<p>Not certain it’s the same for first semester frosh classes, but you’re allowed to pass/fail a few other courses and a C- or higher is a pass, lower is a fail. For frosh classes though I don’t know if the profs even really assign grades, for Hum1 at least they don’t. If you don’t pass you just have to take it again later, doesn’t count towards gpa. </p>
<p>It may result in having to overload for a semester though, since you are losing out on the units. You have to average 16 a semester to get 128 to graduate (if you don’t take summer math) so if you have to retake a class you may have to overload (over 18 units).</p>