Cinematic Arts and Technology is a hands-on program that prepares you for careers in film, broadcast, and interactive media across commercial, independent, and community sectors.

You will create narrative, documentary, interactive, and experimental media in a variety of collaborative, independent, and cross-disciplinary projects. Major coursework will help you to develop skills and experience in all facets of media making, including: directing, writing, producing, editing, sound design, visual design, animation, motion graphics, interaction design, and mobile media.
 

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Historical, Theoretical, and Analytical Understanding

Students develop fluency in media criticism, media history and media ethics in order to describe and analyze the major historical movements (events, artists, genres, developments, etc.) and their interrelationships. Students learn to understand media contextually, in relationship to social movements and technological developments so that they can describe and analyze relationships between aesthetics and content. Students apply ethical, social and political analysis in critique.

✔ MLO 2: Research and Development for Cinema

Students demonstrate fundamental concepts of storytelling through written analysis and by creating various forms using sound, image, and text. Students develop written and visual content through research and pre-production processes. Students evaluate projects through critical analysis.

✔ MLO 3: Media Practice and Innovation

Students develop intellectual approaches and craftsmanship in media production through experiences to include writing, directing, cinematography, editing, designing, and producing. Students demonstrate knowledge of new trends in form and content by creating meaningful, innovative, and contemporary projects.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in Child and Adolescent Development, you must complete the following courses for the bachelor’s degree in Human Development & Family Science. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AS-T-certified student in Business, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AS-T-certified student in Business, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Hospitality & Tourism Management at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

Business Administration prepares you for careers in business and social enterprise and government sector where management, ethics, technology, critical thinking, and communication skills are essential. Our graduates’ entrepreneurial and leadership traits, combined with their business skills and knowledge, have enabled them to launch their own businesses or move into high-potential jobs.

Our goal is for you to graduate with not just a solid foundation in business knowledge and skills, but also with the behavioral attributes that give you a competitive advantage in either your chosen career path or graduate school. We promote our students’ success in their chosen careers with business knowledge and skills developed through engaged teaching and learning. We provide integrated, hands-on education and responsible engagement with real-world challenges.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1

Understand the terminology, concepts, theories, tools and applications of responsible business management.

✔ MLO 2

Produce business writing that meets professional standards.

✔ MLO 3

Deliver professional presentations

✔ MLO 4

Produce a critical and integrative analysis of a business scenario.

✔ MLO 5

Analyze data using quantitative tools to support business analysis.

The Biology, BS + Credential combines the requirements for the Biology degree and credential courses within one integrated program that allows students to finish their baccalaureate degree and credential in less time. This Integrated Biology Teacher Education Program (Biology ITEP) is designed for students who desire to become middle and high school Science/Biology teachers.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1

All Biology graduates are able to develop research questions, test hypotheses, and display and analyze data to interpret and communicate biological patterns and processes in written and oral formats.

✔ MLO 2

All Biology graduates are able to work professionally and ethically to promote equity in diverse communities

✔ MLO 3

All Biology graduates can synthesize and connect knowledge, skills, and experiences across natural science disciplines, allowing them to address new and complex situations in the context of unity and diversity of life.

✔ MLO 4

All Biology graduates demonstrate biology content knowledge appropriate to careers and graduate school.

The Biology major offers scaffolded courses that provide students with essential knowledge and skills that prepare graduates for success in jobs, graduate school, or professional school in areas such as biotechnology, genomics, health-related fields, agriculture, field biology, ecology, and marine biology. The highly trained faculty are committed to student success, and provide opportunities for undergraduates to be involved in cutting-edge independent research, as well as service to the community. Many of the biology courses provide course-based research experiences that prepare graduates for admission to world-renowned graduate and professional schools.

The Biology major offers concentrations in:

✔ Molecular Biology

✔ Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1

All Biology graduates are able to develop research questions, test hypotheses, and display and analyze data to interpret and communicate biological patterns and processes in written and oral formats.

✔ MLO 2

All Biology graduates are able to work professionally and ethically to promote equity in diverse communities

✔ MLO 3

All Biology graduates can synthesize and connect knowledge, skills, and experiences across natural science disciplines, allowing them to address new and complex situations in the context of unity and diversity of life.

✔ MLO 4

All Biology graduates demonstrate biology content knowledge appropriate to careers and graduate school.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in Art History, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Visual and Public Art at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in Art History, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Visual and Public Art at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in Anthropology, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Anthropology at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to an advisor.