Human Geography:
Human Geography introduces students to introductory human geography or cultural geography. The content is presented thematically rather than regionally and is organized around these main subfields: economic geography, cultural geography, political geography, and urban geography. Students will learn how to tackle geographical issues by using maps and develop critical thinking skills by analyzing texts and images. Through studying cultural landscapes, they’ll understand how societies shape their environments. By the end, students will appreciate geography as a subject that’s essential for understanding our world and crucial for becoming responsible global citizens who care for the environment.
Advanced Placement Human Geography:
This course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socio economic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. The curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards (2012).
European History:
This course presents in-depth coverage of major developments in modern European history. Students will be introduced to the political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, and artistic trends that shaped Europe. Students should acquire knowledge of the basic chronology of events and movements and develop the ability to analyze historical documents and express historical understanding in writing.
Years to be covered are 1453 to Present Day.
Advanced Placement European History:
In AP European History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from approximately 1450 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction of Europe and the world, economic and commercial development, cultural and intellectual development, states and other institutions of power, social organization and development, national and European identity, and technological and scientific innovations.
United States History:
This introductory course examines the nations' political, diplomatic, intellectual, cultural, social, and economic history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Emphasis is placed on class discussion, primary and secondary sources, critical reading, and analytical thinking and writing. Students will learn to assess historical materials, their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance, and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. These skills will be practiced throughout the course and include Chronological Reasoning (Historical Causation, Patterns of Continuity and Change Over Time, Periodization), Comparison and Contextualization, Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence (Appropriate Use of Historical Evidence), and Historical Interpretation and Synthesis.
Years to be covered are 1491 to Present Day.
Advanced Placement United States History:
In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.
United States Government and Politics/Economics:
In the Government and Economics course, students will cultivate their understanding of the United States government and politics as well as the principles that apply to an economic system as a whole. The first portion of the course will be focused on government and students will explore topics like the foundations of democracy, civil rights and civil liberties, American political ideologies and beliefs, and political participation. The second portion of the course will shift the focus to economic principles and students will explore concepts like economic measurements, markets, macroeconomic models and policies.
Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics:
AP U.S. Government and Politics provides a college-level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students will study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions among political institutions, processes, and behaviors. Underpinning the required content of the course are several big ideas that allow students to create meaningful connections among concepts throughout the course. Students will also engage in skill development that requires them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they will complete a political science research or applied civics project.
Advanced Placement Art History:
The AP Art History course welcomes students into the global art world to engage with its forms and content as they research, discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art making, and responses to and interpretations of art. By investigating specific course content of 250 works of art characterized by diverse artistic traditions from prehistory to the present, the students develop in-depth, holistic understanding of the history of art from a global perspective. Students learn and apply skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis to engage with a variety of art forms, developing understanding of individual works and interconnections across history.
Years to be covered are Paleolithic to Present Day.