Credit: 1 (year-long course for all 9th graders)
Course Code: 1311
This course examines world events from 1600 to the present. It explores the impact of the democratic and industrial revolutions, the forces that led to world domination by European powers, the wars that changed empires, the ideas that led to independence movements and the effects of global interdependence. The concepts of historical thinking introduced in earlier grades continue to build with students locating and analyzing primary and secondary sources from multiple perspectives to draw conclusions.
State Financial Literacy standards addressed in this course, including the ability to discern financial choices, discuss money and financial issues, plan for future and respond completely to life events that affect every day financial decisions, including events in the general economy.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1312
Accelerated Modern World History includes the curriculum articulated in the approved course of study for Modern World
History; however, the accelerated course covers a wider breadth of material in more depth and at a faster pace, with a higher
degree of student independence.