed twenty-four (24) semester credit hours of Discipline
Foundation Courses as prescribed in subsection (b)(2) of this section.
(3) Up to twelve (12) semester credit hours of Directed
Electives as prescribed in subsection (b)(3) of this section.
(e) A receiving general academic teaching institution
shall determine whether a transfer student is Field of Study Curriculum
complete upon the transfer student's enrollment. If a student successfully
completes an approved Field of Study Curriculum, a general academic
teaching institution must substitute that block of courses for the
receiving institution's lower-division requirements for the degree
program for the corresponding Field of Study Curriculum into which
the student transfers. Upon enrollment, the general academic teaching
institution must grant the student full academic credit toward the
degree program for the block of courses transferred.
(f) If a student transfers from one institution of
higher education to another without completing the Field of Study
Curriculum, the receiving institution must grant academic credit in
the Field of Study Curriculum for each of the courses that the student
has successfully completed in the Field of Study Curriculum of the
sending institution. After granting the student credit for these courses,
the institution may require the student to satisfy remaining course
requirements in the current Field of Study Curriculum of the receiving
general academic teaching institution, or to complete additional requirements
in the receiving institution's program, as long as those requirements
do not duplicate course content the student previously completed through
the Field of Study Curriculum.
(g) Each institution must note the selected Texas Core
Curriculum component and Discipline Foundation Courses components
of the Field of Study Curriculum courses on student transcripts as
recommended by the Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and
Admissions Officers (TACRAO).
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