Bachelor of Arts in Public History
The BA in Public History offers undergraduate students an in depth introduction to various fields of public and oral history, including museum management, archival practices, historical archaeology, and oral history. The degree is intended to introduce students to the study and practice of history as presented and made useful to the public in a variety of venues and professional settings, and to prepare students for further professional and academic training and success. As history majors, students receive broad training in the academic discipline of history, and broad content knowledge by surveying courses from around the globe.
Students majoring in the Bachelor of Arts in Public History are also eligible to receive honors in history at graduation if the following conditions are met:
- At least one-half of the course work required in the major is completed at this university;
- Earned a grade point average of at least 3.5 in the major, including courses for the major taken elsewhere;
- Earned an overall undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 ("B") or better;
- Successful completion of HIST 5970, resulting in a thesis paper.
Applications for honors candidacy must be made by the beginning of the senior year. Approval of candidacy and of the honors project and project advisor rests with the department. The project advisor and one other faculty reader from the department will have the responsibility for evaluation of the completed thesis paper.
Individual courses that must be approved by and scheduled separately, such as independent studies (Hist 5951 Hist 5953), internships (Hist 5750), and community based projects (Hist 3990), can only be repeated for a total of six units each. A one unit course can be repeated up to six times, a three unit course can be repeated twice.
Requirements (51 units)
Total units required for graduation: 120
Requirements for the B.A. in Public History
(Program Code: PHST)
| Core courses: (21) | ||
| HIST 1400 | World History to c. 1500 | 3 |
| or ANTH 1400 | World History to c. 1500 | |
| HIST 1440 | World History from c.1500 | 3 |
| HIST 2000 | United States History to 1877 | 3 |
| HIST 2010 | United States History, 1877 to the Present | 3 |
| SSCI 3060 | Expository Writing for the Social Sciences | 3 |
| HIST 5840 | Proseminar in History | 3 |
| HIST 5850 | Research Seminar in History | 3 |
| Professional Preparation Course (3) | ||
| HIST 3230 | Introduction to Public History | 3 |
| Professional Preparation Electives (9) | ||
| A minimum of nine units of professional preparation electives from the following | 9 | |
| Introduction to Cultural Resource Management | ||
| Historical Archaeology | ||
| Archival Practices | ||
| Introduction to Cultural Resource Management | ||
| Decolonizing Museums | ||
| Historic Preservation | ||
| Topics in Public History | ||
| Topics in Oral History | ||
| Collections Management | ||
| Museum Management | ||
| Exhibition Development and Design | ||
| Historical Documentaries | ||
| Museum Curation | ||
| Internship Requirement (3) | ||
| HIST 5750 | Internship in History | 3 |
(or) One three-unit upper-division HIST course with advisory approval | ||
| Specializations (15) | ||
| A minimum of three units chosen from five of the following six areas | 15 | |
| Ancient History | ||
| History of Ancient Greece | ||
| History of Rome | ||
| Ancient Egyptian Archaeology | ||
| Ancient Egyptian Art | ||
| Culture and Society in Ancient Egypt | ||
| Ancient and Early Imperial China | ||
| Archaic Greece | ||
| Roman Republic | ||
| Age of Augustus | ||
| Impact of Warfare in Antiquity | ||
| Trade, Travel, and Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean World | ||
| Ancient Egyptian History, Origins to c. 1700 B.C.E. | ||
| Ancient Egyptian History, c. 1700 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E | ||
| Ancient Egypt, c. 1000 B.C.E. to 495 C.E. | ||
| Ancient Egypt, c. 1000 B.C.E. to 495 C.E. | ||
| Egyptian Mining Expeditions, Their Buildings, and Their Slaves | ||
| History of Christianity I | ||
| African History | ||
| Africa to 1870 | ||
| Africa 1870 to Present | ||
| The Rise, Decline and Legacy of Apartheid South Africa | ||
| Images of Africa | ||
| Gender and Development in Africa | ||
| History of Southern Africa | ||
| The History of Health and Medicine in Africa | ||
| Asian/Middle Eastern History | ||
| Classical Islamic Civilization | ||
| Modern Middle East | ||
| Ancient and Early Imperial China | ||
| Medieval China | ||
| Modern China I, 1644-1911 | ||
| Modern China II, 1911-Present | ||
| Modern Chinese History in Fiction and Film | ||
| World War II in the Pacific | ||
| History of Modern East Asia | ||
| Mughal India and the Early Modern World | ||
| Modern India at the Crossroads of Empire | ||
| Arab-Israeli Conflict | ||
| Topics in Modern Middle Eastern History | ||
| Politics of Oil | ||
| European History | ||
| Ancient and Medieval Europe to the Renaissance | ||
| European History from the Renaissance to the Present | ||
| History of Ancient Greece | ||
| History of Rome | ||
| Modern Ireland | ||
| Early Medieval Europe | ||
| High Medieval Europe | ||
| Renaissance and Reformation | ||
| The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment | ||
| Nazi Germany and the Holocaust | ||
| European Intellectual History | ||
| Twentieth Century Europe | ||
| Hitler's Europe | ||
| History of Christianity II | ||
| Tudor and Stuart England | ||
| Britain, 1688-1901 | ||
| Europe Since 1945 | ||
| Studies in European National History | ||
| Latin American History | ||
| History of Modern Mexico | ||
| Modern Central America | ||
| Foreign Relations of Latin America | ||
| Latin American History Through Film | ||
| Colonial Latin America | ||
| Modern Latin America | ||
| United States History | ||
| Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States | ||
| African-American History, 1620-1865 | ||
| African-American History, 1865-Present | ||
| American Indian History | ||
| Great Debates in African American History | ||
| Women in U.S. History, 1607-Present | ||
| Women in the Black Freedom Movement | ||
| Black Freedom Movement Through Film | ||
| Black Panthers and Black Power | ||
| The American Colonies, 1607-1783 | ||
| The Evolution of American Democracy, 1783-1840 | ||
| Civil War and Reconstruction | ||
| The United States, 1877-1917 | ||
| The United States, 1917-1945 | ||
| United States in World War II | ||
| United States History, Cold War Era | ||
| American History Through Film | ||
| Chicana/o History Through Film | ||
| LGBT History | ||
| Race, Ethnicity, and Film in America, 1920-Present | ||
| The United States, 1960s | ||
| History of California | ||
| California Indian History | ||
| Chicana/o History | ||
| Early American Biography | ||
| US Empire and Foreign Policy 1898-Present | ||
| 20th Century Americans | ||
| Constitutional History of the United States | ||
| U.S. Citizenship and the Law | ||
| African American Intellectual History | ||
| Foreign Relations of the United States | ||
| History of the American West | ||
| Gender, Sex, and Conquest in the American West | ||
| Chicana/Mexicana Feminisms | ||
| Immigration and Ethnic American History | ||
| History of the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands | ||
| Total Units | 51 | |