Dec 06, 2025

2025-26 Academic Catalog

Baccalaureate Degree Requirements Advising Sheet

History B.A.*

View information for the Department of History , including Learning Objectives for the department and its programs.

View the degree program Roadmaps , which provides recommended advising maps to complete the degree program. Please consult your academic advisor as you develop your academic plan.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

Demonstrate skills in critical thinking and analysis;
Locate primary and secondary sources in all forms and properly cite;
Analyze and understand the main arguments of secondary sources;
Analyze and understand the importance of historical context for primary sources;
Communicate effectively in written format;
Perceive a given event from more than one historical perspective.

Requirements

1. Complete the Baccalaureate Degree Requirements

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

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)
Baccalaureate Degree Requirements (minimum grade point average of 2.0 (C) or better)
General Education Program (minimum of 43 units)
Upper Division Writing Proficiency (minimum of 3 units)
- Writing Proficiency (WP) Course (may double count in the major)
United States Constitution and California State and Local Government (minimum of 3 units)
Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement (minimum of 3 units) (may double count with General Education requirements or in the major)
Skills for Student Success (minimum of 1 unit) and Lifelong Learning (minimum of 1 unit)

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

2. Complete the following prerequisites to the major.

(11 units)

a. A two-course sequence in World Civilizations or World History

(6 units)

b. One course in lower-division U.S. History

(3 units)

c. Complete the following course:

(2 units)

HIST 2900 - Historical Research Methods 2 unit(s)

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.

The Major

(30 units minimum)

Note:

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

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

(3 units)

GROUP 1: Europe

HIST 3120 - Ancient Mediterranean World 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3140 - Medieval Europe 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3211 - Renaissance Europe 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3220 - Absolutism and Revolution 3 unit(s) *
HIST 4370 - Tudor-Stuart England 3 unit(s) *

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

(3 units)

GROUP 2: United States

HIST 3610 - Colonial North America 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3620 - Early National United States 3 unit(s)
HIST 3630 - U.S. Reconstruction WWII 3 unit(s)
HIST 3640 - Contemporary United States 3 unit(s)

C. Select two courses in two different regions of 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)

Group 3: Latin America

HIST 3510 - Colonial Latin America 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3520 - Modern Latin America 3 unit(s)
HIST 4500 - History of Mexico 3 unit(s)

Group 4: Asia

HIST 3800 - East Asia in Traditional Times 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3810 - East Asia in the Modern World 3 unit(s)
HIST 4800 - Modern China 3 unit(s)
HIST 4820 - Imperial China 3 unit(s) *
HIST 4840 - Modern Japan 3 unit(s)

Group 5: Africa

no courses currently offered in this section

Group 6: Middle East

HIST 3900 - Arab-Islamic World: 600 to 1800 3 unit(s) *
HIST 3920 - The History of the Modern Middle East 3 unit(s)
HIST 4970 - Modern Assyrian History 3 unit(s)

Note:

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

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

(3 units)

GROUP 7: Comparative and Global Perspectives

HIST 4510 - United States and Latin America 3 unit(s)
HIST 4530 - A History of Mexican and Central American Migration 3 unit(s)
HIST 4585 - Climate History and Climate Change 3 unit(s)
HIST 4595 - World Environmental History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4850 - China and the United States 3 unit(s)
HIST 4920 - History of Genocide 3 unit(s)
HIST 4930 - Migrants and Refugees in the Middle East 3 unit(s)

E. Select two Topical Lens courses from Group 8:

(6 units)

GROUP 8: Topical Lenses

HIST 3215 - Reformation 3 unit(s) *
HIST 4700 - U.S. Immigration History 3 unit(s)
HIST 3730 - African American History to 1865 3 unit(s)
HIST 3731 - African American History Since 1865 3 unit(s)
HIST 4005 - Introduction to Public History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4006 - Oral History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4010 - Local History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4230 - The Crusades 3 unit(s) *
HIST 4300 - History of Western Christianity 3 unit(s)
HIST 4321 - Historical Archaeology 3 unit(s)
HIST 4540 - The Spanish-Aztec War 3 unit(s) *
HIST 4590 - The Role of Nature in U.S. History 4 unit(s)
HIST 4600 - U.S. Diplomatic History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4620 - Gender in U.S. History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4650 - History of the American West 3 unit(s)
HIST 4660 - U.S. Religious History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4670 - California History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4710 - Mexican American History 3 unit(s)
HIST 4721 - Slavery in the United States 3 unit(s)
HIST 4760 - Environmental History of the Central Valley 3 unit(s)
HIST/CJ 4830 - The Holocaust: A Crime Against Humanity 3 unit(s)
HIST 4891 - From Confucianism to Communism 3 unit(s)

F. Complete the following Writing Proficiency course:

(4 units)

HIST 4960 - Senior Seminar (WP) 4 unit(s)

History B.A.*

Program Learning Outcomes

Requirements

1. Complete the Baccalaureate Degree Requirements

2. Complete the following prerequisites to the major.

a. A two-course sequence in World Civilizations or World History

b. One course in lower-division U.S. History

c. Complete the following course:

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

Note:

The Major

Note:

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

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

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

Group 3: Latin America

Group 4: Asia

Group 5: Africa

no courses currently offered in this section

Group 6: Middle East

Note:

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

E. Select two Topical Lens courses from Group 8:

F. Complete the following Writing Proficiency course:

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