# History (HIS) courses Chabot College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 17 courses Source: https://chabot.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/3973/6079/6083/7528/7583 "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026. ### HIS 1 — History of Western Civilization to 1600 - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/chabot-college/schedule/summer-2026/his.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Letter Grade Only This course covers the origin and development of civilization in the Mediterranean and its expansion into Europe - the Near East, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and the Reformation. Influences in religion, culture, technology and political structures that develop into European society of the early modern period will be studied. ### HIS 2 — History of Western Civilization Since 1600 - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only History of the Modern Western World from the end of the medieval period to the present. The course develops the western world, (Europe and the Americas), as these societies develop modern ways of thinking and producing, and tracks the rise of the modern nation-state. Interaction with other civilizations, and globalization will be studied. ### HIS 3 — World History: Beginnings to 1500 - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Letter Grade Only A survey of world history from the beginning of civilization and ancient cultures to 1500 C.E. Interconnections and divergence among cultures and civilizations in a global context will be emphasized. During the classical period, up to 500 C.E., similarities and differences as civilizations developed will be examined. The postclassical period, 500 to 1500, will look specifically at contact and interaction among peoples. Broader forces that affect civilizations such as trade patterns, migration, nomadism, syncretism, and disease patterns will be studied. ### HIS 4 — World History: 1500 to the Present - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only A survey of world history from 1500, including the early modern and modern eras. Interconnections and exchange will be emphasized. Similarities and differences among cultures will be examined. Cultural, intellectual, and technological developments and exchange will be explored. Broader forces that affect civilizations such as borderlands, exploration and travel, gender and class will be studied. ### HIS 12 — History of California - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/chabot-college/schedule/summer-2026/his.md); Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Optional Historical development of California, including Spanish exploration and settlement and the Mexican Revolution. Transformation of California under United States control: the American conquest, the Gold Rush, and dynamic expansion to the present day. Includes Native Americans, Mexican Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans and African Americans. Emphasis on political, economic, and social factors which transformed American California from a relatively simple rural society to a highly complex ethnically diversified agricultural-industrial system. Analysis of historical issues and current problems. ### HIS 25 — American Indian History and Culture - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Letter Grade Only Historical survey of American Indians in the United States from earliest times to the present day. Emphasis on Indian societies and cultures, Indian relations with predominant cultures, Indian movement for self-preservation, and historical background necessary to understand contemporary problems of the Indians. Emphasis on the Indians of California and the West. ### HIS 28 — Supplemental Instruction in U.S. Women's History - **Units:** 1 - **Hours:** 18 Lecture - **Corequisite:** HIS 49 - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only Introduction to and review of context-based skills for effective participation and completion of U.S. Women's History. Emphasis on building skills to succeed in a history survey course. ### HIS 32 — Colonial Latin America - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only This introductory course examines how the convergence of Indigenous, European, and African, peoples in "Latin America" created many complex and dynamic cultures and societies, in the regions we call the American Southwest (in the north), all the way to Chile and Argentina (in the south), and everything in between. This course will assess over three hundred years of history from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Interrogating a robust selection of primary and secondary sources will allow for an in-depth coverage of the men and women who reflected the peoples, places, events, beliefs, practices, institutions, cultures, and conflicts of their own times and will allow us to foreground the lived experience of a diverse array of “Latin Americans.” This course will also demonstrate that one cannot understand "modern" Latin America without studying its colonial past. No previous study of Latin American history is required for this course. ### HIS 33 — Modern Latin America - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only This introductory course provides an overview to twentieth-century Latin American history with a focus on the social circumstances and experience of people across social classes. We will consider how larger processes of change such as urbanization, revolution, civil war and U.S. intervention have all critically shaped everyday life in this region. Yet we will also focus on how Latin Americans have adapted and responded to these forces using an assortment of strategies. This course will seek to develop a critical perspective of modern Latin America by interpreting diverse forms of representation such as feature films, documentaries, literature, memoirs, and testimonios. ### HIS 42 — Asian American History: 18th Century to 1945 - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Optional An exploration of Asian American history from the 18th century to WWII. A critical and comparative analysis of the impacts of race, racialization, white supremacy, orientalism, colonialism, imperialism, war, social inequity, and migration on the first wave of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, India and the Philippines. Special emphasis will be placed on labor and immigration policies, citizenship, community, social and political resistance, solidarity, and on the intersection of race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and class. This course will ask students to examine how Asian American history transforms U.S. history. This course includes analysis of the U. S. Constitution, Supreme