UCLA: Foreign Language Requirements Beyond IGETC

nick_scheu
Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:34:30 +0000

Just to be clear for anyone who may find this thread later, there seem to be two possibilities here:

1) The UC foreign language graduation requirement is satisfied by the course specified on the IGETC worksheet.

2) There is an additional foreign language requirement for graduation beyond that specified on the IGETC worksheet; IGETC merely makes the student eligible for admission.

To me, it would be dumb for Option 2 to be the case. Isn’t the point of IGETC to cover all general education–I.e., non major-related–coursework? I don’t see the logic in having one foreign language requirement for admission and another for graduation, when both could be fulfilled at community college.

Option 2 would be like having IGETC require college algebra/statistics, but then making all students (even non-math/science majors) take another math class at UC*. Doesn’t make sense.

*This is actually the case for many political science majors, since UCLA’s political science department requires a psych statistics course. However, this is an exception, and the statistics requirement is included on the major prep page on Assist. Foreign language isn’t.