The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.
Term Inactive:
Fall 2010
Associate Degree Requirements:
The major is one of several requirements students need to fulfill in order to be awarded the Associate Degree, the highest level of academic achievement recognized by Santa Rosa Junior College. Please note that all of the following requirements must be met in order for the degree to be conferred:
For all students admitted for the Fall 2009 term or any term thereafter,
a grade of "C" or better, or "P" if the course is taken on a pass/no pass basis,
is required for each course applied toward the major.
Students completing the History major at Santa Rosa Junior College will develop skills and knowledge consistent with the study of history in a global, multicultural and comparative context. The successful student will have mastered the reading, writing and research skills essential to historical inquiry and exposition. Completion of the program will provide the orientation and background necessary for success in the major at the university level.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the History major, students will be able to:
1. Write clearly, concisely and persuasively about historically significant people, events and problems;
2. create, organize and support an historical argument in written and/or oral presentation;
3. identify and evaluate multiple perspectives and approaches to historical understanding;
4. understand and appreciate diversity and develop a worldview informed by multicultural and global perspectives; and
5. demonstrate the ability to reconstruct the past through inquiry, research, critical thinking and problem solving.
Introduction to Information Literacy for Research Projects
1.00
Course Prerequisites and Advisories:
Courses in a program of study may have prerequisites or advisories;
that is, courses that must or should be completed before taking that course.
Please check for prerequisites or advisories by clicking on the course numbers
in the Program Requirements section.
It is important that students who are completing an Associate Degree and desire to transfer to a four-year institution meet with a counselor to plan their lower division coursework. While many majors at SRJC are intended to align with lower division major preparation required by California public universities, specific lower-division major requirements vary among individual campuses. See a counselor, visit the Transfer Center, and check Guides For Transfer in Specific Majors, and ASSIST to review transfer preparation guides for specific schools and majors.
Notes:
Advisory to students transfering to University of California system:
HIST 17.1 & 18.1 combined: maximum credit, one course.
HIST 17.2 & 18.2 combined: maximum credit, one course.