<p>You will need to send a transcript to UCSD. I believe you only need to petition if the community college is not part of the California-wide CC system (called ASSIST or something).</p>
<p><a href=“Welcome to ASSIST”>Welcome to ASSIST;
<p>Also, you can practically take whatever you want for the area studies. Each area has one really broad category of classes. Humanities has a humanities area, where you can take practically any humanities class; social science has perspectives in social science, where you can take practically any social science class; and math/science has some broad one too, where you can also avoid taking any upper division classes.</p>