Certificate in Historical Research (Honors)
Prerequisites
For admission to the Certificate in Historical Research (Honors), students must meet the following requirements:
- An overall GPA of 3.25
- at least 60 units completed, and
- acceptance of a thesis proposal by a faculty member in the History department.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students will apply research methodologies to the analysis of primary source evidence to make compelling, original arguments about the past, situating their conclusions within the debates among historians. (Research Skills)
- Students will organize evidence, communicate complex information, tell engaging stories, and persuade their audience in a full-length thesis that communicates original research. (Communication Skills)
- Students will apply knowledge and understanding gained within disciplinary studies in History and, in many cases, allied disciplines within frameworks that mobilize concepts, ethics, methods, and theory relevant to the study of the past. (Understanding)
Historical Research (Honors): Certificate – 15-23 units
Prerequisites
For admission to the Certificate in Historical Research (Honors), students must meet the following requirements:
- An overall GPA of 3.25,
- at least 60 units completed, and
- acceptance of a thesis proposal by a faculty member in the History department.
Required Courses (9 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 300GW | Seminar in Historical Analysis - GWAR | 3 |
| HIST 640 | ||
| or HIST 642 | ||
| or HIST 644 | ||
| HIST 697 | Honors Thesis | 3 |
Electives (6 units)
- Six units of upper-division courses with the HIST prefix. May include additional proseminars (HIST 640 or HIST 642 or HIST 644), but not independent study courses (HIST 699) or internships (HIST 698). Students enrolled in the History BA may double count these courses. Students enrolled in other majors may double count these courses in their major with the permission of their department.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 304 | Teaching History with Comics | 3 |
| HIST 307 | Monsters & Monstrosity: Historicizing Fear | 3 |
| HIST 313 | Comparative History of Love and Sexuality | 3 |
| HIST/HUM 315 | History of Science from the Scientific Revolution | 3 |
| HIST/JS 317 | The Holocaust and Genocide | 3 |
| HIST/CLAS 319 | ||
| HIST 320 | Archaic and Classical Greece | 3 |
| HIST 321 | Hellenistic Greece | 3 |
| HIST 322 | The Roman Republic | 3 |
| HIST 323 | Imperial Rome | 3 |
| HIST/CLAR 324 | ||
| HIST 325 | ||
| HIST 326 | The Byzantine Empire | 3 |
| or CLAS 510 | The Byzantine Empire | |
| or MGS 510 | The Byzantine Empire | |
| HIST 327 | The Medieval Mediterranean | 3 |
| HIST 328 | Pagans and Christians in a Changing Roman World | 3 |
| HIST 329 | Early Christian Church 313-787 | 3 |
| HIST 330/HUM 403 | Vikings, Caliphs, & Carolingians: Europe in the Early Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 331/HUM 404 | The High Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 334 | The Renaissance | 3 |
| HIST 336 | 3 | |
| HIST 337 | 3 | |
| HIST 338 | 3 | |
| HIST 342 | French Revolution and Napoleon | 3 |
| HIST 344 | Society, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Europe | 3 |
| HIST/I R 346 | Europe since 1914 | 3 |
| HIST 347 | Women in Modern Europe | 3 |
| HIST/HUM 348 | Thought and Culture in Modern Europe | 3 |
| HIST 349 | Topics in European History | 3 |
| HIST/MGS 350 | Greece and the Balkans | 3 |
| HIST/MGS 351 | 3 | |
| HIST/MGS 352 | 3 | |
| HIST 385 | The Russian Revolution | 3 |
| HIST 386 | 3 | |
| HIST 387 | 3 | |
| HIST 389 | 3 | |
| HIST 390 | Era of the World Wars 1918 to 1945 | 3 |
| HIST 400 | 3 | |
| HIST 405 | Maritime History | 3 |
| HIST 416/JS 548 | The Jewish Sixties: A Journey Through The Social Protest Movements of the 1960s | 3 |
| HIST 418 | Society and Politics in American History | 3 |
| HIST 420 | American Colonial History | 3 |
| HIST/JS 421 | Food Fights: The Politics of American Jewish Consumption from 1654 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 422 | The American Revolution | 3 |
