I am currently a student at UC Irvine. I transferred from a JC into Computer Engineering last year and just finished up all but one of my lower division classes for the major. I still have two years to go, however, and I’m now looking to change majors. My reason for change was simply a lack of interest in Computer Engineering as a field and as a major. I found that the Comp Sci major offered specializations that aligned perfectly with my current field of work and the direction I want to ultimately go.
I talked to an advisor about my interest in changing majors and was told that I couldn’t due to lacking a class for “full articulation” of the intro CS courses as well as having “too many units”.
I asked the advisor if I could return to JC to get the one class I needed and reapply, but was told it probably wouldn’t work as I already had too many units and taking more classes would only add more.
I have to primary questions: First, why is it a bad thing to have too many units? I’m not quite understanding the reasoning and I’m having trouble finding an answer.
Second, do I have any other obvious options to get into this major at this school or another? I’m willing to take more time at a JC or somewhere else but I’m unsure of what direction to head.
Thank you for the help or ideas.