Why take World & Family Studies?

World and Family Studies courses helps us to understand others through their histories and cultures. When we begin to understand others, we can foster social justice and equity in our students.

As students begin to understand how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of their world, their ability to emphasize grows. We want our students to deal critically and logically with subjective, complex, and biased information. World and Family Studies courses teach us to weigh evidence skeptically and consider more than one side of a question. It teaches us to state our opinions respectfully, but to also back them up with well analyzed facts.

World and Family Studies courses build skills in writing and critical reading. They allow all of us to think creatively and to reason about being human while asking questions of our world. World and Family Studies courses develops informed critical citizens - without whom we could not flourish.

Our Philosophy

We offer a wide range of courses in Geography, History, Civics, Careers, Nutrition and Health, Religion, Family Studies, and Social Sciences. Delivering the content of our curricula is at the heart of our teaching practice. However, we also strive to teach students how to be well informed, critical thinkers who can learn from many sources and communicate their thoughts and ideas through a variety of means.

In order to do this, our department has developed a skills continuum for all students to develop the skills they will need as they become twenty-first century adults. Our students will move from our school to a world where knowledge and content are easily accessible. The skills we teach them (in our department and our school) will not only allow them to survive, but will allow them to thrive.