General Education (GE) Credit Abroad

Take units toward your General Education (GE) requirements (opens in new window)abroad:

• Take up to 18 units toward your GE requirements.
• Global Cultures (GC) credit is to be granted to any student who takes at least 3 units while studying abroad.
• Writing (W) credit is granted to any student who completes a UD-C course (Arts and Humanities) and at least one other UD Pathway course, either B (Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning) or D (Social Sciences) while studying abroad.
• 9 units of GE Areas completed abroad may be applied to the GE Minor in Global Studies.

Ask a Study Abroad & Exchange Advisor about how you can complete all three upper-division pathway requirements (typically during a summer or semester term).

Who can approve my GE courses for substitutions?

• Lower-Division GE courses = Graduation Advisors
• Upper-Division GE Pathway courses = Pathway Coordinators(opens in new window)
• GE Minor courses = Pathway Coordinators (opens in new window)specific to the GE Minor
  • Note: AIFS, CSUIP & USAC have General Education (GE) Pathway approved courses, which do not require a Pathway Coordinator's signature as they have been pre-approved for GE, but do need a Pathway Coordinator to agree for them to count for a GE Minor.

Connect with the Study Abroad & Exchange team (SSC 440) for more information.