Social Studies

List of 17 items.

• Economics

  This course teaches students how society manages its scarce resources, how people make decisions, interact in the domestic and international markets, and how forces and trends affect the economy as a whole. Students will understand the allocation of scarce resources in societies through analysis of individual choice, market interaction, and public policy. In studying macroeconomics, they will analyze how government activities influence the economy through comparing and contrasting the monetary and fiscal policies of the U.S. government to stabilize the economy. They will analyze the role of corporations in U.S. political history. Students will study command markets, socialism, communism, and market capitalism along with the market structures of pure competition, oligopoly, and monopolies. (NCAA Course)

• Forensics: Law

  This course should follow Forensic Science. Using the jurisprudence system in criminal law, they will understand the criminal statutes, exclusionary evidence, procedural and substantive due process, and the rights of defendants charged with first degree/second degree murder. They will study high profile cases and critically analyze the evidence, and issues regarding testimony and admissibility of evidence in court from the standpoint of the prosecution and the defense. Students will learn basic court rules and protocol to conduct a mock trial as a major course project. (NCAA course)

• Geography & Sustainability CP

• Human Geography AP®

  AP® Human Geography introduces high school students to college-level introductory human geography or cultural geography. The content is presented thematically rather than regionally and is organized around the discipline’s main subfields: economic geography, cultural geography, political geography, and urban geography. The approach is spatial and problem oriented. Case studies are drawn from all world regions, with an emphasis on understanding the world in which we live today. Historical information serves to enrich analysis of the impacts of phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and human–environment relationships on places, regions, cultural landscapes, and patterns of interaction. Exam Fee Required.

• Holocaust

  This course provides students with an interdisciplinary treatment of literature, history, art, music, and the immorality of Hitler and the Nazis during the Shoah. The historical approach will include the history of anti-Semitism, pre and post World War I, Jewish life in pre-war Europe, the Holocaust, trials at Nuremberg, the development of the state of Israel, genocide since the Shoah, and present day relations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Literary works include fiction and nonfiction accounts from survivors, victims, and perpetrators through poetry, short stories, personal accounts, and biographies. Theological issues covered include racial and ethnic prejudice, Jewish and Christian heritage, and the moral decision making for those involved in the Holocaust during the Final Solution. (NCAA Course)

• Psychology I

  Psychology I acquaints students with the fundamentals of human behavior and mental processes. As a science, psychology requires a systematic approach to comprehending human thought and behavior. With a focus on the various psychological perspectives, neuroscience, learning, and abnormal psychology, students work to better understand the complex factors that shape human behavior and mental processes. Therefore, grasping how and why people act and think as they do is the overriding objective of Psychology I.

• Psychology II

  Psychology II continues to explore the various, complex factors that help describe and explain behavior and mental processes. With a focus on memory, social psychology, and research methods, Psychology II helps students better understand both themselves and the world around them. Additionally, it introduces students to the research methods and techniques psychologists use to better understand the incredibly complex world of human behavior and mental processes.

• U.S. Government and Politics AP®

  AP®  U.S. Government and Politics provides a college-level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students will study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions among political institutions, processes, and behaviors. They will also engage in disciplinary practices that require them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they will complete a political science research or applied civics project.  Exam Fee Required.

   

• U.S. Government College Prep

  This class covers the basic structure of the American government with particular emphasis on the U.S. Constitution and the electoral process. The course will introduce the six principles of Constitutionalism; federalism, rule of law, popular sovereignty, judicial review, checks and balances, and separation of powers, and closely examine the election process from local caucuses through the nominations and elections of candidates. Students will be expected to master a comprehensive civics vocabulary, learn to effectively use a variety of sources to support political positions and arguments, and further improve their analytic writing and speaking skills as they participate in civic discourse. The course uses a variety of methods for instruction including class readings, lecture, mock elections, discussion, group projects, and written essays tests and quizzes. This course also requires students to fulfill a contract of outside interviews and visits to govt., community and civic orgs.

