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Course Name: Psychology
Course Description:
0.5 credit per semester
This college-level course prepares students for the AP exam. Students scientifically study behavior and investigate the psychological domains -- methods of research, biopsychology, cognitive processes, lifespan development, and sociocultural dimensions of behavior. Semester B extends student investigation of the psychological domains and includes thinking and language; states of consciousness; individual differences; personality and assessment; and psychological disorders and their treatment.
Grade Level: 9- 10- 11- 12
No repeats for credit
Course Name: Government and Politics
Course Description:
0.5 credit per semester
This course is a year-long survey of American government. The course combines the content and skill development of Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics and National, State, and Local Government. Note: Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics with NSL may be used to satisfy the graduation requirement of a year in National, State and Local Government A and B.
Grade Level: 9- 10- 11- 12
No repeats for credit
Course Name: US History
Course Description:
0.5 credit per semester
This course is for students desiring a freshman college-level course in United States history. The course is a survey of this nation's history from 1607 to the present, using a college-level text and requiring college-level writing and discussion.
Note: U.S. History AP A and B may be used instead of U.S. History A and B to satisfy the graduation requirement of a year in U.S. History.
Grade Level: 11- 12
No repeats for credit
Course Name: World History
Course Description:
0.5 credit per semester
This college-level course helps students develop greater understanding of world history and human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The chronological time frame is from 8000 BCE to the present. Note: World History AP A/B may be used instead of Modern World History A/B to satisfy the graduation requirement of a year in Modern World History.
Grade Level: 11- 12
No repeats for credit
Course Name: Human Geography
Contact Info: Mr. Steven Garfinkel
0.5 credit per semester
Students study the overarching questions of where human beings live on the surface of the Earth and why they live there.
The course is comprised of seven major units based primarily on the following subject matter. The first semester ends at a logical point within Unit 4.
(1) The nature of and perspectives on geography;
(2) Population and migration;
(3) Cultural patterns and processes;
(4) Political organization of space (political geography);
(5) Agriculture and rural land use;
(6) Industrialization and economic development; and
(7) Cities and urban land use.
Grade Level: 9-12
No repeats for credit