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, Kenneth Curtis, Jane Dabel, Ali Igmen, Andrew Jenks,Marie Kelleher, Margaret Kuo, Guotong Li, Eileen Luhr, Brett Mizelle, Caitlin Murdock, Ulices Piña, 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 • Lawyer • College Instructor • Film Maker • Human Resources Manager • Advertising Analyst • Systems Analyst • 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  (for non-HIST majors only). Students who have taken U.S. history at another institution should check with the History Department before enrolling.

Programs

• History, M.A.

• History, B.A.

• Global Middle East Studies Minor
• History 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 462 - Mexico
• HIST 463 - Power and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HIST 464 - Latin American Environmental History
• HIST 465 - Seeing Latin America: Visual Culture and History in the Latin American World
• HIST 466 - Selected Topics in Latin American History
• HIST 468 - Public Art, Monuments, and Memory
• HIST 469 - Ethnic Groups in Urban America
• HIST 470 - American Jewish History
• HIST 471 - The American West
• HIST 472 - History of the South
• HIST 473 - California History
• HIST 474 - The History and Culture of American Cities
• HIST 475 - American Immigration and Ethnicity
• HIST 476 - The History of Social Activism
• HIST 477A - American Cultural History
• HIST 477B - American Cultural History
• HIST 478 - Foreign Relations of the U.S.
• HIST 479 - U.S. Constitution: Origins and Early Development
• HIST 482 - Recent American Environmental History
• HIST 484 - Religion in American History
• HIST 485A - History of Women in the U.S. Early Period
• HIST 485B - History of Women in the U.S. Since 1850
• HIST 486 - History of Afro-Americans in the United States
• HIST 487 - Madness, Mental Health, and Psychiatry in America
• HIST 488 - The United States on Drugs: Cultural, Political and Medical Histories
• HIST 489 - Selected Topics in Legal History of the United States
• HIST 490 - Selected Topics in History
• HIST 491 - Modern and Contemporary Africa
• HIST 492 - Proseminar in World History
• HIST 494 - Practicum in History
• HIST 495 - Selected Topics
• HIST 496 - Selected Topics in the United States History
• HIST 497 - Selected Topics in Asian History
• HIST 498 - Directed Studies
• HIST 498H - Honors Research
• HIST 498O - Directed Studies in Oral History
• HIST 499 - Senior Seminar
• HIST 499H - Honors Thesis
• HIST 501 - Historical Thinking and the Discipline of History
• HIST 502 - Historical Research and Writing
• HIST 510 - Selected Topics in the Literature of History
• HIST 512 - Migration and Ethnicity in Modern China
• HIST 518 - Central Asia and Afghanistan, Twentieth Century
• HIST 532 - Change and Continuity in the Modern Middle East
• HIST 540 - The Silk Roads
• HIST 541 - Mediterranean World
• HIST 542 - The Indian Ocean in World History
• HIST 543 - The Early Modern Atlantic World
• HIST 544 - The Pacific Ocean in World History
• HIST 560 - Slavery in Latin America
• HIST 565 - Painting as Power: The Politics of Visual Culture in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
• HIST 568 - Public Art, Monuments, and Memory
• HIST 577A - American Cultural History
• HIST 577B - American Cultural History
• HIST 590 - Selected Topics in Comparative History
• HIST 592 - Proseminar in World History
• HIST 595 - Special Preparation
• HIST 605 - Research in History Teaching, Learning, and Cognition
• HIST 611 - Seminars in Ancient and Medieval History
• HIST 631 - Seminars in European History (including Britain and Russia)
• HIST 663 - Seminar in Latin American History
• HIST 673 - Seminars in United States History
• HIST 695 - Directed Readings
• HIST 697 - Directed Research
• HIST 698 - Thesis