History

HIST 1, History of Western Civilization I   3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course covers the development of Western civilization from its beginning in the valleys of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates through the Reformation. This course will acquaint students with the cultures of the Near East, Greece, and Rome; the medieval period; the Renaissance; and the Reformation. *Maximum credit allowed for History 1, 2 and 35, 36 is one series (two courses).

1376   8:00a-10:00a MTWTh   HSS 105   Kent M L

1377   8:00a-10:05a MTWTh   BUNDY 239   Keville T J

Above section 1377 meets at the Bundy Campus, 3171 South Bundy Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90066.

HIST 2, History of Western Civilization II   3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course is a study of Western civilization from the time of Louis XIV to the present including new philosophical concepts, literature, art forms, and social and economic development as well as political evolution. *Maximum credit allowed for History 1, 2 and 35, 36 is one series (two courses).

1378   10:15a-12:20p MTWTh   HSS 105   Kent M L

HIST 5, History of Latin America 1   3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This is a lecture and discussion course on Early Latin American history. The course covers Latin America from its indigenous past to independence. Focus is placed on political, social, cultural and economic developments.

1380   10:15a-12:20p MTWTh   HSS 205   Farrell J

HIST 6, History of Latin America 2   3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This is a lecture and discussion course on the historical development of Latin America from Independence to the present. Focus is placed on political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments. A study of Central America and the Caribbean is included.

1381   12:30p-2:35p MTWTh   HSS 205   Farrell J

HIST 10, Ethnicity and American Culture    3 units

Transfer: UC (meets UC Berkeley American Cultures graduation requirement), CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course satisfies Santa Monica College’s American Cultures requirement.

This course provides a survey of ethnic groups in America from precontact to the present, including Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos, emphasizing the forces prompting emigration and immigration, their roles in shaping American society and culture, their reception by and adaptation to American society, as well as an examination of contending theoretical models of the immigrant experience in America.

1382   8:00a-10:05a MTWTh   HSS 104   Cruz J S

1383   10:15a-12:20p MTWTh   HSS 106   Kawaguchi L A

HIST 11, History of the United States through Reconstruction    3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) + satisfies CSU U.S. History graduation requirement • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

A survey of the United States from the colonial period to post-Civil War Reconstruction, this course addresses developments in American culture; ethnic, racial, gender, and class relations; politics and the economy. It also considers American interaction with other nations, including both foreign policy and the relationship of domestic developments to the larger history of the modern world.

1384   8:00a-10:05a MTWTh   HSS 205   Mason K

1385   10:15a-12:20p MTWTh   HSS 103   Borghei S C

1386   12:30p-2:35p MTWTh   HSS 103   Borghei S C

HIST 12, United States History Since Reconstruction    3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) + satisfies CSU U.S. History graduation requirement • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

A survey of the United States from post-Civil War Reconstruction to the present, this course addresses developments in American culture; ethnic, racial, gender, and class relations; politics; and the economy. It also considers American interaction with other nations, including both foreign policy and the relationship of domestic developments to the larger history of the modern world.

1387   8:00a-10:05a MTWTh   HSS 106   Kawaguchi L A

1388   10:15a-12:20p MTWTh   HSS 104   Wilkinson Jr E C

1389   12:30p-2:35p MTWTh   BUNDY 235   Verge A C

Above section 1389 meets at the Bundy Campus, 3171 South Bundy Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90066.

HIST 13, History of the U.S. after 1945    3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This is a lecture and discussion course which examines and analyzes the development of the U.S. from 1945 to the present. Attention is given to the political, social, intellectual, cultural, and economic changes in American society. Such topics as the welfare state, McCarthyism, presidential power, foreign policy, consumerism and affluency, intellectuals and society, The New Frontier, the Great Society, Radicalism and popular culture, Vietnam, Watergate, and Reaganism are discussed.

1390   12:30p-2:35p MTWTh   HSS 104   Gantner D C

HIST 19, History of Mexico   3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

A survey of the history of Mexico from independence to the present, this course focuses on important social, cultural, political, and economic patterns in Mexico’s history. The impact of the U.S. relationship with Mexico will be analyzed.

1391   8:00a-10:05a MTWTh   HSS 204   Ruiz R

HIST 33, World Civilizations I    3 units

Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: None. • Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course provides a survey of world civilizations from the rise of humanity to 1500. The course will highlight major developments in the rise of humanity from early primitive conditions to the establishment of complex cultures. This activity will be explored through an examination of the impact human cultures have had on use of land, and the domestication of plants and animals in the various regions of the world. The major civilizations of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas will be examined in terms of their material culture as well as religious and philosophic ideas. A thematic approach will be used to contrast the bureaucratic, economic, technological, and political development to explain the rise and fall of the major centers of civilizations.

1393   8:00a-10:05a MTWTh   HSS 103   Clayborne D

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