SOCIAL STUDIES
The purpose of history and social studies is to prepare students to ask and seek answers to meaningful questions and prepare them with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to become informed participants in an ever-changing global community and to act responsibly to improve its condition.
The course progressions listed below reflect only a typical sequence.
Grade 9 |
Grades 10 - 12 |
Full Year Courses:
Semester courses (available to Grade 9 students
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Full Year Courses:
Semester Courses:
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**Students are required to complete 3 credits of Social Studies for graduation. These credits must include: 1 of Modern World History, 1 of U.S. History, and .5 of American Government.
- Advanced Placement Economics
- Advanced Placement African American Studies
- Advanced Placement European History
- Advanced Placement Psychology
- Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics
- Advanced Placement United States History
- African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies
- American Government
- Classical Studies
- Genocide Studies
- History of Modern Warfare
- Human Behavior in a Digital World
- Human Rights
- Introduction to Anthropology - Hall Only
- Introduction to Psychology
- Introduction to Sociology - Hall Only
- Latin American Studies
- Modern Africa & the Middle East
- Modern World History
- United States History
- Sociology of the Family - Conard Only
- United States History & the African American Experience