Take 12 units (at least 3 courses) of additional upper division CS electives (numbered 100-187) not being applied to any other CS Degree Requirements.

NOTES:

• CS 188 does not automatically apply and must be petitioned.  Petitions should include a list of all CS electives taken and planned.
• CS 199 does not automatically apply, must be petitioned and reviewed by department vice chair.  See details for 199 credit.

Take 12 units (at least 3 courses) of additional courses listed under your declared TBR

1. Declare your Technical Breadth (If declaring Tech Management, you are not eligible to do this option)
2. Instead of 3, you can take 6 courses in your declared TBR one area to satisfy both your TBR and your SciTech.
3. Since you do not declare your Sci-Tech option anywhere, please connect with an OASA Counselor if your DARS looks incorrect or needs to be adjusted.

Take 12 units (at least 3 courses) Upper Division (100 level) courses from ONE of the following Departments

• Enrollment access to the departments listed below is at the respective department’s discretion. There is no guarantee of access to the courses.  For many, enrollment is restricted for 1st pass.
• You are responsible for meeting prerequisites to enroll.  You may petition ONE lower division prerequisite course with the upper division course that listed that prereq.
• Petitions for courses from departments not on this list, should be submitted through Message Center well in advance of enrolling in courses for the vice chair to review.

**DEPARTMENT RESTRICTIONS

• GEOGRAPHY:  GEOG 180 (formerly 167), 181A (formerly 168), 181B (formerly 170), 181C (formerly 173) 182A (formerly 169), 182B (formerly 172) , 184 (formerly 166), and M186 (formerly M171) only. Other courses subject to review; please attach syllabi and petition in advance of taking courses.
• MANAGEMENT: Effective Fall 2021, ENGR courses that are part of the Technology Management Technical Breadth Area DO NOT need to be petitioned to apply toward this sci-tech area. If your DARS does not auto-populate these classes, please submit a petition to have your DARS corrected. Students who chose to complete their TBR in Tech Mgmt may not complete the Sci-Tech requirements in this area.
• MATHEMATICS: Math 100-106 and 182 are not approved; Math 116 not approved for students with credit for CS 183 ; Math 156 not approved for students with credit for CS M146, effective F2020 (Math 100-106 will not apply)
• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCH 110, PSYCH 120A, PSYCH 124C, PSYCH 130, PSYCH 133A, PSYCH 133B, PSYCH 133C, PSYCH 133E, PSYCH 135, PSYCH 137A, PSYCH 137C, PSYCH 137D, PSYCH 137I, PSYCH 137J, PSYCH 150, PSYCH 152, PSYCH 161, and PSYCH 167 only EFFECTIVE WINTER 2024. Other courses subject to review; please attach syllabi and petition in advance of taking courses. NOTE: Due to a coding error in DARS that was corrected at the end of Fall 2023, you may have taken upper division PSYCH courses for your sci tech area that were not on the approved list. For classes taken in Fall 2023 or earlier, we are allowing upper division PSYCH classes that are not on the approved list to be counted toward the sci tech requirement as an exception to this policy. If you took an upper division PSYCH course in, or prior to, Fall 2023 that was not part of the approved list, please contact an academic counselor via MyUCLA Message Center to have your DARS reviewed and corrected. 
• STATISTICS: STATS 112 and C116 are not approved for the STATS Sci-tech.

Effective Fall 2018, DESMA is not a listed Sci-Tech Option because of the enrollment stress on this small department. If you have already started taking some of these courses prior to Fall 18, you may propose other dept courses that make sense for this area e.g. CS 174A or 188 (Depending on the topic). All courses subject to review; please attach syllabi and petition in advance of taking courses.  It is possible that you will need to select and take 3 courses from a different area.

Take 3 courses from CHEM 20A, 20B, 30A, (LIFESCI 3 or 7A).

This combination of courses can be use to acquire prerequisites for the Genomics or Pre-med TBR or the Bioinformatics minor 

**LS 7A will not automatically apply because can be picked up as a LS GE.  To have it moved to Sci-Tech, please submit a petition and plan to take an alternate Life Science GE.

Propose 3 upper division courses that can be unified under one cohesive area/theme

This is not an easier route or a good fit if you don’t already have an idea and plan of what you want to do.
However, if none of the options above fit what you had in mind for something you feel strongly about and want to learn about, then a great option may be to try and propose an ad-hoc Sci-Tech area.

• These Science and Technology electives should have a technical/analytical component.  This does not automatically exclude classes in humanities; some humanities courses include a scientific approach, many do not.  There is a fundamental difference between a class that is based on subjective artistry or a historical chronology, etc and a class that is based on the scientific quantification of objective phenomena or the engineering process of design and verification.  Proposals should clearly outline how this area you are proposing is supplementing your degree and is related to your future plans.
• You know what you want to do, but you have no idea what classes might get you there?  This is a great question for your faculty advisor.  They can suggest questions, or connect you with maybe some peers who might have recommendations.
• It is okay to mix and match courses from different departments and group them together (Example:  Technology and Society is an area that has been proposed and approved with courses from Digital Humanities, CS, Sociology, and Communications)
• It is encouraged to submit a proposal for more than 3 classes to give some flexibility to find 3 classes that can be approved.
• Approval is not guaranteed, so please petition in advance of taking any courses and have a back up plan.  Please note that this review may take longer than other Sci-tech petitions.
• Enrollment access to the departments listed below is at the respective department’s discretion. There is no guarantee of access to the courses.  Enrollment is usually restricted for 1st pass, and you may have to work with staff and or faculty in other departments to access their classes after their own majors have had a chance to enroll, i.e. this will take some extra leg work and you have to really want it to persist.  Again, this is not a good “I guess I’ll do this” option.
• You are responsible for meeting prerequisites to enroll.  You may petition ONE lower division prerequisite course with the upper division course that listed that pre-requisite course specifically.

EXAMPLES OF PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED PROPOSALS