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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Courses are listed in numerical order under department DEGREE AND TRANSFER CREDIT
headings, which are in alphabetical order. Each course is
listed by number with the course title and the number of Not all courses off ered at Glendale Community College
units. Following each course description are the number award Associate in Arts and/or Associate in Science
of hours of lecture and laboratory and prerequisites of the degree credit. Courses that do not award credit toward
course. Transferability of the course is indicated for insti- the AA/AS degrees contain the statement ‘‘non-degree
tutions to which students tend to matriculate. Whether or applicable’’ in their course description and may not be
not all courses described will be off ered during the pres- counted toward the 60 unit requirement for graduation.
ent academic year will depend on the student enrollment. All students completing non-degree applicable courses
prior to Fall 1990 will continue to receive graduation
COURSE PREREQUISITES/COREQUISITES/ credit for these courses. Transfer credit is noted at the
RECOMMENDED PREPARATION end of each course description. The note ‘‘UC’’ means the
course is transferable to the University of California, all
Prerequisites
campuses. The note ‘‘CSU’’ means the course is transfer-
“Prerequisite means a condition of enrollment that a student able to the California State University, all campuses. The
is required to meet in order to demonstrate current readiness note ‘‘USC.’’ means the course is transferable to the Uni-
for enrollment in a course or educational program.” versity of Southern California. Agreements concerning
Students are expected to have satisfi ed the prerequisite transferability are constantly being updated, therefore
requirements as stated in this catalog for all courses. All the student is cautioned to check with a counselor or the
prerequisite classes must have been completed with a Transfer Center for exact transfer information. Some Uni-
satisfactory grade. “Satisfactory grade means that, for versity of California (UC) transfer credit may be limited;
the course in question, the student’s academic record has consult a counselor or the Transfer Center for additional
been annotated with the symbol A, B, C, or P.” information.
Corequisites VARIABLE UNITS
“Corequisite means a condition of enrollment consisting Certain courses in this catalog have variable units in-
of a course that a student is required to simultaneously dicated and specify the maximum number of units that
take in order to enroll in another course.” may be acquired by repetitive enrollment in the class.
Classes listed as corequisites must have been either com- Students who complete variable unit classes and earn less
pleted or be taken concurrently. than the maximum units as indicated may repeat those
classes only until the maximum indicated units have
Recommended Preparation
been earned.
“Recommended preparation means a condition of enroll-
ment that a student is advised, but not required, to meet OPEN ENROLLMENT
before or in conjunction with enrollment in a course or Unless specifi cally exempted by statute, every course,
educational program.” course section, or class for which average daily atten-
Recommended preparation has been judged by individual dance is to be reported for state aid shall be open for en-
departments to be important to success in a course. rollment and participation by any person who has been
admitted to the college and who meets the prerequisites
Equivalent
of such courses.
Whenever “equivalent” is listed as an alternative prereq-
uisite, it is understood to indicate knowledge and/or skills
learned through personal experience, education, and/or
training equivalent to listed prerequisite courses. The cri-
teria for such equivalency are established by each instruc-
tional discipline to ascertain whether there has been suf-
fi cient mastery of the content of the academic prerequisite.
Note: Title 5, Section 55003 (p) permits a student to appeal a course
prerequisite based on the unavailability of the required course
(see waiver of prerequisites).

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