Common Course Numbering is new for Fall 2025 – What You Need to Know
To make transferring and course selection easier for students, California Community Colleges are implementing the Common Course Numbering (CCN) system. This initiative standardizes course numbers across all community colleges in the state, so equivalent courses will have the same number, regardless of where they are taken
How This Affects You
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If you’ve already completed a course before the change, you do not need to retake the updated version.
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If you have a course in your education plan that is affected by CCN, you’ll need to update it with the new course number when registering for Fall 2025 and beyond.
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This change will help ensure your courses transfer more smoothly within California’s community college system and to four-year universities.
Next Steps
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Review your education plan in Self-Service to check if any of your planned courses are changing.
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When registering for Fall 2026, look for the new course numbers in the schedule.
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Connect with a counselor if you have any questions about how this impacts your academic path.
For more details, visit or contact the Neena Gill Counseling Center
Fall 2026 Course Changes
| Current Course Names (Through Summer 2026) |
New Common Course Names (Starting Fall 2026) |
| ART 1A History of Art I |
ARTH C1100 Survey of Art from Prehistory to the Medieval Era |
| ART 1B History of Art II |
ARTH C1200 Survey of Art from the Renaissance to Contemporary |
| ECON 1A Elementary Economics-Macro |
ECON C2002 Principles of Macroeconomic |
| ECON 1B Elementary Economics-Micro |
ECON C2001 |
| ENGL 1B Critical Thinking and Writing About Literature |
ENGL C1003 Critical Thinking and Writing Through Literature |
| HIST 17A United States History |
HIST C1001 United States History to 1877 |
| HIST 17BECON C2002 Principles of Macroeconomic |
ECON C2002 Principles of Macroeconomic |
Fall 2025 Course Changes
| Current Course Names (Through Summer 2025) |
New Common Course Names (Starting Fall 2025) |
| ENGL 1A College Composition and Reading |
ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing |
| ENGL 1E College Composition and Reading Extended Instruction |
ENGL C1000E Academic Reading and Writing |
| ENGL 1C Critical Thinking /Advanced Composition |
ENGL C1001 Critical Thinking and Writing |
| SPECH 1 Public Speaking |
COMM C1000 |
| STAT 1 Introduction to Statistical Methods |
STAT C1000 Introduction to Statistics |
| POLSC 1 Introduction to American Government |
POLS C1000 American Government and Politics |
| PSYCH 1A General Psychology |
PSYC C1000 Introduction to Psychology |