Earth Science transfer requirements: Foothill College → Sacramento State

These are the lower-division Earth Science courses Sacramento State 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: Sac State, CSU Sacramento.

6Sacramento State requirements
6have a Foothill College match
9offered this year

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Course-by-course articulation

Sacramento State requirementFoothill College course that satisfies it
CHEM 1A General Chemistry ICHEM 1A + CHEM 1B
CHEM 6A Introduction to General ChemistryCHEM 30A + CHEM 25
PHYS 5B General Physics: Light, Electricity and Magnetism, Modern PhysicsPHYS 2B + PHYS 2C
MATH 26A Calculus I for the Social and Life SciencesMATH 1A
PHYS 5A General Physics: Mechanics, Heat, SoundPHYS 2A + PHYS 2B
ASTR 4B Introduction to Stars, Galaxies, and CosmologyASTR 10A + ASTR 10Bor ASTR 10BH

Verify this list on ASSIST.org before you register: choose Foothill College as your sending institution, Sacramento State as the receiving institution, and Earth 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
CHEM 1A2026 Fall20024Amid SalariWaitlist
CHEM 1A2026 Fall20025Amid SalariWaitlist
CHEM 1A2026 Fall20516Kelley LiuWaitlist
CHEM 1A2026 Fall20517Nayereh RezaeiWaitlist
CHEM 1B2026 Fall20027Gail KatsirClosed
CHEM 1B2026 Fall20146Gail KatsirClosed
CHEM 1B2026 Fall20026Nadia BiglariClosed
CHEM 1B2027 Winter31060Sandhya RaoOpen
CHEM 30A2026 Fall21199Robert CormiaWaitlist
CHEM 30A2026 Fall21609Robert CormiaWaitlist
CHEM 30A2026 Fall20028Melody EsfandiariWaitlist
CHEM 30A2026 Fall20089Melody EsfandiariWaitlist
CHEM 252026 Fall20522Rosa NguyenClosed
CHEM 252026 Fall20523Rosa NguyenClosed
CHEM 252026 Fall20524Niloofar SalehiWaitlist
CHEM 252026 Fall20208Niloofar SalehiWaitlist
PHYS 2B2027 Winter31279Staff MOpen
PHYS 2B2027 Winter31394Staff MOpen
MATH 1A2026 Fall20047Shobha OrugantiWaitlist
MATH 1A2026 Fall20048Quynh Lam HaClosed
MATH 1A2026 Fall20325Staff MWaitlist
MATH 1A2026 Fall20614Sarah WilliamsClosed
PHYS 2A2026 Fall20061Traptilisa KumarClosed
PHYS 2A2026 Fall20090Traptilisa KumarWaitlist
PHYS 2A2026 Fall21599Thihongha VuongClosed
PHYS 2A2027 Winter30811Staff MOpen
ASTR 10A2027 Winter30726Geoff MathewsOpen
ASTR 10A2027 Winter30957Geoff MathewsOpen
ASTR 10B2026 Fall21603Geoff MathewsOpen
ASTR 10B2026 Fall20014Geoff MathewsOpen
ASSIST is the official source for CSU 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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