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Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) Criteria
Background
Assembly Bill 1725 (Chapter 973, Statutes of 1988)
All courses offered toward satisfaction
of the requirements of the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
must be baccalaureate level and must be acceptable for transfer among all segments
of public postsecondary education. Advanced Placement credit that is considered equivalent
to a course accepted for credit toward the Transfer Curriculum should also be acceptable.
Except for the American Institutions requirements, double counting of courses (i.e.,
using one course to meet more than one university requirement) is not limited by
the IGETC.
The following requirements are
listed in terms of the number of courses required for each designated area and the
minimum number of semester or quarter units.
Subject Area: English Communication
(3 courses; 9 semester or 12-15 quarter units)*
The English Communication requirement
shall be fulfilled by completion of three lower-division courses in English Reading
and Written Composition (1 course), Critical Thinking-English Composition (1 course),
and Oral Communication* (1 course).
Successful completion of the course
in Reading and Written Composition shall be prerequisite to the course in Critical
Thinking-English Composition. The second semester of English Composition required
by the University of California may be met by those courses in Critical Thinking
taught in a variety of disciplines which provide, as a major component, instruction
in the composition of substantial essays and require students to write a sequence
of such essays. Written work shall be evaluated for both composition and critical
thinking. Texts chosen in this area should reflect an awareness of cultural diversity.
Courses designed exclusively for the satisfaction of remedial composition cannot
be counted towards fulfillment of the English Composition requirement.
Instruction approved for fulfillment
of the requirement in communication is to be designed to emphasize the content of
communication as well as the form and should provide an understanding of the psychological
basis and the social significance of communication, including how communication operates
in various situations. Applicable courses should view communication as the process
of human symbolic interaction focussing on the communicative process from the rhetorical
perspective: reasoning and advocacy, organization , accuracy; the discovery, critical
evaluation and reporting of information; reading and listening effectively as well
as speaking and writing. This must include active participation and practice in written
communication and oral communication.
Instruction in critical thinking is to be designed to achieve an under standing of
the relationship of language to logic, which should lead to the ability to analyze,
criticize, and advocate ideas, to reason inductively and deductively, and to identify
the assumptions upon which particular conclusions depend. The minimal competence
to be expected at the successful conclusion of instruction in critical thinking should
be the ability to distinguish fact from judgment, and belief from knowledge, to use
elementary inductive and deductive processes, and to recognize common logical errors
or fallacies of language and thought.
Subject Area: Mathematical
Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning
(1 course; 3 semester or 4-5 quarter units)
The Mathematical Concepts and
Quantitative Reasoning requirement shall be fulfilled by completion of a one-semester
course in Mathematics or Statistics above the level of Intermediate Algebra, with
a stated course prerequisite of Intermediate Algebra. Courses on the application
of statistics to a single discipline may not be used to fulfill this requirement.
An appropriate course in Statistics must emphasize the mathematical bases of Statistics,
probability theory and estimation, application and interpretation, uses and misuses,
and the analysis and criticism of statistical arguments in public discourse.
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
(at least 3 courses; 9 semester or 12-15 quarter units)
The Arts and Humanities requirement
shall be fulfilled by completion of at least three courses which encourage students
to analyze and appreciate works of philosophical, historical, literary, aesthetic
and cultural importance. Students who have completed this requirement shall have
been exposed to a pattern of coursework designed to develop a historical understanding
of major civilizations and cultures, both Western and non-Western, and an understanding
and appreciation of the contributions and perspectives of women and of ethnic and
other minorities. In the Arts, students should also learn to develop an independent
and critical aesthetic perspective.
Subject Area: Social and Behavioral
Sciences
(at least 3 courses; 9 semester or 12-15 quarter units)
The Social and Behavioral Sciences
requirement shall be fulfilled by completion of at least three courses dealing with
individual behavior and with human social, political, and economic institutions and
behavior in a minimum of two disciplines or in an interdisciplinary sequence. The
pattern of coursework completed shall ensure opportunities for students to develop
an understanding of the perspectives and methods of the social and behavioral sciences.
Problems and issues in these areas should be examined in their contemporary, historical,
and geographical settings. Students who have completed this requirement shall have
been exposed to a pattern of coursework designed to help them gain an understanding
and appreciation of the contributions and perspectives of women and of ethnic and
other minorities, and a comparative perspective on both Western and non-Western societies.
The material should be presented from a theoretical point of view and focus on core
concepts and methods of the discipline rather than on personal, practical, or applied
aspects. Courses used to satisfy the CSU United States History, Constitution and
American Ideals requirement, and the UC American History and Institutions requirement
may not be counted in this area but may be taken prior to transfer.
Subject Area: Physical and
Biological Sciences
(at least 2 courses; 7-9 semester or 9-12 quarter units)
The Physical and Biological Sciences
requirement shall be fulfilled by completion of at least two courses, one of which
is in Physical Science and one in Biological Science, at least one of which incorporates
a laboratory. Courses must emphasize experimental methodology, the testing of hypotheses,
and the power of systematic questioning, rather than only the recall of facts. Courses
that emphasize the interdependency of the sciences are especially appropriate for
non-science majors.
OTHER
Language Other Than English**
Students shall demonstrate proficiency
in a language other than English equal to two years of high school study. Those students
who have satisfied the CSU or UC freshman entrance requirement in a language other
than English will have fulfilled this requirement. This requirement may also be satisfied
by demonstration of equivalent proficiency prior to transfer.
* Students transferring to UC do not have to meet the Oral Communication requirement.
** Students transferring to CSU
do not have to meet the requirement of proficiency in a language other than English.
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