At our school, English and Social Sciences courses are designed to be interdisciplinary, blending literature, history, and critical thinking into a cohesive learning experience. By studying these subjects together, students make meaningful connections between historical events, cultural contexts, and literary works, fostering deeper understanding and engagement. This integrated approach equips students with the skills to think critically, analyze complex ideas, and communicate effectively, preparing them for success in academics and beyond.
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World Geography (w/ English 9 and English 10)
Course Code 2358
Grade(s): 9-10
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
The focus of this course is the study of the world’s people, places, and environments, with an emphasis on world regions. The knowledge, skills, and perspectives of the course are centered on the world’s peoples and their cultural characteristics, landforms and climates, economic development, and migration and settlement patterns. Spatial concepts of geography will be used as a framework for studying interactions between people and their environments. Using geographic resources, students will employ inquiry, research, and technology skills to ask and answer geographic questions. Particular emphasis will be placed on students understanding and applying geographic concepts and skills to their daily lives.
AP Human Geography (w/ Honors English 9 and Honors English 10)
Course Code 2212AP
Grade(s): 9-10
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
AP Human geography helps students analyze the world and their relationship to it. Students learn to look for geographic causes for events in different regions to compare geographic features and their effects on human life, and to see how their lives are connected to and affected by human and geographic conditions all over the globe. In this course, students write, read, discuss, and present issues of global and local importance. Students also learn about an important tool for Human Geography: GIS software. AP Human Geography prepares individuals to be part of the solution to the challenges facing humanity on Earth in the 21st Century. Students have the opportunity to take the AP Human Geography exam in May with the possibility of earning college credit.
Social Science and Global Studies Electives
African American History - Virtual Virginia
Course Code 2372V
Grade(s): 9-10
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Elective In this course, students will examine the role African Americans have played in American history. The activities and assignments in the course promote cultural awareness and critical thinking through the lenses of power, politics, economics, and geography. The course traces the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of race relations in the United States. Students will identify and understand the African origins and developments of the Black experience in North America; evaluate how African Americans have shaped, have contributed, and have been shaped by the institutions, policies, and laws established by federal, state, and local governments; evaluate and interpret the various paths of civic responsibility that led to quests for equality, justice, and freedom for individuals and communities facing barriers and oppression based on race, class, and gender; and analyze and understand how the institution of slavery in the United States shaped beliefs about race and the supremacy of one race over another and influenced America’s economy and politics.
This virtual course with Virtual Virginia is fully asynchronous and has its own academic calendar that does not perfectly align with the ATI-UMW calendar.
Global Issues
Course Code 2996
Grade(s): 9-10
0.5 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Elective This course will provide an opportunity for in-depth study of current world events. In addition, students will investigate the geographic, economic, social, and cultural background of current world events. Students should have a strong intellectual curiosity concerning world affairs and successfully completed prior social studies coursework.
Psychology
Course Code 2900
Grade(s): 9-10
0.5 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Elective Psychology provides students with ideas about how to address many questions regarding human behavior. Psychologists provide biological, emotional, and situational reasons as answers to questions about human behavior. By studying those reasons, students gain a better understanding of why people do what they do and develop the ability to generate their own answers. Psychology helps students think about human behavior in an organized way.
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