Chabot College offers an Associate in Arts for Transer Degreee in History specifically for majors who wish to transfer as History majors to a California State University. Historians study significant events of the human, recorded past. This broad field allows historians to study broad concepts such as world history, as well as focusing on shorter time periods, or specific groups of people or ideas. The core courses for the major cover those broad surveys of American history as well as the world. Students can then narrow the focus in other history courses that study certain areas of the world, specific groups in American history as well as other topics. They can also pursue related courses in other disciplines to round out their knowledge of historical events and approaches to history. The AA-T in History requires the following: Complete 60 semester units or 90 quarter units of CSU degree-applicable courses, earn a minimum overall grade point average of 2.0 in those CSU degree-applicable courses, earn a minimum grade of “C” (or “P”) for each course in the major, and complete either the IGETC or CSU GE-Breadth course pattern.

Career Opportunities

An Associate in Arts for Transfer Degree enables students to continue on to upper division and graduate studies, which can be used to pursue a career in teaching, research, or public history. Teaching can be done at many levels, from social studies and history in K-12, to college and university professorships. Historians can also work in the field of public history at historic sites, museums, historical societies, and at some corporations and businesses maintaining company histories and public relations. A degree in history is seen as excellent preparation for archival and library work and in the legal field. The skills learned while acquiring a history degree, such as research, cultural sensitivity, and effective writing and communication can translate to many other fields.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Analyze the causes and consequences of political, economic and social change;

- Synthesize factual information and historical evidence from a variety of sources and identify the connections between them;

- Demonstrate a body of knowledge about, and critical understanding of historical eras, their key events and ideas, and the process of change over time.