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General Education Breadth Requirements

Make sure to view the Solano College courses that meet the CSU General Education (GE) requirements.

Requirements for graduation from California State Universities include the completion of specific courses in general education. The requirements may be met by completing a total of 48 semester units in the following categories:

  1. A minimum of nine semester units in communication in the English language, to include both oral communication and written communication, and in critical thinking, to include consideration of common fallacies in reasoning.
  2. A minimum of 12 semester units to include inquiry into the physical universe and its life forms, with some immediate participation in laboratory activity, and in math concepts and quantitative reasoning and their applications.
  3. A minimum of 12 semester units from the arts, literature, philosophy, and foreign languages.
  4. A minimum of 12 semester units dealing with human social, political, and economic institutions and behavior and their historical background.
  5. A minimum of three semester units in study designed to equip human beings for lifelong understanding and development of themselves as integrated physiological and psychological entities.

Thirty-nine units of general education requirements that are completed at Solano College may be certified on the student’s transcript. The remaining nine units must be upper division courses taken at the California State University from which the student will receive his/her Baccalaureate Degree.

See also the CSU GE Worksheet Instructions

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Last Updated: July 22, 2008
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