Historical Research (Honors)
Certificate
About this program
The Certificate in Historical Research helps you build strong research and critical thinking skills, no matter your major. You’ll learn how to analyze sources, make clear arguments, and tell compelling stories about the past. This program supports your work across many fields and adds value to your degree. It’s a good way to show employers you can think deeply, organize ideas, and communicate clearly.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Scope
The 12-unit Undergraduate Historical Research (Honors) Certificate provides majors in any discipline with a way to improve their research skills. The Certificate will show up on transcripts as an independent course of study, and as such, is open to anyone earning an undergraduate degree at SF State. This is an excellent way to show employers that you are trained in critical thinking and research skills no matter what your major.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students will apply research methodologies to the analysis of primary source evidence to make compelling, original arguments about the past, situating their conclusions within the debates among historians. (Research Skills)
- Students will organize evidence, communicate complex information, tell engaging stories, and persuade their audience in a full-length thesis that communicates original research. (Communication Skills)
- Students will apply knowledge and understanding gained within disciplinary studies in History and, in many cases, allied disciplines within frameworks that mobilize concepts, ethics, methods, and theory relevant to the study of the past. (Understanding)