UC Davis General Education requirements consist of 32 units of topical breadth, with 12-20 units from Arts & Humanities (AH) and 12-20 units from Social Sciences (SS). The Core Literacies must also be satisfied.
Please note that the College of Engineering has its own Pass/No Pass (P/NP) rules. To see which GE’s may be taken P/NP, see the College’s Pass/No Pass guidelines.
We have prepared a GE worksheet to help you track your GE courses. Use Course Search Tool to look up a GE. Course descriptions and prerequisites can be found in the General Catalog.
Popular GEs by Department
Please check to ensure that the course you select does have AH and/or SS topical breadth.
- African American Studies (AAS)
- AAS 10: African American Culture and Society.
AAS 181: Hip Hop in Urban America. - Art History (AHI)
- AHI 1A: Ancient Mediterranean Art
AHI 1B: Medieval and Renaissance Art.
AHI 1C: Baroque to Modern Art. - American Studies (AMS)
- AMS 10: Introduction to American Studies.
AMS 30: Images of America & Americans in Popular Culture - Anthropology (ANT)
- ANT 2: Cultural Anthropology.
- Managerial Economics (ARE)
- ARE 142: Personal Finance.
- Asian American Studies (ASA)
- ASA 1: Historical Experiences of Asian Americans.
ASA 3: Methods in Asian American Studies. - Cinema & Digital Media (CDM)
- CDM 1: Introduction to Film Studies.
- Chicana/Chicano Studies (CHI)
- CHI 10: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies.
CHI 50: Chicana and Chicano Culture. - Classics (CLA)
- CLA 3: Rome and the Mediterranean - 800 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
CLA 10: Greek, Roman & Near Eastern Mythology.
CLA 30F: Greek & Latin Elements in English Vocabulary. - Comparative Literature (COM)
- COM 5: Fairy Tales, Fables & Parables.
COM 6: Myths and Legends.
COM 7: Literature of Fantasy & the Supernatural. - Dramatic Art (DRA)
- DRA 144A: Introduction to Traditional Chinese Embodied Culture.
- Economics (ECN)
- ECN 1A: Principles of Microeconomics.
ECN 1B: Principles of Macroeconomics. - Education (EDU)
- EDU 110: Educational Psychology - General.
- English (ENL)
- ENL 5F: Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction.
ENL 180: Children's Literature. - Food Science and Technologies (FST)
- FST 10: Food Science, Folklore and Health.
- Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSW)
- GSW 50: Introduction to Critical Gender Studies.
- Human Development (HDE)
- HDE 12: Human Sexuality.
- History (HIS)
- HIS 4A, B, C: History of Western Civilization.
HIS 7A: History of Latin America to 1700.
HIS 7B: History of Latin America, 1700-1900.
HIS 7C: History of Latin America, 1900-Present.
HIS 9A, B: History of East Asian Civilization.
HIS 17 A, B: History of the United States.
HIS 111A, B, C: Ancient History. - Humanities (HUM)
- HUM 13: Witches - Myth and Historical Reality.
- Linguistics (LIN)
- LIN 1: Introduction to Linguistics.
LIN 6: Language and Society. - Music (MUS)
- MUS 10: Introduction to Musical Literature.
MUS 11: Musics of the World.
MUS 106: History of Rock Music.
MUS 116: Introduction to the Music of the Beatles. - Native American Studies (NAS)
- NAS 1: Introduction to Native American Studies.
NAS 10: Native American Experience. - Philosophy (PHI)
- PHI 1: Introduction to Philosophy.
PHI 13: Minds, Brains, Computers.
PHI 15: Introduction to Bioethics. - Political Science (POL)
- POL 1: American National Government.
POL 3: International Relations. - Psychology (PSC)
- PSC 1: General Psychology.
PSC 168: Mental Health, Mental Illness & Problems in Living - Religious Studies (RST)
- RST 10: Contemporary Ethical Issues.
- Science and Society (SAS)
- SAS 20: Genetics and Society.
SAS 30: Mushrooms, Molds and Society.
SAS 70A: Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture and Law. - Sociology (SOC)
- SOC 1: Introduction to Sociology.
SOC 2: Self and Society.
SOC 3: Social Problems. - University Writing Program (UWP)
- UWP 11: Popular Science & Technology Writing.