<p>
</p>
<p>Then why do community colleges include it on their IGETC worksheets? Why put it there if a student will need to take more foreign language later? The only reason to have it there, as far as I can tell, is if the articulation officials have determined that the class specified meets the UC foreign language requirement for graduation. I know no one can find any published evidence to support that–it’s what we’re looking for here, and why we’ve contacted the various colleges involved. </p>
<p>UCLA doesn’t have one set of GE requirements for admission, and another for graduation.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I’m not proposing an exemption. What I’m trying to figure out is what community college class does satisfy this graduation requirement. </p>
<p>You say two semesters, but clearly there are differences between the various community colleges. Mt. Sac’s 4-unit first semester FL class and Citrus’s 5-unit first semester FL class satisfy IGETC, but PCC requires two 5-unit courses for IGETC and Chaffey requires two 4-unit classes. It would stand to reason that PCC and Chaffey move slower than Citrus and Mt. Sac, otherwise, how could they satisfy the same requirement?</p>
<p>From another angle, if one semester at Citrus and two semesters at Chaffey fulfill the IGETC requirement, they ought to be at the same level. </p>
<p>If one semester at Citrus or Mt. Sac doesn’t fulfill the graduation requirement, shouldn’t Chaffey or PCC students need to take a third semester to fulfill it, since they’ve apparently only reached the level of a one semester Citrus student?</p>
<p>Here’s my point: Citrus or Mt. Sac’s first semester could be equivalent to a level 3 at UCLA. Note that the section you posted from UCLA specifies a course equivalent to a level 3 UCLA course. It doesn’t specify that a full year of instruction needs to be taken, just that the level of material should be at UCLA’s level 3, which happens to take a year to complete were one to do it at UCLA.</p>