TOPICS in African American Studies

Semester 1 - 1 Credit Grade: 10-11-12

Description: Ethnic Studies provides opportunities to broaden students’ perspectives concerning lifestyles and cultural patterns of ethnic groups in the United States. This course will either focus on a particular ethnic group or groups, or use a comparative approach to the study of patterns of cultural development, immigration, and assimilation, as well as the contributions of specific ethnic or cultural groups. The course may also include analysis of the political impact of ethnic diversity in the United States.

Economics

Semester 1 - 1 Credit Students entering Grades 10-11-12

Description: This course provides a survey of economic principles and issues to give students a sound grasp of both the theoretical and practical approaches to economics. Study from a textbook and business simulations provide knowledge that is useful in itself but also an aid in better understanding the impact of economic decisions by individuals, businesses, and government officials.

Topics include: Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Factors of Production, Economic Systems, Types of Markets, Stock Market simulation, Supply , Demand, Inelasticity, business organizations, Advertising, Competition, Inflation, Unemployment, Taxes, Money, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy and International Trade.

Government

Semester 1 - 1 Credit Students entering Grades 10-11-12

Description: In this course, students will explore five basic areas of study. Students will look at why we have government and the foundations of government. Students will then look at their own values and see how those values are represented in today's political world. Students will also investigate the political process within society. The next three units of discover all center around the three branches of American Government, the Legislative Branch, and how laws are made, the Executive Branch and how laws are enforced, and finally the Judicial Branch and how laws or actions of the government are interpreted.

Geography & History of the world

Semester 1 - 1 Credit Semester 2 - 1 Credit Students Entering Grades 10-11-12

Description: Geography & History of the World examines various cultures in the world which are very different from and, at the same time, very similar to our own. Topics of study will include the physical environment, social class structure; family life, education, economic development, the arts, geographic location, and historical perspective of the various cultures.

Semester 1 Topics: Semester 1 will focus on and intro to geography, North America, Latin America and Europe.

Semester 2 Topics: Semester 2 will focus on Europe, Africa, Asia Australia and Oceania.

US History

Semester 1 - 1 Credit Grade: 10-11-12

Description: United States History 1-2 is a chronological survey of American history from the era of the Civil War to the present. The course uses a general text that blends the major political, economic, diplomatic, intellectual, social, and cultural developments into a continuous narrative. Supplemental readings augment the text.

Semester 1 Topics: Topics include compromises, Civil War and Reconstruction, Westward expansion, Gilded Age and Jim Crow, Progressivism, WWI and the Roaring 20s to the Great Depression.

Semester 2 Topics: The Great Depression and the New Deal, WWII and the Holocaust, Post War U.S. and the Cold War, Civil Rights, the 1960 through 2000.