Classes in hist

HIST 1 United States History through Reconstruction 3.0 units
Description: History of the United States from the time before European contact with the Americas through Reconstruction. Emphasis will be placed on distinctive patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual, and geographic developments within their global context. At the conclusion of the course, the student should understand major themes in the history of the United States, and be able to explain various ways in which ideas about federal vs. state power, ethnicity, class, and gender divisions have influenced the nation's development. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. (C-ID: HIST 130)

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, distinguish, and interpret significant events, individuals and theories specific to US history from the colonial era through Reconstruction.
2. Describe, evaluate and assess key political, cultural and socioeconomic factors as they developed from the colonial period through Reconstruction.
3. Describe contemporary social and political values, and assess their historical linkage.
4. Demonstrate clarity, fairness and objectivity in assessing and debating PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS AS THEY relate to historical events.
5. Demonstrate college level reading, writing and critical thinking in the formulation of research assignment/s.
6. Demonstrate academic integrity, discipline and honesty in class conduct and assignments.


HIST 2 United States History Reconstruction to the Present 3.0 units
Description: History of the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Emphasis will be placed on distinctive patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual, and geographic developments within their global context. At the conclusion of the course, the student should understand major themes in the history of the United States, and be able to explain various ways in which ideas about federal vs. state power, ethnicity, class, and gender divisions have influenced the nation's development. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. (C-ID: HIST 140)

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, distinguish, and interpret significant events, individuals and theories specific to US history from Reconstruction to the present, with attention to their global context.
2. Describe, evaluate and assess key political, cultural and socioeconomic factors as they developed from Reconstruction to the present, both within the US and in a global context, with clarity, thorough understanding, and fairness.
3. Describe contemporary social and political values, and assess their historical and global linkage.
4. Demonstrate college level reading, writing and critical thinking in the formulation of research assignment/s, and demonstrate academic honesty and effective skills in finding, evaluating, interpreting, and using both primary and secondary sources.


HIST 3 History of California 3.0 units
Description: A study of California's history from pre-contact with Europeans to the present day. Social, cultural, economic, political and environmental issues will be explored towards an understanding of California's history. ADVISORY: Eligible for English 1A.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify historical trends in California's economic, political, social, technological, and cultural life using evidence from research and course materials, especiallly primary documents
2. Analyse the historical complexities of California's ethnic, class, gender, and sexual dynamics.
3. Critique California's use of natural resources, assessing the impact on your own lived experience.
4. Demonstrate and refine research and civic engagement skills using local and state topics and activities.


HIST 4A Global History Before 1500 3.0 units
Description: Beginning with the agricultural revolution, this course examines the development of global society before 1500. With attention to the interactions between humans and environment, developing states, cultures, economies, and social structures are examined in global context. The course emphasizes historical, analytical, and research skills. It asks students to analyze the evolution of global values, beliefs, and practices, as well as the conditions and results of social change. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. (C-ID: HIST 150) ADVISORY: English 280.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain, analyze, and predict historical interactions between humans and the environment, and evaluate use of resources in the construction of human societies.
2. Compare, contrast, and critique of the development, maturation, interaction, and transformation of cultures and social structures, and the processes of state-building, expansion, and conflict.
3. Develop and practice historical thinking skills including analysis, argumentation, chronological reasoning, interpretation, contextualization, comparison, and synthesis through the development and completion of a historical research project.


HIST 4B Global History After 1500 3.0 units
Description: Beginning with the European Renaissance, this course examines the development of global society after 1500. With attention to the interactions between humans and environment, developing states, cultures, economics, and social structures are examined in global context. The course emphasizes historical, analytical, and research skills. It asks students to analyze the evolution of global values, beliefs, and practices, as well as the conditions and results of social change and globalized human activity. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. (C-ID: HIST 160) ADVISORY: Eligible for English 1A.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain, analyze, and predict historical interactions between humans and the environment.
2. Compare and contrast various historical models for state building, expansion, and conflict.
3. Analysis of the creation, expansion, interaction, and transformation of economic systems.
4. Compare, contrast, and critique of the development, maturation, interaction, and transformation of cultures and social structures.
5. Develop and refine varied research skills, using global history topics to look deeply and broadly at human history.
6. Develop and practice historical thinking skills including analysis, argumentation, chronological reasoning, interpretation, contextualization, comparison, and synthesis.


HIST 5 Women's Lives in Early United States History 3.0 units
Description: This survey course begins with pre-contact peoples and extends to the end of the nineteenth century. The class examines the construction of womanhood through United States history, and the effects of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation upon women's experiences. Students will study the contributions of various individual women and groups of women in creating the modern United States, and will analyze social, political, economic, and cultural forces affecting women to both join and resist movements for social change. Students will also learn to apply contemporary feminist theory to traditional historical approaches. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. ADVISORY: Eligible for English 280.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish, evaluate, and contrast roles played by women in US history at different times
2. Analyze the effects of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation upon individual women and upon women in social groups
3. Relate changes in women's lives to social, political, and economic changes and social change movements in the United States
4. Develop and refine varied research skills, using women?s history topics to look deeply and broadly at how women defined the various issues studied through primary and secondary scholarly sources.


