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AP European History
The goals for the Advanced Placement course in European History are for students to understand the basic narrative of the events and movements in European history. Students should know the chronology of the major events and trends from approximately 1450 to the present and develop (a) an understanding of some of the principal themes in modern European history, (b) an ability to analyze and express historical understanding in writing.
AP U.S. History
The AP program in United States History is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials - their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance - and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.
AP World History
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced though a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence.
International Relations
Terrorist attacks in the United States, the war on terrorism, the global economic recession, war in Iraq - these issues raise the question: Is the sovereign state a threatened species or can it adapt to challenges from international organizations, multinational companies, and ethnic religious, and racial. These are just some of the topics which will be studied during this semester-long course.This course will begin with events after WWI, and continue with current event topics. All students taking this course are responsible for keeping up with world news in the newspaper, internet, T.V. and other media outlets. Consider the newspaper your textbook for this course.
AP United States Government and Politics
The AP course in U.S. Government and Politics will give students an analytical perspective on government and politics in the United States. This course includes both the study of general concepts used to interpret U.S. politics and analysis of specific examples. It also requires familiarity with the various institutions, groups, beliefs, and ideas that constitute U.S. politics.
AP Psychology
Through the study of psychology, students acquire an understanding of and an appreciation for human behavior, behavioral interaction, and the progressive development of individuals. This will better prepare them to understand their own behavior and the behavior of others.
Psychology
This is an introductory course into the field of psychology designed for the college bound student who might be taking psychology or for students who have an interest in the area. The course will briefly touch various topics to give students a feel for the different areas of psychology. Topics to be covered include Personality Theory, Psychological Disorders, Human Development, Emotion, Motivation, Thinking and Problem-Solving.
World Cultures/ Geography
This course is a chronologically organized study of world history and geography Students use the processes of conceptual and contemporary thinking to analyze historical and contemporary issues. Students engage in intensive analytical reading, writing, and discussion. This is the foundation course of a four-year curriculum in history and social science.
Students will participate in a wide variety of academically rigorous social studies courses that will prepare them for college, career and give them an awareness of today's critical current global issues.
| Grade 9 | Grade 10 | Grade 11 | Grade 12 | Electives |
| World Cultures, Pre AP World Cultures | World History, Honors World History | American History, Honors American History, AP American History | Government and Economic, AP Government, Honors Government | 11 and 12 Grade Electives AP European History, AP Psychology, AP World History, Psychology and Sociology, International Relations |
Last Updated: 12/19/2007
