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IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) or 4 (Social and Behavioral Science)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course is a chronological study of American economic history by major areas, including agriculture, industrial development, money, banking, and transportation. The roles of business, labor, and government are given a particular emphasis.

History 15 is the same course as Economics 15. Students may earn credit for one, but not both.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys African-American history from its beginnings in Africa through slavery, abolition, the Civil Rights movement, and into the present. The course will pay particular attention to the development of internal and external definitions of freedom and equality and to the influences of African Americans on the social, economic, political, and cultural development of the United States.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys Mexican history from pre-Columbian civilizations to the present. It addresses such major political, economic, social, and cultural developments as the Spanish conquest and colonial era; nineteenth-century struggles for independence; and political and economic transitions of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

C-ID: HIST 180.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the transformations of Western Civilization from the 16th century into the 21st century. It addresses social, economic, political, intellectual, and artistic transformations that relate to the development of nation-states, industrialization, imperialism, and international conflicts and migration.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys Californian history from its earliest settlement to the present. It addresses political, economic, social, cultural, and external developments that accompanied the state’s transformation from the Native American through the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the history of Russia from the 10th Century to the Present. Students will learn about the significant political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that shaped Russian historical development including its embrace of Christianity in the 10th Century, the rise of the Romanov Dynasty and the establishment of Russia as a powerful multi-ethnic state and empire. Moving chronologically, students will learn about the the rise of Soviet-style Communism, the totalitarian state created by Josef Stalin, the USSR’s during the Cold War including its engagement with Eurasian, African, and Latin American states, and they will gain a meaningful understanding of Russian history in the global era and thereby its role in contemporary international affairs.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the history of the Middle East, from the ancient civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates river valley to the present. Major topics include the religious, ethnic, social and political differences that developed prior to and since the emergence of Islam; the establishment of new states following the world wars, and the 21st-century engagement with globalizing trends.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys East Asian history to 1600, tracing the rise of classical Chinese civilization and the subsequent dispersion of this culture to Korea and Japan. Addressing the connections, convergences, and divergences in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea, it examines such topics as the earliest state-formations and the emergence and maturation of market economies and popular cultures prior to the modern era.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the development of China, Japan, and Korea from 1600 through their linked yet distinct modern transformations. It addresses such topics as early encounters with imperialism; divergent paths of 20th-century social, political, economic and intellectual change; world war, civil wars, and revolution; and their economic growth and social transformation in recent decades.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys South Asian history from the Indus Valley civilization to the Mughal Empire, offering an overview of the social, intellectual, cultural, political and economic patterns in the region that encompasses modern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. It highlights such major themes and events in the development of South Asian civilization as Aryan influence, the emergence of Hinduism and Buddhism, and the impact of Islam.

IGETC Area 4 (Social and Behavioral Sciences)

• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys Southeast Asian history up to the present. It examines topics such as religion and cultural change; women and gender; colonialism, decolonization, and the Cold War; economic and environmental change, within a regional and global context.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course examines the domestic and global politics of and between European states since 1914, exploring such topics as nationalism, imperialism, totalitarianism, decolonization, migrations, and European integration. The course will analyze these topics in relation to major events of the time period, including the World Wars, formation and collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite system, creation of the European Union, and disputes and cooperation between European states in the contemporary era of globalization.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the Jewish people and their history from biblical times to the present. The focus is on the development of major institutions, ideas, religious and cultural movements as well as the interaction between Jews and those amongst whom they have lived, from ancient Israel through the global diaspora.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the development of British Civilization from Roman times to the Restoration of 1660. It addresses the significant social, economic, political, intellectual, and artistic transformations that shaped British and Irish history, from Roman occupation through the medieval period and the political and religious upheavals of the English Reformation, Civil Wars, and Restoration.

IGETC Area 4 (Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys global environmental history from early human evolution to the present, focusing on the complex and consequential ways people have perceived, relied on, interacted with and been impacted by the natural world. Topics include the diverse patterns of interaction with land, water, plants, animals, and energy sources, as well as their economic, political, social, cultural, and technological aspects in the local, regional, and global context.

History 32 is the same course as Environmental Studies 32. Students may earn credit for one, but not both.

C-ID: HIST 150.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys world history from the rise of humanity to 1500, addressing human impact on the physical environment, the domestication of plants and animals, and the establishment of complex cultures. A thematic and chronological approach is used to examine the major civilizations of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe in terms of their political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural development and their inter-regional relations.

C-ID: HIST 160.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys world history from 1500 to the present, addressing major developments that contributed to global change. A thematic and chronological approach will be used to examine the economic, social, intellectual, cultural, and political transformations associated with development of and resistance to colonialism and imperialism, technological and industrial change in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, through the twentieth-century wars and global transitions that shape the contemporary world.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the political, economic, social, religious, and intellectual activities of African civilizations from the emergence of humankind to the eve of colonial conquest. It addresses such topics as early human settlements, the establishment of regional and Islamic states, the emergence and development of European imperialism, and African independence movements. It also traces the influence of the African diaspora on the Caribbean area and Brazil.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys African history from the eve of 1900 to the present, addressing such topics as African resistance to conquest; experiences with colonialism; settler colonialism in southern Africa; the rise of national liberation movements and achievement of independence, and the challenges of post-colonial nation building. It examines contemporary Africa through a review of economic, urban, rural, gender, and environmental concerns; kinship, and religion.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course surveys the development of British Civilization from the Restoration of 1660 into the early twenty-first century. It addresses the significant social, economic, political, intellectual, and artistic transformations that shaped British and Irish history, including the development of a constitutional monarchy, the industrial revolution, establishment of a global empire, Irish independence, involvement in world wars, the emergence of Thatcher conservatism, and beyond.