University Learning Requirements ULR's)
All CSUMB students must complete the University Learning Requirements (ULR's) - CSUMB's version of the California State General Education breadth requirements. Go to the CSUMB Advising website (http://advising.csumb.edu/ulr_courses.htm) for a description of classes that fulfill each ULR, or click on the ULR name below for a list of the classes.

The University Learning Requirements are:

Community Participation/Service Learning	Language (3 or 4 courses)
(1 or 2 courses)	Literature and Popular Culture
Creative and Artistic Expression	Mathematics Communication
Culture and Equity	Science (2 courses)
Democratic Participation	Technology and Information
English Communication (2 courses)	U.S. Histories
Ethics	Vibrancy (2 courses)

Four of those thirteen ULRs are CSUMB's 'Graduate Learning Outcomes,' which are unique to CSUMB and must be taken by ALL CSUMB students, even those who have completed their General Education elsewhere. The four graduate learning outcomes are:

Of these four, all but language can be completed in courses that are also required for the ESSP degree. Students who transfer into CSUMB with 56 or more transferable units are required to achieve third-semester proficiency in a foreign language; other students are required to achieve fourth-semester proficiency. For the Community Participation/Service Learning ULR, students who transfer into CSUMB with over 56 transferable credits must take an upper division ESSP service learning course. Other students must pass both Service Learning 200S and an upper-division ESSP service learning course in order to fulfill the ULR.

In addition, all students inthe SCU system must pass the Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement, or GWAR. This "GWAR" requirement is fulfilled in a required ESSP course. ESSP majors should NOT attempt to complete their ULR's before beginning courses in their major. Instead, ESSP majors should complete their ULR's in parallel with their ESSP courses. Two of the ULR's (Science and Math Communication) are met automatically by any student graduating with a major in ESSP.

ESSP Courses that also fulfill ULRs:

ESSP 286: Marine Fisheries and Agriculture (Ethics; English Communication part 1)

ESSP 300: Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing in ESSP (GWAR, partial)

ESSP 300L: Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing in ESSP Lab (Tech Info ULRl)

ESSP 309: Science and Policy of Global Change (Culture and Equity, MLO 10)

ESSP 349S: Interpreting Monterey Bay Natural History for the Community (Culture and Equity, Service Learning, MLO 10)

ESSP 369S: Community Based Watershed Restoration Service Learning (Culture
and Equity; Service Learning; MLO11)

ESSP 383: Environmental Ethics and Policy (Ethics; English Communication Part 2; MLO 4)

ESSP 384S: Environmental Justice and Policy  (Culture and Equity; English Communication Part 2; Service Learning; MLO 4, MLO 11)

ESSP 385: Social and Environmental History of California (Democratic Participation; US Histories; MLO 4)

ESSP 386: Science, the Environment, and the Political Process (Culture and Equity; Democratic Participation; MLO 4)

ESSP 387: Water Resources Assessment, Law & Policy (Democratic Participation, MLO 4 or 10)

ESSP 396S: Science After School Service Learning (Culture and Equity, Service Learning, and MLO 1)

* For more details concerning the ULR system refer to the CSUMB website: http://csumb.edu/academic/ulr/

or call Student Academic Advising: 831-582-3841.