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 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 – Literature & Composition

  • AP Exam: English – Literature & Composition only counts towards Cal-GETC Area 1A (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: Social and Behavioral Science AA

  • Area A: Social Science includes ETH ST 8

• Correction to Real Estate Certificate of Achievement

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

• 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)

---