The high academic standard at the University of California, Berkeley, is reflected in each degree that is awarded. As a result, every student is expected to maintain this high standard by ensuring that all academic work reflects unique ideas and/or properly attributes the ideas to the original sources.
For further information, please see the Freshman and Sophomore Seminars at Berkeley website. You may use no more than 16 semester units of courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 197, 198, and 199 to meet requirements for the bachelor's degree.
Academic Policies. Academic policies and procedures allow students to clearly understand their rights and responsibilities. They protect the integrity of the UC Berkeley degree and provide fair and transparent guidelines for activities related to teaching and learning across campus.
As one of the premier universities in the world, Berkeley attracts students from many different states and countries. UC Berkeley is a state-supported institution and, therefore, must charge all nonresident students an additional nonresident supplemental tuition fee.
Undergraduates: A course load of 15 units per semester is considered a normal undergraduate course load, and you are expected to enroll in at least 15 units. Graduate Students: A course load of 12 units per semester is considered a normal, full-time graduate course load.
According to your college… For most undergraduate majors, 12 units is the minimum. However, for some colleges, the minimum is different. For example, at the College of Letters & Science (L&S), the minimum is 13 units per semester.
The University of California, Berkeley, uses a plus and minus letter grade system on a four-point scale. Any letter grade under C- is not considered passing. Students must retake any course required for the degree if they do not earn a passing grade.
One course can only apply to a single breadth requirement. If a course lists multiple breadths it may satisfy, this means you have options of which breadth it satisfies. Also, a maximum of two classes from a single department or department cluster may apply to Seven-Course Breadth.
You are required to take a minimum of 13 units each semester, unless you have an approved Reduced Course Load (RCL), which allows you to take fewer than 13 units.
Units of Credit Most University courses are assigned a unit value. One unit represents three hours of work per week by the student, including both class attendance and preparation.
The grade of A+, when awarded, represents extraordinary achievement but does not receive grade point credit beyond that received for the grade of A....Grading Policies & Reports.GradeGrade points per unitInterpretationB+, B, B-3.3, 3.0, 2.7GoodC+, C, C-2.3, 2.0, 1.7FairD+, D, D-1.3, 1.0, .7Barely passed11 more rows
“If you step on the UC Berkeley seal, you'll never graduate with a 4.0 GPA.” The truth of the matter is that you won't get a 4.0 GPA regardless of whether you step on the seal. Grade deflation and the unrealistic expectations of professors and GSIs ensure that a 4.0 GPA is virtually impossible.
Letter GradePercentage RangeMid-RangeB70% to 74%72.5%C+65% to 69%67.5%C60% to 64%62.5%D+55% to 59%57.5%6 more rows
Students planning to triple major — or have more than three majors — will now be subject to a rule preventing more than two upper division courses from overlapping among all majors. Similarly, no more than one upper division course may overlap between majors and minors.
Because double majoring is challenging, not very many students opt to do so. In fact, the 2015 American Community Survey census data showed that only 12.5% of the people between the ages of 20 and 29 had a double major.
How Common Are Double Majors? Double major students may be more common than you thought! A study found that about 25% of students actually pursue double majors, and some schools may actually find that they have 40% of students going after two majors.
Students are assigned staggered enrollment appointments for Phase 1 and Phase 2. Your enrollment appointment is the date and time you can begin enrolling and making updates to your schedule.
For Fall and Spring semesters, student enrollment occurs over three enrollment periods: Phase 1, Phase 2, and Adjustment Period. New students will only have a Phase 1 and Adjustment Period. For Summer Sessions, one enrollment period is open for all students. During each period, you can add, drop, swap, and update classes. Updates include actions such as changing the grading basis to P/NP or switching discussion sections. You may not make any changes to your classes outside these three phases.
Once your enrollment appointment starts for a phase, you can make updates to your schedule anytime until that phase ends. Once Phase 1 ends, you cannot make any changes to your schedule until your Phase 2 enrollment appointment.