HIST 6 Women's Lives in Recent United States History 3.0 units
Description: The class examines the construction of womanhood in the US during the twentieth century. The class explores the effects of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation upon women's experiences. Students will study the contributions of various individual women and groups of women in creating the modern United States, and will analyze social, political, economic, and cultural forces affecting women to both join and resist movements for social change. Students will also learn to apply contemporary feminist theory to traditional historical approaches. ADVISORY: English 280

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish, evaluate, and contrast roles played by women in US history at different times
2. Analyze the effects of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation upon individual women and upon women in social groups
3. Relate changes in women's lives to social, political, and economic changes in the United States
4. Develop and refine varied research skills, using women?s history topics to look deeply and broadly at how women defined the various issues studied through primary and secondary scholarly sources.


HIST 7A History of Western Civilization 3.0 units
Description: A study of major elements in Western heritage from the ancient world to the eighteenth century. Course will survey intellectual, political, social, economic and cultural development of the Western World. (C-ID: HIST 170) ADVISORY: Eligible for English 1A.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Trace the development of various Western ideals and human institutions, and assess the extent that society was changed, benefited or damaged by them.
2. Analyze various approaches taken in Western civilizations to questions of individual vs. community rights, free-will vs. pre-ordination, and empire vs. independent government.
3. Research and assess issues related to religious development and social stratification.


HIST 7B History of Western Civilization 3.0 units
Description: A study of major elements in western heritage from Renaissance Europe to the present. Emphasis is on ideas, attitudes and institutions basic to western civilization of enduring interest. (C-ID: HIST 180) ADVISORY: Eligible for English 1A.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, distinguish and interpret significant events, individuals, and theories specific to Western civilizations from the mid-sixteenth century to the present.
2. Identify and analyze various contemporary social values and assess their historical linkage.
3. Trace key European national and international affairs; and analyze their economic, political, and social impacts.


HIST 10 African-American History 3.0 units
Description: This class examines how social, political, cultural, intellectual, and economic aspects of African-American life developed in the course of United States history. Students will explore the early effects of race-based ideology, and will consider the legacies of slavery and African-American economic underdevelopment. Students will also learn about the contributions of various African-American individuals and groups to the modern United States, and will use various indicators to assess the current state of the nation's ethnic relations. Also listed ETHN 10B.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and explain the changes in the lives of African-Americans that have and have not resulted from social, political, and economic change movements in the United States.
2. Explain the contributions of African-American individuals and groups to US history and society.
3. Summarize the contemporary social, cultural, and/or political struggles of Black and African American communities in the United States and the historical forces that contributed to them.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between power, race/ethnicity, class, and gender in many aspects of life, particularly as the relate the African American experience.


HIST 12 Mexican American Cultural History 3.0 units
Description: The Mexican American experience as influenced by society in the United States. Emphasis will be on the historical and contemporary contributions made by the Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Mexican American. Emphasis will also be on the social, economic, and political milieu of the Mexican American within the context of the American society. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. This course is also listed as HUM 12. ADVISORY: Eligible for English 1A.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Survey, examine, compare and evaluate major historical eras in Mexican American history.
2. Identify and define trends in Mexican American, Chicano, and Xicano social and political thought.
3. Critically assess theories appropriate to the discipline.
4. Appraise and critique historical and cultural literature.


HIST 21 Ancient Americas: A History through Art 3.0 units
Description: A critical survey of history through the arts of pre-Columbian natives of North, Central and South America. The course will cover major societies and events from the appearance of major civilizations through the initial colonization efforts of European nations. Due to the distinct history of the Americas, this course uses the arts - architecture, sculpture, ceramics and painting, among others - of ancient societies as a primary source material. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. This course is also listed as ART 21. ADVISORY: Eligible for English 250.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe the role Art has played in the development of ancient civilizations of the Americas. Outline range of cultures and art forms.
2. Recognize and identify examples of major architecture, artisan goods, painting and sculpture noting contributions of the major cultures and eras.
3. Denote social, economic and political structures as interpreted by scholars reflected in limited remains of indigenous peoples of the Americas.
4. Interpret and demonstrate the historical, philosophical, and technical contributions of various cultures. Explain and analyze how and where cultures were influenced by others, and distinguish from distinct cultural practices.


HIST 22 Field Work and Service 0.5 units
Description: Supervised field work within the college and/or local agencies. Students serve in useful group activities in leadership roles prescribed for them by the faculty supervisor, and when appropriate community agencies. A maximum of six units may be earned. These courses do not transfer to UC. They may transfer to CSU. Check with a counselor. This is a pass/no pass course. REQUIRED: Learning contracts must be filled out and signed by the student and the supervising instructor.



HIST 23 Independent Study 1.0 units
Description: Designed to afford selected students specialized opportunities for exploring areas at the independent study level. The courses may involve extensive library work, research in the community, or special projects. May be repeated until six units of credit are accrued. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. REQUIRED: The study outline prepared by the student and the instructor must be filed with the department and the dean.



HIST 98 Special Topics 0.5 units
Description: Special topics courses examine current problems or issues of interest to students within a specific discipline area. For topical content information, consult with the appropriate department chairperson. For transfer status, check with a counselor. May be repeated for credit with different topics.