Recent SemestersSummer 2026, Spring 2026, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Summer 2024Class Size60 studentsCredits3 Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4F · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area D3 · CSU GE Area D6 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area DDescriptionThis course surveys the history of Mexico from its pre-Columbian origins to the present, focusing on the political, social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped the region. Students explore major civilizations such as the Mexica (Aztec) and Maya; Spanish colonization and its legacies; independence and nation-building; the Mexican-American War and U.S.–Mexico relations; the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution; and modern movements for social change, including labor, land rights, feminism, and Indigenous activism. Throughout the course, students engage with primary and secondary sources to analyze how identity, power, migration, and resistance have shaped Mexico and its relationship to the United States and the wider world. 