Global History & Geography II is offered to all students as a Regents level course. It focuses on a chronological approach to a study of the modern world. History, geography, economics, and government will be stressed and students will be expected to be able to make connections between regions and time periods. This course covers the time period between 1750 and the modern world.
Grades are based on map work, essays, projects, extended time tasks, as well as traditional homework assignments and tests. Classwork and homework assignments make up the bulk of the final grade; the Regents exam counts 1/5th. At the end of the course students will take the Regents examination in Global History and Geography II, which must be passed before graduation.
The Regents examination for this course consists of 28 stimulus based multiple choice questions, 2 sets of constructed response questions, and 1 Enduring Issues Essay.