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Equivalent Courses at Some Nearby Community Colleges

• The table below provides a listing of courses at some nearby community colleges that will transfer in as equivalent to our PSYC 1, 5, and 8 courses.

• NOTE:  There will eventually be more information about transferring psychology classes eqilivent to our new lower division Psych 2 and 4 courses when they become available.

• Some courses are no longer being offered by other colleges that may have been approved as equivalent in the past, and a number of colleges are not listed below. 

• For a more comprehensive list of colleges in California that have equivalent courses, please go to assist.org

• The Department will for the most part honor the equivalent courses listed on assist.org

• To ask about approval of courses not on that list, or approval for meeting other requirements with transfer courses (i.e. upper division courses), you should contact the Department Office to schedule a meeting with the Department Chair.

• In that case, you will be asked to show a catalog description or course syllabus of the course you would like to transfer over to the Chair to aid in the discussion.

CSUS Course Number	Psyc 1	Psyc 5	Psyc 8
American River College	*1 or 2	*1 or 3	4
Canada College	------	100	-----
Chabot College	1	Any two: 3, 6, 12	2
CA State Univ., Chico	1A	----	107
Cosumnes River College	1	3	----
DeAnza College	1	Any two: 4, 5, 8, 14	3
Diablo Valley College	210	122	----
Hartnell College	1B	1A	----
Los Medanos College	BEHSC 11LS	BEHSC 10LS	----
Modesto Junior College	101	104 & 141	102
Monterey Peninsula College	101	Any two: 103, 125, 135	150
Napa Valley College	120	123 or 125	----
Ohlone College	101	----	102
Sacramento City College	*1 or 2	*1 or 3	4
San Joaquin Delta College	1	3	4
College of San Mateo	100	Any two: 201, 300, 410	105
Santa Rosa Junior College	1A	30	1B
Shasta College	1A	14	----
Sierra College	1	2	5
Solano Community College	2	1	4
Sonoma State University	250	----	----
Yuba College	1A	1B	----

Note: There are no community college courses listed as equivalent to PSYC 101. All psychology majors must take PSYC 101 at CSUS.

*ARC & SacCity - Psyc 1 may be used to meet either the Psyc 1 or 5 requirement, but NOT both. Psyc 1 at CSUS, ARC, or Sac City each possess the same California Articulation Number (CAN). Therefore, it can be counted toward your degree program only once, regardless of whether it is taken at CSUS, ARC, or Sac City. So Psyc 1 taken at any of these three campuses can only count once toward your degree requirements. So please do not take Psyc 1 at two of these campuses and expect it to count for two separate requirements.