Transfer Planning Worksheet
Courses Required for Admission
Mathematics
You are expected to have earned
strong grades in at least three years of
mathematics in high school, including
Advanced Algebra, or Intermediate
Algebra at the college level.
USC majors in the sciences, social
sciences, business, architecture
and engineering require specific
mathematics courses and achievement
beyond this level. If lower-division
mathematics courses are required by
your major, we advise you to complete
them early in your college studies,
prior to admission to USC.
Intermediate Algebra
completed
in progress
Course
Reminders:
• Courses must be at least 2.67 units, or four quarter-units,
to fulfill any Core requirements.
• Courses taken before high school graduation can fulfill only
General Education requirements, not those of diversity, writing,
or language.
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Writing*
Transfer students generally complete
two English composition courses before
transferring. The second-semester
writing course (equivalent to WRIT 130
on your college’s articulation agreement)
typically fulfills the lower-division
writing requirement. In addition, all
students must take an upper-division
writing course at USC, WRIT 340.
*Writing is also a Core Requirement.
WRIT 130
completed
in progress
Course
Core Requirements
Language Diversity
Most degree programs require three Diversity courses (see page 9 for
semesters of foreign language study. description) are typically (but not
See page 13 for a list of these programs. exclusively) offered by ethnic studies
and gender studies departments.
If you attend a college on the quarter Introduction to Sociology also fulfills
system, please note that a three- the requirement.
semester requirement takes five quarters
to complete. If you attend a college on
the semester system at which either of
the first two language courses in the
sequence is fewer than four units, the
three-semester requirement will take
four semesters to complete. Students
who have not completed the equivalent
of USC’s third-semester course must
take a placement exam to determine
the appropriate entry level. Language
courses may not be taken online.
completed completed
in progress in progress
Course Course
Major-related courses
Make a note of suggested additional preparation for your major
(see pages 12–14) in the space to the right.
General Education

I
Western
II
Global
III IV V
Scientific Science Arts and
VI
Social
Cultures and Cultures and Inquiry and Its Letters Issues
Traditions Traditions Significance

Courses must focus Courses focus on Courses should focus This course focuses on a Courses require critical Courses focus on local,
broadly on Greco-Roman cultures and civilizations on basic scientific particular area of research analysis of literature, national and international
or Judeo-Christian in Africa, Asia, Latin principles including the using perspectives from philosophy, visual arts, problems, and on
traditions through America, the Middle East, scientific method and many scientific disciplines music andor film.Students developing the analytical
the modern European Native America or Russia. the development of to show connections must demonstrate skills to understand
era, with at least a Courses should cover a body of scientific know- among fields and intense engagement with them in a broad context.
two-century span (e.g., the impact of historical ledge. The first course in potential real-world uses these works using There is a writing course
Western Civilization). development on current the major sequence, or and consequences. You methods of argumentation co-registered with each
geopolitics, and enable a course for non-majors, must take this course and persuasion. Courses course and a companion
Not acceptable: history you to articulate the is usually acceptable, so at USC. centered on a theme, series of evening lectures.
of non-European role played by cultural long as the course is not country, genre or well- You must take this course
groups, including World differences. Cultural remedial and includes defined time period are at USC.
Civilization courses, or Anthropology fulfills a lab or field experience. preferred over broad
courses on specific topics this category. surveys. Studio,
(e.g., 18th-century Not acceptable: performance and pre-
French drama). Not acceptable: courses interdisciplinary or professional courses do
in U.S. or Latin American applied sciences, such not qualify.
political history, Israel as environmental science,
or the Middle East ecology, meteorology,
in the 20th century, paleontology, anatomy,
or modern Asia. physiology and micro-
biology. Labs may not
be taken online.

completed completed completed Must be taken at USC completed Must be taken at USC
in progress in progress in progress in progress

Course Course Course Course

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