Meets American Institutions requirement. A high school or college GPA of 3.0 or above. A course designed for honors students using a seminar format, role playing and student facilitated discussion highlighting America's role in working with other nations to build a future while confronting such global perils as ethnic and religious conflict, environmental degradation, poverty, social injustices. Stresses role of societal change. An examination of the major social, political, and economic, developments that have shaped California history from the Indian period to the present.
Special attention is given to regional issues, minority groups, and cultural change.
Survey of the history of Black people in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Focuses on American economic and political development, including law as it affected Blacks, and emphasizes the evolution of race relations in the American South. A study of Latin American civilization from the Indian and European origins to Independence. Topics include native cultures, Spanish and Portuguese colonialism, the evolution of regional societies, and intellectual trends. Interdisciplinary in approach.