UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2025-2026

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

YEAR 1: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 100 (meets CARQ Lifelong Learning Campus Requirement and IC) 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1A English Composition (Written Communication) 3
GE Area 3B Humanities 3
GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 210 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication 3
CARQ American History Campus Requirement 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 220 3
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 2 Lower Division Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning 3
Electives 6
Total 15

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 240 or CTVA 250 or CTVA 260 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1B Critical Thinking 3
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science (select from GE subarea not previously completed) 3
GE Area 5C Science Laboratory Activity 1
GE Area 4A and Area 4B Constitution of the United States and California State and Local Government 3
Elective 2
Total 15

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 305 or CTVA 310 3
CTVA 309 (meets GE Upper Division Area 3A Arts) 3
CTVA 320 3
GE Upper Division Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Elective 3
Total
15

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 350 or CTVA 440 3
CTVA 351 or CTVA 480 or CTVA 482 or CTVA 487 3
CTVA 420 3
GE Upper Division Area 2 Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning or GE Upper Division Area 5 Physical and Biological Sciences 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 1st Semester

Course Units
CTVA 319 3
CTVA 422 or CTVA 428 3
CTVA 425 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course Units
CTVA 329A/B or CTVA 329C or CTVA 494A/B 3
Cinema and Television Arts Upper Division Elective 3
Electives 9
Total 15
OVERALL TOTAL UNITS 120

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