All UCSC undergraduates must demonstrate a knowledge of American history and institutions. The following History courses satisfy the American History and Institutions (AH&I) requirement.
Please note: upper division history courses (HIS 100 and up) require a significant amount reading and writing. Undergraduates who have not completed a college level history course are advised to satisfy their AH&I requirement by taking a lower division history course (HIS 1 – 99).
2025-2026
Fall 2025
- HIS 10A, United States History to 1877
General Education Code: Ethnicity and Race (ER)
Winter 2026
- HIS 10B, United States History, 1877-1977
General Education Code: Ethnicity and Race (ER)
Spring 2025
- HIS 15, The United States of America from its Founding through Our Time (Online)
General Education Code: Ethnicity and Race (ER)
All AH&I History Courses
- HIS 10A, United States History to 1877
- HIS 10B, United States History, 1877 to 1977
- HIS 12, Introduction to Latino American History
- HIS 15, The United States of America from its Founding through Our Time
- HIS 82, California Gold Rush in Global History
- HIS 110A, Colonial America, 1500-1750
- HIS 110B, Revolutionary America, 1740-1815
- HIS 110D, The Civil War Era (Effective Winter 2022)
- HIS 110E, Rise of the Machines: Technology, Inequality, and the United States, 1877 to 1914
- HIS 110H, Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States
- HIS 116, Slavery Across the Americas
- HIS 128, Chicana/Chicano History
Additional AH&I courses offered by other departments are listed on the Office of the Registrar website.