UC Berkeley - Class of 2022 Applicants Thread

ElenaParent
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:27:29 +0000

@ProfessorPlum168 Where do you get “60 unit minimum for classes to be taken at Berkeley if I am not mistaken” from? https://ls.berkeley.edu/advising/degree-requirements
I see 60 units for L&S courses, but it doesn’t say anywhere it has to be all Berkeley, it can be transferred as far as I see.
It has 36 upper division units, yes, but again it doesn’t say all of it has to be at Berkeley. There are two residence requirements, looks like that:

1. “After you become a senior (with 90 semester units earned toward your B.A. degree), you must complete at least 24 of the remaining 30 units on the Berkeley campus, as an L&S student in at least two semesters.”

2. “As an L&S student, you must complete a minimum of 18 units of upper division courses,* 12 of which must be eligible to satisfy a requirement for your major.”
All of this amount to no requirement of 60 units at Berkeley, just 30, with further restrictions what these units have to be.

I have a skin in the game: my son incoming freshman, by my latest accounting needs only 13 courses to graduate (yesterday I thought it is 14, but I found another overlap in breadth/american cultures). He will probably take two graduate courses to cap it off and get a degree with Honors, or take MATH 198 and do a thesis, but even with all that it should be doable in two years. The main bottleneck is getting the right classes at the right time, it is tricky, with needed classes having restricted enrollment.