2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of History
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Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall 134
Telephone: 408-924-5500
Email: history@sjsu.edu
Website: www.sjsu.edu/history
Professors
Ruma Chopra
Glen Gendzel, Chair
Libra Hilde
Mary Pickering
Jonathan P. Roth
Wendy Rouse, Coordinator; Social Science Teacher Preparation
Associate Professors
Xiaojia Hou
Katharine Olson
Assistant Professors
Alberto Garcia
Visiting Professor
Anat Balint, Coordinator; Jewish Studies Program
Overview
History provides the tools to understand the world and to make sense of it in the past, present, and future. The SJSU Department of History offers undergraduate and graduate programs that teach our students to read carefully, compare sources, make judgments, and communicate persuasively using evidence-based research. Graduates of our programs often become teachers, but most work in other fields such as law, journalism, the arts, museums, libraries, archives, media, non-profits, consulting, government, and every field of business. Internships are available and Phi Alpha Theta, the History honors society, sponsors academic and social activities for our students. The Social Science Teacher Preparation (SSTP) program helps prepare students for teaching careers. At the graduate level, our primary fields of study are U.S. history, European history, and World history. Many of our MA graduates teach at local middle schools, high schools, and community colleges. Our faculty and students conduct research that draws on the special resources of the MLK Library as well as outstanding local archives such as History San José, the California History Center at De Anza College, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Honors Program in History
A student may qualify for admission to the History Department honors program provided he or she is a history major or minor or a Social Science major who has completed 15 upper division units in history. To apply to History Honors the student must have an overall GPA of 3.0, a GPA of 3.5 for all history upper division courses, or the permission of the chair. If accepted, qualified seniors must complete one of the following: HIST 221 , HIST 230 , HIST 240 , HIST 241 , HIST 272 , HIST 274 , HIST 276 , HIST 280 , HIST 283 , or HIST 288 , with a grade of “A” or “B” or the equivalents.
ProgramsUndergraduate Major(s)
Undergraduate Minor(s)
Master(s)
Spartan Accelerated Graduate Education (SAGE) Scholars
Spartan Accelerated Graduate Education (SAGE) Programs programs are combined bachelor’s and master’s programs at SJSU (per University Policy F19-1). Sometimes they may also satisfy the requirements for a credential. Students in these programs pursue a bachelor’s and master’s degree simultaneously. These program allow students to earn graduate credit while in their junior and/or senior year, reducing the number of semesters required for completion of a master’s degree.
CoursesHistory- HIST 1A - World History to 1500
- HIST 1B - World History from 1500
- HIST 10A - Western Civilization
- HIST 10B - Western Civilization
- HIST 15 - Essentials of U.S. History
- HIST 20A - History of the American People
- HIST 20B - History of the American People
- HIST 50 - Historical Process: Understanding Historical Reasoning
- HIST 92 - International Program Studies
- HIST 99 - History Fundamentals
- HIST 100W - History Writers’ Workshop
- HIST 102 - Historiography
- HIST 103 - History of the Modern Middle East
- HIST 104 - Advanced Topics in Ancient History
- HIST 109A - History of China
- HIST 109B - History of China
- HIST 110A - History of Japan
- HIST 110B - History of Japan
- HIST 111 - Special Topics in Jewish Studies
- HIST 112 - Ancient West to 500 BCE
- HIST 113A - Economic History of the United States
- HIST 113B - Economic History of Europe
- HIST 114 - The Ancient West, 500 BCE-400 CE
- HIST 121A - Medieval Worlds, 400-1000
- HIST 121B - Medieval Worlds, 1000-1500
- HIST 122 - The Renaissance and Reformation
- HIST 124 - Early Modern Europe
- HIST 126 - Advanced Topics in Medieval History
- HIST 130 - Military History to 1500
- HIST 131 - Military History from 1500
- HIST 132 - Advanced Topics in World History
- HIST 143 - Europe, 1750-1900
- HIST 144 - Europe, 1900-1945
- HIST 145 - Europe and the World Since 1945
- HIST 146 - Advanced Topics in European History
- HIST 153 - History of Women in Europe
- HIST 155 - 20th Century World
- HIST 162 - Colonial Latin America
- HIST 163 - Modern Latin America, 1800-Present
- HIST 167 - Advanced Topics in Latin American History
- HIST 170 - Topics in American History
- HIST 170S - Topics in American History: American Identities and Institutions
- HIST 171 - U.S. Constitutional & Legal History
- HIST 173 - New World Encounters, 1400-1750
- HIST 174 - Colonial & Revolutionary America
- HIST 175 - Inventing America, 1800-1860
- HIST 176 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 177 - Industrial America, 1877-1920
- HIST 178 - Crash, Depression and War, 1920-1950
- HIST 179 - Cold War America, 1950-Present
- HIST 180 - Individual Studies
- HIST 181 - Advanced Topics in American History
- HIST 184 - Directed Reading
- HIST 185 - LGBTQ+ History in the United States
- HIST 188 - History of Women in the United States
- HIST 189A - California History to 1900
- HIST 189B - California History Since 1900
- HIST 192 - International Program Studies
- HIST 197 - Introduction to Public History
- HIST 199 - Public History Internship
- HIST 200 - Graduate Methodology, Research and Writing
- HIST 209 - Colloquium in Ancient and Medieval Europe
- HIST 210A - Advanced Colloquium United States History
- HIST 210B - Advanced Colloquium United States History
- HIST 210C - Advanced Colloquium United States History
- HIST 211 - Advanced Colloquium in Modern Europe
- HIST 220 - Advanced Colloquium in World History
- HIST 221 - Seminar in World History
- HIST 230 - Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Europe
- HIST 240 - Seminar in Pre-Twentieth Century Europe
- HIST 241 - Seminar in Twentieth Century Europe
- HIST 272 - Seminar in American Diplomatic History
- HIST 274 - Seminar in US Social & Cultural History
- HIST 276 - Seminar in Early American History
- HIST 280 - Seminar in Recent American History
- HIST 283 - Seminar in California and Western History
- HIST 288 - Seminar in the History of Women in the United States
- HIST 292 - International Program Studies
- HIST 298 - Special Study
- HIST 299 - Master’s Thesis
- HIST 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision
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