OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND RELATIONS WITH SCHOOLS

The mission of the Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools, a division of Student Affairs, is to: (1) optimize UCI's undergraduate enrollments by implementing Academic Senate, universitywide, and campus policies for the selection and admission of new freshman and transfer students; and (2) stimulate and advance cooperative educational relationships between UCI and California schools and colleges. The Office works to improve the preparation of prospective students for higher education and to promote their access to and success at UCI.

Additional information about the services listed below is available from the Office; telephone (949) 824-6703; World Wide Web: http://www.admissions.uci.edu/.

Undergraduate Admissions

Staff are involved in monitoring applications and admission targets, in collecting and evaluating personal and academic data to select and admit new undergraduate students, in establishing students' permanent UCI academic record, and in evaluating for transfer credit course work taken in other colleges and universities by new and continuing students.

Intersegmental Relations

Staff are involved in: (1) promoting liaison and curricular articulation between UCI and California Community Colleges; and (2) various educational organizations designed to facilitate regional cooperation (South Coast Higher Education Council, Southern California Intersegmental Articulation Council).

School and College Relations

Staff: (1) advise prospective students, their parents, teachers, counselors, and school administrators regarding academic programs, admission requirements, and admission selection, and assist them with UC application and enrollment processes; (2) increase public awareness by making presentations to schools, colleges, and the community regarding UCI and the University of California, and by creating publications which explain admissions policies and procedures, academic options, housing, financial aid, and student life opportunities; (3) provide general information on UC admissions and programs for all UC campuses; (4) interpret University policies and procedures specific to undergraduate enrollment; (5) assist prospective transfer students and community college faculty and staff; (6) participate in activities and projects designed to enhance the academic success of students; and (7) sponsor an Academic Talent Search to identify gifted and high-ability sixth- through tenth-grade students and to design activities to prepare them for the University and promote their academic success.

On-Campus Services

Staff: (1) host programs for prospective students and educational groups; (2) offer activities for applicants such as Explore UCI and the Campus Experience program (spring); (3) maintain an honors outreach program for high-achieving prospective UCI students including the UCI Academic Talent Search; (4) inform UC and UCI administrators and faculty of developments in California schools and community colleges; and (5) provide consultative services to campus departments wishing to provide programs for schools and colleges or special recruitment for specific majors or programs.

Transfer Student Services

Transfer Student Services (TSS), a component of the Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools, provides advice and guidance to prospective UCI transfer students. Staff regularly visit Southern California community colleges and meet with prospective transfer students to discuss admission requirements, academic planning and preparation, and UCI lower-division major and general education requirements. Articulation agreements, which identify how community college courses may be used to fulfill lower-division UCI degree requirements, are facilitated through TSS. Articulation agreements may be viewed on the World Wide Web at http://www.assist.org/.

CAMPUS TOURS

Student-led tours of the campus are conducted weekdays at noon, except during academic recesses; Saturday tours are offered during October, November, and April only. To confirm tour dates, times, and parking instructions and to arrange tours for school groups of 10 or more during the regular academic year, call (949) 824-4636 or visit http://www.campustours.uci.edu.

HOW TO USE THE CATALOGUE

Because the UCI General Catalogue must be prepared well in advance of the year it covers, changes in some programs and courses inevitably will occur. The selection of courses to be offered each quarter is subject to change without notice, and some courses are not offered each year. The WebSOC, Searchable Schedule of Classes, available on the Registrar's Office Web site (http://www.reg.uci.edu) shortly before registration begins each quarter, provides more current information on courses, instructors, enrollment procedures and restrictions, class hours, room assignments, and final examination schedules. Students should consult the appropriate academic unit for even more up-to-date information. (Admission to UCI does not guarantee enrollment in any particular course.)

Presentation of information in the Catalogue is divided into five main concepts, as detailed in the Table of Contents: (1) Introduction to UCI, (2) Preadmission Matters, (3) Information for Admitted Students, (4) Research and Graduate Studies, and (5) Academic Programs.

Included in the academic unit sections are the following kinds of information: (a) brief descriptions of the areas that are covered in each school or program and a brief statement of the educational philosophy and orientation of the unit; (b) lists of faculty members, the institutions from which they received their highest degrees, and their areas of interest; (c) requirements for undergraduate majors and minors and graduate degrees; (d) additional areas of study referred to as concentrations, specializations, or emphases; (e) advice about planning a program of study, and other information relevant to the academic progress and experience of students majoring in fields within each school or program; and (f) courses offered.

Course Listings

Undergraduate courses are classified as lower division (numbered 1-99) and upper division (numbered 100-199). Courses numbered 200 and above are graduate or professional courses. Lower division usually refers to freshman-sophomore courses, upper division to junior-senior courses. However, junior and senior students may take lower-division courses, and freshmen and sophomores may normally take upper-division courses when upper-division standing is not a prerequisite and when any other prerequisites have been met. A course has no prerequisites unless indicated.

Courses with sequential designations (for example, 1A-B-C) normally indicate multiple-quarter courses; except as noted, each course in a sequence is prerequisite to the one following. The letter L following a number usually designates a laboratory course. The letter H preceding a number designates an honors course.

The (4) or (4-4-4) designation following the course title indicates the quarter unit credits toward graduation. Some courses give other than four units of credit; for example, two, five, or a range from one to 12.

The notations F, W, S, or Summer after the course number and title indicate when the course will be offered: fall, winter, or spring quarter, or summer session.

When a course is approved for satisfaction of the UCI breadth requirement, the breadth category is indicated by a Roman numeral in parentheses at the end of the description. However, courses which have been approved to fulfill the upper-division writing requirement are not designated in this Catalogue. Rather, they are designated in the quarterly WebSOC, Searchable Schedule of Classes with a W following the number. Students should refer to the WebSOC link at http://www.reg.uci.edu for a complete listing of approved upper-division writing courses.