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

• HIST 4775 - American Religious History (also listed as RELS 4775)
• HIST 4780 - History of United States International Relations
• HIST 4790 - Constitutional History of United States
• HIST 4800 - Ethnicity and Immigration in American History
• HIST 4820 - History of US Popular Culture
• HIST 4830 - Poverty and Anti-Poverty in American History
• HIST 4840 - Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 4850 - U.S. Women to 1877
• HIST 4860 - U.S. Women, 1877 to the Present
• HIST 4870 - History of U.S. Work and Working People
• HIST 4890 - Los Angeles
• HIST 4900 - Research Capstone: Special Studies in History
• HIST 4910 - Historical Thinking and Learning: Theory and Practice
• HIST 4920 - Power, Knowledge, Community and the University (also listed as LAS 4750, SOC 4750)
• HIST 4950 - Internship in Applied History
• HIST 4960 - Issues in Teaching History-Social Science
• HIST 4970 - Editing and Publishing Perspectives
• HIST 4990 - Undergraduate Directed Study

• RELS 2000 - Introduction to Comparative Religions (also listed as PHIL 2000)
• RELS 3110 - Seeking the Holy: Ancient Traditions, Modern Practices
• RELS 3250 - Spiritual Paths Through Life
• RELS 3350 - Gender and Sex in the Diversity of World Religions
• RELS 3400 - Religion, Secularism, and Civic Identity
• RELS 3500 - Religion, Spirituality, and Ethnic Identity
• RELS 3650 - Science and Religion
• RELS 3800 - Emotion in Religion
• RELS 3850 - Spiritual Assessment and Care of the Older Adult (also listed as NURS 3850
• RELS 4150 - Ancient Religions (also listed as HIST 4150)
• RELS 4225 - Religion and Society in Medieval Europe (also listed as HIST 4225)
• RELS 4230 - Migration, Identity, and Religion (also listed as CLS 4280, LAS 4280)
• RELS 4540 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
• RELS 4705 - Religion and Spirituality in American Indian Communities
• RELS 4775 - American Religious History (also listed as HIST 4775)