LIMITATIONS ON SCHEDULING COURSES
Current Class Schedule
All the courses listed in this catalog will not necessarily be scheduled in one academic year. Additional courses may be added. Skyline College reserves the right to discontinue, postpone, or combine classes and to change instructors when circumstances warrant such changes. Further, it reserves the right to cancel classes which do not reach a minimum enrollment.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND INFORMATION
Course descriptions
Courses described in Course descriptions form the basic offerings at Skyline College. Generally, in the course descriptions, both semesters of a year's course are listed together if the first semester course is a prerequisite to the second semester course. If there is no entry, the coursse has no prerequisite. All courses are offered for a letter grade, unless otherwise noted.

The credit value of each course in semester units is indicated by the number in parentheses following the title. A semester unit credit is based upon one hour of the student's time at the college per week in lecture or recitation throughout one semester, together with the time necessary in preparation, or a longer time in laboratory or other exercises not requiring outside preparation. A normal schedule of 15 college units presupposes that the average student will devote approximately 45 hours per week to class attendance and preparation.

Skyline college reserves the right to make appropriate course and program changes during the course of the year which may not be reflected in the catalog.

COURSE NUMBERING AND TRANSFERABLE CREDIT
Class Schedule
Course descriptions
The course numbering system in use at Skyline College as part of the San Mateo County Community College District categories courses according to the following:

100-599	Courses generally transferable to a four-year college or university
600-699	Courses varying in content and which are usually transferable
700-799	Courses that are part of a specific occupational program and which are not generally regarded as transferable
800-899	Courses that are non-transferable in nature

From time to time, a department may offer a course which is experimental in nature, covers a special topic, or which consists of independent study tailored to a student's needs. Because such courses are never exactly the same, you will not find them described in the catalog. They are, however, regular credit courses of the College. Usually they will be described in the Schedule of Classes or in other course advertising and will have a department name following by one of the following numbers:

670	Vocational Cooperative Education courses (1-4) Vocational Cooperative Education courses are offered under COOP 670 as well as the 670 number in a variety of vocational disciplines. Courses numbered 670 are transferable to CSU.
680, 880	Experimental Courses Courses designed to study a particular area or problem beyond the scope of regularly offered courses. These courses can be offered for a letter grade or for Credit/No Credit.
690	Individual Study in Department (1-3) Individual study of a particular area or problem beyond the scope of regularly offered courses.

Courses numbered 680 or 690 are generally transferable. Courses numbered 880 are not transferable. See a counselor for specifics.

Unless otherwise designated, any course may be offered either in day or evening.

COURSE REPETITION
Academic Standards
The Board of Trustees of the San Mateo County Community College District has adopted a policy (District Rules and Regulations, section 6.12) which permits a student to repeat certain courses for credit a maximum of three times (total of four class enrollments).

These courses require increasing levels of student performance or provide significantly different course content each subsequent semester. Such courses will be designated as "may be repeated for credit" in the College Catalog. For more information on this policy, please consult your College counselor.

Notwithstanding the exceptions cited in the previous paragraph, a student who has received a grade of D, F, or NC may, with authoriziation, repeat the course one time for the purpose of grade alleviation.

A student will be permitted to repeat courses indefinitely where repetition is needed for the student to meet a legally mandated training requirement as a condition of continued paid or volunteer employment. The grade received each time shall be included for purposes of calculating the student’s grade point average. Students who wish to repeat courses must present documentation that course repetition is necessary to complete legally mandated training requirements.

For further information, see Course Repetition under Academic Standards.

CALIFORNIA ARTICULATION NUMBER SYSTEM (CAN)
CAN numbers for Skyline Courses
The California Articulation Number (CAN) identifies some of the transferable, lower division, introductory, (preparatory) courses commonly taught within each academic discipline on California college campuses. The system assures that CAN courses on one participating campus will be accepted "in lieu of’’ the comparable CAN course for the major on another participating campus.

Example: CAN ECON 2 on one campus will be accepted for CAN ECON 2 on another participating campus. The CANs are listed by the course descriptions in the Skyline College Catalog.

CAN will be phased out in Fall 2008. See a counselor for further information