Course Overview

The Global Studies course will allow students to explore the regions of the world using geographic information from print and electronic sources. Students will analyze important trends in the modern world such as demographic change, shifting trade patterns, and intensified cultural interactions do to globalization. Students will participate in civic discussion on contemporary issues, conduct historical inquiry and study events over the last half century that have shaped the contemporary world. They will analyze connections between revolutions, independence movements and social transformations, and understand reasons for the creation of modern nation states. Students will learn that governments are based on different political philosophies and serve various purposes. Finally, by learning economic principles of trade and the factors that affect economic growth, students will understand why there are different standards of living in countries around the world. (As stated in the MNSSS.)

This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and preparation for the AP Exam on May 5, 2023. An emphasis is placed on interpreting documents, mastering a significant body of factual information, and writing critical essays. Topics include early inhabitants and first contact, life and thought in colonial America, revolutionary philosophy, constitutional debate and development, the success and failures of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenth-century reform movements, and antebellum south and Manifest Destiny. Other topics include the Civil War and Reconstruction, new and old immigration, industrialism and expansion of urban America, Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the post-Cold War era, and the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will fulfill the United States history graduation requirement.

Civics 12

Course Overview

This course is designed to give the students adequate civic skills values and basic principles of democracy. In addition you will learn the rights and responsibilities you have as a member of your community. You will gain an understanding of your government on the local, state, and national level. You will also learn basic political processes. Lastly you will begin to understand the basic relationships of the United States to Other Nations and Organizations Topics covered will include the foundations of modern government, an in-depth look at the branches of government, elections, political parties, and voting. The students will acquire the primary knowledge needed to become an active citizen in the United States and in their locality.