Major Requirements

Social History Requirements

Credits Required: 

Total semester credits: 120

Semester credits in the major: 43

You officially begin the major by co-enrolling in SBS 300: Major/ProSem:Theo/Meth/SBS and SBS 300L: Professional Skills Soc Sci. In SBS 300L: Professional Skills Soc Sci, you will create an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) tailored to your personal academic and career goals. Then you will complete a curriculum designed to meet four Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs).  This curriculum includes a set of broad courses that integrate all the social sciences, and a set of focused courses for a concentration or a minor consisting of 20 units in a specific social science discipline. SBS majors may complete their upper-division service learning requirement by taking any 300 or 400-level SBS course with an "S" designation.  In two seminars ( SBS 400: Senior Capstone Seminar I and SBS 402: Senior Capstone Seminar II) you will design your own capstone project and conduct original research under close advisement from the SBS faculty. Your final course in the major will be SBS 405: Assessment Lab/Grad/Srs, which will prepare you to present your capstone publicly to demonstrate your cumulative learning in the Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs) described below [Learn more at CSUMB.EDU/capstone].

Core Courses

  • Lower-division requirements
  • STAT 100: Introduction to Statistics (4 units)

MLO 1 Social theory

The SBS major requires successful completion of two courses in social theory: the Major Proseminar, with a co-requisite lab; and an advanced social theory module of at least 2 units.

Required Courses

  • SBS 300/L: Major/ProSem:Theo/Meth/SBS (4 to 6 units)
  • SBS 328: Social Science Theory Module (2 to 4 units)

MLO 2 Research methods

The SBS major requires two courses in research methods. Each concentration requires a specific research methods course. Students take one additional research methods course chosen from SBS courses in the SBS 360-369 series, or GS 316: Historical Approaches, or PSY 302/L: PSY/Resear/Methods/Data/Analys.

Required Courses

MLO 3 Concentration

The SBS major requires students to demonstrate competency in a specific field or discipline of the social or behavioral sciences. They may do this in one of four ways: 1) Complete a designed curriculum in one of seven core concentrations offered by the Social and Behavioral Sciences; 2) Complete the Teaching Track for “single-subject” preparation in History/Social Science certified by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC); 3) Complete an approved minor plus two 300-level SBS courses approved for one of the concentrations; or 4) Complete a custom-designed “special concentration,” of at least 16 units approved by an SBS faculty member.