Court Rulings, and California State and local government issues related to the rights of Asian Americans. ### HIS 43 — Asian American History: Early 20th Century - 21st Century - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only A historical survey and critical comparative analysis of the impacts of race, racialization, white supremacy, imperialism, war, social inequity, and migration on Asian Americans from the early 20th century to the present. Major topics will include wars, refugees, immigration policies and settlement patterns, citizenship, laws, labor and socioeconomic class, decolonization, anti-racist struggles, resistance and solidarity, education, discrimination, and social identity. An intersectional frame will be applied, examining the role of race, ethnicity, immigration status, religion, language, gender, sexuality, and class. The course will interrogate the term “Asian American” and apply comparative analysis among diverse groups including Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian. This course includes analysis of the U. S. Constitution, Supreme Court Rulings, and California State and local government issues related to the rights of Asian Americans. ### HIS 48 — U. S. Women's History Through Reconstruction - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Letter Grade Only A survey of United States women's history from its pre-colonial, indigenous origins through the end of Reconstruction. Emphasizes the interaction and experiences of diverse racial/ethnic groups that include at least three of the following groups: African-Americans, Chicana/Latina Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans. Emphasis on (1) distinctively American patterns of political, economic, social, intellectual and geographic developments, (2) the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups in American history, and (3) the evolution of American institutions and ideals including the U. S. Constitution, representative democratic government, the framework of California state and local government, and the relationships between state/local government and the federal government. ### HIS 49 — U.S. Women's History Post-Reconstruction - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only A survey of United States women's history from 1877 to the present with a special emphasis on the interaction amongst and the experiences of diverse racial/ethnic (African Americans, European Americans, Indigenous North Americans, Chicana/Latina Americans, Asian Americans, and Middle Eastern Americans), and socio-economic groups in American history. Includes analysis of (1) the U. S. Constitution as a living document in the context of historical change, and (2)significant issues related to California state and local governments. ### HIS 52 — United States History from a Chicano Perspective I - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Letter Grade Only A survey of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Chicana/o experience within the context of U.S. history from Mesoamerican origins to the Reconstruction era. Students will critically analyze the struggles of Chicanas/os in the historical development of the United States with comparisons to other groups. Students will also analyze and critique race and racism, colonialism and white supremacy, while also centering movements for sovereignty, self-determination and anti-racism. Major topics include European colonization, Indigenous cultures and slavery, the formation of the American political system, structural racism and segregation, the U.S. War with Mexico, and the American Civil War. This course includes analysis of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Rulings, and California State and local government issues related to the rights of Mexican and Mexican Americans. ### HIS 53 — United States History from a Chicano Perspective II - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Letter Grade Only A survey course of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Chicana/o experience within the context of U.S. history from the Reconstruction era to the present. Students will critically analyze the struggles of Mexican Americans in the historical development of California and the United States with comparisons to other groups. The course will also include analysis and critique of structural racism, white supremacy and racial violence while also centering movements for civil rights, self-determination, and anti-racism. ### HIS 62 — The African-American Experience in U.S. History Through the Civil War - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/chabot-college/schedule/fall-2026/his.md) - Grading: Letter Grade Only This course presents a survey of the history of the United States from the perspective of African Americans. It presents that perspective in the contexts of the experiences of Native peoples, European Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos/Latinas before 1865. A critical and comparative analysis of the impacts of race, racialization, white supremacy, gender, class, colonialism, imperialism, war, social inequity, and migration on African Americans. Special emphasis will be placed on labor, citizenship, community, social and political resistance, solidarity, and the intersection of race, gender, and class. Early African history, the trade in African slaves, and exploration of the political, economic, demographic and social influences shaping African American life and culture prior to 1865 will be examined. The U.S. government and the Constitution, the California government and Constitution, and other constitutional models for comparison and contrast will also be covered. ### HIS 63 — The African American Experience in U.S. History From Reconstruction - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 Lecture - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules - Grading: Optional This course presents a survey of the history of the United States from the perspective of African Americans. It presents that perspective in the contexts of the experiences of Native peoples, European Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos/Latinas after 1865. A critical and comparative analysis of the impacts of race, racialization, white supremacy, gender, class, colonialism, imperialism, war, social inequity, and migration on African Americans. Special emphasis will be placed on labor, citizenship, community, social and political resistance, solidarity, and the intersection of race, gender, and class. The course explores the economic, cultural, institutional, political history of African Americans from the post-Civil War period to the present. The African American relationship with national, California state and local governments will also be covered.