History B.A.

1. Complete University General Education requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree.

(51 units minimum)

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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 for the bachelor’s degree and is required for some of the graduate history programs here and in most other schools.

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, 1598-1799
• HIST 3230 - Nineteenth Century Europe
• HIST 3240 - Twentieth Century Europe
• HIST 4200 - The Fall of Rome and the Notion of “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 through World War II
• 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:

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

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 3400 - The Great Teachings
• HIST 4041 - Colonialism and the Modern State in Africa and Asia
• HIST 4360 - Managing the British Empire
• HIST 4510 - The United States and Latin America
• HIST 4720 - Modern Atlantic Slavery
• HIST 4730 - Disease and World Societies
• HIST 4740 - Capital Punishment and World Societies
• HIST 4750 - Comparative World Women: Perceptions of Gender
• HIST 4850 - China and the United States

5. Select one Topical Lens course from Group 8:

(3 units)

GROUP 8:  Topical Lenses

• HIST 3720 - United States Ethnic and Immigrant Past
• HIST 3730 - Afro American History
• HIST 4210 - European Intellectual History: Renaissance to the Present
• HIST 4221 - Warfare in Ancient Greece and the Near East
• HIST 4250 - In Search of Human Nature
• HIST 4300 - History of Western Christianity
• HIST 4310 - Judaism and Jewish History: A Survey
• HIST 4350 - Myth and the Making of Britain
• HIST 4440 - Western Science and Society Since Copernicus
• HIST 4580 - The Family in U.S. History
• HIST 4590 - U.S. Environmental History
• HIST 4600 - United States Diplomatic History
• HIST 4620 - Gender in United States History
• HIST 4630 - United States Legal History
• HIST 4650 - History of the American West
• HIST 4660 - United States Religious History
• HIST 4670 - California History
• HIST 4680 - Intellectual Life in the United States
• HIST 4690 - United States Sport Since the Civil War
• HIST 4710 - Mexican American History
• HIST 4760 - Environmental History of the Central Valley and Its Wetlands
• 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.