History

The History department at Big Bend Community College seeks to prepare students for engagement with the wider world through a variety of courses designed to teach practical skills such as solving problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources, teamwork, and communicating clearly and effectively.  Students are brought face-to-face with a wide variety of issues from the global past and present and asked to think critically about them.  Department instructors seek to use innovative teaching to pique students’ interest and present new ways of thinking in a classroom atmosphere that is both fun and challenging.  All of Big Bend’s history classes transfer to Washington State’s public universities, and many are Running Start approved (check with your school district).

Program Outcomes
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Transfer Options
Industry Connections
Scholarships & Grants
  • Students will be able to recognize or articulate personal/interpersonal aspects of, or connections between, diverse cultural, social, or political contexts.
  • Students will be able to solve problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources.

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Degrees & Certificates

Generic AA&S-DTA Transfer Degree

Name: Generic Associates of Art & Science Direct Transfer Agreement
Total Credits:
90
Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will be able to communicate clearly and effectively.
  • Students will be able to reason mathematically.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills.
  • Students will be able to recognize or articulate personal/interpersonal aspects of, or connections between, diverse cultural, social, or political contexts.
  • Students will be able to solve problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources.
Basic and Breadth Requirements
Specified and General Electives

Course Credits

Basic Skill – Communications (BS)

ENGL& 101 – Composition I (5) and 
ENGL& 102 – Composition II (5) OR ENGL& 235 – Technical Writing (5)

10

Symbolic Quantitative Reasoning (SQR)

Any MATH course above 101: MATH& 107 – Math in Society (5) 
(Liberal and Fine Arts, Early Childhood Ed), MATH& 141 – Pre-Calculus I (5) (Computer Science, Manufacturing, STEM), MATH& 146 – Statistics (5) (K-12 Ed, Social Work, Criminal Justice, Psychology) or
PHIL& 120 – Symbolic Logic (5) (Liberal and Fine Arts, undecided)

5

Humanities (HU/HP) (15 credits from TWO disciplines)
Includes art, communications, diversity, English, foreign
languages, music, philosophy, religious studies

*Maximum 5 credits of HP
**Maximum 5 credits of 100-level foreign language

15
Social Sciences (SS) (15 credits from THREE disciplines)
Includes anthropology, criminal justice, economics,
history, political science, psychology, sociology
15

Math/Science (LS/MS/NS)

*At least one LAB SCIENCE (LS) Course
**Maximum 5 credits of additional math

15

Additional Breadth (HP/HU/SS/LS/MS/NS/SQR)

5

PE/Wellness (PEH)
PEH 100 – Lifetime Wellness

3

Course Credits
Specified (HU/HP/SS/LS/MS/NS/SE) 10
General (any 100-level and above course) 12

History Contact
History Faculty & Staff
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Waites, Kimball ‘Webb’

History/Political Science Associate Professor
webbw@bigbend.edu
(509) 793-2395
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Quitadamo, Jody

History/Political Science Associate Professor
JodyQ@bigbend.edu
(509) 793-2177
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Riley, Chris

History/Political Science Professor
chrisr@bigbend.edu
(509) 793-2184