Yearlong Course          (Grades 10)         Credit (Social Studies)

Placement based on student ability, interest and teacher recommendation

This course is designed to represent a college level course. This course will provide a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts in different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in global frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies.  It emphasizes relevant factual knowledge, leading interpretive issues, and skills in analyzing types of historical evidence.  Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle to address change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with consistent attention to contracts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.