# History (HIST) courses

Berkeley City College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 9 courses

Source: https://bcc.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/39665/39964/39688

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### HIST 2A — History of Europe to 1500

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** HIST 170
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

History of Europe to 1500: Prehistoric, Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance periods to 1500.

### HIST 2B — History of Europe Since 1500

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** HIST 180
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

History of Europe since 1500: Reformations, rise of nations, revolutionary eras, European expansion and decline; Europe and its impact on the world; emphasis on ideas and institutions rather than national histories.

### HIST 3A — World History to 1500

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** HIST 150
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

Survey of the development of world civilizations to 1500.

### HIST 3B — World History Since 1500

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** HIST 160
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

Survey of world history since 1500: Developments of the modern world as shaped by social, religious, economic, political, philosophical, and historical forces.

### HIST 19 — History of California

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

California's multi-ethnic history from the pre-Spanish period to the present: Emphasis on the social and ethnic diversity of past and present California.

### HIST 21 — U.S. Women: A Social History

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

Survey of the role and contributions of women to the development of U.S. society, from colonial times to the present: Examination of U.S. women as social activists in their own and other movements.

### HIST 31 — Contemporary Middle East: The Politics of Nationalism

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 4; Cal-GETC Area 4;

Economic, political and social forces behind current Middle East tensions: Historical origins of Middle East issues, key current conflicts in the Middle East; analysis of the role of oil, religious and national antagonisms and the geopolitical importance of the region in twentieth and twenty-first century superpower policy.

### HIST C1001 — United States History to 1877

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** HIST 130
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 4; CSU area US1; Cal-GETC Area 4;

This course is a historical survey of the United States, from Indigenous North America to the end of Reconstruction. The course also introduces students to historical reasoning skills. Formerly HIST 7A.

### HIST C1002 — United States History since 1865

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** HIST 140
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 4; CSU area US1; Cal-GETC Area 4;

This course is a historical survey of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course also introduces students to historical reasoning skills. Formerly HIST 7B.