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An elective, this course highlights the events occurring in each day's news cycle while exploring the issues that face the world today. Students will learn through lectures and research as well as discussion and written analysis of news articles and scholarly sources. 

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Students enrolled in this course will engage in a broad range of topics over a vast period. Including selected topics in the early modern era, enlightenment, industrialism and the modern global age, world wars and global revolutions, and the world after 1945. Students will study groups of people, institutions, artifacts, political changes, scientific advancement, and social changes. The course will also allow students to practice historical analysis and research skill 

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Students will begin this course with an overview of the early people in North America and their civilizations. The course will go on to include the mixing of people, North American, African, and European with a focus on colonialism. From there, students will learn about the American Revolution, the historical context surrounding the Constitution, and the image Jefferson had for the new nation. The course will finish with the broad topics of expansion and ultimately the Civil War. Students will gain skills and understanding in the areas of history, geography, economics, government, and current events. 

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Students will learn both the physical and human geography of the seven contents and the many nations each one holds. The course will allow students to meet standards in the areas of geography, economics, and cultural studies. 

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Students enrolled in this course will pick up following the United States story after the Civil War. Topics will include, expansion, the Plains Wars, industrialism, the progressive era, World War I, the 20s and the Depression,  World War II, the Cold War era, Terrorism, and America in the 21st century. Students will gain skills and understanding in history, geography, government, economics, and current events. Students will also begin learning historical analysis and self-driven research. 

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An elective, this course beings at the very beginning of human civilization and the rise of man. Learn how archeologists piece together the stories of long-lost peoples beginning in the lands of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Ancient China and wind your way through Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, and the Americas. Venture through nearly 4,000 years of humanity, ending at the dawn of the modern global age.