<p>Hey CC Community</p>
<p>I'm currently a student in the college of engineering wanting an extra semester, however, I was denied it when I petitioned. I was wondering if any of you have tried purposely not taking a humanities class, leaving yourself one requirement short of graduating? In this situation would they grant you an extra semester? Thanks for all your help.</p>
<p>Are you about to enter your eight semester? What was the reason that you wanted to extend your time at Cal? If you applied a year or more early, they are even less likely to have granted the time than if you were a semester or so away and had some clear reason to want to extend. </p>
<p>There might be an alternative - since the strategy you are suggesting could result in being denied a degree AND denied a chance to register for more classes, clearly a bad thing. </p>
<p>If you have a few semesters before graduation, you could petition one of the other colleges and be registered for simultaneous degrees - two degrees, but from different colleges whereas dual degree means two from the same college. That allows you extra semesters to complete your coursework. </p>
<p>You would need to meet with advisors from both majors every semester, would have to demonstrate some minimal progress towards the other major while staying on track for your engineering degree, but at the end, when you have completed all the engineering requirements, you still have the right to take classes towards the second degree - your additional semester. If you want another semester to take interesting classes outside of engineering, that would fit your requirement. Ultimately, you could then drop the request for the second degree and file to have the engineering degree granted by itself. </p>
<p>It is a bit convoluted and there may be risks that aren’t apparent, but it seems safer than simply failing to complete all requirements. </p>
<p>It really depends on the answer to why you want another semester. There are other possible solutions. For example, you might take the extra semester abroad through the EAP program. Theoretically, if you had one humanities course left after your eight semester here, you could go do EAP for a semester somewhere abroad, earn the credit for the humanities requirement as part of that time abroad, then file for your degree. CoE needs space to handle as many engineering students as possible on campus, thus the limit to eight semesters. EAP does NOT take up space they need for other students, thus it would probably be more acceptable than simply chewing up space on campus for a ninth semester.</p>
<p>Hey Rider</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately, I’m about to enter my seventh semester so I won’t be able to pursue a simultaneous degree. I mainly want an extra semester at Cal so I can take more CS classes. I changed majors to EECS during my sophomore year and I didn’t take as many classes as I would like given the time constraints. Yeah, being denied a degree and a change to register is something I sure don’t want to risk. </p>
<p>Has anyone else had any experience in this situation?</p>
<p>They wouldn’t deny you the degree, they would just make you have to fulfill the requirement next summer.</p>