Honors Global Studies

This course examines the cultural, historical, economic and physical geography of the world. Students will use maps, atlases, statistical charts, interactive websites and other tools of geography. This course focuses on research, which includes projects.

Course #: 0_40515 Prerequisite: None Credit: 0.5 Grade Level: 9 Course Length: Semester

AP World History

The AP World History course focuses on developing students’ understanding of world history from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to present. The course has students investigate the content of world history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides five themes that the students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places encompassing the five major geographical regions of the globe: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Course #: 0_42410 Prerequisite: A cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better Credit: 1.0 Grade Level: 10, 11 Course Length: Year

AP US History

The following synopsis of AP U.S. History are provided by the College Board. In addition to offering college credit, AP U.S. History fulfills the Englewood School District requirements for U.S. History credits. “The AP program in the United States History is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and enduring understandings 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.”

Course #0_43210 Credit: 1.0 Grade Level: 11, 12 Course Length: Year

Prerequisite: A grade of “A or B” in World History, the student should read at a college level

AP United States Government & Politics

Students successfully completing this course will be able to: describe and compare important facts, concepts, and theories pertaining to U.S. government and politics; explain typical patterns of political processes and behavior and their consequences; interpret basic data relevant to U.S. government and politics; critically analyze relevant theories and concepts, apply them appropriately, and develop their connections across the curriculum

Course #: 0_42110 Prerequisite: Instructor’s approval prior to enrollment Credit: 0.5 Grade Level: 12 Course Length: Semester

Honors Economics

Economics promotes understanding the allocation of scarce resources in societies through analysis of individual choice, market interaction, and public policy. This course will cover how productive resources, natural, human, and capital, are scarce. Students will learn the various ways in which concepts of macro and micro-economics, students will also acquire the economic reasoning skills to make sound financial decisions. This honors course will contain college-level readings and longer projects designed to prepare students for the independent learning expected of college freshmen.

Course #: TBD Prerequisite: None Credit: 0.5 Grade Level: 12 Course Length: Semester

AP Psychology

It is an expectation of this course that all students enrolled take the AP exam. The primary emphasis of this course is to prepare students to take the Advanced Placement Exam in Psychology. This class will provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that obtained in most college introductory psychology courses. Strong reading skills are a must. This course may not be offered every school year. Student interest and teacher availability will dictate how frequently this AP course will be offered.

Course #: 0_43710 Prerequisite: The course requires college level reading Credit: 1.0 Grade Level: 11, 12 Course Length: Year