The General Major

Flexible: Focus your upper-division coursework on topics that you are passionate about such as inequality, politics, war, and sports and popular culture.

Interdisciplinary: Take courses from across the range of the social sciences.

Many skills, many careers: Hone skills like the ability to analyze an issue from multiple perspectives. Pursue many career paths, including law, business, and government.

The Major for Future School Teachers

Master the content you will teach: Our curriculum covers the wide variety of social science topics you will teach in public schools, including history, political science, geography, and economics.

Learn how to teach: through courses like Hist 410: U.S. History for Teachers.

Fulfill the state’s requirements: Majoring in Social Science automatically fulfills a key prerequisite for admission to teacher credential programs: showing that you have single subject competence in Social Science. You will not need to take the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET).

An accelerated, 4-year program: Our optional Accelerated Curriculum for Educators (ACE) is the quickest route to earning your preliminary credential and stepping into the classroom.