• U.S. Government Honors

  This class covers the basic structure of the American government with particular emphasis on the U.S. Constitution and the electoral process to introduce the six principles of Constitutionalism and closely examine the election process from local caucuses through the nominations and elections of candidates. Students will be expected to master a comprehensive civics vocabulary, learn to effectively use a variety of sources to support political positions and arguments, and further improve their analytical writing and speaking skills as they participate in civic discourse. Honors students will be required to complete Summer reading on the Founding Brothers. The course also requires students to fulfill a contract of outside interviews and visits to government, community and social organizations, and a second contract requiring the collection and analysis of weekly current events. Summer reading assignments required.

• U.S. History

  This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic, political, Social, geographic and cultural forces that shaped the development of the United States between 1754 and 1887. Students will study the political and social elements of the American Revolution, the struggles and social injustices of the young Republic, the causes, actions and results of the Civil War, and the growth and expansion of the US and its economy. Supportive texts, teacher modelling and graphic organizers assist students in researching, note-taking, creating and defending ideas, analyzing various texts, exploring the historical methodology and preparing for deeper understanding the social sciences. (NCAA Course)

• U.S. History College Prep

  This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic, political, social, geographic and cultural forces that shaped the development of the United States between 1754 and 1887. The A trimester will include a larger focus on the political and social elements of the American Revolution, the struggles and social injustices of the young Republic, the causes, actions and results of the Civil War, and the growth and expansion of the US and its economy.

• U.S. History Honors

  This course is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge to deal critically with the problems and issues in American History. Students will learn to assess historical materials, their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability and their importance. The course will focus on the political, geographic, and cultural forces that have shaped the development of the United States between 1754 and 1887. The A semester will include a larger focus on the political and social elements of the American Revolution, the struggles and social injustices of the young Republic, the causes actions and results of the Civil War, and the growth and expansion of the US and its Economy

• U.S. History AP

  The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history. The class prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. In the class, students will learn to assess historical materials and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This three trimester course is taken in place of the U.S. History core classes. Exam Fee Required

• World History

  This course is designed to acquaint students with World History from the late medieval world to 19th century revolutions. Students will examine the political philosophies that shaped the world, the role of religion, the consequences of interaction on world cultures and economies, and the results of the search for new knowledge. Topics of study will include the Renaissance and Reformation, Age of Exploration and Discovery, the Emergence of Nation-State, the Age of Reason, and the impact of revolutions. Students in this course will receive additional guidance and structure to aid in the development of historical skills. Supportive texts, teacher modelling and graphic organizers assist students in researching, note-taking, creating and defending ideas, analyzing various texts, exploring the historical methodology and preparing for deeper understanding the social sciences. (NCAA Course)

• World History College Prep

  This course is designed to acquaint students with World History from the late medieval world to 19th century revolutions. Students will examine the political philosophies that shaped the world, the role of religion, the consequences of interaction on world cultures and economies, and the results of the search for new knowledge. Topics of study will include the Renaissance and Reformation, Age of Exploration and Discovery, the Emergence of Nation-State, the Age of Reason, and the impact of revolutions. This course will also develop historical skills including researching, note-taking, creating and defending ideas, analyzing various texts, exploring the historical methodology and preparing for deeper understanding the social sciences. (NCAA Course)

• World History Honors

  This course is designed to acquaint students with World History from the late medieval world to 19th century revolutions. Students will examine the political philosophies that shaped the world, the role of religion, the consequences of interaction on world cultures and economies, and the results of the search for new knowledge. Topics of study will include the Renaissance and Reformation, Age of Exploration and Discovery, the Emergence of Nation-State, the Age of Reason, and the impact of revolutions. This course will also develop historical skills including researching, note-taking, creating and defending ideas, analyzing various texts, exploring the historical methodology and preparing for deeper understanding the social sciences. For a student to thrive in honors, they have a greater responsibility to work independently, provide more complexity and detail in the creation and defense of ideas, read analytic texts from varied sources, and move at an accelerated pace.