GUIDE TO GE/BREADTH

Overview

GE-wordart-2021All Cal State East Bay undergraduate students participate in the GE/Breadth Program, along with their major program, to develop and bolster a breadth of their knowledge and skills.  Cal State East Bay has a vibrant and meaningful GE/Breadth Program that includes both state-mandated and CSUEB-specific (University) requirements.

CSU policy for GE (Executive Order 1100) mandates that all baccalaureate students must complete a minimum of 48 semester units of GE distributed over multiple areas.  Transfer students who have earned lower-division GE credit from a California community college, another CSU, or the University of California prior to attending Cal State East Bay will have those lower-division credits honored.  However, transfer students still must complete 9 semester units of upper-division GE at a CSU (Upper-division Scientific Inquiry & Quantitative Reasoning, Upper-division Arts or Humanities, and Upper-division Social Sciences), as well as fulfill three University Overlay requirements (Diversity, Social Justice, and Sustainability). 

Your guide to GE/breadth requirements, policies, area descriptions, student learning outcomes, and links to the course lists in the University Catalog is provided in the sections below.  These sections are intended to help you plan your GE/breadth pathways carefully.  Note that there are differences in the GE/breadth requirements depending on your "catalog year" for GE and Graduation Requirements.  First-time freshmen who begin in Fall 2021 or later will be held to the new lower-division GE requirements, which includes the addition of a new 3-unit Area F Ethnic Studies requirement and a 3-unit reduction in the Area D Social Sciences requirement. These differences are detailed in the sections below.

Please meet with your academic advisor to go over your GE/breadth requirements.

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At-a-glance checklists for GE/Breadth and other graduation requirements (GR) are available to download.  Just click the link for the checklist that covers your GE Catalog Year:

Important GE/Breadth Policies (Units and Grades)

Lower-division GE Areas & Outcomes (Before and After Fall 2021)

Upper-division GE Areas & Outcomes (Fall 2018 and Later)

Other Breadth Areas & Outcomes (Fall 2018 and Later)