University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. It is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCI or UC Irvine.

Academics

UCI's academic year is divided into three quarters of ten weeks of instruction and one week of finals with each quarter requiring a minimum of 12 quarter units of courses and a maximum of 20 units, although the maximum can be exceeded by petition or by enrollment in the honors program. Courses offered are usually worth between 1 to 5 quarter units. Summer courses are offered in either the quarter format of 11 weeks or two summer sessions of roughly half the time for a standard quarter.

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In total, at least 180 quarter units are required to graduate. Many of the units come from the graduation requirements of a certain major but a substantial amount come from the general education requirement called the "breadth requirement" at the university. The breadth requirement consists of seven subject categories:

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• Writing
• Natural Sciences
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Humanistic Inquiry
• Mathematics and Symbolic Systems
• Language Other Than English
• Mulicultural Studies and International/Global Issues

The sixth category, Language Other Than English, is usually fulfilled through taking four years of a foreign language in high school, passing an AP test on a language other than English with a 4 or 5, or scoring a 620 or better on an SAT II exam on a language other than English. The seventh category, Mulicultural Studies and International/Global Issues, contains two subcategories, Mulicultural Studies and International/Global Issues.

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UCI's most popular undergraduate majors are Biological Sciences (545 degrees awarded in 2004), Economics (412), and Information & Computer Science (388). In 2003 the university awarded a total of 4633 bachelors degrees, 907 masters degrees, and 282 doctorates.

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