LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Division of Educational Services
Office of Instructional Services
PROPOSED NEW COURSE REQUEST (PNCR)
1. / COLLEGE: / Los Angeles Mission College2. / COURSE STATUS:
A. / New Course / Addition of District Course / Update
Reinstatement
B. / Effective Semester/Year / 1/04
3. / DESIGNATION: / Associate Degree Applicable / Non-Associate Degree Applicable
4. / COURSE INFORMATION:
A. / Subject Code: / 498 / TOP Code: / 2205.00 / CAN Number / HIST 8
B. / Subject Title and Number / History 43
(not to exceed 40 spaces)
C. / Course Title / The Mexican American in the History of the United States, I
(not to exceed 60 spaces)
D. / Units 3 / Hours/wk Standard Semester / Lecture 3 / Laboratory
(w/ homework) / Total
Laboratory / Total hours/wk 3
Laboratory
(w/o homework)
Note: The Carnegie Rule and Title 5, section 55002 set forth the minimum weekly standards
which require: One hour lecture, two hours homework = one unit
Two hours of lab with homework = one unit
Three hours of lab without homework = one unit
Lecture also includes discussion and/or demonstration hours.
Laboratory includes activity and/or studio hours.
E. / Repetition(s): 0How does the repetition of this course meet Title 5 sections 55761-55765 and 58161 requirements?
F. / Special Class Status: Course is a “special class” for students with disabilities. (MIS-CB13) / yes / no
5. / BASIC SKILLS STATUS
Precollegiate Basic Skills Credit Course Non-degree Applicable (MIS-P)*
* Note: MIS + Code = Special Management Information System Codes required for reporting purposes by State Chancellor's Office.
6. / PREREQUISITE(S): / NoneHas this prerequisite been validated in accordance with Title 5, section 58106?
yes / no / If yes, attach validation form and data / Validation Date //
COREQUISITE(S): / None
Has this corequisite been validated in accordance with Title 5, section 58106?
yes / no / If yes, attach validation form and data / Validation Date //
ADVISORY(IES): / N/A
Has this advisory been validated in accordance with Title 5, section 58106?
yes / no / If yes, attach validation form and data / Validation Date //
7. / CULTURAL DIVERSITY
How does this course include cultural diversity in its approach and/or content?
(not to exceed 30 words)
This course emphasizes the culture, ethnicity, gender, language, nationality, race, religion, and social class distinctions of the various groups of Mexican descent in Mexico and the US Southwest.
8. / DESCRIPTION: / As it will appear in the college catalog and on course outline.
(Not to exceed 40 words)
This course is the first half of the survey history of Mexicans in the United States. It traces the historical evolution of Mexican peoples from before the European Invasions to the United States war against Mexico in 1846-48.
9. / RATIONALE FOR THIS COURSE: Check the appropriate reason(s) below. The explanation will be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval.
Student Demand/Need / Program Change Need
Advisory Council Committee Recommendation / Industry/Business Need
Articulation Need / Other
Please provide explanation: (not to exceed 30 words)a brief
This course is applicable towards fullfilling transfer, igetc, and aa degreerequirements.
10. / MULTIPLE COURSE INDEX STATUS: (Cross reference) Is this course listed as equivalent in content to existing college District courses in another discipline?
yes / no
If yes, list courses: (Documentation of cross-discipline agreement must be provided.)
Chicano Studies 711. / COURSE CLASSIFICATION: / Check only one.
Liberal Arts and Sciences (MIS-A)*
Courses for the Substantially Handicapped (MIS-E)*
Developmental Preparatory (MIS-B)*
Occupational Education (MIS-I)*
Basic Skills (MIS-P)*
Note: MIS + Code = Special Management Information System Codes required for reporting purposes by the State Chancellor's Office.
12. / COURSE RELATIONSHIP TO PROGRAM:A. / Occupational: / yes / no / (If no, go to B.)
SAM Code (Student Accountability Model) Check only one.
Apprenticeship (Approved for offering to apprentices only.) (MIS-A)*
Advanced Occupational (but not limited to apprentices) (MIS-B)*
Clearly Occupational (but not advanced) (MIS-C)*
Possibly Occupational (MIS-D)*
* Occupational Program Requirement: / yes / no / (If yes, check a. and/or b.)
a. / Required for Associate Degree
b. / Required for Occupational Certificate
ATTACH A COPY of the program showing the placement of the course in the sequence of learning as it will appear in the catalog.
