Dec 05, 2025  
2025-26 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-26 Academic Catalog

Skills for Student Success and Life-long Learning


The following is a list of all courses that satisfy the Baccalaureate Degree Requirement for student success and life-long learning.

Requirements


(2 units minimum)

Students take a minimum of one course each from section.

Student Success Skills


(1-unit minimum) 

These courses introduce students to university life, focusing on key areas for student success such as networking with faculty, nutrition, physical and mental health, social relationships, and ethical comportment. First-Year Experience courses that meet the FYE Goals for our university will count for the Student Success Skills requirement.  The Student Success Skills course is capped at a 2-unit maximum and must be fulfilled at Stanislaus State.

 

Life-long Learning Skills


(1-unit minimum)

Courses fulfilling this requirement will help students develop skills, methods, and experiences that enhance their engagement with creative, expressive, and interpretive practices. These may include performances, artistic works, and other forms of humanities and arts productions. The emphasis will be on cultivating lifelong skills that enable students to explore and connect with the ideas, perspectives, and imaginative worlds shaped by humanistic and artistic expression. Life-long Learning courses are capped at a maximum of 3 units.

For transfer students, this section may be completed at a Community College.

Choose a course within one of the following areas:

Artistic Practice


Students may complete a course in the arts, which may include visual arts, music, theatre, or creative writing. 

Language Acquisition


Students may complete a course in modern languages focusing on conversational skills and cultural understanding.   

Humanistic Inquiry


Students may complete a course in the humanities, including Philosophy and Literature.