Cognitive Science transfer requirements: Foothill College → UC Santa Cruz

These are the lower-division Cognitive Science courses UC Santa Cruz expects you to finish before you transfer, taken from the 2025–26 ASSIST agreement, and matched to the Foothill College courses that satisfy each one.

Also searched as: UCSC.

8UC Santa Cruz requirements
8have a Foothill College match
10offered this year

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Course-by-course articulation

UC Santa Cruz requirementFoothill College course that satisfies it
AM 11A Mathematical Methods for Economists IMATH 12
MATH 19A Calculus for Science, Engineering, and MathematicsMATH 1Aor MATH 1AH
MATH 11A Calculus with ApplicationsMATH 1Aor MATH 1AH
PSYC 2 Introduction to Psychological StatisticsPSYC 7or SOC 7or STAT C1000
STAT 5 StatisticsPSYC 7or STAT C1000or SOC 7or MATH 217 + MATH 17
STAT 7 Statistical Methods for the Biological, Environmental, and Health SciencesMATH 217 + MATH 17or STAT C1000
CSE 20 Beginning Programming in PythonC S 3A
CSE 30 Programming Abstractions: PythonC S 1Cor C S 3Cor C S 2C

Verify this list on ASSIST.org before you register: choose Foothill College as your sending institution, UC Santa Cruz as the receiving institution, and Cognitive Science as the major. ASSIST is the only official source, and agreements change between catalog years.

Which of these you can actually take in 2025–26

Matched against the official Foothill College schedule for 2026 Fall and 2027 Winter. Seat status changes daily — the planner shows the live figures.

CourseTermCRNInstructorStatus
MATH 122026 Fall20344Sarah WilliamsClosed
MATH 122027 Winter30996Sarah WilliamsClosed
MATH 1A2026 Fall20047Shobha OrugantiWaitlist
MATH 1A2026 Fall20048Quynh Lam HaClosed
MATH 1A2026 Fall20325Staff MWaitlist
MATH 1A2026 Fall20614Sarah WilliamsClosed
MATH 1AH2026 Fall20753Ryan PughWaitlist
PSYC 72026 Fall20632Ben StefonikOpen
PSYC 72027 Winter30766Eta LinOpen
SOC 72026 Fall20633Ben StefonikOpen
SOC 72027 Winter30767Eta LinOpen
STAT C10002026 Fall21560Staff MWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall21491Staff MWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall21537Lucinda RobledoWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall21520Maria TomutiuWaitlist
C S 3A2026 Fall20301Mike MurphyOpen
C S 3A2026 Fall20319Maneesh DhagatClosed
C S 3A2026 Fall20458Mike MurphyWaitlist
C S 3A2026 Fall20555Bita MazloomClosed
C S 1C2026 Fall20126Bita MazloomClosed
C S 1C2027 Winter30841Bita MazloomClosed
C S 3C2026 Fall21168Zi Bin YangClosed
C S 3C2027 Winter31146Geri LambleClosed
C S 2C2026 Fall20542David HardenWaitlist
C S 2C2027 Winter30842David HardenClosed
ASSIST is the official source for UC articulation, but it tells you which courses count, not when they run or who teaches them. The planner puts both together and warns you about time conflicts.
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