* Occupational Program Elective:a. / Is this course designated as an elective within a proposed or existing occupational program?
yes / no
b. / Will this elective be counted as part of the total units?
yes / no
ATTACH A COPY of the program and identify all the electives within the program showing the placement of this course in the program.
B. / General Education:* Meets general education requirements for graduation? / yes / no
If yes, indicate which requirement.
a. / Natural Science / d. / Language and Rationality:b. / Social and Behavioral Sciences: / 1. / English Composition
1. / American Institutions / 2. / Communication and Analytical
Thinking
2. / Social Sciences / e. / Health and Physical Education
c. / Humanities
C. / Major requirement for Associate Degree: Meets the major requirements for an A.A./A.S.?
yes / no
D. / Elective Credit for Associate Degree: Is this course an elective for the A.A./A.S.?
yes / no
E. / Other Baccalaureate Level Courses: Meets transfer requirements?
yes / no
If yes, check all that apply: (Item #11. must also be completed.)
General Education / Major(s) Requirement / Transfer Elective13. / ARTICULATION
Requesting to be acceptable to University of California for credit
Date requested / // / Date approved / //
Requesting to be acceptable to California State University for credit
Date requested / //
Requesting CSU General Education Certification
Check designated area below if request is made for General Education.)
Date requested / // / Date approved / //
Area A / Communication in the English Language and Critical Thinking
Area B / Physical Universe and Its Life Forms
Area C / Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and Foreign Language
Area D / Social, Political, and Economic Institutions and Behavior; Historical Background
Area E / Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
Requesting IGETC (Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum) designation:
Date requested / // / Date approved / //
Area 1 / English Communication:
Group A--English Composition
Group B--Critical Thinking and Composition
Group C--Oral Communication
Area 2 / Mathematical Concepts/Quantitative Reasoning
Area 3 / Arts and Humanities:
Group A—Arts
Group B—Humanities
Area 4 / Social and Behavioral Sciences
Area 5 / Physical Science:
Group A--Physical Science
Group B--Biological Science
14. / EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM STATUS:
Is this course part of an approved program? / yes / no
If yes, identify the appropriate program(s).
Program Title:Program Designation: / Occupational / Non-occupational
Degree Objective: / Associate / Certificate / Apprentice
If this course is intended to be part of a new or existing certificate or Associate Degree Program, ATTACH A COPY of the program including the placement of this course.
15. / COORDINATION: List persons contacted in the District Discipline Committee and/or other colleges1. / Consuelo Rey Castro / Professor of History / East Los Angeles College
Name / Title / College
2. / Henry Ealy / Professor of History / Los Angeles City College
Name / Title / College
16. / If the course is an existing District course, attach the complete course outline(s) that was used as a model for this course.
17. / METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: / Traditional / Non-traditional
If non-traditional, check one below:
Interdisciplinary / Applied Academics / Special Topics
Individualized / Modularized / Linked/Block
Distance Learning / Work Site / Study Abroad
Other (Explain)
18. / INDICATE HOW THE COLLEGE PLANS TO MEET THE EXPENSE OF THIS COURSE:
By additional funds. Describe.
By canceling class sections. Describe.
By deleting/rotating sections of existing courses: Number of sections to be deleted:
First year / Second year / Third year
Will this directly impact other programs on campus? / yes / no
If yes, briefly explain how.
19. / METHOD OF SUPPORT: (Indicate how the college plans to support the proposed course.)
A. / Faculty needed: / Full-time / Part-time / None
B. / Staff needed: / Classified / Student Worker / None
C. / Classroom type needed: / Standard / Other
(Please specify)
D. / Equipment / Available / Plan to obtain (Attach list and funding sources.)
E. / Supplies needed: / no / yes
(Indicate kind and dollar value)
F. / Library/Learning Resources needed:
Complete 1-3 in Consultation with College Librarian
1. LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION - Review the library book collection by searching the
online catalog. Explain how the book collection supports or does not support the course. Consider age and subject content when determining the relevancy of the collection to the course.