Academic appointees may have no more than 2 incomplete grades in upper division or graduate courses. Students must be making satisfactory degree progress, which includes meeting program benchmarks, not being on academic probation or in lapsed candidacy, and meeting goals set by the faculty.
Appointment Eligibility. It is the hiring unit’s responsibility to ensure the graduate student to be hired qualifies for graduate student academic employment. Before making a formal job offer to the student, the hiring unit must confirm that the student meets academic eligibility requirements.
There are ten steps in the GSR series; each hiring unit on the campus should have written guidelines specifying the hiring criteria for the steps that it uses. Departments and hiring units are free to appoint students starting at any step level, but step assignments should be consistent and equitable according to departmental criteria. GSR notification should include the GSR Appointment Form and should be copied to the student and retained in department records.
Hiring units may cite extraordinary accomplishments of the student, such as the publication of research or the presentation of papers at meetings of learned societies, in making cases for accelerated advancement. Cases may also be made for early advancement based on a combination of relevant teaching experience and merit.
Graduate students are limited to eight semesters of service in any one teaching title, or any combination of teaching titles (GSI, Acting Instructor-Graduate Student, TA, Associate, or Teaching Fellow titles).
Employees are responsible for reporting absences from campus and any missed work assignments to the faculty member in charge or to the appropriate departmental assistant. If an absence is unexpected (i.e., due to a sudden illness or accident) or will be for an extended period the departmental administrator must be notified in a timely manner so that alternate arrangements can be made to limit impact.
Students on “ In Absentia ” status are not eligible to hold Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), Reader or Tutor appointments but could hold a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) appointment and could be eligible for the fee remission program with a qualifying GSR appointment.
Automatic wait lists are processed every six hours through the end of the third week of instruction . Students on automatic wait lists are enrolled sequentially, provided there are seats available for their enrollment group.
Undergraduates are limited to no more than 13.5 units during Phase 1 and 17.5 units during Phase 2, which includes waitlisted units. (For graduates, the limit for Phase 1 is 12 units, and for Phase 2 it is 20.5 units.) This is a hard cap enforcement. Students have from the start of their appointment time until the end of the given phase to add, ...
If you attempt to add a course and you do not meet the restrictions, you will not be allowed to enroll and you will receive the message , "You have not met the enrollment restrictions (or criteria) for this class," or "Students at your course level are not permitted to enroll in this class.".
Minimum unit requirements are as follows: Undergraduate Minimum Unit Requirements: Haas School of Business: 13 Units. College of Chemistry: 13 Units.
All of the undergraduate colleges have a stake in consistent deadlines, because students from every college take courses in every other college. The Council of Undergraduate Deans, the body where the undergraduate colleges convene to make collective decisions, has made this decision.
An instructor or department can change a wait list from automatic to manual (or vice versa) at any time. An instructor/department also can selectively choose to add students from a wait list and may not adhere to the sequential order of students on the wait list. (Students added this way are not charged a $5 add fee.)
If both conflicting classes are not set up for students to enroll in classes with time conflicts, you will be unable to enroll in both classes while the times conflict. You must choose one or the other or find alternatives that allows time conflicts or do not conflict. Drop a Class.
Academic policies and procedures allow students to clearly understand their rights and responsibilities. They protect the integrity of the UC Berkeley degree and provide fair and transparent guidelines for activities related to teaching and learning across campus.
In certain cases, exceptions to these rules may be granted by the dean of your college or school. Courses numbered 198. Organized Group Study (upper division) You may use no more than 16 semester units of courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 197, 198, and 199 to meet requirements for the bachelor's degree.
Quarter units, either earned previously at Berkeley or at another institution, are converted to semester units by multiplying by two-thirds (for example, 180 quarter units equal 120 semester units). Courses and Units. Most University courses are assigned a unit value.
You may aggregate no more than 4 units of credit for courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 198, and 199 for a single semester.
Courses numbered 199. Supervised Independent Study (upper division) You may use no more than 16 semester units of courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 197, 198, and 199 to meet requirements for the bachelor's degree.
Field Studies (lower division) You may use no more than 16 semester units of courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 197, 198, and 199 to meet requirements for the bachelor's degree. You may aggregate no more than 4 units of credit for courses numbered 97, 98, 99, 198, and 199 for a single semester.
