https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Adulting-DeCal-class-list-UC-Berkeley-Cal-14368771.php
https://decal.berkeley.edu/courses/4962
1 unit (credit hour) course, listed as Psychology 198.
Is it too late to sign a 22 year old up for it? And does he have to be a Cal student? Could this hypothetical 22 year old be living in his parents’ home in rural Maine and perhaps take this course online? Asking for a friend.
Purdue is doing something similar, but not a class, but more staff in student services to help with resiliency…https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2019/Q2/odos-expands-student-assistance-capabilities.html
Note that there is probably topic overlap between this course and UGBA 135 (see http://guide.berkeley.edu/courses/ugba/ ) and high school health education and PE courses. But UGBA 135 has two 299-student sections that are full for fall 2019. The “Adulting” course currently has 3 enrolled out of a capacity of 30.
https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2019-fall-ugba-135-1-lec-1
https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2019-fall-ugba-135-2-lec-2
https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2019-fall-psych-198-006-grp-006
Berkeley has some interesting DeCals this fall, like a class on BTS, a card-counting class, and a baking class that had a very high amount of applicants for a limited amount of seats (I heard close to a thousand applicants).
I work in an office peripheral to higher ed, and every school is doing this in some fashion. “Wellness” or “college success” or “navigating difficulty” are very popular, as are “personal finance” and “healthy behaviors” courses.
I am horrified by the use of “adult” as a verb, but am otherwise in favor of the class. I don’t think my tax dollars are going to waste with this one. Card-counting? Baking? Not so sure about those. 
That’s the class that ought to be senior requirement in high school.
LOL?
I’m terrified of taking this class and failing. What happens then? Get sent back to Kindergarten???
It’s a clever rebrand, but sounds like the “college success”, “freshman seminar” “college 101” etc. type course that many schools have been including and often requiring for decades.
All the colleges I’ve taught at have one, and I taught it myself for years starting about 20 years ago.
We had mandatory home ec at age 12, covering most of the same topics.
My oldest called a couple of weeks ago to tell me she & her husband were now on “level 3 adulting”.
She defined level one as doing your own laundry and going grocery shopping so there is food in the fridge. Level two was taking your car in for servicing and making sure all your bills got paid on time (and there was money in the bank to pay them). Level three was working with a financial planner on investing, insurance, retirement accounts and financing a house.
@WayOutWestMom, by that definition, I guess at 59 I have never reached level 3 adulting! I have never met with a financial planner for any of those things, although I have managed to do them all successfully on my own.
@Mom2jl
You have to cut her some slack–she just moved to a new country where houses are sold by auction (so you don’t know the actual final price you’ll be paying until the gavel goes down), IRAs and 401Ks as we know them don’t exist and the financial terminology is all totally different than in the US. Complicating this is the fact the D1 & her husband have investments/income from 3 different countries so they need tax advice/accounting. (Plus D1 is trying to navigate an unfamiliar medical accreditation system and get her medical license so she can go to work. A US medical education/residency isn’t automatically recognized there so there are some major kinks to work out.)