<p>From universityofcalifornia.edu:
"UC awards graduation credit for up to 70 semester (105 quarter) units of transferable coursework from a community college. That means those units will be counted toward completion of your degree. Courses in excess of 70 semester (105 quarter) units will not receive unit credit but will receive subject credit and may be used to satisfy UC's subject requirements."</p>
<p>What exactly is subject credit and what's an example of a UC subject requirement?
Does GE count toward the completion of a degree?
Thank you.</p>
<p>If you were to have taken 75 UC transferable units at your CC, all 75 of them technically would give you “credit”. This basically just means that you have completed the articulated class at your CC (whether it be for IGETC, pre-req, or for fun - as long as it is UC transferable). </p>
<p>But, the UC system sets a limit of maximum of 70 countable units for you to enter with. This rule exists for 2 reasons. </p>
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<li><p>Let’s say a liberal arts transfer’s major requires only 20 units of UC Upper Division coursework. Without this rule, someone could transfer in with 100 units, only complete barely one year of work (20 units) at the UC and potentially graduate with a UC Bachelor’s degree (without having taken a “fair” amount of actual UC (& subsequently Upper Div) classes as compared to other graduates who entered as freshman). </p></li>
<li><p>Let’s say an engineering transfer requires 65 units of Upper Division coursework and the College of Engineering at UC-X has a graduation cap of 180 units for students with single majors. Without the 70-unit-transferable-rule, they could be transferring in with 120 units (due to having a lot of pre-reqs). The additional 65 units they need to complete their degree will put them over the max allowable units and they would not be allowed to graduate.</p></li>
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<p>So, overall, this system is important because Community Colleges only mostly offer Lower Division coursework (Fresh & Soph), so it’s not really fair for transfers to enter with MORE units than the average Junior when their CC had only offered Lower Div coursework in the first place.</p>
<p>Therefore, from someone’s 75 UC transferable units, they will begin their education at the UC with 75 units of “credit” but only with 70 “numerical” units. They commonly refer to this difference of 5 units as “subject credit”.</p>
<p>killmyentourage- You explained why there is a limit awesomely, but the subject credit I’m still confused on. </p>
<p>On the OP’s post “Courses in excess of 70 semester (105 quarter) units will not receive unit credit but will receive subject credit and may be used to satisfy UC’s subject requirements.”</p>
<p>I think I don’t understand because I don’t know what “UC’s subject requirements” are. Okay you may have more than 70 units, lets say I had 75 units from my CC but when I transfer I’ll be at 70 but the extra 5 units I have will be turned into subject credit. Now what does that subject credit go towards?</p>
<p>Subject requirement is just an elaborate way of saying classes you have to take to graduate (IGETC/major-reqs/UD/etc).</p>
<p>Subject credit is merely a way of acknowledging that you’ve taken classes beyond 70 units and it will be factored into your GPA and can be used as a pre-req or a class to satisfy IGETC or whatever you want. According to your CC, subject credit does not exist. It will not be on transcripts or anything. It is just a system that the UCs use for counting total credits.</p>
<p>Even though you have 5 units of subject credit, the number means absolutely nothing and never counts towards anything. It’s not like AP credit where having it will sometimes advance your registration priority. That’s why I said it’s just referred to as the difference between the units you technically have and the max number they transfer. They shouldn’t have ever given it a name. </p>
<p>Ex. I completed 70 units at my CC.
Then this summer, I will be taking a 3 unit History 100 class.
I will have 70 transferable UC units.
I will have 3 units of subject credit in general.
This does not mean that you took Hist 100 for subject credit. The 3 units do not translate to a specific class.
If Hist 100 was a pre-req for Hist 200, you proceed with life normally as if you’ve never heard of subject credit, and take the stupid class.</p>
<p>tldr; Subject credit means nothing. Eliminate it from your vocabulary.</p>
<p>Subject credit simply means that the course counts for some subject requirement or prerequisite, even if it counts for 0 units because you are over the unit limit.</p>
<p>For example, if you took four semesters or six quarters each of four different foreign languages (about 80 semester or 120 quarter units, plus whatever other units you took for IGETC and your major if it is not one of those foreign languages), you would not get all of the units when you transfer, but you could take advanced courses in any of the four foreign languages after transferring.</p>