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World Cultures will focus on area studies with units on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and India. This course will stress both the history and the culture of the areas studied. It is designed to eliminate student bias toward non-Western cultures and encourage student appreciation of the richness that can be found in the diversity of the world's cultures.
Modern European history focuses upon several historical trends, including the Greco-Roman era absolutism in the17th century, democratic revolutions in the18th century, nationalism and unification movements of the19th century, and the origins of World War I. The course will also examine the colonization of Africa and Asia.
This course will cover The Age of Exploration and Colonization of the North American continent to Manifest Destiny, in the first semester. The second semester will include the Civil War to the Treaty of Versailles.
This course follows the same agenda for junior year but requires extensive outside reading and additional writing. Students are invited into the course by the History Department. This course does not focus on preparation for the AP exam and taking the exam is not required.
During semester one, this course covers the domestic and international history of the United States from the First World War through the end of the 20th Century. Special emphasis is placed on foreign relations, including the two World Wars, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the origins and the events of the Cold War. The second semester course includes units on the principles and history of the Constitution of the United States, the functions of the national, state, and local governments, and comparative economics and governments.
*During Presidential election years, the government course will be scheduled for the first semester and 20th Century United States history will be scheduled for the second semester.
This course follows the same agenda for senior year, but it is taught at the university level because the students are eligible to receive university credit through Nebraska Wesleyan University. Therefore, the course requires more extensive outside reading, additional writing, and more in-depth analysis of events and policies. Students are invited into the course by the History Department. This course does not focus on preparation for the AP Exam, and taking the exam is not required.
*During Presidential election years, the government course will be scheduled for the first semester and 20th Century United States history will be scheduled for the second semester.
One Semester Courses offered to Juniors and Seniors.
First Semester:
- We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
- Child Psychology
Second Semester:
- Sociology (Economics may be substituted for Sociology)
- Art History
All Social Studies Electives are independent study with required weekly meetings at a mutually agreed upon time. Students accepted into these courses must have consistent work habits and the ability to work with limited classroom supervision.
HONORS COURSES
Junior and Senior history offer honors courses which require considerably more reading and writing from the student. A higher level of written work is expected as well. Students will be invited into the courses whom their teachers feel will not only benefit from such an accelerated program, but who will also contribute to the class in a productive manner. The class size will be limited. If the courses are not filled by the invitations, requests for admittance will be considered by the History Department.
PLACEMENT CRITERIA: Many factors will be taken into consideration by the department in placing students in honors courses:
Honors History III and IV:
- Student will have no less than 85% in any quarter for history.
- Student will receive a grade of 90% or better for the first three quarters of 10th grade history for placement in Junior Honors History (III)
- Student will receive a grade of 90% or better for the first three quarters of Honors History III to be placed in Senior Honors History (IV) or 93% of better in the first 3 quarters of History III
- Student will have an 87% or better GPA
- Student must be in the top 1/3 of her class to be considered for honors placement in history.
Government:
- Student will have no less than 85% in any quarter for history.
- Student will have been in Honors History IV OR receive a grade of 90% or better for the first two quarters of 12th grade and recommendations from her 11th and 12th grade history teachers and 12th grade English teacher.
- Student will have an 87% or better GPA.
- Student must be in the top1/3 of her class to be considered for honors placement in Government.
Other criteria to be considered for honors placement in Social Studies:
- quality of written work (critical thinking and writing skills)
- study and work habits (patterns of incomplete and late assignments)
- attendance
- number of honors or AP courses the student plans to take
- exchange plans may also be a factor in the decision.
- Current placement does NOT predetermine future invitations into honors courses.
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