CSUN Degree Planning Guides - 4 Year Plan

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4-Year Plan: Journalism/ general emphasis

Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication


This is a registration planning tool. If you follow the outline of courses for each semester, you will complete your degree program in four years. Students should consult with an academic advisor on a regular basis and note that these plans serve only as a guide to graduation.

To apply for admission at CSUN, go to www.csumentor.edu and select major code 120810B.

Key

Contact

Journalism Department
www.csun.edu/journalism/
Manzanita Hall 210
(818) 677-3135
email: jour99@csun.edu

YEAR 1: 1st Semester

Course

Units

GE Basic Skills: Written Communication

GE Basic Skills: Mathematics (Math 131 recommended)

GE Arts and Humanities

Electives

3

3

3

6

Total

15

YEAR 1: 2nd Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 100 (also counts in GE Lifelong Learning)

GE Basic Skills: Oral Communication

GE Social Sciences

Electives

3

3

3

6

Total

15

YEAR 2: 1st Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 110

GE Basic Skills: Critical Thinking

Title 5 Requirement

GE Comparative Cultures

Electives

3

3

3

3

3

Total

15

YEAR 2: 2nd Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 210

Journalism 250

GE Natural Science (with lab requirement)

Electives

3

2

4

6

Total

15

YEAR 3: 1st Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 310

Journalism Lecture Elective

Minor or Collateral Field Upper Division Elective

GE Upper Division Social Sciences

Title 5 Requirement

3

3

3

3

3

Total

15

YEAR 3: 2nd Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 330

General Journalism Upper Division Elective

Minor or Collateral Field Upper Division Elective

GE Natural Science (with lab requirement)

GE Upper Division Comparative Cultures (select course to meet IC part 2 requirement)

2

3

3

4

3

Total

15

YEAR 4: 1st Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 400

General Journalism Upper Division Elective

Journalism 395B or 397B or 398B

Minor or Collateral Field Upper Division Elective

Minor or Collateral Field Upper Division Elective

GE Upper Division Arts and Humanities

3

2

2

3

3

3

Total

16

YEAR 4: 2nd Semester

Course

Units

Journalism 498

General Journalism Upper Division Elective

General Journalism Upper Division Elective

Minor or Collateral Field Upper Division Elective

Elective

1

6

1

3

3

Total

14

OVERALL TOTAL UNITS

120