<p>Hi, thanks for reading.</p>
<p>I plan to go to a community college in California, then hopefully transfer to</p>
<p>UC by TAG. I am really confused about what courses I need to take in the</p>
<p>community college, I know that I have to take general education courses</p>
<p>or take IGETC courses that will transfer to UC, but I need to </p>
<p>"Complete 60 semester (90 quarter) units of UC transferable college credit",</p>
<p>General Education or IGETC courses are only about 30 something of the 60, isn't it?</p>
<p>If I want to take the Film and Digital Media major of UC Santa Cruz, </p>
<p>UCSC</a> General Catalog 2009-10 - Programs and Courses</p>
<p>What other classes do I have to take other than GE or IGETC courses at the</p>
<p>community college? What is the other 30 something of the 60 that I have to do?</p>
<p>What am I missing?</p>
<p>Please help out a newbie, thank you.</p>
<p>Try going to assist.org and look up the Film and Digital Media major for UC Santa Cruz under the community college you will be attending. The site will tell you what courses are prerequisites for that major which will probably fill up the other 30 units you’ll be needing.</p>
<p>definitely try to take as many prereqs as you can. Since you’re tagging your way into UCSC, I don’t think you should have any problems if the prereqs aren’t offered at your college, but I would still try to go to a different nearby CCC or do a summer session at a CSU or better yet, UCSC, to complete them. If you can, try to do concurrent enrollment or summer session to fill upper division requirements if you’re really struggling to get 60 units. otherwise, have fun, take some electives. </p>
<p>Here’s a couple electives that would benefit you as a film major. Having historical knowledge would really help with any period pieces or documentaries. Whenever a major period piece is shot, everybody has to do crazy research to make sure it comes out right. And the stories in history will just add to your general knowledge and creativity. Political science will help if you’re interested in political activist type documentaries. Psychology will help you with character development. Marketing will help if you’re interested in the more commercial side of media. Art classes will help develop your eye for aesthetics. Since these are electives, you don’t have to be stuck with basic US history classes, intro to art history, intro to psychology, etc. Take something more focused like Chinese history, law and society, or the psychology of death and dying. Choose classes that look genuinely interesting to you, since you’re going to want to focus on the type of media that’s most genuinely interesting to you.</p>
<p>Thank you for replying, KTWISH, I’ve already looked but there isn’t seem to be any info about it, just how lower division requirements have to be taken at the UCSC, no info on what I need to take at the community college other than General Education courses. It’s so confusing.</p>
<p>Thank you for replying, Cantabilen, so you are saying I should take more general education or IGETC courses than the “required amount”, or take any class that will help with the study? Is that something that is done normally? All I have to is fill the rest with any classes I want to take?</p>
<p>yup. I’m a philosophy major, so I’ve taken 4 phil classes even though none of them count towards my major requirements. I also took an extra history course because I wanted both parts of US history, and an intro to world religions course. I also took voice/diction for radio broadcasting lol. I think most of them counted as igetc courses, but it doesn’t matter really. just take whatever class you want to take, although there may be a cap on PE courses, idk, just take what looks interesting and you’ll be fine. make sure you do ratemyprofessors.com so you don’t register for what seems like a fun, interesting elective class and end up with a hardass professor who assigns tons of online hw or something lol.</p>
<p>you can also take classes that seem interesting to you, or take some “fluffer” class to fluff up ur GPA, but since ur TAGing you prolly wont need them jus take classes that seem to interest you and classes that seem like they are relevant to ur major.</p>
<p>Thank you , cantabilen, I didn’t know that such site even existed!</p>
<p>Thank you, calbearguy, great advice!</p>