Freshman Music Recording Technology 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
  • Students who have not taken the prerequisite coursework in all Musicianship and Theory courses can take an assessment test to measure their musical skills, and, with a satisfactory grade on that test, have the requirement waived. 
  • Actual availability of courses during a given semester
  • Personal choices you make in your Individual Learning Plan-in consultation with your First Year Seminar professor, and lower-division and major advisors-including the decision to pursue more than the minimal learning requirements

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 Participation HCOM 211S: Reading Writing Crit Thkg SL6
Creative/Artistic Expression MPA 306: Music & Computers6
Democratic Participation GS 200 or SBS 212 or CST 2734
Engcom A HCOM 211S: Reading Writing Crit Thkg SL6
Engcom B HCOM 213 or BUS 2124
Ethics HCOM 213 or BUS 2124
Literature and Popular Culture MPA 335: Reflections on America4
MathcomAny approved course4
Science ContentAny approved course4
Science Methods LabAny approved course1
Science Methods LectureAny approved course3
U.S. Histories GS 200 or SBS 212 or CST 2734
Vibrancy ActivityAny approved course1
Vibrancy TheoryAny approved course3
Total:54

Upper-division General Education

RequirementCourseUnits
MathcomAny approved course4
Total:4

Graduation Learning Outcomes

RequirementCourseUnits
Culture & Equity MPA 335: Reflections on America4
GWARAny approved course4
Language 2Any 102 Level Language4
Language 3Any 201 Level Language4
Language 4Any 202 Level Language4
Tech/Info CST 101: Technology Tools4
Upper Division Service Learning MPA 317S: Community Involvement SL4
Total:28

Major Learning Requirements

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

RequirementUnits
MLO 1 Historical and Theoretical Analysis 12
MLO 2 Community Issues Analysis4
MLO 3 Comparative Analysis4
MLO 4 Moral and Ethical Analysis4
MLO 5 Performance Skills7
MLO 6 Technological Skills4
Total:35

Additional Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Any MPA Ensemble1
MPA 101: Musicianship & Theory I4
MPA 102: Musicianship & Theory 24
MPA 103: Musicianship & Theory III4
MPA 110: Keyboard I1
MPA 210: Keyboard II1
MPA 300: Major ProSeminar2
MPA 307: Audio Production4
MPA 308: Mixing & Editing4
MPA 408: Advanced Audio Production4
MPA 440: Master Classes/Lecture Demos1
MPA 475: Senior Capstone2
Total:32