Indicated resources are samples. Find a complete curated collection at Open Educational Resources and History and the available OER for all disciplines at OER by Discipline. Please note that the structure presented here aligns with the History TMC; local Associate Degrees for Transfer will be different as the TMC introduces flexibility (e.g., “select three units”) from List A and beyond.
“Core” Courses – Required
United States History to 1877 (C-ID HIST 130)
- American History I: Colonial Period to Civil War (Williamson and Aiello) (CC BY)
- History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877 (Locks et al., 2013) (CC BY-SA)
United States History from 1865 (C-ID HIST 140)
List A – 2 courses
World History to 1500 (C-ID HIST 150) or Western Civilization I (C-ID HIST 170)
World History to 1500
Western Civilization I
World History Since 1500 (C-ID HIST 160) or Western Civilization II (C-ID HIST 180)
World History Since 1500
- World History, Volume 2: from 1400 (Kordas, Lynch, Nelson, and Tatlock, 2022) (OpenStax) (CC BY 4.0)
- Modern World History (Allosso and Williford) – Pressbooks (CC BY-NC-SA)
Western Civilization II
List B – 2 courses, one from each of the following 2 areas
Area 1: Any Diversity Course
World History to 1500 or World History Since 1500 if not used in List A
- See above.
OR Non-Western History Course (CSU GE Area C or D)
- None identified. Please let us know if you are using OER for a non-Western history course.
OR Any course from the humanities or social sciences (including history) that addresses any historically under-represented group or non-western subject (CSU GE Area C or D)
Intercultural Communication (C-ID COMM 150)
- Communications 256: Intercultural Communication (College of the Canyons, Stokes Rice) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
- Exploring Intercultural Communication (Grothe) in LibreTexts
- Intercultural Communication for the Community College (Krumrey-Fulks, 2019, PressBooks)
- Intercultural Communication Version 2 (Rice, College of the Canyons, 2019) (CC BY 4.0)
- Language and Culture in Context: A Primer on Intercultural Communication (Godwin-Jones)
- Intercultural Communication (Ahrndt, University of Missouri – St. Louis, 2020)
- Speaking of Culture (Weil – Rebus)
Courses
- COMM311: Intercultural Communication (Saylor) (CC BY 3.0)
- Communicating Across Cultures (MIT Open Courseware) (CC BY-NC-SA)
POLS 140 – Introduction to International Relations (C-ID POLS 140)
- Understanding Global Politics (Bloor, 2022) – E-International Relations (CC BY-NC)
- International Relations Theory (McGlinchey, Walters and Scheinpflug, 2022) – E-International Relations Publishing (CC BY-NC)
- A Short Introduction to World Politics (Meacham, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-ND)
- Canvas Course Shell for Introduction to International Relations (CC BY-NC)
- Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd ed., Lautensach and Lautensach, eds., 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- International Relations (McGlinchey, ed. 2017) (CC BY-NC)
- Meditations on Diplomacy: Comparative Cases in Diplomatic Practice and Foreign Policy (Chan, 2017) (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Introduction to Race and Ethnicity (C-ID SOCI 150)
- Immigrant and Refugee Families (Ballard et al.) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
- Minority Studies (Dunn) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
- Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach (2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life (Kennedy, 2018) (CC BY-NC-SA)
OR A language other than English (CSU GE Area C2)
Elementary Spanish I (C-ID SPAN 100)/Elementary Spanish II (C-ID SPAN 110)
- Yo puedo: segundos pasos (Silvaggio-Adams and Vallejo-Alegre, Milne Open Textbooks, 2021) (CC BY-NC)
- Yo puedo: para empezar (Silvaggio-Adams and Vallejo-Alegre, Milne Open Textbooks, 2021) (CC BY-NC)
- Instructor Guide: Tarea Libre I (ASCCC OERI, Moon, Lee, Harmon, and Meléndez-Ballesteros) (CC BY)
- ¡Cultivemos! 1 and ¡Cultivemos! 2 (CSU Pueblo) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Nuestra comunidad latina (Amores and Rodríguez, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- Spanish II (Celis, 2019) (License not specified)
- Pluma (Hernández, 2021) (CC BY NC SA)
- Spanish 3 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)
- Spanish 2 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)
- Spanish 1 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)
- ¡Chévere! Introductory Spanish I and II (Small, Escudero, Montoya, and Ed Beck., 2021, State University of New York, College at Oneonta) (CC-BY)
- Beginning Spanish, ¡Empecemos por aquí! Ceciliano and Notman, 2022, Portland State University) (CC-BY-NC)
- Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture (Dean, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- ¡Naveguemos juntos! (2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Libro Libre (Huebener);
- Introductory Spanish II (Lumen)
- Introductory Spanish I (Lumen)
- Hola a Todos: Elementary Spanish I (Stone et al, 2018) (CC BY 3.0)
- Elementary Spanish I (Serrano, 2016) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- ¡Bienvenidos! Spanish Language Textbook (Farmer et al., 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
Area 2: Any Diversity Course – Broader
Any history course (including List A courses, if not used above)
See above.
Any non-history course from the humanities or social sciences related to history (CSU GE Area C or D)
No resources identified.
Any introductory level social sciences course (CSU GE Area D)
Intro to Cultural Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 120)
- Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition (American Anthropological Association, 2020) (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
- Cultural Anthropology – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Cultural Anthropology (Lumen Learning) (Licenses vary)
- The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology (New Prairie Press, 2018) (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- Introduction to Anthropology (Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, & Marjorie M. Snipes, 2022, OpenStax) (CC BY)
- Introduction to Anthropology: Holistic and Applied Research on Being Human (Palmiotto A, Homsey-Messer L, Ford B, Poole A, Adams A, Allard F, Chadwick W, 2022) (CC BY-SA)
Principles of Microeconomics (C-ID ECON 201)
Principles of Macroeconomics (C-ID ECON 202)
Introduction to Political Science (C-ID POLS 150)
- Introduction to Political Science (Rom, Hidaka, and Walker, et al., 2022) (CC BY 4.0) – OpenStax
- An Introduction to Politics (Sell, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA) – LibreTexts
- Politics, Power, and Purpose: An Orientation to Political Science (Jay Steinmetz, 2021) – Pressbooks (CC BY)
Introduction to Human Geography (C-ID GEOG 120)
- Introduction to Human Geography (Dastrup) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach (Graves, 2020) (Free but not open)
Introductory Psychology (C-ID PSY 110)
- Introductory Psychology (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY 4.0)
- Discover Psychology 2.0: A Brief Introductory Text (Diener and Biswas-Diener) (CC-BY-NC-SA)
- Introduction to Psychology (2019) by Jorden A. Cummings & Lee Sanders is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Psychology: The Science of Human Potential by Jeffrey Levy (CC-BY 4.0)
Introduction to Sociology (C-ID SOCI 110)
- Introduction to Sociology 3e (OpenStax) (CC BY)
- Sociology (Barkan) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Sociology (Boundless) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
- Introduction to Sociology (Hammond and Cheney) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
- Introduction to Sociology (College of the Canyons) – PDF (CC BY 4.0)
- Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World (2016) (CC BY-NC-SA)
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