UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2025-2026

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

YEAR 1: 1st Semester

Course Units
MUS 110A 1
MUS 130 1
Lesson Requirement 2
Ensemble Requirement 2
GE Basic Skills: Area 1A English Composition (Written Communication) 3
GE Area 3B Humanities 3
Elective 1
Total 13

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course Units
MUS 110B 1
MUS 112/L 1/1
MUS 191/L (meets CARQ Lifelong Learning Campus Requirement) 2/1
Lesson Requirement 2
Ensemble Requirement 2
GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication 3
GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
Total 16

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course Units
MUS 201 3
MUS 210A 1
MUS 211/L 1/1
MUS 213 3
Lesson Requirement 2
Ensemble Requirement 2
GE Basic Skills: Area 2 Lower Division Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning 3
Total 16

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course Units
MUS 202 (meets GE Area 3A Arts) 3
MUS 210B 1
MUS 212/L 1/1
MUS 214 3
Lesson Requirement 2
Ensemble Requirement 2
GE Basic Skills: Area 1B Critical Thinking 3
Total 16

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course Units
MUS 311/L 1/1
MUS 316 3
MUS 462/L 1/1
Lesson Requirement 2
Upper Division Ensemble Requirement 2
GE Upper Division Area 2 Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning or GE Upper Division Area 5 Physical and Biological Sciences 3
Total 14

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course Units
MUS 312/L 1/1
MUS 433/L 1/1
MUS 483ME/L 1/1
Lesson Requirement 2
Upper Division Ensemble Requirement 2
GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science 3
GE Area 4A and Area 4B Constitution of the United States and California State and Local Government 3
Total 16

YEAR 4: 1st Semester

Course Units
MUS 307 (meets GE Upper Division CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies) 3
MUS 406A 2
Lesson Requirement 2
Upper Division Ensemble Requirement 2
CARQ American History Campus Requirement 3
GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Total 15

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course Units
MUS 406B 2
MUS 495 1
Lesson Requirement 2
Upper Division Ensemble Requirement 2
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
Total 14
OVERALL TOTAL UNITS 120

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