Global Studies 2

The focus of Global Studies 2 is for students to complete their exploration of the geography, brief history, and culture of the world’s diverse countries. Specific regions covered in this course include Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Additionally, students will analyze these regions by thematic concepts of time, continuity, and change; environment; individual development and identity; authority and governance; economics; science and technology; global interdependency; and civic responsibility.

World History

This course is taught in the context of chronological events starting in 8,000 B.C.E. until the present. The focus of this study is to analyze the processes and causes involved in the continuities and changes across historical periods. Within each time period, we will study the interaction between humans and the environment, the development and interaction of cultures, the concepts of state- building, expansion, and conflict, the creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems, and the development and transformation of social structures.

AP World History

This course is an introduction in the evolution of global processes and contacts in different types of human societies. The course material has been selected by historians who serve on the AP World History Development Committee and reflects their judgment of the content of an introductory college course in world history. This course is designed around course themes and key concepts in six chronological periods. In the spring semester, students in the course are expected to take the AP exam.

US History

As a nation supposedly founded on the primacy of the individual, and the free exercise of the individual will, the American character has always been marked by the tension between conformity to accepted social norms or rebellion against them. Our mission is as follows: to carefully read and critically examine the works of major American writers, and to discover what they have to say to us about that tension. We will examine American master works against the matrix of the religious, philosophical, scientific and cultural assumptions of the periods in which they were written, and hopefully discover for ourselves how Americans see themselves in the mirror of their own distinctive literary art.

AP US History

Advanced Placement United States History is designed as a college level course that will require the students to develop the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with American history. The course will enable students to deal with the demands of college level work as well as learning the self-pacing and independent study habits necessary to successfully compete at the collegiate level. Students will learn to assess historical materials and be able to interpret the importance of these materials as they pertain to historians’ interpretations to various events (historiography). Through class discussion, prepared debates, and writing assignments, students will be challenged to effectively articulate their ideas. Students will be tested on their grasp of historical knowledge through multiple choice tests similar to those on the Advanced Placement exam. There will also be written essays and analytical research papers to teach the students to express themselves clearly and precisely and to cite sources and credit the writing and ideas of others. In the spring semester, students are expected to the take the AP exam.

US Government

This course is the study of the structure and function of the institutions of the national government. This study of modern politics includes an examination of the Constitution, federalism, the separation of powers, and checks and balances. Topics include political parties, interest groups, mass media, political beliefs and behaviors. Students will analyze the election process, how public policy is formed, and the workings of the United States Supreme Court.

AP US Government

The government course is a comprehensive survey of the origin of government, political systems, the United States government and its foundations, and political parties. Through the use of discussion (primarily), lecture, text, primary sources, and additional outside reading, this class will attempt to understand the foundations and definitions of government, its applications, and successes and failures. This course also explores the basic foundations and definitions of government, its applications, and successes and failures. The course also explores the basic foundations of the American Constitution, the three branches of U.S. government, and the balance of power inherent to this system. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of party politics are analyzed. Students in the course are expected to take the AP exam