SOCIAL STUDIES

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: No

PREREQUISITE: None

This course includes a political/physical study of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

PREREQUISITE: None

The AP Human Geography course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students learn to employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications.

COURSE NOTES: This course can count as a world geography credit.

Students who enroll in AP Human Geography are expected to take the corresponding AP exam.

Students taking the AP exam have the opportunity to earn college credit.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: No

PREREQUISITE: None

This course includes a study of World History from the cultural, political, economical, and geographical vantage points.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

PREREQUISITE: None

In AP World History students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical comparisons; and utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides five themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures.

COURSE NOTES: Students who enroll in AP World History are expected to take the corresponding AP exam.

Students taking the AP exam have the opportunity to earn college credit.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: No

PREREQUISITE: None

This course includes a study of American History from the Reconstruction to present day.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

PREREQUISITE: None

This course will explore in greater depth U.S. History from beginning to present. In addition, students will analyze and synthesize primary documents. Students may be required to purchase books for outside reading.

COURSE NOTES: Students who enroll in AP US History are expected to take the corresponding AP exam.

Students taking the AP exam have the opportunity to earn college credit.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

COLLEGE COURSE NAME: HIST 1301 and HIST 1302

PREREQUISITE: Compliance with the Texas Success Initiative (TSI)

COREQUISITES: College History 1301 (.5 Credit) & College History 1302 (.5 Credit)

This course will explore in greater depth U.S. History from beginning to present. In addition, students will analyze and synthesize primary documents. Students may be required to purchase books for outside reading.

COURSE NOTES: Students who enroll in College U.S. History have the opportunity to receive dual college and high school credit for this course. Each student is responsible for the college tuition fee and may be required to purchase study materials including books for outside reading.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: No

PREREQUISITE: None

COREQUISITE: US Government

This course is the study of the U.S. economic system.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: No

PREREQUISITE: None

COREQUISITE: Economics

This course is a study of the U.S. Government and state and local governments.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

PREREQUISITE: None

COREQUISITE: US Government

Students study the principles of economics that apply to the economic system as a whole. Emphasis will be placed upon national income and price-level determination, economic performance measures, financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics.

COURSE NOTES: Students who enroll in AP Macroeconomics are expected to take the corresponding AP exam.

Students taking the AP exam have the opportunity to earn college credit.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

PREREQUISITE: None

COREQUISITE: Macroeconomics

This course will give an analytical perspective on government and politics in the United States. It requires familiarity with the various institutions, beliefs, and ideas that constitute U.S. political reality. Students may be required to purchase books for outside reading.

COURSE NOTES: Students who enroll in AP US Government are expected to take the corresponding AP exam.

Students taking the AP exam have the opportunity to earn college credit.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

COLLEGE COURSE NAME: ECON 2301

PREREQUISITE: Compliance with Texas Success Initiative (TSI)

COREQUESITE: US Government

Students study the principles of economics that apply to the economic system as a whole. Emphasis will be placed upon national income and price-level determination, economic performance measures, financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics.

COURSE NOTES: Students will have the opportunity to receive dual credit for this course. Each student is responsible for the college tuition and fees and may be required to purchase study materials including books for outside reading.

GPA: Yes WEIGHTED: Yes

COLLEGE COURSE NAME: GOVT 2305

PREREQUISITE: Compliance with Texas Success Initiative (TSI)

COREQUESITE: Economics

This course will give an analytical perspective on government and politics in the United States. It requires familiarity with the various institutions, beliefs, and ideas that constitute U.S. political reality. Students may be required to purchase books for outside reading.

COURSE NOTES: Students who enroll in College Government have the opportunity to receive dual college and high school credit for this course. Each student is responsible for the college tuition fee each semester and may be required to purchase study materials including books for outside reading.