Goal #2: First Year Classes - General Education IS
Choosing General Education Classes
As a reminder, General Education includes classes outside of your major that you take to work towards your 60 units which are required for an associate's degree and/or transfer.
Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) is a list of General Education requirements that prepare students for many goals, including obtaining an Associate’s Degree and transferring to both UC and CSU universities. Because you can achieve many goals following this General Education list, our counselors will often utilize it during your first year.
As you can see above, while the full list of IGETC requirements includes subjects like Sciences and Foreign Languages, we like to highlight two areas while creating first-year plans: the Arts/Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences requirements.
You can see that each area has many options for classes you can choose from to complete the requirement. Each subject and course number represents a different option for a course you can eventually choose to take! The purpose of this workshop will be to give you an Educational Plan that will allow you to have options when it is time to register for your classes. Therefore, your plan may have placeholders like "IGETC Area 3A Arts" course or "IGETC Area 4 Social and Behavioral Science" course. Once it's time to register, you can use tools to look at each class's specific time, date, and location that fit your schedule and make your decision about what class you want to take!
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