Fulfillment Tracks
To fulfill your experiential learning requirement, you must complete an approved course from one of the five experiential learning tracks. Please note that some courses require an application or additional approval before enrollment, so it's important to plan ahead. Special study 198 or 199 courses may also be approved to meet this requirement, but students must submit a course proposal for consideration.
Take the time to explore the different tracks and review the approved courses within each one to find the class that best aligns with your interests and goals!
Community Engagement
Do you want to help make San Diego a better, more vibrant place to live?
Internship and Apprenticeship
Are you looking to get real-world experience in your field while building your résumé?
Research and Design
Would you like to conduct research and develop design projects with esteemed professors and scholars?
Global Experience
Have you always dreamed of traveling across the country—or across the world?
Approved Course Lists
Summer 2026 Approved Course List
View the courses approved to automatically satisfy the experiential learning requirement from all fulfillment tracks offered during Summer 2026.
Spring 2026 Approved Course List
View the courses approved to automatically satisfy the experiential learning requirement from all fulfillment tracks offered during Spring 2026.
Approved Course List
View the courses approved to automatically satisfy the experiential learning requirement from all fulfillment tracks.
The updated approved course list went into effect in Fall 2024. The previous approved course list was only effective through Summer 2024. To minimize any impacts to long-term planning, students who entered the university prior to Fall 2024 can write into the Virtual Advising Center to request an exception to this change. Once you've enrolled in a previously approved course, you can send a message asking to have it applied to your experiential learning requirement and your degree audit will be manually updated.
More to Explore
Virtual Advising Center
Submit questions about the experiential learning requirement at any time and visit experiential learning drop-in hours on Tuesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. during Week 1 through Finals Week.
Course Proposal
Propose an experiential learning class not currently on an approved course list to fulfill the experiential learning requirement before the deadline specified for that category.
Resources and Opportunities
Find more ways to get involved within each fulfillment track. Note that not all programs included here are eligible to satisfy the experiential learning requirement.
