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TTAC unanimously forwards revised History BA field of study for public comment

Texas Transfer Advisory Committee, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) ยท December 9, 2025

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The Texas Transfer Advisory Committee voted to adopt a recommended History BA field of study using an alternative framework that lists modern language courses as directed electives; the committee will post the proposal for a 30-day public comment period before forwarding it to the commissioner.

The Texas Transfer Advisory Committee voted to adopt a recommended field of study for the Bachelor of Arts in History and will post the proposal for a 30-day public comment period before sending the final package to the commissioner for approval.

Jacob Blosser, professor of history at Texas Woman's University and co-chair of the history subcommittee, presented the subcommittee's recommendation and explained that an alternative framework allows any ACGM modern language course to be listed in directed electives rather than naming specific languages. "The subcommittee recommends that TTAC vote to adopt the following courses as the field of study curriculum, utilizing the alternative field of study," Blosser said.

Committee members asked whether requiring Texas history or Mexican American history would create additional coursework for transfer students. Members clarified that upper-level Texas history courses served different purposes than community-college survey courses and that institutions could accept the field under the proposed framework. A naming correction was made during discussion: what had been listed as "Mexican history 1 and 2" should read "Mexican American history 1 and 2," and staff said they would update the public-facing document.

During a roll-call vote, Dr. Laura Saenz (UTRGV) moved to accept the History BA recommendation and Megan Kelly (Stephen F. Austin State University) seconded. The committee's four-year and two-year representatives recorded affirmative votes in the roll call and the co-chair declared the motion passed with no votes against.

The committee will post the revised field of study and related documents in the Texas Register for a 30-day public comment period. Staff said they will collect directed-elective input from four-year partners and make final edits before forwarding the full field-of-study package, including core, foundation and directed electives, to the commissioner for final review.