I took a philosophy course at another UC, which met their “Philosophy and Values” requirement, and I’m hoping to have that meet my IGETC arts & humanities requirement. Similarly, I completed a cultural geography course that I’m hoping meets the social science requirement.
For reference, the courses were at Berkeley and Philosophy 2- Individual Morality and Social Justice and Geography 50AC- Geography of California
I don’t think it will apply to IGETC because you have to complete IGETC through your community college and have the community college send the IGETC certification to the UC. If you could somehow transfer those credits to your cc, then I guess it might work. However, I know my cc only lets you use the courses on their IGETC list and only courses from their campus to fulfill IGETC.
The credits should be able to be applied to the corresponding campus-specific GE requirements at any of the UCs though.
Ask the community college where you will be asking for IGETC certification if those courses taken elsewhere can be used to help complete IGETC certification.
Okay, let’s say I’m not able to get IGETC certified. How will that impact my admission to the other UC?
depends on your major, comp sci or stem majors don’t need full igetc for most UC’s. but other majors, you need full igetc.
IGETC is not generally required for admission, although it may be used in substitution for some admission requirements in some cases.
IGETC’s main use is to substitute for lower division general education requirements at CSUs and most UCs, so that a community college student planning to transfer does not have to chase as many varying sets of general education requirements for all of his/her target schools. However, it is relatively voluminous compared to general education requirements at many UCs (it closely resembles CSU general education requirements which are common across CSUs). If you transfer without IGETC, then you will have to complete general education requirements at the campus you transfer to (although courses previously taken can count).
Yes it can be applied if it matches the IGETC qualifications. Ask your CCC advisor to evaluate. Course from outside a CCC can be applied to IGETC.