Requirements for Students AA-T Certified in English Cal State Monterey Bay

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If you transferred into CSUMB as an AA-T-certified student in English, 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. All English Subject Matter Preparation students should consult Dr. Jennifer Fletcher or the HCOM Advisor prior to registration.

Complete ALL of the following courses:

  • HCOM 300: Major ProSeminar (2-4 units)
  • HCOM 312: Deliberation and Advocacy (4 units)
  • HCOM 327: Survey American Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 475: Senior Capstone (4 units)

Complete ONE of the following Service Learning courses:

  • HCOM 317S: Advanced Composition, Composition Theories, Service Learning (6 units)
  • HCOM 339S: Creative Writing and Service Learning (6 units)

Concentrations

To complete the requirements of this degree, select one of the following three concentrations and complete the courses. Unless otherwise indicated, students must complete one approved research or theory intensive course, indicated as (RTI) in the course lists below.

Students may not double count an HCOM core course and a concentration course, nor may they double count a concentration course for a required area within the major core.

Complete ONE of the following Technology in the Humanities courses:

  • HCOM 315: Media for Social Change (4 units)
  • HCOM 316: Media Ethics (4 units)
  • HCOM 319: Global Communication and Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
  • HCOM 350: Oral History and Community Memory (4 units)
  • HCOM 356: Digital Multicultural U.S. Histories (4 units)
  • HCOM 370: Media and the Military (4 units)
  • HCOM 385: Reporting (4 units)
  • HCOM 387: Media Production Lab (4 units)
  • HCOM 390: Magazine Writing (4 units)

Complete the following course for the area of Literary Analysis:

  • HCOM 429: BritLit& Engl Lang Perspective (6 units)

Complete the following course for the area of Language, Linguistics, and Literacy:

  • HCOM 338: Multicultural Adolescent Lit (4 units)

Complete the following course for the area of Composition and Rhetoric:

  • HCOM 320: Grammar, Usage, and Power (4 units)

Complete the following course for the area of Speech, Media, and Creative Performance:

Complete ONE course from each of the following four areas:

Global Literary Studies

  • HCOM 323: American Drama (4 units)
  • HCOM 327: Survey American Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 426: Travel Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 427: Survey of British Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 436: Literature of Sexualities (4 units)
  • HCOM 437: Shakespeare (4 units)
  • HCOM 454: History of Victorian Britain (4 units)
  • GS 362: Global Literatures (4 units)
  • JAPN 309: Masterpieces in Japanese Literature (4 units)
  • JAPN 316: Japanese Myth and Folktales (4 units)
  • SPAN 425: La Literatura Mexicana (4 units)
  • SPAN 426: Narativa Hispanoamericana (4 units)
  • SPAN 427: Latin Amer Women Writers (4 units)
  • SPAN 428: La Literatura Afrolatina (4 units)

Multicultural Literary Studies

  • HCOM 322: Asian American Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 324: African American Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 325: 20th Cent Narr Amer Immgr (4 units)
  • HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units)
  • HCOM 335: Amer Ethnic Lit & Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 337: Women's Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 338: Multicultural Adolescent Lit (4 units)
  • HCOM 428: Contemporary Chicana Poetry (4 units)
  • HCOM 429: BritLit& Engl Lang Perspective (6 units)
  • SPAN 365: The Chicano Narrative (4 units)

Writing and Rhetoric

  • HCOM 306: Gender and Communication (4 units)
  • HCOM 309: Interracial Communication (4 units)
  • HCOM 320: Grammar, Usage, and Power (4 units) (RTI)
  • HCOM 321: Introduction to Rhetoric and Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
  • HCOM 334: Fiction/Creative NonFiction Writing (4 units)
  • HCOM 390: Magazine Writing (4 units)
  • HCOM 420: Advanced Studies in Rhetorical Theory (4 units)
  • HCOM 422: SelTop Multicultural Rhetorics (4 units)

Narrative Analysis and Film

  • HCOM 348: Race, Colonialism, and Film (4 units) (RTI)
  • HCOM 352: History According To Movies (4 units)
  • HCOM 406: Philosophy According to Movies (4 units)
  • HCOM 452: Literature According to the Movies (4 units)
  • JAPN 310: Japanese Cinema (4 units)

Complete the following course:

  • HCOM 330: Intro Creative Writing (4 units)

Complete THREE of the following Creative Content courses:

  • HCOM 332: Poetry Writing Workshop (4 units)
  • HCOM 333: Women's Writing Workshop (4 units)
  • HCOM 334: Fiction/Creative NonFiction Writing (4 units)
  • HCOM 339S: Creative Writing and Service Learning (6 units)
  • HCOM 432: Social Action Writing (4 units) (RTI)
  • HCOM 432S: Social Action Writing (6 units) (RTI)
  • HCOM 433: Life Histories & Creative Narrative (4 units)
  • HCOM 434: Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling (4 units)

NOTE: ONE of the three Creative Writing Content courses may be selected from the following list:

  • HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units)
  • HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
  • HCOM 350: Oral History and Community Memory (4 units)
  • HCOM 350S: Oral Hist/Comm Mem SL (6 units)
  • HCOM 390: Magazine Writing (4 units)
  • CART 330: Cinematic Storytelling (4 units)
  • CART 340: Screenwriting (4 units)

University and CSU Requirements

Students must also demonstrate second language proficiency through the 201 level. Learn more about CSUMB's Language Proficiency Requirement.

If you need to begin language study at the 101 level, consult your department chair to determine your 60 unit pathway.

The CSU requires each student receiving a baccalaureate degree to be knowledgeable about the Constitution of the United States, American history, and state and local government. Courses fulfilling this requirement are identified in the catalog, and will also meet an Area D2 GE requirement.