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)
Certificate in Historical Research (Honors) – 15 units minimum
Required Courses (9 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 300GW | Seminar in Historical Analysis - GWAR | 3 |
| HIST 696 | Proseminar in History | 3 |
| HIST 697 | Honors Thesis | 3 |
Electives (6 units)
Six units of upper-division courses with the HIST prefix. May include additional proseminars (HIST 696), 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/FR 570 | Monsters & Monstrosity: Historicizing Fear | 3 |
| HIST 310 | Ancient Near East: Cities and Empires in Ancient Mesopotamia | 3 |
| HIST 311 | Ancient Mediterranean World in Transition: c. 1600-700 BCE | 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 320 | Archaic and Classical Greece | 3 |
| HIST 321 | Hellenistic Greece | 3 |
| HIST 322 | The Roman Republic | 3 |
| HIST 323 | Imperial Rome | 3 |
| HIST 326/CLAS 510/MGS 510 | The Byzantine Empire | 3 |
| 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/JS 332 | Ancient and Medieval Jews Among Pagans, Christians, and Muslims | 3 |
| HIST 334 | The Renaissance | 3 |
| HIST 335/JS 633 | Jewish History II: 1650 to Present | 3 |
| HIST 339 | Pirates and Piracy | 3 |
| HIST 342 | French Revolution and Napoleon | 3 |
| HIST 343 | Soviet Russia, the West, and the Cold War | 3 |
| HIST 344 | Society, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Europe | 3 |
| HIST 345 | The Era of Globalization 1968-2008 | 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 353 | History of Mexico | 3 |
| HIST 355/LTNS 533/WGS 355 | History of Women in Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 357 | Race and Power in Colonial Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 358/ANTH 501/LTNS 501 | Latin America: The National Period | 3 |
| HIST 360 | Ancient Chinese Civilization | 3 |
| HIST 361 | Imperial China | 3 |
| HIST 362 | History of Modern China | 3 |
| HIST 363 | Taiwan: History, Memory, and Imagination | 3 |
| HIST 364 | Sex and Gender in East Asia | 3 |
| HIST 366/ANTH 609 | Approaches to the African Past | 3 |
| HIST 368 | Modern Africa | 3 |
| HIST 369 | Gender in African History | 3 |
| HIST 370/CLAS 582/HUM 582 | Tales from Ancient India: Hinduism and Buddhism | 3 |
| HIST 372 | India and the British Empire | 3 |
| HIST 373 | Contemporary India | 3 |
| HIST 374/HUM 586 | Bollywood and Beyond: Indian History Through Film | 3 |
| HIST 376 | History of Southeast Asia | 3 |
| HIST 380 | Islamic World I: 500-1500 | 3 |
| HIST 381 | Islamic World II: 1500 - Present | 3 |
| HIST 382 | History of Iran and Afghanistan 1500 - Present | 3 |
| HIST 385 | The Russian Revolution | 3 |
| HIST/I R 395 | International History 1814-1918 | 3 |
| HIST 398 | History of Modern European Imperialism | 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/JS 449 | American Jewish History | 3 |
| HIST 450 | History of California | 3 |
| HIST 451 | Bay Area History and Society | 3 |
| HIST 460 | The United States and the World Before 1913 | 3 |
| HIST 461 | The United States and the World after 1913 | 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 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 696 | Proseminar in History | 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 |
| ENV 205 | Our Environment Through Data | 3 |
| GEOG 203 | Geographical Measurement | 3 |
| HIST 303 | Introduction to Oral and Public History: The Bay Area | 3 |
| HIST 305 | Digital History Methods and Practice | 3 |
| 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 393 | Visualizing Social Data and the Power of Numbers | 4 |