Undergraduate Program


Applying to the Haas School of Business


Prerequisite Courses for Continuing
UC Berkeley Applicants


All prerequisite courses must be completed for letter grades no more than 5 years before starting the business major. The prerequisites listed below are UC Berkeley campus courses. Once at UC Berkeley, students must take all prerequisites at UC Berkeley. If non-UC Berkeley college level course work was completed before admission into UC Berkeley, it can be used to satisfy prerequisite or breadth requirements with the exception of Principles of Business (UGBA 10), which must be taken at UC Berkeley. If off-campus work was completed at a California community college, visit the Assist website, www.assist.org for courses at each school that fulfill the prerequisite or breadth requirements.

Some requirements may be fulfilled with exam credit. Please review the AP, IB, A Level Interpretation Summaries.


Undergraduate Business Administration 10. Principles of Business. All UC Berkeley applicants must complete this course at UC Berkeley.


Math (Calculus). One semester of calculus is required - Math 1A, 1B, 16A or 16B.


Economics 1 or 2. Introduction to Economics or Intensive Introduction to Economics.


Statistics 20, 21 or 25. Introductory Probability and Statistics.


Computer Science. Student applying to the Haas Undergraduate Program in Fall 2007 may fulfill this requirement by taking CS3, Engineering 110, or a UC transferable course offered by departments such as Computer Science or Computer Information Systems. The course used to fulfill this requirement must carry a minimum of 3 semester or 4 quarter units.

 

Students applying to the Haas Undergraduate Program in Fall 2008 and beyond will not be required to take the computer science prerequisite. Computer science is no longer required for admission to the Haas Undergraduate Program.



Literature/Writing Requirement
This requirement is in addition to the English/R & C requirement and must be satisfied by the completion of one course in which literature or writing is studied, not including R & C courses.

Students applying for the Fall 2008 semester and beyond must take a course from the list below to fulfill the Literature/Writing Requirement. New courses will be added and discontinued classes will be removed in July. You cannot petition to take a course that is not listed and those students who choose to take a course that is not listed will be ineligible for admission.



African American Studies
150B

 African American Literature 1920 to Present [3 units]
C151A

African American Plays from 1858 to 1959 [4 units]
C151B

 Contemporary African American Drama [4 units]
C152C

 African American Dramatic Literature: Forms and Styles[3 units]
C153A


 Images of African American Women in Literature: Slavery to the 20th Century [3 units]
C153B


 Contemporary Images of African American Women in Literature C153B [3 units]
154

 Negritude: French African Literature [4 units]
155

 Literature of the Caribbean: Significant Themes 155 [4 units]
156AC

 Poetry for the People: Introduction to the Art of Poetry 156AC [4 units]
158A

 Poetry for the People: The Writing and Teaching of Poetry [4 units]
158B
 Poetry for the People: Practicum [4 units]
159


 Special Topics in African American Literature [1-4 units] Must be taken for a minimum of 3 units
160
 African Literatures [4 units]
162

 Caribbean Literature by Women Authors: Marasa [4 units]
163
 African Literature by Women [4 units]
American Studies
C111E
 Topics in American Studies [4 units]
C152
 Native American Literature [4 units]
Asian American Studies
172
 Asian American Literature 172 [4 units]
175

 Contemporary Narratives on the Philippines and the United States [3 units]
176

 Genre in Asian American Literature [4 units]
178

 Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Culture [4 units]
179

 Transnational Narratives by Asian Americans [4 units]
181
 Chinese American Literature [4 units]
183
 Korean American Literature 183 [4 units]
Celtic Studies
138
 Irish Literature -- Celtic Studies [4 units]
139
 Irish Literature -- Celtic Studies [4 units]
Chicano Studies
40

 Introduction to Chicano Literature in English [4 units]
141
 Chicana Feminist Writers and [4 units]
142
 Major Chicano Writers [4 units]
143

 Chicano and Latin American Literature [3 units]
149
 Creative Writing [5 units]
Classics
34
 Epic Poetry: Homer and Vergil [4 units]
35
 Greek Tragedy [4 units]
College Writing
108

 Advanced Composition: New Technologies [4 units]
110

Advanced Composition: Challenging Writing [4 units]
151

 Introduction to Principles of Professional Communication [3 units]
Comparative Literature
Any course with a minimum of 3 semester units except H1A, H1B, N1A, N1B, R1A, R1B, R2A, R2B, R3A, R3B, 98, 99, 112A, 112B, 198, 199
English
Any course with a minimum of 3 semester units except N1A, N1B, R1A, R1B, R50, C71, C77, 98, 99, 198, 199
Ethnic Studies
100

 Comparative Ethnic Literature in America [4 units]
Film
180A
 Screenwriting [4 units]
180B
 Screenwriting [4 units]
Gender & Women’s Studies
C153A


 Images of African American Women in Literature: Slavery to the 20th Century [3 units]
C153B

 Contemporary Images of African American Women in Literature [3 units]
Native American Studies
150 Native American Narratives [4 units]
152 Native American Literature [4 units]
154 Mythic Tribal Literature [4 units]
Near Eastern Studies
139 Modern Jewish Literatures [3 units]
152

 Cultural Encounters in Modern Arabic Literature [3 units]
155


 Wonder and the Fantastic: The Thousand and One Nights in World Literary Imagination [3 units]
162A History of Persian Literature [4 units]
162B History of Persian Literature [4 units]
Philosophy
6

Man, God, and Society in Western Literature [4 units]
Religious Studies
C 119 The English Bible As Literature [4 units]
Scandinavian
107 Plays of Ibsen [4 units]
120 The Novel in Scandinavian [4 units]
125 Old Norse Literature [4 units]
150

 Studies in Scandinavian Literature [4 units]
Slavic Languages and Literatures
45

 Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature [3 units]
46

 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature [3 units]
131

 Literature, Art, and Society in 20th Century Russia [4 units]
133
 The Novel in Russia and the West [4 units]
132

 Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the English Novel [4 units]
134 A Gogol [3 units]
134C Dostoevsky [4 units]
134D Tolstoy [4 units]
134E Chekhov [4 units]
134F Nabokov [4 units]
134N
 Studies in Russian Literature [3 units]
160
 Survey of Czech Literature [3 units]
170
 Survey of Yugoslav Literatures [3 units]
South Asian Studies
121

 Classical Indian Literature in Translation [4 units]
C122 The Novel in India [4 units]
124 Modern Indian Literature [4 units]
Southeast Asian
128


 Introduction to Modern Indonesian and Malaysian Literature in Translation [4 units]
Theater, Dance, And Performance Studies
C107

 Plays of Ibsen -- Theater, Dance, And Performance Studies [4 units]
126 Performance Literatures [4 units]
C131A

 African American Plays from 1858 to 1959 [4 units]
C131B

 Contemporary African American Drama [4 units]
C132

 African American Dramatic Literature: Forms and Styles [3 units]
139
 Playwriting [3 units]


English/Reading and Composition Requirement (R & C). You must satisfy this requirement by completing courses comparable to both Berkeley's English R1A and English R1B.


Go to the Letters & Science website for a complete list of courses that will satisfy the first half ("A") and second half ("B") of the R & C requirement
http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/rc.html

You may use first-half and second-half courses from different departments. Please remember that Haas guidelines differ from L&S guidelines. For example, for Haas one course may not be used to satisfy both a prerequisite and a breadth requirement.