Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Nine Units Selected From
- CCS 400 - Mexican Images in Film
- LATAM 400 - Mexican Images in Film
- ECL 567 - Horrorifying Children's Literature
- EUROP 424 - European Cinema
- FRENC 424 - French Cinema and Theory
- HIST 537 - Star Trek, Culture, and History
- HUM 409 - The Future
- ITAL 426 - Italian American Culture
- PORT 307 - Brazilian Music and Culture
- LATAM 307 - Brazilian Music and Culture
- REL S 356 - Hip Hop and Religion (D)
- RWS 250 - Rhetoric in Everyday Life
- RWS 414 - Visual Rhetoric
- RUSSN 250 - Russian Culture in a Digital World
- RUSSN 310 - Russian and East European Cinema
- SOC 335 - Sociology of Popular Culture
- WMNST 355 - Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture
Required Courses
Three Units Selected From
- DANCE 281 - Dance, Popular Culture, and Identity
- JMS 210 - Digital Literacy
- JMS 408 - Principles of Media Studies
- LDT 515 - Games, Play, and Learning
- MUSIC 151 - Introduction to Music
- MUSIC 345 - Music Cultures of the World
- MUSIC 351 - Mus&Cult: Contemporary Pop & Identity
- P A 582 - War, the State, and Governance: U.S. Perspectives
- TFM 160 - Cinema as Art
- TFM 363 - International Cinema
- TFM 364A - History of Film Classics: Early Developments Through the 1950s
- TFM 364B - History of Film Classics: 1960s Through Today's Cinema
- TFM 430 - History of Television
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2025-26 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.