Associate of Arts - History - Transfer to a California State University

Berkeley City College's Associate in Arts for transfer program in History is designed to provide students with an understanding of a diverse array of societies and how the historical process informed the content of world culture. Through the course work associated with this transfer program in History, students will address questions of identity, knowledge, consciousness, intelligibility, communication, and meaning as they compass the broad disciplinary terrain of history.

Students who successfully complete this transfer program in History earn specific guarantees for transfer to the CSU system: admission to a CSU with junior status and priority admission to a CSU campus and to a program or major in History or a similar major. Students transferring to a CSU campus will be required to complete no more than 60 units after transfer to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to: • Demonstrate knowledge of the historical process within particular fields of history and effectively link historical cause and effect. • Apply historical methodology and critical thinking in order to analyze primary and secondary sources and historical arguments. • Interpret the diverse historical forces which have shaped the past and inform the content of the present.