This certificate recognizes specialization in the historical dimensions of law and legal systems, both national and international, as well as social and public policymaking across multiple spheres and time periods. This certificate program may prepare students for graduate study and/or careers in law, public service, social policy, journalism, and NGOs.

Students must complete four courses from the following list and maintain a minimum combined GPA of 3.0. Each course may only be counted towards one certificate, and no substitutions are allowed.

 

Course List:

  • HISTORY 11 Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Since WWII
  • HISTORY 12 Terrorism
  • HISTORY 15A Native American History
  • HISTORY 15C Asian American Histories
  • HISTORY 15G Racial Segregation in Modern U.S.
  • HISTORY 70B Euro: Modern MiIgration
  • HISTORY 70B Beyond Brexit
  • HISTORY 70C African American History to 1877
  • HISTORY 70C US Labor History
  • HISTORY 70C Civil War and Reconstruction
  • HISTORY 70C Borderlands: US and Mexico
  • HISTORY 70D Race & Colonialism in Latin America’s Cities
  • HISTORY 100W FBI and the Black Freedom Movement
  • HISTORY 100W Galileo on Trial
  • HISTORY 137 Surviving Epidemics
  • HISTORY 140 US Labor and Gender
  • HISTORY 140 Progressivism
  • HISTORY 142A California Dreaming
  • HISTORY 147 Education and the American Dream
  • HISTORY 154 American Urban History
  • HISTORY 166 U.S. Intervention in Latin America