| HIST 424 | History of the United States: Civil War and Reconstruction | 3 |
| HIST 426 | History of the United States 1877-1916 | 3 |
| HIST 427 | History of the United States 1916-1945 | 3 |
| HIST 428 | U.S. History in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1980 | 3 |
| HIST/HUM/JS 441 | American Jews and Popular Culture | 3 |
| HIST 448 | 3 | |
| HIST/JS 449 | American Jewish History | 3 |
| HIST 450 | History of California | 3 |
| HIST 451/A U 303 | Bay Area History and Society | 3 |
| HIST 455 | The Philippines and the United States | 3 |
| HIST 460 | The United States and the World Before 1913 | 3 |
| HIST 461 | The United States and the World after 1913 | 3 |
| HIST 462 | 3 | |
| HIST 464 | American Ethnic and Racial Relations to 1890 | 3 |
| HIST 465 | American Ethnic and Racial Relations II: 1890-Present | 3 |
| HIST 466/RRS 600 | History of People of Color in the U.S. | 3 |
| HIST 467 | Women in the U.S. to 1890 | 3 |
| HIST 468 | Women in the U.S.: 1890-Present | 3 |
| HIST 469 | American Childhoods: Past and Present | 3 |
| HIST 470 | The U.S. Constitution to 1896 | 3 |
| HIST 471 | The U.S. Constitution Since 1896 | 3 |
| HIST 472 | The Supreme Court and Social Change in U.S. History | 3 |
| HIST/LABR/RRS 473 | Slavery and Antislavery in the United States | 3 |
| HIST/ECON/LABR 474 | History of Labor in the United States | 3 |
| HIST 475 | History of Sexuality in the United States Before 1900 | 3 |
| HIST 476 | 3 | |
| HIST 478 | American Popular Culture History: Barnum to Reality TV | 3 |
| HIST 479 | The History of Baseball | 3 |
| HIST/HUM 480 | Thought and Culture in America to 1880 | 3 |
| HIST/HUM 481 | Thought and Culture in America: 1880 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST/RELS 482 | Religion in America | 3 |
| HIST 484 | Disability and Culture in the U.S. | 3 |
| HIST 485 | History of Sexuality in the United States Since 1900 | 3 |
| HIST 489/USP 400 | Dynamics of the American City | 3 |
| HIST 490 | Topics in American History | 3 |
| HIST 500 | 3 | |
| HIST 501 | 3 | |
| HIST 520 | 3 | |
| HIST 524 | 3 | |
| HIST 528 | 3 | |
| HIST 535 | 3 | |
| HIST 550 | 3 | |
| HIST 569 | 3 | |
| HIST 570 | 3 | |
| HIST 571 | 3 | |
| HIST 572 | 3 | |
| HIST 575 | 3 | |
| HIST 578 | 3 | |
| HIST 582 | 3 | |
| HIST 583 | 3 | |
| HIST 584 | 3 | |
| HIST 585 | 3 | |
| HIST 586 | 3 | |
| HIST 588 | 3 | |
| HIST 590 | 3 | |
| HIST 600 | 3 | |
| HIST 603 | 3 | |
| HIST 604 | 3 | |
| HIST 605 | 3 | |
| HIST 606 | 3 | |
| HIST 607 | 3 | |
| HIST 609 | 3 | |
| HIST 610 | 3 | |
| HIST 611 | 3 | |
| HIST 612 | 3 | |
| HIST 619 | 3 | |
| HIST 620 | 3 | |
| HIST 632 | 3 | |
| HIST 633 | 3 | |
| HIST 640 | 3 | |
| HIST 642 | 3 | |
| HIST 644 | 3 | |
Auxiliary Skill (0-8 units)
To complete the certificate, students must demonstrate mastery of an auxiliary skill through one of the three following options:
- Two semester-length courses in a college-level language with a grade of B or better, or
- Equivalent proficiency in a foreign language based on successful completion of an examination to be administered by faculty within the History Department, or
- Two semester-length courses in auxiliary skills such as digital history/humanities, oral history, statistics, or others, by advisement.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Any Semester-Length College-Level Course in a Language | 3-4 | |
| ANTH 652 | Anthropological Statistics | 4 |
| CSC 306 | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Computer Programming | 3 |
| CSC 307 | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Web Programming | 3 |
| GEOG 203 | Geographical Measurement | 3 |
| GEOG 205 | Geographic Techniques | 3 |
| HIST 302 | ||
| HIST 303 | Introduction to Oral and Public History: The Bay Area | 3 |
| HIST 660 | ||
| M S 201 | Introduction to the History and Development of Museums | 3 |
| M S 202 | Introduction to Museum Exhibits | 3 |
| M S 780 | Cultural Heritage Preservation | 3 |
| MATH 338 | Introduction to SAS | 3 |
| SOC 293 | ||
| SOC 393 | Quantitative Analysis of Social Data | 4 |