Total semester credits: 120
Semester credits in the major: 31-43
You officially begin the major by co-enrolling in SBS 300: Major/ProSem:Theo/Meth/SBS and SBS 300L: Professional Skills Soc Sci. In SBS 300L: Professional Skills Soc Sci, you will create an Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) tailored to your personal academic and career goals. Then you will complete a curriculum designed to meet four Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs). This curriculum includes a set of broad courses that integrate all the social sciences, and a set of focused courses for a concentration consisting of 20 units in a specific social science discipline (or an Associated Minor listed on the SBS Major Overview page, consisting of 12-16 units plus 8 more units of SBS courses). SBS majors may complete their upper-division service learning requirement by taking any 300 or 400-level SBS course with an "S" designation. In two seminars ( SBS 400: Senior Capstone Seminar I and either SBS 402: Senior Capstone Seminar II or SBS 404S: Service Learning Capstone) you will design your own capstone project and conduct original research under close advisement from the SBS faculty. Your final course in the major will be SBS 405: Assessment Lab/Grad/Srs, which will prepare you to present your capstone publicly to demonstrate your cumulative learning in the Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs) described below [Learn more at CSUMB.EDU/capstone].
Major Requirements and Learning Outcomes are identified below. In order to graduate, students must also meet all general education and university requirements.
Core Courses
- Lower-division requirements
- STAT 100: Introduction to Statistics (4 units)