HIST 471 - History of the East Bay: Community Research and Engagement

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D
A research-based course designed to bring students into the local Bay Area community to conduct research, investigate community stories and understand the link between history and community identity.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Identify a historical site or community in the Bay Area to research;

2. Complete at least one site visit, to document and evaluate community

context for the historic site;

3. Prepare a research prospectus for the historic site or community;

4. Use digital media or other exhibition media to present primary source

evidence gathered about the historic site or community;

5. Develop a sense of the unique history of the Bay Area within the

context of state, national and global history, and as a reflection of

national and global trends;

6. Investigate public history as a career field, according to standards

provided by the National Council on Public History;

7. Discuss the Certificate in Public History at Cal State East Bay.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.