UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2025-2026

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

YEAR 1: 1st Semester

Course Units
JOUR 100 (meets CARQ Lifelong Learning Campus Requirement) 3
JOUR 104 1
GE Basic Skills: Area 1A English Composition (Written Communication) 3
GE Area 3A Arts 3
Electives 5
Total 15

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course Units
JOUR 110/L 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication 3
GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course Units
JOUR 255 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 2 Lower Division Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning 3
CARQ American History Campus Requirement 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Elective 3
Total 15

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course Units
JOUR 210/L 3
JOUR 225 3
GE Basic Skills: Area 1B Critical Thinking 3
GE Area 4A and Area 4B Constitution of the United States and California State and Local Government 3
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science 3
Total 15

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course Units
JOUR 400 3
Upper Division JOUR Elective 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 Upper Division Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Elective 2
Total 15

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course Units
JOUR 341 3
Upper Division JOUR Electives 6
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
JOUR 362 3
JOUR 398B 2
JOUR 398C 2
JOUR 478 or JOUR 480 3
GE Upper Division Area 3B Humanities 3
Elective 2
Total 15

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course Units
JOUR 440 3
JOUR 498 1
Upper Division JOUR Elective 3
Electives 8
Total 15
OVERALL TOTAL UNITS 120

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