Historical knowledge provides a context for understanding the present and preparing for the future. The Associate in Arts in History for Transfer Degree offers a broad range of courses designed to enable students to comprehend how the community, nation, and the contemporary world have been shaped by historical events and forces. By studying history of many societies and cultures we gain perspective on our own. These courses may be taken to satisfy General Education requirements or to meet the requirements for an Associate in Arts in History for Transfer (ADT) degree. The ADT in History degree prepares students to seamlessly transfer into the CSU system to pursue a baccalaureate degree in History or a related major.

学习成果

Upon Successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

- Practice and analyze democratic civic engagement.

- Demonstrate and evaluate relationships between local, national, and international issues, movements, and ideas.

- Demonstrate cultural competence, language skills, cross-cultural adaptation skills, and critically reflect upon their own social, historical, cultural, economic, and political contexts.

- Evaluate the impact of globalization upon inequality, privilege, perspective, social conditions and institutions, power structures, difference, and social change.

- Describe contemporary social and political values, and assess their historical and global linkage.

- Demonstrate a range of skills including: research, documentation, analysis, evaluation, communication, contextualization, teamwork, observation, and cultural competency by relating social science concepts and theories to issues of importance to local communities.

- Demonstrate college level reading, writing and critical thinking in the formulation of research assignment/s, and demonstrate effective skills in finding, evaluating, interpreting, and using both primary and secondary sources.

- Identify, develop, use, and assess tools and methods for community change and social justice.
 

Associate Degree Transfer Requirements:

- Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units that are eligible for transfer to the California State University, including both of the following:

(A) The Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) or the California State University General Education – Breadth Requirements.

(B) A minimum of 18 semester units or 27 quarter units in a major or area of emphasis, as determined by the community college district.

- Obtainment of a minimum grade point average of 2.0.