UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2024-2025

This 4-Year Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s):

YEAR 1: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 100 (meets GE E Lifelong Learning and IC) 3
GE Basic Skills: A2 Written Communication 3
GE Basic Skills: B4 Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (MATH 131 recommended) 3
GE C2 Humanities 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 210 3
GE Basic Skills: A1 Oral Communication 3
GE D1 Social Sciences 3
GE D3 and D4 Constitution of the United States and State and Local Government 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 220 3
GE Basic Skills: A3 Critical Thinking 3
GE B1 Physical Science orĀ GE B2 Life Science 3
GE F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Elective 3
Take the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam (UDWPE)
Total 15

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 309 (meets GE Upper Division Section C1 Arts) 3
GE B1 Physical Science or GE B2 Life Science (select from GE subarea not previously completed) 2
GE B3 Science Laboratory Activity 1
Electives 9
Total 15

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 301 or CTVA 401 3
CTVA 305 or CTVA 310 3
Cinema and Television Arts Upper Division Elective 3
GE Upper Division Section D1 Social Sciences 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 319 3
Cinema and Television Arts Upper Division Elective Area A (CTVA 410, CTVA 412, CTVA 413, CTVA 415A-Z, CTVA 416) 3
Cinema and Television Arts Upper Division Elective 3
GE B5 Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 315 or CTVA 405 3
CTVA 400 3
Select one from the following (CTVA 410, CTVA 412, CTVA 413, CTVA 415A-Z, CTVA 416) 3
GE Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course Units
Select one from the following (CTVA 410, CTVA 412, CTVA 413, CTVA 415A-Z, CTVA 416) 3
Cinema and Television Arts Upper Division Elective 3
GE C3 American History Institutions and Ideals 3
Electives 6
Total 15
OVERALL TOTAL UNITS 120

One course for the degree must have an Ethnic Studies/ES designation.