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- From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
- Subject: general ed requirements - need advice
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:17:35 GMT
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- A few years ago I received a BA degree in Linguistics from the University
- of Caifornia. This year I decided to get a BS degree in Computer Science
- from California State.
- I was surprised to find that there are a great number of general ed
- requirements which were not satisfied by my UC classes. Cal State's
- requirements include Speech, Performing Arts or Phys Ed, a category
- called Lifelong Understanding, and some other ones similar to UC's.
- There is also a history/government requirement which was not satisfied
- by a couple of exams I had to take at UC for a similar requirement.
- I now find that after three part-time terms, I now need to take about
- 8 general ed courses but only 5 computer science courses.
- One issue that concerns me is that requirements in general. I assume
- Cal State has more requirements because they are afraid that students
- there did not go to very good high school and/or are not native speakers
- of English and thus should take more general ed. (I meant to say that
- Speech etc. were not required at UC.) I have heard people say that
- there are more general ed requirements because Cal State needs money
- and are not in a rush to get you done.
- The thing is, I have to fill out the same requirements as someone who
- doesn't have a Bachelor's already. If I am right about the reasons
- for the general ed requirements, shouldn't they not be applied to me?
- The main reason I post this is that I would like to try to appeal some
- or all of these requirements. Have any of you been in the same situation?
- Have you heard of anyone who got out of these requirements?
- (In case you're wondering, I took several computer courses at UC, most
- of which transferred.) (Another note is that the linguistics courses
- were considered social sciences at UC but are considered humanities at
- Cal State.) Any thoughts/advice would interest me greatly!
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- Robert Chao
- Oakland, California
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