Hi! I plan on applying to UCD as a history major and when looking on assist there are A LOT of courses I need to take that my ccc doesn’t offer. Do I still have any shot at a chance at getting in? Also, will it be harder if I do get in and attend to finish all those classes within the next two years?
The ASSIST pages for UCD history indicate that you need five lower division history courses, two from one field, one each from two other fields, and one more from any field. What CC are you attending? In many cases, even if the CC does not offer courses in all of the fields, you can still carefully choose the courses to minimize the number of missing courses.
For example, if you are at East LA College, you can take HISTORY 2, 11, 12 and ASIAN 11 and have only one missing course.
If you are at El Camino College, there are several combinations that will cover all five prerequisites.
(Links to ASSIST seem to not work for UCD history; they lead to aerospace engineering…)
Yikes, I just looked at it via College of San Mateo. There wasn’t one articulated class!
One tip to quickly find nearby CCCs and check all the articulated course listings:
On home page on assist, don’t click on a college. Instead, follow this path:
Go down the page to Explore Majors --> UC --> campus --> major --> CCC
From there all the nearby CCCs will show up and you can conveniently browse. If courses are missing from all of them, they will be lenient on your getting them completed.
(Conveniently, like @ucbalumnus said, there were at least two close by to CSM that had 4 of the 5.)
@lindyk8 @ucbalumnus
I’m at citrus college. I checked some local colleges and some have more (Chaffey has a lot) but since I work on campus it’s a little unrealistic for me to switch colleges for one semester since I would be losing my job as well since I’m a student worker. Because only three courses are articulated for my school, I’ll be missing 2
Maybe there’s one in the evening?
For UCD history, missing two courses for 8 quarter units total probably will not cause you to delay graduation, especially if you have IGETC or UCD GE complete. In your first quarter after transfer, you can take two to four lower division history courses; then you will have five quarters to complete the upper division requirements (40-42 quarter units out of 75-80 quarter units that you have space for in five quarters).
http://history.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/major-and-minore-requirements
Note that most UCD history courses do not have prerequisites, and there is considerable flexibility in choosing upper division history courses, so you need not be too worried about having a long sequence of required courses being delayed and causing you to delay graduation.
http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/programs/HIS/HIScourses.html
Note: 1 quarter unit = 2/3 semester unit, so if you transfer with 60 semester units, you will have 90 quarter units at UCD.