History B.A.*

1. Complete the Baccalaureate Degree Requirements.

A student must comply with all University regulations and satisfy the following requirements:

1. Units and Residency  (minimum of 120 units: 40 units of upper division coursework and 30 semester units at Stanislaus State. At least 24 of these 30 units must be earned in upper-division courses, at least 12 must be in the major, and at least 9 must be applicable to General Education-Breadth requirements)
2. Grade Point Average  (minimum grade point average of 2.0 (C) or better)
3. General Education  (minimum of 49 units)
4. Upper Division Writing Proficiency  (minimum of 3 units)
   - Pass the Writing Proficiency Screening Test (WPST)
   - Writing Proficiency (WP) Course (may double count in the major)
5. United States Constitution and California State and Local Government  (minimum of 3 units)
6. Multicultural Requirement  (minimum of 3 units) (may double count with General Education requirements or in the major)

Subsequently all students must submit an application for graduation and receive approval from the major advisor, department chair, and Director of Academic Advising. For more information see the Baccalaureate Degree Requirements .

2. Complete the following prerequisites to the major.

(11 units)

3. Complete the major of 30 upper-division units.

No courses graded CR may be counted towards the major, except eight units taken in courses graded exclusively CR/NC.

Note:

Reading knowledge of a foreign language is desirable but not required for the bachelor’s degree and the history graduate program.

Note:

At least two courses from groups 1 through 6 below must be in a premodern era.  Courses fulfilling this requirement bear asterisks (*).

1. Select one course in upper-division European history from Group 1:

(3 units)

GROUP 1:  Europe

• HIST 3120 - Ancient Mediterranean World *
• HIST 3140 - Medieval Europe *
• HIST 3210 - Renaissance and Reformation *
• HIST 3220 - Absolutism and Revolution *
• HIST 3230 - Nineteenth Century Europe
• HIST 3240 - Twentieth Century Europe
• HIST 4200 - Fall of Rome-Late Antiquity
• HIST 4340 - Modern Germany
• HIST 4341 - Hitler and the Nazi Era
• HIST 4420 - Russia to 1917
• HIST 4430 - Twentieth-Century Russia

2. Select one course in upper-division United States history from Group 2:

(3 units)

GROUP 2:  United States

• HIST 3610 - Colonial North America *
• HIST 3620 - Early National United States
• HIST 3630 - U.S. Reconstruction WWII
• HIST 3640 - Contemporary United States

3. Select two courses in upper-division Latin American, Asian, African, and/or Middle Eastern History from Groups 3 through 6:

The two courses may not come from the same group.  (6 units)

Note:

Special Topics courses (HIST 4950) may be used to satisfy the above requirements at the discretion of the History Department.

4. Select one course in Comparative and Global Perspectives from Group 7:

(3 units)

GROUP 7:  Comparative and Global Perspectives

• HIST 3090 - Contemporary World History
• HIST 4510 - United States and Latin America
• HIST 4595 - World Environmental History
• HIST 4720 - Modern Atlantic Slavery
• HIST 4730 - Disease and World Societies
• HIST 4750 - Comparative World Women
• HIST 4850 - China and the United States
• HIST 4930 - Migrants and Refugees in the Middle East

5. Select one Topical Lens course from Group 8:

(3 units)

GROUP 8:  Topical Lenses

• HIST 3720 - U.S. Ethnic and Immigrant Past
• HIST 3730 - Afro American History
• HIST 3891 - The Oriental Mind
• HIST 4010 - Practicing Local History
• HIST 4210 - European Intellectual History
• HIST 4221 - Warfare in Ancient Greece
• HIST 4250 - In Search of Human Nature
• HIST 4300 - History of Western Christianity
• HIST 4310 - Judaism and Jewish History
• HIST 4350 - Myth and the Making of Britain
• HIST 4440 - Western Science and Society Since Copernicus
• HIST 4450 - Holocaust
• HIST 4520 - Guerrilla Revolutions of the 20th Century
• HIST 4580 - The Family in U.S. History
• HIST 4590 - The Role of Nature in U.S. History
• HIST 4600 - U.S. Diplomatic History
• HIST 4620 - Gender in U.S. History
• HIST 4650 - History of the American West
• HIST 4660 - U.S. Religious History
• HIST 4670 - California History
• HIST 4680 - Intellectual Life in the U.S.
• HIST 4690 - United States Sport
• HIST 4710 - Mexican American History
• HIST 4760 - Environmental History of the Central Valley
• HIST 4860 - Novels on African Societies
• HIST 4891 - From Confucianism to Communism

6. Complete the following Writing Proficiency course:

(4 units)

• HIST 4960 - Senior Seminar (WP)

7. Complete sufficient electives to equal at least 30 upper-division units in history.