Core Curriculm
This is the minimum score on the Calculus Readiness Exam (CRE) to be placed in Math 30/11.
What is 75%?
Unless a student is an incoming transfer, this 4-unit introductory course must be taken during their first quarter at SCU.
What is BUSN 70?
The primary student information system used for registration, checking grades, and viewing degree audits.
What is Workday?
A freshman wants to drop a 4-unit class in Week 3, which will drop them from 15 units to 11 units. What critical warning must you give them before they drop?
Dropping below 12 units loses full-time status.
The office that coordinates academic accommodations and assistive technology for students with documented disabilities.
What is The Office of Accessible Education (OAE)?
Every undergraduate at SCU must complete a minimum of this many total quarter units to graduate.
What is 175 units?
First-years are pre-enrolled into this class through their RLC.
What is MGMT 71?
To save classes ahead of your registration window in Workday, you add them to this specific tool.
What is a Saved Schedule?
A student earned a D+ in MATH 30 last quarter and wants to retake it to boost their GPA. Can they use the Course Repeat Policy, and how does it affect their transcript?
Yes, grades of C- or lower qualify. The new grade replaces the old one in their GPA calculation, though both grades stay on the transcript.
A service in the Learning Commons provides one-on-one help with writing, drafting, and public speaking presentations across all subjects.
What is The HUB Writing Center?
A sequence of interconnected courses grouped around a specific human or global theme.
What is a Pathway?
Although lower-division accounting is listed on the Leavey flowcharts, first-year students are usually prevented from registering for them until this specific academic year.
What is Sophomore year?
This term refers to the assigned date and time window when a student is first allowed to register for upcoming quarter courses.
What is a Registration Appointment?
A freshman wants to add a 5th class to their schedule for 20 total units in Winter quarter. Can they register for this during their standard registration window?
No. The limit is 19 units. Overloads require a Drahmann petition and at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA.
This campus resource provides peer-led group study sessions and 1-on-1 tutoring specifically for challenging STEM and Business lower-division courses.
What is Drahmann Tutoring?
These 4 classes are required to be completed at the end of your first year.
What is CTW1, CTW2, C&I 1, and C&I 2?
These two majors require students to complete Math 30 and 31.
What is Finance and Economics?
A process a first-year must complete to remove a hold on their account for registration.
What is meet with their peer advisor (YOU!)?
What is the minimum number of total completed quarter units required for a student to achieve "Sophomore" standing at SCU?
44 Units.
The office handles official transcript requests, enrollment verifications, billing questions, and degree clearance
What is OneStop?
These are the 3 steps to fulfill your language requirement.
What is
1. AP Score of 4/5
2. Take at least 1 class greater than/equal to level 2
3. Passing the proficiency exam ?
This is SCU’s actual rule regarding AP Stats credit.
AP Statistics credit cannot fulfill OMIS 40 or OMIS 41
A back-end approval process must a department submit in Workday to let a student register for a closed or instructor-consent class.
What is academic override?
DAILY DOUBLE !!!
Santa Clara was founded in this year.
1851
Located in Varsi Hall, this office oversees all SCU quarter-abroad programs, global summer programs, and international student visas
What is the Global Engagement Office (GEO)?