Major Requirements and Course Prerequisites

Students who believe they have taken courses at other institutions that satisfy major requirements or UCSC course prerequisites should contact their major adviser for review.

College Requirements

You must fulfill the requirements of your college in addition to those of your major and of the university. Each college has established a core course, which all first-year students are required to complete. Students admitted as transfer students are exempt from the core course requirement but may take the course at their option on a space-available basis. College requirements are outlined below.

College Nine

  • College Nine 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: International and Global Perspectives

College Ten

  • College Ten 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Social Justice and Community, fall quarter

Cowell

  • Cowell 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Imagining Justice, fall quarter

Crown

  • Crown 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Ethical and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies, fall quarter

Kresge

  • Kresge 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Power and Representation, fall quarter

Merrill

  • Merrill 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Reading Ourselves, Reading the World, fall quarter

Oakes

  • Oakes 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Communicating Diversity for a Just Society, fall quarter

Porter

  • Porter 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Arts of Reading, fall quarter

Rachel Carson College

  • Carson 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Environment & Society, fall quarter.

Stevenson

  • Stevenson 1, Academic Literacy and Ethos: Self and Society, fall quarter

and

  • Stevenson 2, Self and Society 2, winter quarter