World History
Prerequisites: None
Level: Senior
Credit: 1
Description: This course includes a study of people and events from the earliest pre-historic man to our present time. It is hoped that the student will acquire a better understanding of the culture in which he/she lives by studying the experiences and struggles of the people of the past. Students will utilize on-line resources to develop research projects.
World Geography/Current Events
Prerequisites: None
Level: Any
Credit: 1
Description: Students will gain a basic understanding of geographic terms, landforms, maps, climates, and culture of all areas of the planet. Focus will be on the environment, population, culture, history, government, and current events of these regions. Also, this course will include the research and study of issues in the world today. These issues will have local, state, national, and global implications. The current events portion of this course will be intertwined among the geographic studies of the regions of the world. Special projects will also be developed according to current issues of student interest. Projects, independent reading, research, geography skills, and presentation skills are part of the curriculum.
U. S. History I
Prerequisites: None
Level: Sophomore
Credit: 1
Description: This course begins with the study of the European background and the period of exploration, with emphasis on the Revolutionary War and the creating of a new government. It is designed to acquaint the student with the Federal and State government--its development and its operation. The establishment of the United States, historical events, and the lives of people who helped to make the country great are studied--with an emphasis on becoming an informed citizen of this country, as it is today.
U.S. History II
Prerequisites: None
Level: Junior
Credit: 1
Description: This course is made up of Consumer Education and Twentieth Century History. The course is designed to acquaint the student with the major social problems facing today's society as well as to raise the level of knowledge and understanding about our economy and its operation, to encourage critical thinking and appraisal of current economic problems and proposals, and to develop an appreciation of values and benefits of living and working in a free economy and a democratic society.
Three weeks of instruction will include installment purchasing, three weeks of budgeting, three weeks of comparison of prices, and an understanding of the roles of consumers interacting with agriculture, business, trade unions and government in formulating and achieving the goals of the mixed free enterprise system.
Special emphasis will be given to the ideas and institutions which have determined the course of American progress from the Reconstruction Period to the present.