Requirements

Major

The History major consists of a minimum of forty units, or ten four-unit courses. Of the ten required courses, at least eight must be taken in the History department, and no more than two will be accepted from other departments or institutions.

Required Courses

HIST 300	History Colloquium	4 units
HIST 490	Senior Seminar	4 units

Survey Courses

Choose three courses from different geographic areas (Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, and United States) or two from geographic areas and one from the 190 global themes series. Survey courses (the 100 series and some of the 200 series) cover a broad chronological time frame. Courses satisfying a survey requirement are labeled in the course description.

Additional Electives

Students must complete five additional electives. Three of the remaining five electives must be upper division seminars (in the 300 series excluding HIST 300). By the end of junior year students should have taken at least one 300-level elective and the HIST 300 colloquium.

Pre-modern Requirement

At least course for the major must deal with the premodern period. Courses satisfying the premodern requirement are listed below:

 

HIST 101	United States Culture and Society I	4 units
HIST 121	Antiquity to 1700: Europe and the Middle East	4 units
HIST 141	East Asian Survey	4 units
HIST 150/LLAS 150	Colonial Latin America	4 units
HIST 220	Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence	4 units
HIST 226	Renaissance to Revolution!	4 units
HIST 242	Imperial China	4 units
HIST 245/DWA 245	China and the World	4 units
HIST 251/CSLC 251	Nahuatl Language, Writing, and Culture	4 units
HIST 252/LLAS 252	Religion in Mexico, Pre-Columbian Times to Present	4 units
HIST 274	Medicine and Disease in Western Society	4 units
HIST 355/LLAS 355	Indians of Mexico	4 units
HIST 311	American Frontiers: From Contact to Empire	4 units
HIST 312/BLST 312	Race, Rights, and Revolution in the Atlantic World	4 units

Acceptable Courses from Other Departments

Courses that may be counted toward the major without petition are:

AMST 202/LLAS 202	Latina/o Cultural and Intellectual History	4 units
AMST 272/ASN 272	Asian Immigrants in American Society	4 units
AMST 280/DWA 246	The United States and East Asia	4 units
AMST 376/BLST 376	Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory	4 units
ENGL 341	Race, Law, and Literature	4 units

No more than two courses from other departments or transfer courses from other institutions (including study abroad courses) will be counted towards the History major.

Honors in the Major

Students who meet all three of the following requirements may be invited to expand their senior comprehensive requirement project for College Honors:

1. Earn an A or A- on their fall semester thesis.

2. Have demonstrated excellence in their departmental courses.

3. Meet the GPA requirements of at least 3.25 overall and at least 3.65 in the major.

Students working towards College Honors will continue in spring semester to work independently with their Comps advisor, enrolling in a required 2-unit Independent Study, to complete their Honors thesis in advance of the Registrar’s spring deadline for the submission of senior comps marks. The Honors Thesis will be evaluated by the  advisor and a second History faculty reader. For further information, contact the department chair.

Minor

Five courses (20 units) in History from at least two geographic areas, including HIST 300.