Language Other Than English (LOTE)

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For students following the California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC) - implemented Fall 2025, Language Other Than English (LOTE) is no longer a required area of the General Education pattern. LOTE certification is available as an option to select. 

LOTE completion remains a graduation requirement for many UC colleges and majors. 

The following colleges will accept the optional LOTE certification on Cal-GETC to satisfy the LOTE requirement for graduation: 

  • UC Davis: The College of Letters and Science will accept the optional LOTE certification on Cal-GETC to satisfy the LOTE graduation requirement.
  • UC Irvine
  • UCLA
  • UC Santa Barbara
  • UC San Diego: Revelle College and Eleanor Roosevelt College will accept the optional LOTE certification on Cal-GETC. Other UCSD colleges do not require LOTE and will not accept LOTE certification for their general education requirements. 

Students can meet the LOTE requirement in the following ways:

  1. One of these courses at SRJC: ASL 1[F96]; FREN 1; GERM 1; HEBREW 1; ITAL 1; SPAN 1, 40, 41. Completion of an advanced course, such as FREN 2 or SPAN 3, validates proficiency and can be used to clear this area.
  2. Two years of high school coursework in one language other than English with a final term grade of “C-” or better. High school transcripts must be on file in Admissions and Records.
  3. Satisfactory score for a language other than English on the SAT II , AP exam, or IB Higher Level Exam
  4. Language other than English International “A” level exam (score of 5, 6, or 7) or “O” level exam (grade of A, B, or C)
  5. Defense Language Institute language other than English course passed with “C” or higher on the official transcript
  6. Two years of formal schooling at the sixth grade level or higher with grades of “C” or better in an institution where the language of instruction is not English*

  7. Satisfactory completion of an achievement test administered by a community college, university or other college*

*If you attended school in another country and/or you would like a qualified faculty member to verify competency in a language other than English, please use this form.

NOTE: Faculty assessments are available for languages that current SRJC faculty speak, read, and write. As such, there may be languages that we cannot provide an assessment for.

UC Berkeley College of Letters and Sciences will not allow the optional LOTE certification on the Cal-GETC to satisfy LOTE for transfer students. Beginning Fall 2026, students will need to complete a second semester (or third quarter) of a college-level course in a language other than English, with a C- or better to satisfy the LOTE graduation requirement. High school coursework will no longer be accepted to fulfill the requirement (AP/IB exams will still fulfill foreign language requirement). 
UC Merced Contact campus Office of Undergraduate Admissions admissions@ucmerced.edu 
UC Riverside LOTE certification on the Cal-GETC form is not required. Some majors may require a Level 3 or 4 LOTE requirement, which may be satisfied either with coursework completed at UC Riverside or with applicable transfer credit from another institution
UC Santa Cruz No LOTE graduation requirement. Optional LOTE certification on the Cal-GETC form is not required.

***For students with prior enrollment to Fall 2025, following Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC), LOTE completion will be required to receive a full certification (regardless of whether your individual UC campus requires LOTE completion).