United States Academic Decathlon® Curricular Topics for 2024–2025

 Use the Curriculum Brochure to order the Basic Curriculum

A Changing Climate

• ART: The art curriculum will offer an introduction to environmental and environmentalist art.

• ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics and will include a thematic section on the economics of climate change.

• LITERATURE: The literature curriculum will present an introduction to environmental literature and will include critical reading, one long work of literature, and selected shorter works. The long work of literature will be Solar Storms by Linda Hogan.

• MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will provide an overview of permutations, combinations, algebra and statistics.*

• MUSIC: The music curriculum will focus on the topic of music and the natural world.

• SCIENCE: The science topic will be an introduction to environmental science.

• SOCIAL SCIENCE: The social science topic will be climate change in the past and present.

The full subject area outlines will be posted on the U.S. Academic Decathlon website <www.usad.org> on May 1 and will be published in the U.S. Academic Decathlon Study Guide, which will be available on May 15.

* The 2024–25 mathematics curriculum and materials will be the same as were used for the 2021–22 U.S. Academic Decathlon.

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