Accounting Freshman Pathway

Pathway View

These pathways serve as tools, not prescribed programs of study. Before enrolling, you can use them to get a feel for what you can do in this program. After enrolling, you and your advisors can use them as a starting point for building your personalized outcomes-based ILP.

This pathway, intended as a reference, shows a productive route to graduation in four years.  Your actual pathway may not look exactly like the model due to several factors:

  • Any required remedial courses, such as MATH 098 and WRT 095
  • Actual availability of courses during a given semester
  • Personal choices you make in your Individual Learning Plan, in consultation with your advisors
  • Business students are expected to enter the university ready for level 2 language
  • Business students are only required to finish the third level of language, rather than fourth level that is required of most other majors

Courses by Requirement

Degree requirements are considered a guideline for graduation, and cannot replace the feedback of an academic advisor. Learn more about degree requirements at CSUMB.

Course units may only be counted once, when a course meets multiple requirements, the letter 'C' means that the completed course units were counted elsewhere.

First Year Seminar

RequirementCourseUnits
First Year Seminar FYS 100: First Year Seminar3
Total:3

University Learning Requirements

RequirementCourseUnits
Community ParticipationAny approved course4
Creative/Artistic ExpressionIn order to graduate efficiently, make sure that the class you choose for this requirement meets BOTH of these General Education graduation requirements in just one class.4
Democratic ParticipationIn order to graduate efficiently, make sure that the class you choose for this requirement meets BOTH of these General Education graduation requirements in just one class.4
Engcom A BUS 211: Reading, Writing & CT/Bus I4
Engcom B BUS 212: Business Communication4
Ethics BUS 212: Business Communication4
Literature and Popular CultureIn order to graduate efficiently, make sure that the class you choose for this requirement meets BOTH of these General Education graduation requirements in just one class.4
Mathcom MATH 115 or MATH 1304
Science Content BIO 204: Introduction to Life Sciences4
Science Methods Lab ENVS 201: Intro to Environmental Science4
Science Methods Lecture ENVS 201: Intro to Environmental Science4
U.S. HistoriesIn order to graduate efficiently, make sure that the class you choose for this requirement meets BOTH of these General Education graduation requirements in just one class.4
Vibrancy ActivityAny approved course1
Vibrancy TheoryAny approved course3
Total:52

Upper-division General Education

RequirementCourseUnits
GWAR BUS 304: Reading, Writing & CT/Bus II4
Total:4

Graduation Learning Outcomes

RequirementCourseUnits
Culture & Equity BUS 303S: Partic in Comm Econ Devel6
GWAR BUS 304: Reading, Writing & CT/Bus II4
Language 2Any approved course4
Language 3Any approved course4
Tech/Info BUS 200: Intro to Business Computing 4
Upper Division Service Learning BUS 303S: Partic in Comm Econ Devel6
Total:28

Major Learning Requirements

Click on each MLO to see which courses fulfill that requirement.

RequirementUnits
MLO 1 Leadership and Management4
MLO 2 Marketing skills4
MLO 3 Finance skills 4
MLO 4 Information technology skills4
MLO 5 Operations management skills4
MLO 6 Entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship skills and attitudes4
Total:24

Major Core Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Major Core Course BUS 202: Micro Economics3
Major Core Course BUS 203: Financial Accounting3
Major Core Course BUS 205: Managerial Accounting3
Major Core Course BUS 206: Business Law3
Major Core Course BUS 304: Reading, Writing & CT/Bus II4
Major Core Course BUS 300: Major ProSeminar2
Major Core Course BUS 201: Macro Economics3
Major Core Course MATH 116 or STAT 1004
Major Core Course
Major Core Course BUS 499: Senior Capstone4
Total:29

Major Concentration Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Concentration course BUS 384: Intermediate Accounting II4
Concentration course BUS 383: Intermediate Accounting I4
Concentration course BUS 385: Income Tax I4
Concentration course BUS 484: Advanced Accounting I4
Concentration course BUS 482: Audit I (Financial Auditing)4
Total:20

Additional Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Total:0