CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
POLICY STATEMENT
NUMBER: 79-08
FILE: Textbooks
SUBJECT: CHOICE OF TEXTBOOKS AND FACULTY RESPONSIBILITY ON
MULTI-SECTION AND SEQUENTIAL COURSES
The following policy statement, recommended by the Academic Senate
at its meeting of January 25, 1979, and approved by the President
on March 8, 1979, is as follows:
I. The choice of textbook for a course is the professional responsibility
of the faculty member teaching the course. Therefore, the following
policy applies:
A. It is the responsibility of the faculty member teaching a course
to choose the textbook(s) for the course.
B. By vote of the faculty, departments may adopt a policy that
requires use of the same text(s) (or one of a small number of designated
texts) for all sections of a multiple-section course or all semesters
o£ a sequential course. Where such a policy is in effect,
the faculty members who teach the course(s) are jointly responsible
for making the selection.
II. Departments have responsibility for course content, for assuring
continuity in sequential courses, and for assuring that multiple
sections of a course are similar in content and level of instruction.
A. An appropriate body in each department offering sequential and/or
multiple-section courses shall meet each year to review syllabi
or equivalent materials used by instructors in multiple-section
and sequential courses and to advise them if there are inappropriately
wide variances in content, continuity, and levels of instruction
between their courses and the departmental course outlines
B. An appropriate body for purposes of this policy shall be the
department curriculum committee, an ad hoc committee consisting
of those teaching the course, a course coordinator, or such other
body as may be approved by the department.
Effective: Immediately
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