<p>Yes dreamingofdreams, that's just about right.</p>
<p>Are you truly considering UCI as your only transfer school? If so, I'm going to suggest yet a couple of other things and take a look at assist.org. This is the website that CC counselors use in determining what classes you should be taking to prepare for your major. Anyway, once you are there, select OCC as the institution and then select "To: University of California, Irvine." Disregard the "By Major" option for now and choose "General Education/Breadth" on the underlying drop-down selection. Here you will see the entire list of transferable GE courses from OCC to UCI.</p>
<p>Now excuse me a bit for being a 'counselor,' but I just went through this process with PAIF and had all of my courses evaluated by a UCI counselor. I went according to that same list for my CC, and was told that all of my credits would be transferred flawlessly because of this.</p>
<p>Back to assist.org, you should see breadth categories separating the courses. These are the SAME categories UCI uses for their own GE requirements. It's pretty self explanatory about what classes to choose, but I'll let you in on a few tips:</p>
<p>-If you already took a foreign language in high school with a C or better for three years, you already have Category VI covered.<br>
-Look at VII. As noted right under, you may take courses for this requirement that can satisfy another requirement. Hit two birds with one stone. For example, at my CC I took two courses of Anthropology (Cultural & Physical/Biological). These completely satisfied III, with only one more course needed for VII.
-You can do about the same thing with your major requirements. To see what these are, go back and select your major. Compare and see if any of the courses for your major may be completed for GE-Breadth. For another example, I'm majoring in the Arts and I was required to take two courses of Art History (Prehist to Gothic & Renaissance to Modern). These also completed my IV requirement.
-In total from these examples, I only had to take 5 courses (15 units) out of a possible 9 (27 units). Not bad, huh?
-You will have a bunch of elective units left over, to make the 60-unit requirement, for taking classes you really want.</p>
<p>I did all of this and will transfer to UCI in the Fall without having to worry about the university GE requirement because most of it will already be completed. The remaining courses I need include an upper-division writing course and a few lower-division major requirements that may only be taken at UCI. </p>
<p>Of course, you don't have to go my route. If you feel that you should take certain GE courses at UCI because you think you'll get a better experience, then do so. But I highly reccomend considering my advice and plan your CC education accordingly. CC counselors won't go as in-depth as this! At least in my experience, hahaha. :)</p>
<p>However if you want to leave the possibility of applying to other UCs, then consider IGETC. It's the traditional GE plan that California CCs use, and I'm sure that you will learn more about that once you're in a CC. The UCs do not require it; some don't even accept it for certain majors and adversely, some recommend it.</p>
<p>Hope that helps, and I'll always be happy to help you more if needed. Just ask!</p>
<p>(Edited for a few errors)</p>