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
GE Basic Skills: Area 2 Lower Division Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning 3
GE Upper Division Area 3B Humanities 3
CARQ Lifelong Learning Campus Requirement 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course Units
INDS 250 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1B Critical Thinking 3
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science 3
GE Area 5C Science Laboratory Activity 1
Elective 2
Total 15

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course Units
Cultural Approaches-Lower Division: AAS 100; AIS 222/GWS 222; CAS 100; CHS 202; FLIT 150; JS 100; LING 250; RS 256 (may double count in GE) 3
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science (select from GE subarea not previously completed) 3
CARQ American History Campus Requirement 3
GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course Units
GE Area 3A Arts 3
GE Area 4A and Area 4B Constitution of the United States and California State and Local Government 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Electives 6
Total 15

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course Units
INDS 300 3
Cultural Approaches-Upper Division: AFRS 300; AIS 333; CAS 311; CHS 351; ENGL 421A-Z; GWS 351; LING 325; QS 301 (may double count in GE) 3
Logic, Literacy, and Rhetoric: COMS 321; COMS 351; ENGL 436; ENGL 455; LING 408; PHIL 350*; PHIL 355* 3
Disciplinary Requirement A** 3
GE Upper Division Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Total 15

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course Units
INDS 350 3
Quantitative Approaches: BIOL 330/L*; ECON 309*; GEOG 306/L*; LING 455; SBS 320; SOM 120*; URBS 340A 3
Disciplinary Requirement A** 6
GE Upper Division Area 2 Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning or GE Upper Division Area 5 Physical and Biological Sciences 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 1st Semester

Course Units
INDS 400 3
Qualitative Approaches: AAS 331; AFRS 398; ART 313; GWS 302*; PHIL 380*; RS 395; URBS 340B* 3
Disciplinary Requirement B*** 6
GE Upper Division CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course Units
INDS 490 3
Disciplinary Requirement B*** 3
Electives 9
Total 15
OVERALL TOTAL UNITS 120

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

*Course has additional prerequisites beyond the required courses shown above. Please refer to the course description for details.
**Units from an existing major or minor chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor.
***Units from an existing major or minor chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor and productively integrated with choices from Disciplinary Requirement A.