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General Freshman Pathway

Pathway View

These pathways serve as tools, not prescribed programs of study. Before enrolling, you can use them to get a feel for what you can do in this program. After enrolling, you and your advisors can use them as a starting point for building your personalized outcomes-based ILP.

This pathway, intended as a reference, shows a productive route to graduation in four years.  Your actual pathway may not look exactly like the model due to several factors:

  • Any required remedial courses, such as MATH 098 and WRT 095
  • Actual availability of courses during a given semester
  • Personal choices you make in your Individual Learning Plan, in consultation with your advisors

Courses by Requirement

Degree requirements are considered a guideline for graduation, and cannot replace the feedback of an academic advisor. Learn more about degree requirements at CSUMB.

Course units may only be counted once, when a course meets multiple requirements, the letter 'C' means that the completed course units were counted elsewhere.

First Year Seminar

RequirementCourseUnits
First Year Seminar FYS 100: First Year Seminar3
Total:3

University Learning Requirements

RequirementCourseUnits
Community ParticipationAny approved course4
Creative/Artistic ExpressionAny approved course4
Democratic ParticipationAny approved courseC
Engcom AAny approved course4
Engcom BAny approved course4
EthicsAny approved courseC
Literature and Popular CultureAny approved course4
MathcomAny approved course4
Science ContentAny approved course4
Science Methods LabAny approved courseC
Science Methods LectureAny approved course4
U.S. HistoriesAny approved course4
Vibrancy ActivityAny approved course1
Vibrancy TheoryAny approved course3
Total:40

Upper-division General Education

Graduation Learning Outcomes

RequirementCourseUnits
Culture & EquityComplete one of the following: HCOM 322; HCOM 324; HCOM 327; HCOM 335C
GWAR HCOM 312: GWAR-Cooperative Argumentation4
Language 1102 or appropriate level4
Language 2Any approved course4
Language 3Any approved course4
Language 4Any approved course4
Tech/Info HCOM 300L: Major ProSeminar Lab2
Upper Division Service LearningHCOM Concentration Course 1C
Total:22

Major Learning Requirements

RequirementCourseUnits
MLO 1 Critical communication skills HCOM 312: GWAR-Cooperative ArgumentationC
MLO 2 Media, narrative and ethnographic skillsComplete one of the following: HCOM 307; HCOM 316; HCOM 328; HCOM 329; HCOM 350; HCOM 384; HCOM 385; HCOM 387; HCOM 390; HCOM 446; only with prior consent of instructor, HCOM 3894
MLO 3 Relational communication skillsComplete one of the following: HCOM 304; HCOM 306; HCOM 309; HCOM 310; HCOM 403; HCOM 412 4
MLO 4 Philosophical analysis HCOM 301: Ways Of Knowing4
MLO 5 Critical cultural analysisComplete one of the following: HCOM 338; HCOM 342; HCOM 344; HCOM 345; HCOM 348; HCOM 422; HCOM 426; HCOM 440; HCOM 443; HCOM 455; HCOM 5554
MLO 6 Comparative literary analysisComplete one of the following: HCOM 322; HCOM 324; HCOM 327; HCOM 3354
MLO 7 Historical analysisComplete one of the following: HCOM 346; HCOM 351; HCOM 352; HCOM 353; HCOM 354; HCOM 356; HCOM 359; HCOM 365; HCOM 445; HCOM 4514
MLO 8 Creative writing and social actionComplete one of the following: HCOM 330; HCOM 331; only with the prior consent of the instructor, HCOM 332; HCOM 333; HCOM 334; HCOM 432; HCOM 4334
Total:28

Major Core Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Major Core Course HCOM 474: Research Methods2
Major Core Course HCOM 475: Senior Capstone4
Major Core Course HCOM 300: Major ProSeminar2
Total:8

Major Concentration Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Concentration courseHCOM Concentration Course 16
Concentration courseHCOM Concentration Course 24
Concentration courseHCOM Concentration Course 34
Total:14

Additional Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Elective Course1
Elective course4
Total:5

Total: 120 units

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