History

Department Chair: David A. Shafer

Department Office: Faculty Offices 2 (FO2), Room 106
Telephone: (562) 985-4431
Website: http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/history/

Faculty: Emily Berquist, Jeff Blutinger, Patricia A. Cleary, Jane Dabel,

Ali Igmen, Andrew Jenks,Marie Kelleher, Margaret Kuo, Guotong Li, Eileen Luhr, Brett Mizelle, Caitlin Murdock, Charles Ponce De Leon, Sarah Schrank, Michiko Takeuchi, Nancy L. Quam-Wickham, Hugh Wilford

Advisors:

Undergraduate: Ali Igmen, Jane Dabel

Core Coordinator: Jane Dabel

Credential: Eileen Luhr

Graduate: Caitlin Murdock

Office Manager: Susan Tsuji

College: College of Liberal Arts  

Courses: HIST  

Career Possibilities

Historian • Writer • Editor • Administrators in Historic and Cultural Preservation • Teacher • Museum Curator • Multimedia Specialist • Preservation and Environmental Lawyer • College Instructor • Film Maker • Environmental Review Specialist • Human Resources Manager • Advertising Analyst • Systems Analyst • Insurance Broker • Executive (Some of these, and other careers, require additional education or experience. For more information, see www.careers.csulb.edu.)

Introduction

Department advising is available to all students interested in a major, minor, or a teaching credential. Students are strongly encouraged to see an advisor early in the development of their programs. Undergraduate majors should see History department staff to fill out a work sheet before meeting with the Undergraduate Advisor. Students interested in the M.A. program should contact History department staff for application information. Graduate students should see the Graduate Advisor. Applicants for the Social Science Credential Single Subject Program must see Credential Advisors. All advisors maintain extended hours during the semester and are available at other times by appointment. The department has open advising days in the week prior to each new semester; call the department for information.

History

Students in the B.A. in History will demonstrate basic research skills, writing skills, and presentation skills.

The History Department awards many scholarships and prizes to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. For further information about these awards, given annually, inquire at the Department office no later than the beginning of the spring semester. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for the Department’s facilitator program for which they may earn units in the major; see Department staff for applications. Graduate assistantships and readerships are also frequently available to qualified graduate and undergraduate students. The Department recruits outstanding students for Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society for History students. The Department of History offers graduate study leading to the Master of Arts degree. The candidate is responsible for observation of the general requirements stated in this catalog as well as specific departmental requirements listed in the M.A. brochure, available on request from the Department office.

General Education Requirement in United States History

To fulfill State of California requirements, students must take three (3) units of U.S. history. This requirement can be met by HIST 172  or HIST 173  or HIST 300 . Students who have taken U.S. history at another institution should check with the History Department before enrolling.

Programs

• History, B.A.

• History, M.A.

• History Minor
• Middle Eastern Studies Minor

Courses

Note: General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper-division course except upper-division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study.

• HIST 101 - Facts, Evidence and Explanation
• HIST 105 - American Indian History - Pre-1871
• HIST 106 - American Indian History - Post-1871
• HIST 111 - World History: Origins to 1500
• HIST 112 - World Since 1500
• HIST 131 - Early Western Civilization
• HIST 132 - Modern Western Civilization
• HIST 141 - Jewish Civilization
• HIST 170 - United States History Laboratory
• HIST 172 - Early United States History
• HIST 173 - Recent United States History
• HIST 290 - Selected Topics in History
• HIST 300 - The United States Past and Present
• HIST 301 - Methodology of History
• HIST 302 - Theory and History
• HIST 303 - Rebels and Renegades
• HIST 304 - The Holocaust
• HIST 305 - Digital Methods in History
• HIST 306 - Playing the Past: Games as Historical Narrative, Public Memory, and Cultural Representations
• HIST 308 - Law and Civilization
• HIST 309 - Men and Masculinity
• HIST 310 - The Greek World
• HIST 312 - Roman World
• HIST 313 - Ancient Greece
• HIST 314 - Roman History
• HIST 316 - Early Middle Ages
• HIST 317 - High Middle Ages
• HIST 318 - Byzantine Empire
• HIST 319 - Women in the Ancient and Medieval West
• HIST 320 - Middle East and Central Asia.
• HIST 330 - Early Modern Europe
• HIST 331 - History of Modern Europe, 1789 - Present
• HIST 332 - The Age of the Renaissance
• HIST 333 - Reformation Europe
• HIST 334 - Early Modern France, 1589-1789
• HIST 336 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
• HIST 337 - Europe in the Nineteenth Century
• HIST 338 - Modern European Women’s History
• HIST 339 - Europe, 1890-1945
• HIST 340 - Europe Since 1945
• HIST 341A - Foundations of Russia
• HIST 341B - Modern Russia
• HIST 343 - Modern Eastern Europe
• HIST 344 - Tradition and Crisis: The Jews of Modern Europe
• HIST 345 - Comparative Genocide
• HIST 349 - The History of Food
• HIST 351 - Medieval England
• HIST 353 - Tudor and Stuart England
• HIST 356 - Georgian and Victorian Britain
• HIST 357 - Recent Britain
• HIST 362 - Colonial Latin America
• HIST 364 - Latin American Nations
• HIST 366 - Latin American History and Literature
• HIST 370 - Chicano History
• HIST 372 - United States: Colonial Period
• HIST 373 - United States: Age of Revolution
• HIST 375 - The United States Emerges as a Nation
• HIST 376 - United States: Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 378 - United States History: 1877-1920
• HIST 379 - United States: Twenties, Depression, and World War II
• HIST 380A - The United States in the Liberal Era 1945-1968
• HIST 380B - The United States Since 1968
• HIST 382A - Imperial China
• HIST 382B - Modern China
• HIST 383A - Japan to 1850
• HIST 383B - Modern Japan
• HIST 384 - Popular Culture and History in Contemporary Japan
• HIST 385 - India and South Asia
• HIST 386 - History of Modern Southeast Asia: Colonial Era to the Vietnam War
• HIST 388 - Contemporary China
• HIST 391 - The Making of Modern Africa, 1800-1939
• HIST 392 - Contemporary Africa, 1940-Present
• HIST 393 - Jews of the Modern Middle East
• HIST 394 - Middle Eastern Women
• HIST 395 - Gender, Sexuality and Desire in World History
• HIST 396 - Contemporary World History
• HIST 400 - History of Western Scientific Thought
• HIST 401 - History for Secondary Social Science Teachers
• HIST 402 - Oral History Methods
• HIST 406 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Asia
• HIST 407 - Japan and the United States in the 20th Century
• HIST 412 - Migration and Ethnicity in Modern China
• HIST 417 - Diversity and Encounters in the Middle East
• HIST 418 - Central Asia and Afghanistan, Twentieth Century
• HIST 420 - Modern Israel: Histories and Peoples
• HIST 432 - Change and Continuity in the Modern Middle East
• HIST 434 - Medieval Spain: Conflict and Coexistence
• HIST 435 - History of the Francophone World
• HIST 437 - History of Germany 1871 to Present
• HIST 440 - The Silk Roads
• HIST 441 - Mediterranean World
• HIST 442 - The Indian Ocean in World History
• HIST 443 - The Early Modern Atlantic World
• HIST 444 - The Pacific Ocean in World History
• HIST 451 - The United States in the World
• HIST 452 - United States at War
• HIST 459 - Religion in Colonial Latin America
• HIST 460 - Slavery in Latin America
• HIST 462 - Mexico
• HIST 463 - Power and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HIST 464 - Latin American Environmental History