Diablo Valley College’s Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) is a list of lower division general education courses.

IGETC requires transfer students to complete those courses before transfer to the CSU or UC campuses. According to IGETC’s area 6, Language Other Than English, transfer students must have “satisfactory completion with ‘C’ grades or higher, in an institution where the language of instruction is not English” for their foreign languages.

In regard to this requirement, however, it seems that it was not considerably formulated for most international students, and the required grades, which seem like they are based only on American scoring standards, are inequitable for them as well.

Therefore, I believe that the area 6 should be improved and even replaced with another reasonable alternative instead.