Information about the Department of History

Office

Location: King Hall C4066
Phone: (323) 343-2020
Email: history@calstatela.edu
Website: Department of History

Chair

Name: Scott C. Wells
Email: swells2@calstatela.edu
Phone: (323) 343-2020

Overview

The Department of History provides opportunities to study the development and interaction of the world’s cultures. In addition to a broad curriculum in local, national, and world history, the department offers a wide variety of special topics courses. The program thus contributes to the attainment of intellectual and cultural objectives of a liberal-arts education appropriate to careers in law, journalism, business, government service, librarianship, and teaching, or to advanced study.

The department offers the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in History and minors in History and in Labor and Working Class Studies for students majoring in other areas.

The department coordinates the Teacher Preparation option of the history major, approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the Single Subject credential in Social Science, which is designed for students seeking a Single Subject Credential in Social Science.

The Department of History administers a minor in Religious Studies designed to explore the forms and traditions of religion that have appeared in human culture.

The Faculty

Professors: Choi Chatterjee (Chair), Christopher Endy, Eileen Ford, Kittiya Lee, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Enrique C. Ochoa, Birte Pfleger, Sara Pugach, Rennie B. Schoepflin, Angela Vergara, Scott C. Wells (Chair), Mark Wild, Ping Yao
Associate Professors: Timothy Doran, Lamont Yeakey
Assistant Professors: : J. Travis Shutz
Emeriti: Francisco E. Balderrama, Stanley M. Burstein, Daniel Crecelius, Timothy Fox Harding, Udo Heyn, Yeun-Sang (Philip) Leung, Carole Srole, Lilian Taiz

Programs

• History, B.A.

• Minor in History
• Minor in Labor Studies
• Minor in Religious Studies

• History, M.A.

• History Teaching Credential Program

Courses

• HHS 1010 - Introduction to Higher Education in Health and Human Services

• HIST 5000 - Introduction to Graduate Study in History
• HIST 5010 - Seminar: Special Studies
• HIST 5050 - Seminar: World History
• HIST 5100 - Seminar: Ancient History
• HIST 5200 - Seminar: History of Middle Ages
• HIST 5250 - Seminar: Early Modern European History
• HIST 5300 - Seminar: Recent European History
• HIST 5350 - Seminar: Russian History
• HIST 5400 - Seminar: Modern African History
• HIST 5450 - Seminar: Middle Eastern History
• HIST 5550 - Seminar: Recent Asian History
• HIST 5600 - History of Colonial Latin America
• HIST 5610 - History of Modern Latin America
• HIST 5650 - Seminar: History of Mexico
• HIST 5700 - Seminar: Early History of U.S.
• HIST 5750 - Seminar: Recent History of U.S.
• HIST 5770 - Seminar: American Social and Intellectual History
• HIST 5780 - Seminar: History of the U.S. West
• HIST 5800 - The Historian as Public Intellectual
• HIST 5910 - Capstone Preparation for Comprehensive Examinations
• HIST 5940 - Seminar in Historical Research and Writing
• HIST 5960 - Comprehensive Examination
• HIST 5980 - Graduate Directed Study
• HIST 5990 - Thesis

• HIST 1010 - World History to 1500 CE
• HIST 1020 - World History Since 1500 CE
• HIST 1500 - Asian-American History (also listed as AAAS 1500)
• HIST 1600 - History of Asia (also listed as AAAS 1600)
• HIST 2010 - Early American History
• HIST 2020 - Recent United States History
• HIST 2050 - Race and Ethnicity in United States History
• HIST 2080 - California
• HIST 3050 - Digital and Public History
• HIST 3075 - Introduction to Archives Principles and Practice (also listed as LIBR 3075)
• HIST 3080 - Historiography
• HIST 3085 - Early Field Experience in History-Social Science Education
• HIST 3090 - Historical Research and Writing
• HIST 3100 - Classical Civilization and the Modern World
• HIST 3300 - Big History: From The Big Bang Until the Present
• HIST 3350 - Global History of World War II
• HIST 3400 - History of U.S. Civil Rights Movements
• HIST 3405 - LGBT Political History in the US (also listed as WGSS 3400)
• HIST 3450 - Rise of Urban America
• HIST 3510 - A History of Violence: Conflict, War, and Resolution
• HIST 3520 - Oral History of Asian America (also listed as AAAS 3520)
• HIST 3560 - History of Emotions
• HIST 3570 - Gender and Sex in History (also listed as WGSS 3570)
• HIST 3600 - Revolution in History
• HIST 3700 - Labor History
• HIST 3800 - Ancient and Modern Science (also listed as CHEM 3800, PHIL 3800)
• HIST 4000 - Special Lectures in History
• HIST 4010 - History of Globalization: Themes and Continuities
• HIST 4090 - Sexuality in the Americas
• HIST 4110 - History Of Ancient Greece: Bronze And Archaic Ages
• HIST 4120 - Ancient Greece: Classical And Hellenistic Eras
• HIST 4130 - Early Rome, The Republic
• HIST 4140 - The Roman Empire
• HIST 4150 - Ancient Religions (also listed as RELS 4150)
• HIST 4190 - Ancient Near East: 4000-323 B.C.
• HIST 4191 - Ancient Egypt: 4000-30 BC
• HIST 4210 - Post-Roman Europe
• HIST 4220 - The Middle Ages
• HIST 4225 - Religion and Society in Medieval Europe (also listed as RELS 4225)
• HIST 4230 - Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 4240 - Science, Enlightenment, and Empire
• HIST 4260 - Europe: 1815-1890
• HIST 4270 - Europe: 1890-1945
• HIST 4280 - Europe since 1945
• HIST 4310 - History of Modern Germany
• HIST 4340 - The British Empire
• HIST 4360 - Imperial Russia: 1801-1917
• HIST 4370 - The Soviet Union
• HIST 4410 - Pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa
• HIST 4420 - History of Africa since 1800
• HIST 4450 - Islamic Empires in World History: 600s-1919
• HIST 4460 - The Islamic Middle East: 1258-1919
• HIST 4480 - History of Islamic Central Asia (also listed as AAAS 4480)
• HIST 4490 - Pan Asianism: 19th-20th Century Asian Intellectual History (also listed as AAAS 4490)
• HIST 4500 - Traditional China
• HIST 4510 - Modern China
• HIST 4520 - People’s Republic of China
• HIST 4540 - Modern Japan
• HIST 4600 - The Chicano Movement (also listed as CLS 4260)
• HIST 4610 - Early Latin America: Conquest to 1850s
• HIST 4620 - Modern Latin America: 1860s to the present
• HIST 4630 - Mapping the Recent History of Latin America: From the 1990s to the present
• HIST 4640 - History of Central America and the Caribbean
• HIST 4650 - Brazil
• HIST 4660 - Colonial Mexico (also listed as CLS 4660)
• HIST 4665 - Modern Mexico (also listed as CLS 4665)
• HIST 4670 - Modern Mexico and the Chicano People (also listed as CLS 4670)
• HIST 4690 - Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
• HIST 4700 - The Colonial Heritage: The United States, 1607-1763
• HIST 4710 - Era of Revolution: The United States, 1763-1815
• HIST 4720 - Democracy, Dissent, and Disunion: The United States, 1815-1877
• HIST 4730 - The United States, 1877-1918
• HIST 4740 - The United States, 1918-1973
• HIST 4750 - The United States, 1973 to Present
• HIST 4760 - Economic History of United States
• HIST 4775 - American Religious History (also listed as RELS 4775)