Community College students should meet with a counselor as soon as possible to determine the equivalent courses offered at that institution. Students should complete as many as possible of the lower division requirements listed below, prior to transfer.
Lower Division Course Requirements | Community College Course Equivalents | |||||||
Listed below are lower division course requirements necessary for: | ||||||||
BS - Advertising | ||||||||
Preparation for the Major and supporting courses: | ||||||||
| ENGL 001B Composition 2 A "C" or better is required in English 1B (a "C-" is not acceptable). | ENGL B1B Introduction to Types of Literature (*) | |||||||
| An Art elective (any transferable Community College art course: any articulated art course other than studio and activity courses). | ||||||||
| A Literature elective (any transferable literature course beyond English 1A, 1B, and 1C). | ||||||||
Requirements for the Major: | ||||||||
| ADV 091 Introduction to Advertising | No Current Equivalent | |||||||
| MCOM 072 Mass Communication and Society | No Current Equivalent | |||||||
| MCOM 070 Visual Communication for Modern Media | No Current Equivalent | |||||||
| MCOM 105, Lifestyles, Diversity and the Media or MCOM 106, Global Mass Communication, may be taken at SJSU as an upper division course should the transfer student be unable to select an equivalent for MCOM 070. | ||||||||
Management Track Students must also take: | ||||||||
| BUS 090 Business Statistics | No Current Equivalent | |||||||
| OR | ||||||||
| STAT 095 Elementary Statistics | MATH B22 Elementary Probability & Statistics (*) | |||||||
Creative Track Students must also take: | ||||||||
| ENGL 071 Creative Writing | ENGL B41A Introduction to Creative Writing OR ENGL B41B Introduction to Creative Writing | |||||||
CAN Qualified Courses (*) | ||||||||
| The following Bakersfield College courses are CAN qualified. | ||||||||
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| CAN System courses are acceptable "in lieu of" each other. | ||||||||
| CAN System courses are not necessarily "equivalent" or "identical" in content. | ||||||||
Lower Division General Education (39 semester or 58 quarter units) - some of the courses listed above may be approved for general education credit as well as major preparation at your institution. Please see your college counselor/advisor to review your general education in order to receive FULL OR PARTIAL CERTIFICATION PRIOR TO TRANSFER to San José State University. You may be required to take additional lower division general education courses if you do not provide SJSU WITH A FULL OR PARTIAL CERTIFICATION OF GENERAL EDUCATION upon transfer.
American Institutions Requirement (3-9 semester or 5-15 quarter units) - may be satisfied within the lower division general education requirements.
Physical Education Requirement (2 courses) - at least 2 different activities.
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