If you transferred into CSUMB from a California community college as an AS-T-certified student in Mathematics, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please contact a mathematics faculty advisor as soon as possible.

Students in the Marine Science major apply a wide range of technologies to studying marine ecosystems. Through applied learning and research, you will gain the skills necessary to develop a sustainable balance between the unique environmental, recreational, cultural and economic opportunities in the Monterey Bay region.

Through lab and field experience, you will apply techniques of experimental design, data acquisition, analysis and presentation that provide you with the skills needed to monitor and analyze marine science problems. You are encouraged to interact with other Monterey Bay institutions, such as the Moss Landing Marine Labs, to take advantage of additional local expertise in marine and coastal ecology.

Graduates of the Marine Science major are prepared for a variety of career pathways in the public and private sector. Graduates are also poised to continue their education via graduate studies and research in ecology, environmental science and related fields.
 

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Quantitative, Research, and Communication Skills

All marine science graduates use quantitative evidence to evaluate hypotheses. They display and analyze data to interpret and communicate marine patterns and processes in written and oral formats.

✔ MLO 2: Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility

Marine science graduates work professionally and ethically to promote inclusive environmental decision-making based on diverse stakeholder perspectives.

✔ MLO 3: Marine Science Depth of Knowledge

Marine science graduates demonstrate marine science content knowledge appropriate for marine science careers or graduate school.

✔ MLO 4: Marine Science Integration and Synthesis

Marine science graduates synthesize, connect, and apply knowledge, skills, and experiences across the interdisciplinary field of marine science (e.g., biology, oceanography, spatial statistics, etc.) allowing them to address new and complex challenges facing the oceans.

The Liberal Studies (LS) B.A. program is designed for students who desire to become elementary or special education teachers. There are different pathways to choose from, depending on your interests:

LS BA + Credential Integrated Pathway - This pathway combines the requirements for the Liberal Studies degree and credential courses within one cohesive program that allows students to finish their BA and credential in less time. As such, please know that this option requires more units per semester, and requires students to commit to a prescribed course sequence with additional requirements. Students should consult their advisor for details.

🗸 Integrated Bilingual Elementary Education Concentration - LS BA + Elementary Education Credential with Bilingual Authorization

🗸 Integrated Special Education Concentration - LS BA + Special Education Credential

🗸 Integrated Elementary Education Concentration - LS BA + Elementary Education Credential
 

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Developing Educator

Students think, write, and speak critically about the general knowledge, skills, dispositions, and responsibilities of a California public educator in classroom, school, community, State, and National contexts. Students acquire introductory pedagogical skills and apply perspectives of the Educational Foundations to their developing professional practices.

✔ MLO 2: Diversity and Multicultural Scholar

Students evaluate their own and others’ experiences as influenced by social identities, socialization practices, and societal institutions from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Students critically examine the value of diversity and multiculturalism. Students inform their educational practices and perspectives by applying concepts and theories of diversity and multiculturalism.

✔ MLO 3: Innovative Technology Practitioner

Students use technologies effectively for investigation, expression, design, and collaboration. Students reflect on the role of technologies for innovative teaching and learning, and effective instruction.

✔ MLO 4: Social Justice Collaborator

Students combine disciplinary knowledge, community experience, and reflective practice to become ethically and socially responsible educators working toward a just and sustainable world. Students identify and pursue paths for social change. Students collaborate with stakeholders to advocate for access, equity, and justice in public education and other societal institutions.

✔ MLO 5: Subject Matter Generalist

Students demonstrate competency in subject area content and complete a coherent depth of study for successful practice in California public education.

The Liberal Studies (LS) B.A. program is designed for students who desire to become elementary or special education teachers. There are different pathways to choose from, depending on your interests:

LS BA Traditional Pathway - This pathway is for the Liberal Studies BA degree only. Upon graduation, students on this pathway may pursue a credential at CSUMB or another institution.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Developing Educator

Students think, write, and speak critically about the general knowledge, skills, dispositions, and responsibilities of a California public educator in classroom, school, community, State, and National contexts. Students acquire introductory pedagogical skills and apply perspectives of the Educational Foundations to their developing professional practices.

✔ MLO 2: Diversity and Multicultural Scholar

Students evaluate their own and others’ experiences as influenced by social identities, socialization practices, and societal institutions from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Students critically examine the value of diversity and multiculturalism. Students inform their educational practices and perspectives by applying concepts and theories of diversity and multiculturalism.

✔ MLO 3: Innovative Technology Practitioner

Students use technologies effectively for investigation, expression, design, and collaboration. Students reflect on the role of technologies for innovative teaching and learning, and effective instruction.

✔ MLO 4: Social Justice Collaborator

Students combine disciplinary knowledge, community experience, and reflective practice to become ethically and socially responsible educators working toward a just and sustainable world. Students identify and pursue paths for social change. Students collaborate with stakeholders to advocate for access, equity, and justice in public education and other societal institutions.

✔ MLO 5: Subject Matter Generalist

Students demonstrate competency in subject area content and complete a coherent depth of study for successful practice in California public education.

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

Unless otherwise indicated, students must complete one research or theory intensive course, indicated as (RTI).

Professions in Kinesiology are among the fastest growing in the world. Individuals, corporations, and government entities have come to recognize that the fitness, health, and well-being of individuals creates the foundation for the success of our society and economy. By providing you with knowledge, skills and abilities, our Kinesiology faculty and staff will help prepare you to pursue a number of enjoyable professions, and post-graduate opportunities.

