<p>I'm confused about the Stevenson core course. </p>
<p>UCSC</a> General Catalog 2006-08 - Programs and Courses</p>
<p>This website says you don't get credits for the course, but if the class doesn't count for credits, then it doesn't add up. To graduate in four years, it requires at least 15 credits (3 classes) per quarter for 12 quarters. This equals the exact graduation requirement of 180 credits, meaning if your not getting those credits for two quarters, then students are either forced to take summer school, an extra class (which as far as I can tell is not standard), or an extra quarter. </p>
<p>Current students: am I missing something here, or are the core courses (and Stevenson's in particular) just a scheme to get more money out of students?</p>
<p>I believe the sentence you are referring to reads: “Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 80B.” (Listed in 80A)</p>
<p>Yes, it is worded poorly, but I’ll try to clear things up.</p>
<p>80A and 80B are two separate courses: 80A satisfies the C1 Gen. Ed, whereas 80B satisfies the C2 Gen. Ed. The aforesaid sentence is trying to say that if one completes 80A, one does not get credit for completing 80B. In other words, students cannot say they fulfilled their C2 requirement if they completed 80A.</p>
<p>Therefore, students enrolled in 80A are required to complete their C2 requirement via another course (Writing 2), whereas students enrolled in 80B will have their C2 requirement fulfilled.</p>
<p>You still earn 5 credits for completing either course.</p>
<p>I hope this helps.</p>
<p>Thanks, I thought I was misunderstanding it. That makes complete sense. I guess what threw me off was that next to some other course titles they put the number of credits in parenthesis, but for those courses there wasn’t anything.</p>
<p>vicious, do you know what you need to be exempt from c1 gen. ed? If i got a 3 on the AP eng. lang exam i’m pretty sure it doesn’t count, but i’m still waiting to hear on what i got on AP eng. lit.</p>
<p>A score of 3 on an AP English test satisfies the ELWR (Entry Level Writing Requirement), but it doesn’t satisfy C1.</p>
<p>A score of 4 on an AP English test satisfies C1.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you could take an English class at a community college to satisfy C1. Check [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) for more details.</p>
<p>Thanks! hopefully i recieved a 4 or 5 on AP Lit then!</p>
<p>Another question: </p>
<p>The core course supposedly satisfies the T5 requirement, but I’m not totally clear on how the T (topic) requirements work. How many do we need, and for what subjects?</p>
<p>You need 3 total in different subject areas (Pick three from T1-T8).</p>
<p>Your core covers T5, you need to take only two more T requirements, T2 and T4 for example.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks! Also, do you know what you have to do to take an extra class at ucsc? Will they let you just sign up for four?</p>
<p>You can take up to 19 credits without getting permission from your counselor. So if you wanted to take 4 5-credit classes, you would have to go to your counselor before signing up. Anyway, you probably don’t want to take 20 credits your first quarter.</p>
<p>Awww…College 9 core course. The memories! :)</p>
<p>FYI: There’s a new set of GE’s this fall.</p>
<p>What do you mean a new set of GE’s? like…more?</p>
<p>Ah actually it looks like they start <em>next</em> fall, my mistake. [New</a> general education requirements emphasize bold interdisciplinary themes, global engagement](<a href=“http://press.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2771]New”>http://press.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2771)</p>