Can I use courses that satisfy requirements of a second major to satisfy the elective requirements for the Linguistics major?
Yes. According to the General Catalog, at least 80 percent of the upper-division units required to satisfy course and unit requirements in each major selected must be unique and may not be counted toward the upper-division unit requirements for any other selected major. If the majors differ in their unit requirements, the major with the smaller number of required units is used to calculate uniqueness. For example, a major in Linguistics requires 44 upper-division units. A major in Spanish requires at least 45 upper-division units. If 36 units are unique to linguistics, this amounts to 82% of the linguistics unit requirement. Thus, 8 units of coursework can be used for both majors.