The Kinesiology major develops comprehensive expertise in the human body’s development and functions, the roles of physical movement in growth and learning, and the methods for improving and maintaining a high quality of life and personal wellness at every age.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Knowledge of Kinesiology

Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental content, principles, and issues common in the field of kinesiology, including exercise science and wellness. Demonstrate the ability to use diverse methods of inquiry to analyze kinesiology related issues.

✔ MLO 2 Multi-cultural Competency & Civic Engagement

Demonstrate the ability to deliver kinesiology content by communicating effectively across culturally diverse populations within the context of issues related to social responsibility, justice, diversity, pluralism, and compassion.

✔ MLO 3 Professional Responsibility & Application

Demonstrate the ability to articulate, collaborate, and motivate others in diverse settings and communities utilizing concepts from kinesiology and related fields.

✔ MLO 4 Subject Matter Competency in Kinesiology

Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and disseminate advanced topics in either the field of Exercise Science or Wellness by completing up to 30 credits within one of the two KIN concentrations (Exercise Science and Wellness).

If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in Kinesiology, you must complete the following courses for your bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology at CSUMB. If you are unsure about your transfer status, please talk to a Kinesiology faculty advisor as soon as possible.

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

Unless otherwise indicated, students must complete one approved research or theory intenstive course, indicated as (RTI). 

The ability to communicate with Japanese speakers and appreciate Japanese culture gives you an advantage in a wide range of careers. Whether on the job or in your community, your Japanese language competency and cultural understanding can help you establish valuable connections in the global community.

The B.A. in Japanese Language and Culture prepares you to be an active participant in an ever-shrinking and increasingly interdependent world society by developing your literacy in global matters, multiculturalism and cultural diversity, as well as guiding you to achieve a higher level of language proficiency (Intermediate-High level according to the ACTFL guidelines). You will be able to communicate effectively in Japanese with well-rounded Japanese cultural knowledge in such areas as arts, history, humanities, literature, and social sciences.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Japanese Language and Communication

1.1 Students are able to communicate effectively in Japanese in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational; and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Intermediate-High level of language proficiency, according to the ACTFL Guidelines.

1.2 Students gain competency in the Japanese language and linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Students compare, contrast, and analyze the structural differences between Japanese and English.

✔ MLO 2: Japanese Culture

2.1 Students develop a comprehensive understanding, appreciation, and knowledge of Japanese culture: perspectives (ideas, beliefs, attitudes, values, philosophies), practices (patterns of social interactions) and products (both tangible and intangible, for example, art, history, literature, music).

2.2 Students develop analytical and critical thinking in areas such as how Japan’s cultural background influences modern Japanese life, how to compare their own culture with the Japanese culture, or how Japanese culture relates to other world cultures in an age of global inter-relatedness.

✔ MLO 3: Secondary Culture Other Than Japanese

3.1 Students describe concepts of culture and use that understanding in their comparison of the Japanese culture with a second culture other than Japan.

3.2 Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture other than Japanese.

✔ MLO 4: Research & Technology

4.1 Students gain knowledge of appropriate research methodologies and are able to apply them in their studies.

4.2 Students use appropriate technologies in research and studies relative to Japanese language and culture.

4.3 Students collect, manage, and analyze current and emerging technology-based resources to develop and produce their scholarly work.

✔ MLO 5: Cultural Internalization and Language Immersion

5.1 Students demonstrate that they have actively immersed themselves in authentic Japanese cultural and linguistic environments and have internalized the language and cultural experience, from which they have developed a personal understanding and new perspectives of the community.

NOTE: Students develop intercultural communication skills and strategies, and learn to adapt and respond in effective ways. This MLO may be fulfilled by a study abroad or equivalent experience.

WLC’s Japanese program has exchange agreements with:

• Chuo University, Tokyo
• Dokkyo University, Saitama
• Hirosaki University, Aomori
• J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo
• Nagasaki University, Nagasaki
• Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Aichi
• Nanzan University, Aichi
• Okayama University, Okayama
• Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
• Toyo University, Tokyo
• The University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu
• Tsukuba University*, Ibaraki
• Waseda University*, Tokyo

* Study abroad at these Universities is conducted through CSU International Programs.

Want to establish broad knowledge, communication skills, creative talents, critical thinking abilities and multicultural awareness that will make you widely employable? Looking for an incredibly interdisciplinary and adaptable major that combines dozens of traditional fields of study?

Humanities & Communication majors gain broad knowledge, multicultural communication skills, creative talents, and outstanding writing and critical thinking abilities for the 21st-century workplace. Our major integrates traditional disciplines within humanities and communication with contemporary fields and explores how these fields interrelate.

You will study across the various disciplines in order to gain an integrated understanding of world issues and problems, and you will apply your knowledge ethically, critically, and creatively toward the fulfillment of concrete personal and social goals and needs.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ MLO 1: Ethical and Effective Communication

Understand communication theories and apply them to create and interpret messages–and evaluate their ethics and effectiveness–in diverse contexts.

✔ MLO 2: Social and Cultural Analysis

Understand and evaluate how social identities including ethnicity, race, class, religion, gender, sexuality, and/or ability might influence [relate to] people’s lived experiences, their cultural production and practices, and the social problems that shape their contexts.

✔ MLO 3: Engaged Creative Practice

Develop competency in creative practice, such as creative writing, journalism, and/or media projects and community storytelling, that responds to a social issue and engages the public.

✔ MLO 4: Humanistic Inquiry

Apply inquiry-based methods informed by humanistic traditions to investigate, interpret, and critique diverse ideas and texts.