The LAMC library has ample resources for the adequate fulfillment of the requirements of this course. These include both electronic books and traditional book sources. Some are aged, but others are up to date. Except in the case of pre-Invasion Meso-American civilizations, the publication dates of most of these works need not be problematic. In the case of Meso-America, the holdings in this library are comparable to those in other libraries in regards to publication dates and the information contained therein. A sampling of some relevant holdings follows:
Pre-Invasion History
Meso America-General:
Handbook of Middle American Indians / Robert Wauchope, general editor.
Austin : University of Texas Press, [1964-76]
Central American and West Indian archaeology : being an introduction to archaeology of the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and the West Indies/ Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942.New York : Hacker Art Books, 1973.
The Legacy of Mesoamerica : history and culture of a Native American civilization / [edited by] Robert M. Carmack, Janine Gasco, Gary H. Gossen with contributions from George A. Broadwell ... [et al.].
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996.
Paths to Central American prehistory [electronic resource] / Frederick W. Lange, editor.
Niwot : University Press of Colorado, c1996.
500 nations, [videorecording] / a Tig Productions presents in association with RCS Films & TV and Majestic Films and Television International ; written by Jack Leustig ... [et al.] ; produced by Roberts Grossman ; produced and directed by Jack Leustig. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c1995.
Mexico:
Horribles crueldades, Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de, 1578-1650. . English
Ally of Cortés : account 13, of the coming of the Spaniards and the beginning of the evangelical law / translated with a foreword by Douglass K. Ballentine.
[El Paso] : Texas Western Press, [1969]
Breve y sumaria relación de los señores de la Nueva España/ Life and labor in ancient Mexico : the brief and summary relation of the Lords of New Spain / Zurita, Alonso de, ca. 1512-1585.English translated, and with an introd. by Benjamin Keen. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [1963]
Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España/ General history of the things of New Spain / Sahagún, Bernardino de, d. 1590, Aztec translated from the Aztec into English. Santa Fe, NM : School of American Research.
Indian Women of Early Mexico [electronic resource] / edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1997.
Invasion and Post-Invasion History
Colonial Mexico:
Indian population decline: the missions of northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840 /[electronic resource] Robert H. Jackson. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1995, c1994.
The Spanish Empire in America / C.H. Haring.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1947, reprint 1952.
The Spanish struggle for justice in the conquest of America/ Hanke, Lewis.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949.
Colonial Spanish America / edited by Leslie Bethell.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
The Aztecs under Spanish rule : a history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810/ Gibson, Charles
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1964.
Race, caste, and status : Indians in colonial Spanish America / Robert H. Jackson.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Bolton and the Spanish borderlands. [electronic resource] Edited and with an introd. by John Francis Bannon.
Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, [1964].
The Black Legend in England : the development of anti-Spanish sentiment, 1558-1660 / [by] William S. Maltby.
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1971.
Independence:
The Hidalgo revolt : prelude to Mexican independence / [by] Hugh M. Hamill, Jr.
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1966.
Iturbide of Mexico/ Robertson, William Spence.
Durham,NC : Duke University Press, 1952.
Roots of Insurgency : Mexican regions, 1750-1824 / Brian R. Hamnett.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Secession of Texas and War with the United States:
To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination / Robert W. Johannsen.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Army of Manifest Destiny : the American soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 / James M. McCaffrey.
New York : New York University Press, 1992.
The Mexican War/ Singletary, Otis A.
[Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1960]
So far from God : the U.S. war with Mexico, 1846-1848 / by John S.D. Eisenhower.
New York : Random House, c1989.
Mexico views manifest destiny, 1821-1846 : an essay on the origins of the Mexican War / Gene M. Brack.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1975.
The Mexican War--was it manifest destiny? / edited by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz.
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1963]
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo : a legacy of conflict / by Richard Griswold del Castillo.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1990.
2. PERIODICAL COLLECTION - Review the periodical collection by searching the
periodical database. Explain how the periodical titles held by the college library and the full-text titles in the database are relevant or not relevant to the course.
The following are scholarly journals available in the library which are relevant to this course. Some have been cancelled, others are current. The dates beside the journal titles are the years which are available.