Associate of Arts - English - Transfer to a California State University

Berkeley City College’s English Associate of Arts for transfer program serves students with a wide variety of goals, including transfer to University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), or other four-year institutions.

Students intending to transfer to U.C. Berkeley with the English major can complete all of the lower-division major preparation coursework at BCC (English 17A or B, 85A, 85B, and 85C). They will learn high level skills in essay composition and literary analysis.

Students who successfully complete this transfer program in English earn specific guarantees for transfer to the CSU system: admission to a CSU with junior status and priority admission to a CSU campus and to a program or major in English or a similar major. Students transferring to a CSU campus will be required to complete no more than 60 units after transfer to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Students who complete the program will be able to: • Write well organized, well developed, effective, well edited, logically sound, and clear essays. • Apply active reading strategies in order to critically analyze texts. • Effectively analyze literature—fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction—in light of historical context, critical theories, and formal elements.