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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Can be taken for credit as Health Education 142 or Psychology 142. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course will examine the aging process in the contemporary world. Topics explored will include physical changes, psychological changes, and social changes occurring as people age; theories regarding why these changes occur; and how to maximize potential in these areas. Other topics will be work and retirement, death and bereavement, local and national resources for aging individuals, and myths associated with aging. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B, CSU Area E, IGETC Area 4
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
(1-3 units)(Please see Directed Study category.) (CSU w/limit)
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture hours weekly.) History of the United States from its Native American and colonial background to the present. Social, economic, and political institutions and developments are examined. History 100 may fulfill the transfer requirement for those majoring in non-social science fields. Can also be offered in a distance learning format. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B or F, CSU Area D-6, IGETC Area 4, CSU US History, Constitution, and American Ideals
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Four lecture hours weekly.) Beginning with the earliest transitions of human societies to sedentary communities, this course investigates the original river-based civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China; the evolution of early societies in Sub-Saharan Africa and the pre-Columbian Americas; major Eurasian states and empires of antiquity (Hellenic, Persian, Chinese, Indian, Roman); major pre-Columbian civilizations including Inca, Maya, and the Valley of Mexico; and the transformations of the post-classical world, with emphasis on the impacts of the universalizing traditions of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B, CSU Area D-6, IGETC Area 4
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Four lecture hours weekly.) Beginning with the overseas voyages of discovery during the 15th century C.E., this course traces the growing complexity of global interaction associated with early modern societies in their pre-industrial phases. The focus includes demographic, institutional, cultural, material, and epidemiological aspects of transcontinental and trans-oceanic exchanges. The second half of the course examines societies from a global perspective as they come to be transformed from the mid-18th century C.E. by the revolutionary forces of industrialization and secular ideologies (e.g. liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism, fascism, terrorism), producing the rise and fall of states and empires, the unleashing of two world wars and countless regional conflicts, and redefining the nature of a contemporary world increasingly globalized and interdependent, as well as fraught with perils and challenges. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B, CSU Area D-6, IGETC Area 4
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is a nontechnical introduction to the history of science and technology, examining their impact on civilization, including significant social, political, religious, ethical, artistic and intellectual repercussions resulting from scientific and technological advances. Themes and topics include (but are not limited to) the Neolithic Revolution, ancient Greek mathematics and cosmology, Islamic civilization, Chinese alchemy, the Copernican Revolution and Newtonian synthesis, the industrial and biological revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and twentieth century transformations (relativity, the atom, genes and DNA, cyberspace, string theory). (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B, CSU Area D-6 or D-7, IGETC Area 4
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture hours weekly.) A survey of California's past through the Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. Among the topics covered are the California missions, the Gold Rush era, San Francisco's "Victorian" era, and recent political, economic, ansocial developments. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Areas B & G, CSU Area D-6, IGETC Area 4
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course examines Western Civilization from its Middle Eastern origins through the classical Greek and Roman civilizations and the Middle Ages. Note: History 110, 111, and 112 may be taken in any sequence and require no prerequisites. They are especially recommended for students who intend to pursue their education toward a Bachelor's degree. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B, CSU Area D-6, IGETC Area 4, CAN HIST SEQ A = Hist 110 + 111 + 112
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course examines Western Civilization during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, through the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, concluding with the Congress of Vienna. Note: History 110, 111, and 112 may be taken in any sequence and require no prerequisites. They are especially recommended for students who intend to pursue their education toward a Bachelor's degree. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area B, CSU Area D-6, IGETC Area 4, CAN HIST SEQ A = Hist 110 + 111 + 112
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