<p>Hi, so I was looking at the IGETC requirements (from my community college) and it said it was not recommended for engineer majors</p>
<p>the courses IGETC includes:
Area 1: 2 courses
Area 2: 1 course (math requirement)
Area 3: 3 courses
Area 4: 3 courses
Area 5: 2 courses
Area 6: 1 course (language requirement)</p>
<p>College of letters and science courses:
Area A: 2 courses
Area B: 1 course (language requirement)
Area C: 2 courses (one of which is math course)
Area D: 2 courses
Area E: 2 courses
Area F: 2 courses
Area G: 2 courses
this is almost exactly like the course requirements for the college of letters and science</p>
<p>But the college of engineering is very different from IGETC </p>
<p>the courses they list include:
Area A: 2 couirses
Area D: 1 courses
Area E: 1 courses
Area F: 1 courses
Area G: 1 courses
(and 2 more courses chosen from Area D-G)
but there are 5 math courses required
(no language requirement)</p>
<p>I'm confused about which courses an Engineer major should take. Does anyone know which requirements I should go by or why IGETC is not recommended for engineer majors. Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>It’s my understanding that IGETC would work even for engineering majors, but isn’t recommended because you take unnecessary courses. They’d rather have you working on math and engineering courses than on unnecessary general education courses.</p>
<p>In short, you want to take the courses required for the College of Engineering.</p>
<p>dont follow igetc, i didnt. use <a href=“http://www.assist.org%5B/url%5D”>www.assist.org</a> to help figure out what classes you need to take.
you may have to take extra classes that one school wants as well.</p>
<p>It still may behoove you to knock out some of the GE requirements at CC. Definitely put a high priority on completing all the pre-reqs listed on assist.org for your major, but if you have space for extra classes take a few GE classes so that once you transfer you can focus on your upper-division major courses.</p>
<p>…that information is not 100% correct! …the answer entirely depends on which UC you want to go to (and also, of course, where you get accepted).</p>
<p>Both UCB and UCLA do not recommend IGETC for reasons mentioned above in this thread (unnecessary waste of time - many courses will not count).</p>
<p>However, UCSD (my third choice) does not encourage not doing IGETC. In fact completing IGETC has a HUGE advantage here, both in terms of TAG, as well as knocking off TONS of courses from the GE list for virtually all the “colleges” - that is Muir, Marshall etc. For example: Muir requires a whopping 9 ADDITIONAL GE courses (in addition to completing minimum UC eligibility requirements) w/o IGETC. However with IGETC it is only 2 ADDITIONAL courses!!! …and it does not matter what your major is - unfortunately for engineering majors :(</p>
<p>If I do not get into my first two choices, I do not want to spend a whole extra year just completing GEs :rolleyes: …so, I’m kinda torn between completing it and not (because I just need 4 more GEs to complete IGETC)</p>