can you fulfill a breadth from your own major department?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I thought we weren't allowed to choose a course from your major's department but on some threads I'm hearing other wise...</p>

<p>Can someone clear up on that? Because if it's true, I need to change some courses.. UGH I thought I had everything figured out now.</p>

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<p>Yes, you can uses courses from your major to fulfill the L&S Breadth Requirements. For example, if I were majoring in Molecular Biology, Bio 1A would fulfill the biological breadth.</p>

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<p>so if i was majoring in econ, i can take any courses in econ department to fulfill social and behavioral breadth?</p>

<p>i want to shoot myself…</p>

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<p>^Yes, you can use the courses in the Econ department to fulfill other breadths. You can see all the courses that satisfy the breadth requirements through this page: [Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: 7 Course Breadth](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/7breadth.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/7breadth.html)</p>

<p>Even so, students often choose easier breadth courses from other departments to boost their GPA.</p>

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<p>L&S allows using your major’s courses to fulfill the 7-course breadth. But note that no more than two courses in any department can be used, and one course can only be used to cover one category of the 7-course breadth (although it can double up on American Cultures).</p>

<p>Business follows the L&S pattern, but excludes business and some economics courses from fulfilling breadth.</p>

<p>Engineering does not allow any engineering courses other than a few “social implications” and “ethics” type courses to fulfill breadth.</p>

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<p>Breadth courses challenge you to engage in material outside your area of study. But yes, you can take breadth courses from your major department. In fact, if you choose the right upper-division breadth course from your major department, you’d be satisfying both breadth AND a major requirement.</p>

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<p>wait ucbalumnus, so if youre majoring in business admin, you can’t fulfill breadth from their department?</p>

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<p>^Haas don’t let you use a prereq for two requirements. So Econ1 could only count as a prereq and not a breadth. You must take another class for the breadth.</p>

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<p>^ So a core requirement wouldn’t be able to satisfy the breadth as well?</p>

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<p>[Haas</a> Breadth Guidelines, Undergraduate Programs, Berkeley-Haas](<a href=“Breadth Courses - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Breadth Courses - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas) says:</p>

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