历史文学学士

历史是关于过去的，但也涉及到了解我们今天生活的世界。我们的教职员工力求了解并帮助您了解当今面临的挑战，例如经济不平等，环境恶化和种族主义，是如何随着时间而发展和变化的。我们还将探索有助于我们了解人们如何改变世界的社会运动和政治变革的模式。历史可以帮助我们了解人类与非人类世界互动的各种方式，以及人类活动如何随着时间而发生变化。它可以帮助我们欣赏过去的记录，因为它被保存在文本，物体，口述，纪念碑和记忆中。它可以使我们警觉到尚未保存的经历，并帮助我们询问为什么记录了某些事件和人民的叙述，而另一些却从视野中消失了
People often think of studying history as a matter of memorizing names and dates. While having a command of basic facts is important, college-level study of history shifts the focus to learning how to ask new questions, find new evidence, incorporate more voices, and reconsider old assumptions. As a UCSC history major, you will cultivate a broad understanding of human history across time and space. You will learn how the challenges that confront us today like economic inequality, environmental degradation, and racism, have developed and changed over time. You will explore the patterns of social movements and political transformation that help us understand how people change the world. History is about the past, but it is also about understanding the world we live in today.<br><br>As a history major you will explore your existing interests - and discover new ones - by taking a wide range of courses that focus on different geographic regions and time periods. At the same time, you will develop deep knowledge of a particular region of the world by choosing an area of specialization: Europe and the Mediterranean World, the Americas and Africa , or Asia and the Pacific. We also encourage students to specialize in multiple sub-fields, including imperialism, colonialism, gender, race, science and technology, and the environment.