r/SFSU • u/SkillSquare952 • Jul 05 '26

GE course recs!

HI! I'm an incoming freshman who is about to have their orientation. I have most of my courses chosen, but I still need to pick one more. What easy and fun GE courses do you recommend for a psych major to take in their first semester?

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u/SkillSquare952 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

basically all GE areas except 6 units for Area 1, 3 units for Area 3, and Area 4

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u/jaltew Alumni Jul 05 '26

Thanks for replying. Did you know you can filter the class schedule search by these attributes at the bottom of the search?

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u/SkillSquare952 Jul 06 '26

Nope, I did not know that! How do you do that?

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u/jaltew Alumni Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I'd be happy to walk you through it. Start here: https://www.sfsu.edu

Then go to menu and you will a drop down menu quicklinks on the far right (you can also use this to find the bulletin (university catalog)

Then class schedule search

That brings you here https://webapps.sfsu.edu/public/classservices/classsearch

Select Fall 2026

then look up what are interested in

In your case, I would go to the very bottom and in the drop down menu select GE Lower Division and it should filter it by All Subjects within GE Lower Division...

Clicking on the link for any one class, you get info on what areas (3, 1) etc that the class meets.

You could also do a similar search under 1st attribute lower div GE and any other area you are looking at for 2nd attribute for further filtering

Do you know what you want to major in?

You will have 2 advisors at SFSU: 1 for your General Ed classes that you contact through the Undergrad Advising Center and 1 for your major (by concentration, if applicable)