Vocational-Technical Program and Course Standards. Competency-Based Postsecondary Curriculum Outlines. Bulletin No. 1822.

Overview & Synopsis

This document contains required vocational education program and course standards for all vocational and technical education offerings at the postsecondary level in Louisiana. The document consists of an introduction that describes the standards, gives the names and addresses of state department of education personnel and committee members who worked to arrive at the standards, and lists the standards themselves arranged by vocational program area. Those program areas are: agriculture; business; communications; consumer, personal, and miscellaneous services; engineering; health occupations; home economics; and trade and industrial. The standards for each course offered within a program area include: a course title, a Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code number, a narrative course description, the course length, the titles of units of instruction, and student competencies for each unit of instruction. (CML)