<p>Assuming you attend a California Community College, your school should have the igetc/cal state transfer general ed requirements in the course schedule of classes or online. Check the webiste. You will see that generally speaking the general ed requirements for the UCs are basically the same for the Cal States, except that I think cal states require 3 english courses instead of 2(the uc’s only require 2), and i believe 3 science courses(which the uc’s only require 2) and for the ucs you need two years of foreign language(but if you took foreign language classes in hs you don’t need to take it in college).</p>
<p>When I first started community college i was under the impression that i knew what i wanted to major in. I think the fact that the UCs and Cal States spell out their general ed requirements(and depending on your community colleges) you have a choice of fulfilling that through various courses such as art history, flim history, philosophy etc for the humanities category, or sociology, economics, poly sci etc for the social sciences category, will expose you to possible majors.</p>
<p>Don’t get so caught up on trying to figure everything out your first semester of college. Many who attend community college end up dropping out their first year because they feel they need to have a plan or should know their major by the end of the first semester which is not true. As long as you concern yourself with fulfilling all general ed requirements first you could technically decide on a major the last semester of community college before transferring. There is no rush as long as your fulfilling general ed requirements and keeping yourself grounded.</p>
<p>the only bs class that i see your taking that wont transfer is probably the career planning, unless that’s part of a cal state requirement and i dont know. the other ones do fulfill requirements.</p>
<p>at community college, generally speaking you just have to show up the first day of class for any class you couldn’t get into and some professors would let you add the course if you show up and ask.</p>
<p>if you don’t want to go it at that way, i’d advise you to take any class that says intro to ___________ and which counts for both UCs and Cal States. Again I don’t know how your community college works, but in the course catalog it’ll state something like (uc/csu) right next to the course which means its transferable to both. If you can still find classes in philosophy(avoid logic), political science, sociology, economics or any of the sciences like bio chem geology, astronomy, etc.</p>
<p>In regards to reading and writing in philosophy course, it really depends on your professor. Some professors just lecture on readings/texts, and have written exams. Sometimes you don’t even need to read most of it because your professors is just that good, and sometimes you’ll need to read everything on your own because there will be a discussion on readings. Use rate my professor dot com to find reviews of professors before signing up if you’re so worried.</p>