Required Courses

  • Social History Concentration
  • Lower division pre- or corequisite
  • One of the following:
  • SBS 111: Reading/Writing US History (4 units)
  • SBS 212: US Histories & Politics (4 units)
  • SBS 245: Native American Societies (4 units)
  • GS 200: Politics of Everyday Life (4 units)
  • HCOM 266: Histories of Democracy (4 units)
  • HCOM 267: US Political Histories (4 units)
  • CST 273: Cyberdemocracy (4 units)
  • OR
  • Any standard U.S. History Survey Course from a community college or other accredited
  • university
  • And one semester of a World or Global History course, such as:
  • GS 214: Global History I (3 to 4 units)
  • GS 215: Global History II (3 to 4 units)
  • Required courses:
  • SBS 350: Domination & Resistance: US (4 units)
  • SBS 315: Growth & Conflict/US to 1920 (4 units)
  • At least three of the following:
  • SBS 304: California Indian Societies (4 units)
  • SBS 306: Contemp American Indian Policy (4 units)
  • SBS 325: Art of the Aztec Empire (4 units)
  • SBS 332: World Prehistory (4 units)
  • SBS 339: Sweat/Service/Solidarity (4 units)
  • SBS 339S: Sweat/Service/Solidarity SL (6 units)
  • SBS 342: Economic Thought (2 to 4 units)
  • SBS 348: Maya Civilization (4 units)
  • SBS 355: Archaeologic/Thought/Americas (2 to 4 units)
  • SBS 365: Black/Civil/Rights:1954-1968 (2 to 4 units)
  • SBS 378: Revolution and People Power (4 units)
  • SBS 381: US, Vietnam, Asia-Pacific (4 units)
  • SBS 382: History of Modern Africa (4 units)
  • SBS 383: African Civilizations (3 to 4 units)
  • SBS 385: Environmental History of CA (3 to 4 units)
  • SBS 386: Social/Pol/Hist/CA (4 units)
  • SBS 388: Crisis/Develop/Mexican/Society (4 units)
  • SBS 475: Fort/Ord/Historical/Docs/Proje (1 to 4 units)
  • GS 316: Historical Approaches (4 units)
  • GS 320: Global Issues & 3rd World (4 units)
  • GS 326: US Foreign Policy & Empire (4 units)
  • GS 360: Religion/Violence/Peacemaking (4 units)
  • HCOM 324: African American Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 325: 20th Cent Narr Amer Immgr (4 units)
  • HCOM 326: Jewish Holocaust Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 345: Chicano Life & Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 346: African American Life/History (4 units)
  • HCOM 348: Race, Colonialism & Film (4 units)
  • HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem (4 units)
  • HCOM 352: History According To Movies (4 units)
  • HCOM 353: California At Crossroads (4 units)
  • HCOM 354: Whose America? (4 units)
  • HCOM 356: Multicultural History (4 units)
  • HCOM 357: Constitutional Law (4 units)
  • HCOM 358: Crit Perspect on Law inSociety (4 units)
  • HCOM 359: Sexuality, Law and History (4 units)
  • HCOM 365: Chicana/o Latina/o History (4 units)
  • HCOM 421: Social History of English Lang (4 units)
  • HCOM 426: Travel Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 445: Slavery & Race in the Americas (4 units)
  • JAPN 302: History of Japan (4 to 6 units)
  • JAPN 307: Japan-American Exper (4 units)
  • MPA 336: Jazz History (4 units)
  • MPA 337: MusHistory I 500-1750 ONLINE (4 units)
  • MPA 338: MusHistory II 1750-1900 ONLINE (4 units)
  • MPA 380: Theatre History (4 units)
  • TAT 329: Contemporary Media History (4 units)
  • SPAN 306: Cultur/Civ Span Ltn Amer (4 units)
  • SPAN 307: History&Politics Of Mex (4 units)
  • SPAN 308: Hist/Cultr Aztlan:SW US (4 units)
  • SPAN 309: Hist & Polit Of Latn Amer (4 units)
  • SPAN 311: US Foreign Policy Pac Rim (4 units)
  • VPA 313: Regional Art History (4 units)
  • VPA 341: Feminist Art: History, Theory (4 units)

MLO 4 Application of social science principles and practices in real world contexts

Students complete the B.A. in SBS by producing a senior capstone project that demonstrates their ability to apply the skills and knowledge acquired in the SBS curriculum to real world social problems or issues.

Required Courses

  • SBS 400: Senior Capstone Seminar I (1 to 4 units)
  • SBS 402: Senior Capstone Seminar II (1 to 4 units)
  • SBS 405: Assessment Lab/Grad/Srs (1 to 4 units)
  • Upper-Division Service Learning (if not met in the concentration) (2 units)
  • SBS 404S: Service Learning Capstone (2 to 4 units)

Concentrations

Anthropology

Archaeology

Geographic Information Systems

Native American Studies

Political Economy

Social History

Sociology

Subject Preparation for Teaching Credential in History and Social Science

The Social and Behavioral Sciences major offers a pathway into a teaching credential program for prospective high school teachers. If you choose this, Social History will be your official concentration, but you should follow the special teaching track pathway. This pathway is currently under review for approval by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. If it is approved, you will receive a waiver from completing the comprehensive qualifying exam (CSET) in order to be admitted to a single-subject (high school) teacher credential program after you complete your B.A.