The Sonoma State General Education and Seawolf Experience program provides students an intentional, coherent, inclusive undergraduate experience across multiple disciplinary perspectives, fostering broad transferable skills and integrated, engaged learning that position students to create and participate meaningfully and ethically in our interconnected and interdependent world.
Program requirements depend on catalog year and have changed frequently over the last 5 years. If you’re a student or an advisor looking for information on GE requirements or courses, please visit your Academic Requirements Report (ARR) or the schedule of courses for the current semester, respectively. Both are accessed through your MySSU portal. If you are not a current student, please contact the Academic Advising Center.
For first-time, first-year students starting in Fall 2021, the GE program consists of 48-units taken as coursework across six distribution areas A-F; this program is overseen by the GE Subcommittee.
The Seawolf Experience consists of overlay coursework some of which is CSU-wide and some of which is SSU-specific. Overlay courses are those that may also count towards a student’s GE requirements, major, minor, or elective units depending upon the course. Overlay courses that meet American Institution and CSU graduation writing requirements and SSU-specific overlays in sustainability and global awareness are overseen by the Overlay Subcommittee.