If you want honors at graduation, you should consult your college, school, or division for additional restrictions. Your level of performance must correspond to a minimum letter grade of C- if you are to receive a passed grade, and to a B- if you are to receive a satisfactory grade.
If you have repeated fewer than 12 units, the grade from the second attempt of the course will go into your GPA and the grade from first attempt will come out, regardless of which grade is higher. If you have repeated more than 12 units, grades from both the first and second attempts will be calculated into your GPA.
If you take a course for a third time, the grade will not impact your GPA. Whether a major can accept subject credit from a third attempt of a course to satisfy a major requirement is up to the major department. Please see your Undergraduate Major Adviser to discuss whether this is possible.
This means that you should not rely on UC Berkeley's repeat policies to boost GPAs for these programs. It is important to never perform worse in a course than you otherwise could with the intention of repeating the course since the first grade will be averaged into your recalculated GPA along with any/all repeat attempts.
Courses where the first grade was a NP can be repeated without counting toward this limit. So, a student who repeats a NP in Math 1A will have used no units of repeat toward their limit. This is a hard limit, meaning that if a student has 10 units of repeat, they can only repeat another 2-unit course, not a 4-unit course. ...
You can only repeat a course one time to replace a grade. Grades in third attempts of a course will not be calculated into your GPA, but will be shown on your transcript. If you earned a grade of D+, D, D-, or F, you must take your repeat for a letter grade.
You may repeat a course only if you received a grade of D+, D, D-, F, or no pass (NP) in your first attempt of the course. You can only repeat a course one time to replace a grade.
Law schools and medical schools will calculate all attempts of a repeat into your admissions GPA. This may be true of other graduate programs as well. It is important you do your own research to understand how your GPA may be calculated differently by other institutions.
The review recognizes a wide range of talent and creativity that is not necessarily reflected in traditional measures of academic achievement but which, in the judgment of the reader, is a positive indicator of the student’s ability to succeed at Berkeley and beyond.
Personal qualities of the applicant, including leadership ability, character, motivation, insight, tenacity, initiative, originality, intellectual independence, responsibility, maturity, and demonstrated concern for others and for the community are considered.
Since Berkeley is a competitive campus, satisfying the minimum requirements is often not enough to be competitive for selection. In addition to the basic admission requirements, the campus selects its freshman class through an assessment that includes a holistic review of your academic performance as measured primarily by:
Occasionally students decide to discontinue their studies at Berkeley for a period of time after beginning a semester. This is called a withdrawal. (Cancellation is terminating your registration before instruction has begun for the semester.)
Enrollment and Financial Aid Eligibility. For financial aid purposes, twelve units per semester is considered full-time enrollment. Enrollment for less than twelve units per term may reduce your eligibility for certain types of aid. Specific types of aid, such as scholarships or grants, may have additional requirements.
To drop an enrolled or wait-listed class from your schedule, go to your current class schedule and select the class you wish to drop. You must confirm the transaction before the class can be dropped from your schedule. Please be aware some courses have early drop deadlines (EDD).
Academic: To clear academic holds, you must contact the dean’s office of your college/school or major adviser. Click on the hold to find the contact office. Note: If your college has a semester limit, you may have a hold when you have reached that limit and are no longer eligible to enroll at UC Berkeley.
Registration Holds. There are three types of holds (sometimes also called “blocks”): financial, academic, and administrative. This includes, but is not limited to: failure to pay registration fees or other outstanding debts, such as library fines. failure to declare a major.
If you have financial or administrative hold for the future term, you can still enroll in both current and future terms. However, the hold will prevent you from becoming officially registered in the future term until it is cleared thus impacting your enrollment for the terms that follow.
UC Berkeley classifies each student as either a resident or a nonresident for purposes of tuition and fees. As one of the premier universities in the world, Berkeley attracts students from many different states and countries. UC Berkeley is a state-supported institution and, therefore, must charge all nonresident students an additional nonresident supplemental tuition fee.