Find topics related to your academic journey. The Academic Policies pages cover a wide range of policies and procedures to help undergraduate students navigate smoothly. Understand key policies on registration, enrollment, unit limits, transfer credits, and more below.

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Majors and Minors

  • Double majors and simultaneous degrees
  • Change of college
  • Adding a minor
  • Comprehensive review

Unit and Semester Limits

  • Time to graduation policy (semester limit)
  • Minimum and Maximum Units Per Semester

Registration and Enrollment

  • Late change of schedule
  • Concurrent Enrollment
  • Registration Holds
  • Incomplete grades

Academic Notice

  • Academic notice
  • Continued on academic notice (CAN) status
  • Disqualification

Transfer Credit

  • California community colleges
  • High school exam credit
  • Other higher education institutions
  • Study abroad (through UC Berkeley)
  • Course equivalency requests for CDSS college requirements

Withdrawal and Readmission

  • Withdrawal or cancellation
  • Readmission

Forms and Petitions

Forms and petitions are linked in the appropriate policy sections. 

Current CDSS students can also access forms and petitions in the CDSS 001 Ed forum. To request to join the forum, submit the CDSS Ed Forum online request form.