IMPAC REPORT OF NOVEMBER 13, 2004 MEETING HISTORY NOVEMBER 2004 Attending: Judith Anderson (CSU Pomona); Elizabeth Cipres (Chaffey College) Articulation; Michael Flores (Cypress College); William Loiterman (Los Angeles Harbor College); Peggy Renner (Glendale College), Chair; Michael Parrish (UC San Diego), Lead Faculty; Stan Allotey (Compton College), Articulation. The attending history faculty began by reviewing the list of history courses with CAN numbers from the proposed revisions of April 30-May 1, 2004. We accepted the revised language and adopted the descriptions with the understanding that they would be sent forward for further approval. Here is the approved list:
CAN: HIST 1 TITLE: Survey of Western Civilization, 1st Quarter DESCRIPTION: Western civilization from origins to the medieval times. Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 2 TITLE: Survey of Western Civilization, 1st Semester DESCRIPTION: Western civilization from origins to the early modern era. Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 3 TITLE: Survey of Western Civilization, 2nd Quarter DESCRIPTION: Western civilization from medieval times to the early modern era. Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 4 TITLE: Survey of Western Civilization, 2nd Semester DESCRIPTION: Western civilization from the early modern era to the present. Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis.
CAN: HIST 5 TITLE: Survey of Western Civilization, 3rd Quarter DESCRIPTION: Western civilization from the early modern era to the present. Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 8 TITLE: United States History DESCRIPTION: Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces from the peoples of America and their institutions from the pre-colonial period through Reconstruction. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 10 TITLE: United States History DESCRIPTION: Analyzes the changes and continuities in cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces among the peoples of America and their institutions since the end of the Civil War to the present. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 13 TITLE: History of World Civilizations, 1st Quarter DESCRIPTION: The origins and early development of world civilizations. A comparative analysis of cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces of world civilizations. Includes topics related to Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 14 TITLE: History of World Civilizations, 1st Semester DESCRIPTION: The origins, development of, and interactions among world civilizations to the early modern era. A comparative analysis of cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces of world civilizations. Includes topics related to Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 15 TITLE: History of World Civilizations, 2nd Quarter DESCRIPTION: The continued development of and the interaction among world civilizations to the early modern era. A comparative analysis of cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces of world civilizations. Includes topics related to Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis.
CAN: HIST 16 TITLE: History of World Civilizations, 2nd Semester DESCRIPTION: Interactions of world civilizations from the early modern era to the present. A comparative analysis of cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces of world civilizations. Includes topics related to Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST 17 TITLE: History of World Civilizations, 3rd Quarter DESCRIPTION: Interactions of world civilizations from the early modern era to the present. A comparative analysis of cultural, economic, geographic, political, religious and social forces of world civilizations. Engages students in the basic elements of critical historical thinking and analysis. CAN: HIST SEQ A TITLE: Sum of the content of CAN HIST 1+3+5 or CAN HIST 2+4 CAN: HIST SEQ B TITLE: Sum of the content of CAN HIST 8+10 DESCRIPTION: Sum of the content of CAN HIST 8+10 CAN: HIST SEQ C TITLE: Sum of the content of CAN HIST 13+15+17 or CAN HIST 14+16 DESCRIPTION: Sum of the content of CAN HIST 13+15+17 or CAN HIST 14+16
We discussed and resolved two other issues from the previous year: 1. The conflict between those CSU’s offering only Western Civilization and those offering both Western Civilization and World Civilizations has been resolved with the addition to new World Civilization courses at several CSUs. 2. When community colleges offer sophomore-level courses other than the surveys of Western Civilization, World Civilizations and United States history listed above, those courses (e.g., California history, history of Mexico) shall be regarded as lower-division, except when a separate articulation agreement has been negotiated with a CSU or UC department to accept such a course for upperdivision credit in the major. In the afternoon session, we reviewed the various pre-major requirements of the nine UC history departments, where the lower-division requirements range from a minimum of three courses to a maximum of nine. Many UC departments, but not all, offer students the option of taking a lower division course in East Asia, Islamic world, Latin America or Africa, in addition to Western civilization, World Civilizations and United States history.
The community colleges should be encouraged, therefore, to develop such lower-division courses or continue to offer them. We agreed that at our next meeting we would bring catalogue copy and course descriptions covering a wide range of our community college, CSU and UC departments.
Michael E. Parrish UC San Diego Lead Faculty