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The First Year Experience Program offers 2-unit courses designed to help new students make the most of their UC San Diego education.
At Seventh, we provide many opportunities for talented and intellectually ambitious students to maximize their educational experience and distinguish themselves academically and professionally.
Seventh College's First-Year Honors Seminar (SEV 20), offered in Winter and Spring Quarter, sponsors activities and events designed to introduce students to the pioneering research and innovative scholarship at UC San Diego and in the surrounding community.
A subset of students with Provost’s Honors (typically those in the top 15 percent of the first-year class) will receive an email invitation to enroll in SEV 20 from the Office of the Provost at the end of Fall Quarter for Winter enrollment and Winter Quarter for Spring enrollment.
For more information about the First-Year Honors Seminar (SEV 20) contact seventhprovost@ucsd.edu.
The Academic Senate has established the following standards for award of college Honors at graduation:
Eligibility is based upon the cumulative grade point average and completion of at least seventy-two units of coursework at the University of California. Refer to Latin Honors for GPA cut-offs.
Each department or program may award Honors at graduation. Check with your department or program for details.
Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, is the most prestigious undergraduate honor society in the liberal arts and sciences in the United States.
UC San Diego students are elected and invited to membership by the Sigma Chapter based on the excellence of their academic record, the breadth and quality of courses taken, and evidence that they have pursued a serious line of work and are of good character. Refer to the Phi Beta Kappa website for eligibility criteria and election procedures.
The Seventh College Individual Studies major allows students to pursue a coherent course of study that is not formally recognized as a major at UC San Diego, but would otherwise meet all the standards established by the College and by the Academic Senate.
The proposal must be approved by the Seventh College Executive Committee. Official notification of the committee’s decision will be sent via the Virtual Advising Center.