Berkeley City College’s English AA-T serves students with a wide variety of goals, including transfer to UC, CSU, or other four-year institutions. Students intending to transfer to U.C. Berkeley with the English major can complete all of the lower-division major preparation coursework at BCC (English 17A or B, 85A, 85B, and 85C). They will learn high-level skills in essay composition and literary analysis.
Students who successfully complete the AA-T in English earn specific guarantees for transfer to the CSU system: admission to a CSU with junior status and priority admission to a CSU campus and to a program or major in English or a similar major. Students transferring to a CSU campus will be required to complete no more than 60 units after transfer to earn a bachelor’s degree.
Students are required to complete 60 semester units that are eligible for transfer to a California State University, including both of the following: (1) The Intersegment General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) or the California State University General Education – Breadth Requirements and (2) 22 semester units with a grade of C or P or better in the major and an overall minimum grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0 in all CSU transferable coursework
Program Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the program will be able to:
• Write well organized, well developed, effective, well edited, logically sound, and clear essays.
• Apply active reading strategies in order to critically analyze texts.
• Effectively analyze literature fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction in light of historical context, critical theories, and formal elements.
September 2025
College of Alameda
555 Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway,
ALAMEDA,
California,
94501, United States
September 2025
Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street,
BERKELEY,
California,
94704, United States
Students must have completed High School/Secondary School Diploma. Applicant must have TOEFL score of 61 ibt, or 6 on the IELTS test. Deadlines to Apply: Fall - June 15; Spring – November 15.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.