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<li>No, he doesn’t. You can fulfill the requirements without it. And yes, you can take classes lower than your placement score. </li>
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<p>There’s a general list here: [UCSC</a> General Catalog 2011-12 - General Education Requirements](<a href=“http://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/html/undergrad_gened.html]UCSC”>http://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/html/undergrad_gened.html)
But some common examples without prerequisites are</p>
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<li><p>Linguistics 50: Intro to Linguistics, Anthropology 1: Introduction to Human Evolution</p></li>
<li><p>Applied Math and Statistics 5: Statistics Intro </p></li>
<li><p>Computer Science 5J: Intro to Programming with Java, Astronomy 2: Overview of the Universe</p></li>
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<p>Not to mention these are all classes with excellent professors, so hopefully they will be enjoyable to a not-science/math student. :)</p>