WELCOME  TO  AN  INTERNET  EXPERIENCE
HISTORY 39 A, B, and C:
EXPLORING  CALIFORNIA'S  PAST


          History 39 A, B, and C are three one-unit college-level transfer California history courses covering California's history from pre-Columbian times through World War II that are designed to be taken on-line rather than in the classroom.  You may register for one, two or all three courses.  Each is a separate one-unit course.

          1. History 39A covers California before Europeans arrived during the Spanish Era, the Mexican Era, and ends with the acquisition of California by the United States (1848).
          2. History 39B covers California during the Gold Rush, statehood, Civil War, and the building of the transcontinental railroad that ended California's physical isolation (1870's)
          3. History 39C covers California from the 1880's onward. Major topics include the development of California's state and local government as well as population growth, ethnic diversity, and environmental problems.

          There are no scheduled campus classes. You must contact me by e-mail in order to get started.  Once you begin, you work on your own time-schedule and at your own pace.  In order to receive credit (and a grade) for the course, however, you must complete all course work by the end of the semester.         There is a required text: The Elusiave Eden: A New History of California by Richard Rice et.al.
The text is on sale in the Merced College Bookstore. The same text is used for all three courses.      1. For each course, there is, of course,  required text reading and on-line assignments, and tests
     2. There is, also, a required visit to one of the assigned California historic sites
     3. There is, also, a final examination -- when you are ready -- to be taken at the college
        Part of learning about California is visiting an actual historic site of the period being studied. Normally, the sites are part of the national or California state park system and there is a nominal park fee. For example, if the period being studied is that of  California's Mexican rule, you might visit the Petaluma Adobe, the restored headquarters of General Mariano Vallejo's 66,000 acre rancho and the largest restored adobe in California (park fee = $2.00).  For each course, you pick one place to visit from a list of approved sites and visit it during the six-weeks of the course on your own at your convenience. You are required to report on your visit.       The final examination is comprehensive and consists of seventy-five questions.  These questions, however, should be familiar as they are drawn from the save test banks as the tests you have already taken on-line.       Contact me, Mabel Jones, by e-mail or telephone.  I'll do my best to answer to your satisfaction..
     

(e-mail)            jones.m@mccd.edu

(telephone)      Social Science Division

                        (209) 384-6073

04/04/06 by Mabel Jones