Major Requirements

Subject Preparation for Teaching Credential in History and Social Science Requirements

Credits Required: 

Total semester credits: 120

Semester credits in the major: 31-43

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 Individualized 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 consisting of 20 units in a specific social science discipline (or an Associated Minor listed on the SBS Major Overview page, consisting of 12-16 units plus 8 more units of SBS courses). 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 either SBS 402: Senior Capstone Seminar II or SBS 404S: Service Learning Capstone) 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].

Major Requirements and Learning Outcomes are identified below. In order to graduate, students must also meet all general education and university requirements. 

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

  • SBS 362: Rsrch Mthd for SBS: Qual Emph (3 units)
  • AND
  • SBS 362L: Rsrch Mthd SBS: Qual Emph Lab (1 to 2 units)
  • AND
  • One more approved research methods course

MLO 3: Specialized Disciplinary and Area Studies Competency

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 Associated Minor listed on the SBS Overview catalog page, plus two 300-level SBS courses approved for one of the concentrations; or 4) Complete a “customized specialization” of at least 16 units approved by an SBS faculty member.

Required Courses

  • Subject Preparation for Teaching Credential in History and Social Science Concentration
  • If you choose this pathway, Social History will be your official concentration, but you should follow this special teaching-track pathway.
  • Lower division pre- or co-requisites:
  • CSU Title 5 requirements in United States History and American Institutions (4-6 units)
  • Recommended
  • HCOM 267: US Political Histories (4 units)
  • OR
  • SBS 212: US Histories & Politics (4 units)
  • Global/World Civilizations
  • GS 214: Global History I: to 1500 (3 to 4 units)
  • OR
  • Comparable transfer course in Ancient-to-Early Modern World History/Civ
  • GS 215: Global History II: Since 1500 (3 to 4 units)
  • OR
  • Comparable transfer course in Modern World History/Civ
  • Required courses:
  • SBS 315: Growth & Conflict/US to 1920 (4 units)
  • SBS 350: Domination & Resistance: US (4 units)
  • SBS 351: Intro to Global Economics (4 units)
  • SBS 356: Intro/Geog/People/Places/Envir (2 to 4 units)
  • Either
  • SBS 385: Environmental History of CA (3 to 4 units)
  • OR
  • SBS 386: Social/Pol/Hist/CA (4 units)
  • OR
  • HCOM 353: California At Crossroads (4 units)
  • One of the following or comparable transfer course in ethnic studies:
  • SBS 245: Native American Societies (4 units)
  • HCOM 245: Intro to Chicana/o Studies (4 units)
  • HCOM 322: Asian American Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 324: African American Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 326: Jewish Holocaust Literature (4 units)
  • HCOM 345: Chicano Life & Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 346: African American Life/History (4 units)
  • One of the following or comparable transfer course in non-western history/culture:
  • GS 320: Global Issues & 3rd World (4 units)
  • GS 350: Gender/Violence in Global Life (4 units)
  • GS 360: Religion/Violence/Peacemaking (4 units)
  • HCOM 247: African Legacy Worldwide (4 units)
  • SBS 325: Art of the Aztec Empire (4 units)
  • SBS 348: Maya Civilization (4 units)
  • SBS 378: Revolution and People Power (4 units)
  • SBS 388: Crisis/Develop/Mexican/Society (4 units)
  • SBS 381: US, Vietnam, Asia-Pacific (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)
  • Optional: Upper-Division Capstone Service Learning (When SBS 404S is offered at 4 units, it may be taken in substitution of SBS 402).
  • 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.