Part 2: Requirements for the Bachelor's Degree at San Diego
Regulations
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Academic Requirements of Eighth College En 11/28/23
- A)Degrees
Eighth College will recommend candidates for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science, with designations of major. - B)General Education Requirements
- 1)Critical Community Engagement (CCE) Course Series (16 units):
A four-course sequence that includes three lower-division courses (two in university-level writing), and one upper-division community project-based course. - 2)
Breadth Requirements:
Students select two courses from an approved list from each of five areas:- 1)Arts
- 2)Humanities
- 3)Natural Sciences
- 4)Quantitative Methods and Engineering
- 5)Social Sciences
- C)Transfer Students
Students who have completed their lower-division General Education requirements at an accredited four-year institution and students who have completed a system-wide or campus-wide approved core curriculum in a California community college prior to entering UC San Diego must complete Critical Community Engagement (CCE) 110 and 120. For all other transfer students, Eighth College Academic Advising will work with incoming transfers to evaluate their courses on a case-by-case basis to determine applicability of prior coursework towards the general-education requirements as in (B). - D)Graduation Requirements
- 1)Satisfaction of American History and Institutions; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and the Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).
- 2)Fulfillment of all general education requirements.
- 3)Completion of a departmental or program major.
- 4)A minimum of 180 units.
- 5)A minimum of 60 upper-division units.
- 6)At least 35 of the final 45 units completed at UC San Diego as an enrolled Eighth College student.
- 7)
A cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or higher.