# History (HIST) courses

Woodland Community College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 6 courses

Source: https://wcc.yccd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WCC-Catalog-2026-27.pdf#page=176

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

### HIST-C1001 — United States History to 1877

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** HIST 130
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/woodland-community-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass
- Limitations on Enrollment: Not open for credit to students with credit in HIST17A
- Counts toward WCC Graduation Area 4
- Cal-GETC: 3B

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.

### HIST-C1002 — United States History since 1865

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** HIST 140
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/woodland-community-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass
- Limitations on Enrollment: Not open for credit to students with credit in HIST17B
- Counts toward WCC Graduation Area 4
- Cal-GETC: 3B

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.

### HIST-4A — Western Civilization

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Advisory:** Eligibility for college-level composition course
- **C-ID:** HIST 170
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Letter Grade Only
- Counts toward WCC Graduation Area 4
- Cal-GETC: 3B

Broad historical study of the major elements of the western tradition from earliest times to the Eighteenth century. Introduction of ideas, values, and institutions basic to Western civilizations. Advisories Language - recommended eligibility for English 1A

### HIST-4B — Western Civilization II

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Advisory:** Eligibility for college-level composition course
- **C-ID:** HIST 180
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Letter Grade Only
- Counts toward WCC Graduation Area 4
- Cal-GETC: 3B

Historical study of the major elements of the western experience for the Eighteenth century to the present. Includes major political and social developments that have revolutionized the modern mode of human existence.

### HIST-5A — World Civilizations I

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** HIST 150
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/woodland-community-college/schedule/fall-2026/hist.md)
- Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass
- Counts toward WCC Graduation Area 4
- Cal-GETC: 3B, 4

This course provides an overview of the experiences of peoples with vastly different cultures inhabiting a single globe. Emphasizes the interaction of humans with the environment based on experience, knowledge, and technology. Explores the impacts of economic, social, religious, and political systems to c.1500.

### HIST-5B — World Civilizations II

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** HIST 160
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass
- Counts toward WCC Graduation Area 4
- Cal-GETC: 3B, 4

This course covers the experiences of people from civilizations around the world from the early modern era to the present. Emphasis is on the interaction of different communities and cultural groups within their environments based upon the development of technology and the conflict between traditional systems and new(er) orders.