Unit Minimums
Degree Requirements
Unit Minimums
Overall:
- 120 units to earn a Bachelor of Arts or Science degree
- 40 must be upper division for all Bachelor of Arts programs
- (Courses at HSU numbered 300 and above are upper division)
- 48 units of General education must be completed
- (36 lower division, 3 area E, 9 units UD GE component)
Residency requirement (must be completed at Humboldt):
- 30 units
- 24 units must be upper division (numbered 300 and above)
- 12 must be upper division within major
- 9 units of general education coursework (is usually the upper division component, but is not necessarily.
Unit Maximums
- There are some restrictions set on the number of units that can apply to the degree:
- Maximum of 70 units from a community college
- Maximum of 24 Humboldt units with a Credit grade
- Maximum of 24 units Extended Education coursework
- Maximum of 24 units of Open University coursework
- (this limit applies to courses registered for through Extended Education, but selected from the regular Humboldt State curriculum) Maximum of 6 units of Intercollegiate Sports
- Maximum of 2 units of Intramural Sports