The criteria to determine if curricula are degree applicable are provided below. Content criteria include standards of grading, unit allocaton, and rigor. (See Title V California Code of Regulations CCR.T5 55002(a) for specific information related to this issue.)

Credit Courses Appropriate for the Associate Degree:

• All lower division courses accepted toward the baccalaureate degree by CSUs and UCs or designed to be offered for transfer credit.
• Courses that apply to the major non-baccalaureate occupational fields.
• English courses not more than one level below the first transfer level composition course (EWRT 1A). No more than one such course can count toward the associate degree. [At De Anza, this level would include EWRT 100B, and ESL 24 and 72.]
• All mathematical courses above and including Elementary Algebra.
• Credit courses in English and mathematics taught in or on behalf of other departments, requiring entrance skills at a level equivalent to those necessary for the two bullets above.

Non-Credit Courses:
Please see Title V, Section 4.4 for a description of what classes should be determined as non-credit and eligible for funding.