aa-2024-05

Policy Code: AA 2024-05

Status: Active

Supersedes: AA 2016-02

Resolution: EPC 24-11

Area: Undergraduate Studies

Origination: 07/26/2016

Effective: 05/09/2024

Last Revised: 05/09/2024

Next Review: 05/01/2028

Double Counting Upper Division General Education Courses and Major/Minor Courses

This policy outlines the practices and procedures for departments and academic programs in terms of the unit count for upper division General Education (GE) courses and major/ minor courses.
The guidelines in this policy are designed to:
1. Assist students to meet graduation requirements within the scope of their major/ minor and General Education courses.
2. Assist in maintaining consistency when calculating units for major, minor, and General Education courses.
3. Assist departments and programs to establish or redefine double-count courses in majors and minors.
Double-count courses will be noted automatically in each major or minor. No action is required by the student.

Major courses and campus-wide required courses that are approved for GE credit shall also fulfill (double-count for) the GE requirement (EO 1110-R section 2.2.6.1).
A course may be double-counted to satisfy requirements in either the major and the upper division GE or the minor and the upper division GE.
Courses may not be double-counted for both the major and the minor.
A minimum of a C- or better is required in each CSU or transfer-course in written communication in the English language (A2), oral communication in the English language (A1), critical thinking (A3), and mathematics/quantitative reasoning (B4). (EO 1100-R section 2.2.2.a).
- Departments set minimum grades for fulfillment of major/minor program requirements. Thus, a student who receives a D in a B4 course, for example, in a major that requires a minimum of a D for the program requirement would meet the program requirement through this course, but not the GE B4 requirement.
Students who complete double-counted GE requirements under one academic plan shall be considered to have met those GE requirements if they change academic plans.