2025-2026 SMC Catalog Addendum

Corrections/Updates

• Correction to the Degree and Certificate Requirements: Associate Degree (AA/AS) Requirements

  • The following is not a requirement: Completion of at least 50% of academic path units at Santa Monica College; Department Chairs have the discretion to waive the 50% minimum units required at SMC to meet the major or area of emphasis

• Correction to the SMC Local General Education Requirements

  • ENGL 71, ENGL 72, ENGL 73, and ENGL 74 all count toward Area 3: Arts and Humanities

• Correction to the CSU General Education Requirements (including pre-2021 version)

  • GEOL 6 counts for Area B3: Science Courses With Laboratory Component credit (in addition to Area B1: Physical Science Courses)

• Correction to the Credit by Exam

  • AP Exam: English – Language & Composition only counts towards Cal-GETC Area 1A (not Area 3B)
  • AP Exam: Spanish Language & Culture, SMC Associate Degree (Major and/or GE) has a course equivalency SPAN 3

  • IB Language B (any language) Exam: does not count toward Cal-GETC credit (not Area 3B)

• Interaction Design General Education Requirements

• Correction to Barbering AS/Certificate of Achievement

  • Total Area of Emphasis Units: 26 units (originally listed 33 units)

• Correction to Early Intervention/Special Education Assistant AS/Certificate of Achievement

  • Required Courses: ECE 32 Communicating with Families (3 units) is a required course; ECE 64 Health, Safety and Nutrition for Young Children (3 units) is not a required course

  • No change to total major units

• Correction to General Science AA

  • Group A: Mathematics includes MATH 6 and MATH 55 as elective options

• Correction to Journalism AA-T

  • JOURN 16 Producing the Campus Newspaper is 4 units (not 3 units)
  • MATH 2 Precalculus is 5 units (not 3 units)

  • STAT C1000 Introduction to Statistics (formerly MATH 54) is 4 units (not 3 units)

• Correction to Liberal Arts: Arts and Humanities AA

  • Area B: Humanities includes ENGL 71, ENGL 72, ENGL 73, and ENGL 74

• Correction to Liberal Arts: Social and Behavioral Science AA

  • Area A: Social Science includes ETH ST 8
  • Correction to the program description: "Complete 18 units, including at least 3 units from Area A and at least 3 units from Area B, as specified below. The remaining 12 units may be chosen from any area/group."
• Correction to Real Estate Certificate of Achievement

  • Select 1 of the following: also includes REALES 10, Property Management as an elective option

• Correction/Addition to Respiratory Care AS

  • Program Description should include:
    The SMC Respiratory Care Program, CoARC Program Number, 200637, awards an associates degree in Respiratory Care. The program is located at SMC Bundy Campus and holds provisional accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC). The CoARC accredits respiratory Care education programs in the United States. To achieve this end, it utilizes an ‘outcomes based’ process. Programmatic outcomes are performance indicators that reflect the extent to which the educational goals of the program are achieved and by which program effectiveness is documented.” For SMC Respiratory Care Program CoARC Outcome Thresholds
    Contact information
    264 Precision Blvd
    Telford, TN 37690 USA
    Telephone: 817-283-2835
    Fax: 817-354-8519
    Email: webmaster@coarc.com
    Program Goal: Primary Goal according to the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care 1. To prepare graduates with demonstrated competence in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains of respiratory care practice as performed by registered respiratory therapists (RRTs).

• Correction to Studio Arts AA-T

  • Required Core Courses: requires AHIS 2 and ART 10A and ART 13 and ART 20A (all four courses/12 units) (not "or")

• Correction to JOURN 21/PHOTO 13 advisory and prerequisite

  • Advisory: None (originally listed advisory of PHOTO 1)

  • Prerequisite: PHOTO 1 (originally listed no prerequisite)

• Correction to the Athletics Department Chair

  • Athletics Department Chair: Kelly Ledwith (originally listed Lydia Strong as Department Chair)

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