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Social Studies
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| 1 Credit | Freshman Year - Social Studies Survey and U.S. History I |
| 1 Credit | Sophomore Year - World Cultures |
| 1 Credit | Junior Year - U.S. History II and III or Honors U.S. History II and III |
| 1/2 Credit | Senior Year - Government |
All other classes are electives and count toward the elective requirement for graduation.
Social Studies SurveyCourse Number: #801 Length Of Course: 1 Trimester – ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 9 This twelve-week freshman course will cover two social studies topics to help prepare students for future Social Studies courses. Students will have six weeks each of civics and economics.
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The American WestCourse Number: #814 Length Of Course: 1 Trimester - ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 10 - 12 This social studies elective is intended to give students a closer look at the “Wild West” from the time of Lewis and Clark (1804) to the Battle of Wounded Knee (1890). Studies will include the original inhabitants of the West, the invaders of the West and what happened when these two groups clashed.
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U.S. History I Course Number: #802 Length of Course: 1 Trimester – ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 9 This one trimester freshman year course covers United States History from 1846-1920. Topics to be covered are the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Western Movement, Industrialization, Urbanization and the Progressive Movement.
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Current World Issues Course Number: #815 Length of Course: 1 Trimester – ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 10 – 12 Current World Issues is designed to give students a global perspective of world issues that will affect them and their futures. The course will focus in on the “hot spots” at any given point in time, global problems, regional issues, ethnocentrism, etc. The students will also gain knowledge in using the vast information technology that we will have available, as well as the traditional sources of information.
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World CulturesCourse Number: #803-804 Length of Course: 2 Trimesters – 1 Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 10 World Cultures is a class that focuses on the diversity of people and countries around the world. This is a hands-on course, which uses a wide variety of resources to help students become more familiar with their ever-changing world. Cultural, economical, geographical, historical, political, religious, and social issues will be dealt with in the study of our world.
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History of Western Civilization Course Number: #817 Length of Course: 1 Trimester – ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 10 – 12 This course traces the major developments of Western Civilization from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages. It focuses on the early civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome with an emphasis on the contributions of those civilizations to our western way of life. It concludes with a study of European history from the Middle Ages through the Enlightment.
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U.S. History II and IIICourse Number: #805-806 Length Of Course: 2 Trimesters - 1 Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 11 U.S. History II: This twelve-week junior class, to be taken after History I, will cover United States History from 1898 through 1945. Topics include the rise of the United States as a world power, the Twenties, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. U.S. History III: This twelve-week junior class, to be taken after History II, will cover United States History from 1945 to present. Topics include the Cold War, the Fifties, the Civil Rights Movement, the Sixties, the Vietnam War, and various political, economic and social movements of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.
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SociologyCourse Number: #813 Length Of Course: 1 Trimester – ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 11 - 12 Students will study heredity and environment, the process of socialization, cultures, primary groups (family, church, etc.), population, race relations, social change, etc.
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Honors U.S. History II and III Course Number: #807-808 Length of Course: 2 Trimesters – 1 Credit Prerequisite: None Grade Level: 11 This course content will be the same as in a regular United States history class; however, the difference will be one of depth. Students can expect to learn more detail and have a greater understanding of why things happened, not just what happened. This will require active participation – the class is not for spectators! Plan to research, hypothesize, analyze, discuss, write and think.
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The HolocaustCourse Number: #812 Length Of Course: 1 Trimester - ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 11 - 12 This social studies elective will cover events of the Holocaust in detail and discuss other 20th Century genocides. Emphasis will be placed on the implications of these events for the 21st Century. Anti-Semitism, the rise of Hitler, and the role of perpetrators, victims, bystanders and rescuers are some of the topics to be covered.
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GovernmentCourse Number: #809 Length Of Course: 1 Trimester – ˝ Credit Prerequisites: None Grade Level: 12 This course includes an in-depth study of the constitution, primarily focusing on the three branches of United States government. Current events will be used to discuss national, state and local politics. |
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