UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2025-2026

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

YEAR 1: 1st Semester

Course Units
GE Basic Skills: Area 1A English Composition (Written Communication) 3
CARQ Lifelong Learning Campus Requirement 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Electives 6
Total 15

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course Units
GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication* 3
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science 3
GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Electives 6
Total 15

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course Units
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 Basic Skills: Area 2 Lower Division Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning 3
GE Area 3A Arts 3
Electives 5
Total 15

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course Units
GE Basic Skills: Area 1B Critical Thinking 3
GE Area 3B Humanities 3
GE Area 4A and Area 4B Constitution of the United States and California State and Local Government 3
Electives 6
Total 15

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course Units
COMS 301 or COMS 327 or COMS 351 3
COMS 301 or COMS 327 or COMS 351 3
COMS 321 3
COMS 356 (meets GE Upper Division CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies and IC) 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course Units
COMS 301 or COMS 327 or COMS 351 3
Divisional Requirement 3
Community Involvement Requirement 3
GE Upper Division Area 2 Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning or GE Upper Division Area 5 Physical and Biological Sciences 3
CARQ American History Campus Requirement 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 1st Semester

Course Units
Divisional Requirement 6
Communication Studies Upper Division Elective 3
Communication Methods Requirement 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course Units
Communication Studies Upper Division Electives 12
GE Upper Division Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Total 15
OVERALL TOTAL UNITS 120

*COMS 309 meets GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication.

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