What is Articulation? Simply stated, articulation is the process of evaluating courses, or a sequence of courses, to determine whether a particular class offered at San Bernardino Valley College will meet the requirements for admission, transfer credit, general education, or major preparation at a university. This process ensures that classes taken at San Bernardino Valley College will be credited toward bachelor's degree requirements when entering a university.

What are Articulation Agreements? Articulation agreements identify coursework completed at one institution that meets the requirements of another institution for major preparation, general education or transferable units. Most articulation agreements are between a community college and a university, but there can be agreements between two community colleges or two universities.

What is the benefit of Articulation?

For Students

• Eases transition from one educational level to another
• Eliminates coursework duplication
• Reduces college credit educational expenses
• Offers incentives to continue education at a more advanced level
• Enables students to gain advanced education
• Clarifies the relationship between career and educational goals
• Encourages educational goal setting and the development of plans to achieve those goals

For San Bernardino Valley College

• Improves recruitment and retention of students
• Enhances inter-segmental communication and resource sharing
• Heightens the visibility and image of careers at all levels
• Encourages students in career and educational planning
• Provides faculty and counselors with information on higher education transfer opportunities
• Provides the college and university faculty with information on community college programs
• Establishes an integrated program to encourage articulation at the community college and university in professional disciplines.

IGETC The Inter-segmental General Education Transfer Curriculum. Completion of all the requirements in the IGETC will permit a student to transfer from a community college to a campus in either the University of California (UC) or the California State University (CSU) without the need to complete additional lower-division general education courses.

CSUGE California State University General Education Pattern. Completion of the CSUGE allows a student to transfer to the California State University System without the need to to complete additional lower-division general education courses.

CSU Mentor This is the official website for the California State University System. You can apply to the CSU campus of your choice from this site.

UC Transfer This is the official website for the University of California system. You can apply to the UC campus of your choice from this site.

ASSIST
As a prospective student, it is important to make sure that the community colleges courses you take are acceptable to the university for transfer credit. ASSIST (www.assist.org) is California's official statewide repository of transfer information for the California State University and University of California systems. ASSIST offers easy access to a single articulation database. ASSIST will help you determine if you will receive credit for courses you've already taken, or plan to take and how those courses apply to a specific academic major or general education requirement.