Satisfy Your American Cultures Requirement In Just 3-8 Weeks
Berkeley Summer Sessions offers over 20 courses in 4 different sessions that satisfy your American Cultures requirement.
American Cultures Courses for Summer 2008
The American Cultures Requirement
The American Cultures requirement is for UC Berkeley students, the one course that all undergraduate students at Cal need to take and pass in order to graduate. The requirement was instituted in 1991 to introduce students to the diverse cultures of the United States through a comparative framework. Courses are offered in more than forty departments in many different disciplines at both the lower and upper division level.
"I believe that the AC requirement at Berkeley is the most important requirement. I firmly believe that books can only teach us so much, and the only other way we will actually be able to live together as a nation is by first being able to talk to each other. AC classes allow us to dialogue about very sensitive issues in the realm of the classroom. I can say that this is what made my Berkeley experience." - 4th Year Business major
"I think that perhaps this AC requirement may be the single most significant endeavor the university has undertaken. It offers a chance to examine what American Culture is today, what drives its evolution, how we compare with its founding documents like the Constitution and which direction we seem to be heading." - AC Faculty