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This track proceeds from a different wager: that global structures must be read historically, not ideologically. It expands beyond the Philippine center toward Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, and East Asia, not as scattered surveys but as formations of power, conflict, modernity, and transformation. The student is trained to read diplomacy, empire, nationalism, Cold War alignments, and contemporary geopolitical tensions as sedimented histories rather than headlines. It caters to those oriented toward foreign service, international NGOs, policy research, or global studies — but more fundamentally, to those who want to understand how world orders emerge, fracture, and recompose themselves.
This track proceeds from a different wager: that global structures must be read historically, not ideologically. It expands beyond the Philippine center toward Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, and East Asia, not as scattered surveys but as formations of power, conflict, modernity, and transformation. The student is trained to read diplomacy, empire, nationalism, Cold War alignments, and contemporary geopolitical tensions as sedimented histories rather than headlines. It caters to those oriented toward foreign service, international NGOs, policy research, or global studies — but more fundamentally, to those who want to understand how world orders emerge, fracture, and recompose themselves.
General Requirements
General Requirements
The International History Track may be read as a staged curriculum whose progression is governed by three linked layers: the Basic History Courses, which a student must pass in order to proceed to the Core Courses, which in turn are required before a student can take the Major Courses. In this structure, the Basic History Courses are GEC105 Readings in Philippine History, GEC109 Life and Works of Rizal, and HIS003 History of Filipino Muslims and Indigenous Peoples of MinSuPala, and these serve as the gateway into the program’s core disciplinary formation.
Foundation Stage
Foundation Stage
The program begins with a foundation stage in the first year, where students complete general education, Filipino, physical education, and national service alongside the Basic History Courses. In the first year, first semester, students take GEC101 Understanding the Self, GEC105 Readings in Philippine History, GEC104 Mathematics in the Modern World, GEC102 Purposive Communication, FIL101 Wika at Kultura sa Mapayapang Lipunan, PED001 Exercise Prescription and Management, and NST001 National Service Training Program 1, for a total of 17 (20) units with 17 (20) lecture hours/week and 0 lab hours/week. In the first year, second semester, they take GEC103 The Contemporary World, GEC109 Life and Works of Rizal, HIS003 History of Filipino Muslims and Indigenous Peoples of MinSuPala, FIL102 Ekokritisismo at Pagpapahalaga sa Kalikasan, GEC106 Arts Appreciation, PED002 Dance/Martial Arts, and NST002 National Service Training Program 2, for a total of 17 (20) units with 17 (20) lecture hours/week and 0 lab hours/week.
Core Disciplinary Stage
Core Disciplinary Stage
Once the Basic History Courses are passed, the curriculum moves into the core disciplinary formation stage in the second year. In the second year, first semester, students take the core framing and skill foundations in HST050 Philosophy of History, HST060 World Geography, and HST030 Introduction to the Study and Writing of History, while continuing broader formation through FIL103 Inobasyon sa Wikang Filipino, GEC107 Ethics, PED003 Individual/Dual Sports/Traditional/Recreational Games, and SPA101 Elementary Spanish, for a total of 20 units with 20 lecture hours/week and 0 lab hours/week. In the second year, second semester, students complete the core methodological and civilizational base through GEC108 Science, Technology and Society, HST040 Historical Methodology, HST070 Survey of Asian Civilization, and HST080 Survey of Western Civilization, alongside FPE101 Fundamentals of Peace Education, SPA102 Intermediate Spanish, and PED004 Team Sports, again totaling 20 units with 20 lecture hours/week and 0 lab hours/week.
Major Specialization Stage
Major Specialization Stage
With the Core Courses completed, the curriculum advances into the major specialization stage of the third year, where students take the program’s main disciplinary concentrations in Philippine, regional, and international history, while also entering the formal research pathway. In the third year, first semester, students take HST100 Philippine Pre-Colonial History, HST101 Economic History of the Philippines, HST102 Diplomatic History of the Philippines, HST104 History of the United States of America, HST105 Modern and Contemporary Europe, HST106 Ethnohistory of the Indigenous Communities of the Philippines, and SPA103 Conversational Spanish, for a total of 21 units with 21 lecture hours/week and 0 lab hours/week. In the third year, second semester, they take HST103 History of Southeast Asia, HST107 Gender and Development in Philippine History, and the International-track regional courses HST134 History of the Middle East, HST130 History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, and HST133 History of Africa, together with HST198 Research Methods and SPA104 Advanced Spanish, again totaling 21 units with 21 lecture hours/week and 0 lab hours/week.
Capstone Stage
Capstone Stage
The fourth year then functions as the capstone and professionalization stage, where major-level global breadth is completed, field immersion is required, and thesis writing closes the program. In the fourth year, first semester, students take HST132 History of Latin America, HST131 History of Russia, and HST196 Practicum (180 hours), for a total of 9 units with 6 lecture hours/week, 180 hrs lab/field, and 186 hrs total. In the fourth year, second semester, they complete the program through HST199 Undergraduate Thesis and HST122 Modern East Asia, for a total of 6 units with 6 lecture hours/week, 0 lab hours/week, and 6 total hours/week.
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