History

Welcome to History at Cal Poly Pomona!

History remains one of the most popular majors in American universities. It serves as an excellent preparation for law school, the foreign service, and positions in the public or private sector that involve research, analysis, and presentation. At Cal Poly Pomona, it is also the place where future secondary school history and social science teachers receive their content training.

We offer two major options -- the general option and the pre-credential option -- and a minor for undergraduates. We also have a Master's Program designed particularly (but not exclusively) for secondary-level school teachers who wish to develop their research skills and deepen their content knowledge of American or World history.

Find out more about our program by browsing the drop-down menu on the left!

Land Acknowledgements

We at Cal Poly Pomona respectfully acknowledge the original caretakers of this land, the Tongva peoples, and all of their ancestors, elders, and descendants, past, present and emerging. We also recognize this land known as Los Angeles County today is also home to many Indigenous peoples from all over, and we are grateful for the opportunity to live and work here as guests on these lands, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Tongva.