历史系提供三个课程：课程A（针对希望成为历史老师的学生），课程B（针对对历史专业开放的其他领域的学生感兴趣）和课程C（旨在提供历史方法论的技能和培训）适用于博物馆，档案馆，图书馆，历史建筑等的公共和口述历史专业人士）。每个课程都包括提供对美国和世界历史的调查的课程，并介绍历史研究的性质。为了满足Track A的其余要求，学生必须参加历史上的其他课程以及其他社会科学领域的课程。为了满足Track B的其他要求，学生需要从集中领域的众多课程中进行选择。
Public history is that which is all around us in the many public spaces outside of the classroom. Public historians often are professionals or consultants who preserve history in the public sphere. They often work in museums, government agencies, cultural resources areas, libraries, film or media. They work to make history accessible for the general public. The program at CSUSB is designed to give undergraduate and graduate students a broad overview of the practice of public history and opportunities for internships. Students are required to take introduction to public and oral history, upper-division history content courses, and complete an internship. (Students must apply for acceptance to the internship program and meet the minimum GPA requirement of 3.0. Application materials are available below. Students who do not meet the minimum requirements for an internship should consult with one of the Public History professors for advising.) Students choose additional courses according to their interests and career goals. These courses include: historical archaeology, exhibit design, museum and archive management, archival practices, museum methods, etc. Students also benefit from extracurricular opportunities, like working on the student editorial board and publishing the CSUSB journal of history, History in the Making. As history majors, students receive broad training in the academic discipline of history, and broad content knowledge by surveying courses from around the globe.