Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4F · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area D6DescriptionThis course explores the origins and development of diverse societies and civilizations of the world from the Paleolithic era through 1500. The focus is on examining and analyzing the ways in which the world’s peoples and societies compare, connect and/or diverge. Broad themes and major turning points such as migration, trade, agriculture, urban settlement, and state-building, lead us to raise questions about the nature of the human experience both past and present. 