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| COURSE: | FRESHMAN SEMINAR | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits
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| COURSE CODE: | PFS1 | GRADE: | 9
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| PREREQUISITE: | None
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This course provides a survey of various disciplines through the context of supporting the transition from middle-to-high school. It includes units of study including: mental and emotional health, family health and relationships, personal health including diseases and disorders, use and misuse of substances, ethical decision making, accident prevention and emergency health services, community health, and global/environmental exposure to culture, religion and other health related issues. It also includes life/ study skills essential to a successful future including: organization and time management, stress management, financial literacy, school culture/ getting involved, future college/career pathways and goal setting strategies. There are four main units throughout the course aligned to Health Science, Psychology, Leadership Development, and Speech/Debate.
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| COURSE: | HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AP | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SXRT | GRADE | 9-12 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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Through Advanced Placement Human Geography, students will understand how they fit into the global society of the 21st century. Students will recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes. Students will understand and interpret social organization and its environmental consequences as well as the changing interconnections among places. Through this course, students will be prepared to take the Advanced Placement Human Geography Exam in the spring.
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| COURSE: | WORLD HISTORY | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SHRS | GRADE | 10 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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This course is required of all tenth grade students. Students study major turning points that shaped the modern world from the late eighteenth century through the present. Students will trace the rise of democratic ideas & develop an understanding of the historical roots of current world issues. Through this course, students will develop an understanding of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts.
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COURSE: | WORLD HISTORY AP | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SHRSAP | GRADE | 10 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | A |
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AP World History is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university World History course. The AP World History course focuses on developing students’ understanding of world history from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present. The course has students investigate the content of world history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides five themes (interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; development and transformation of social structures) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places encompassing the five major geographical regions of the globe: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The assessments in this class are meant to model the expectations and skills required in the AP World History exam in May. The AP World History Exam features short-answer, document-based, and essay questions that ask students to demonstrate historical content knowledge and thinking skills through written responses. Multiple-choice questions will ask students to use content knowledge to analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.
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| COURSE: | EUROPEAN HISTORY AP | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SHPK | GRADE | 10 |
| PREREQUISITE: | A grade of “A” in World Geography/Area Cultures and teacher recommendation. Students must maintain a grade of “A” of “B” during the first semester to remain in the second semester of the honors block. |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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This course is offered to provide the student with preparation for the Advanced Placement Examination in European History. Students use college level textbooks, study topics in greater scope and depth than in a regular class, and write numerous essays in preparation for that section of the AP exam. Students should expect a minimum of one hour of homework each day in this class.
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| COURSE: | US HISTORY | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SUP3 | GRADE | 11 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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This course gives the student a sound & basic understanding of the United States today by showing its development through the twentieth century. The course begins with a brief connective review of U.S. History up to the end of the nineteenth century. The primary focus is on United States History in the twentieth century. The development of the principles, institutions & traditions of the United Sates are set forth in this course. Students taking this course will be required to write a research paper or papers, which meet grade level English course requirements.
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| COURSE: | US HISTORY HONORS | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SUPJ | GRADE | 11 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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The U.S. History Honors course is designed for students who have great interest in historical matters & desire a deeper & more rigorous encounter with issues in American history. This course will use a college-level text & supplemental readings. Class discussions & assignments will go far beyond the “what” happened to probe the “how” and the “why” things happened. Students will be expected to complete several research papers, & debate various topics with their classmates. Due to the increased rigor & independence required for this course, it does receive a “weighted” grade status. However, it does not specifically prepare students to take the AP U.S. History examination.
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| COURSE: | U.S. HISTORY ADVANCED PLACEMENT | YEAR COURSE: | 10 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SUPH | GRADE | 11 |
| PREREQUISITE: | A grade of “A” or “B” in European History Honors AP or a grade of “A” in World Studies P and teacher recommendation. It is recommended that students wishing to take this course not have taken their previous two years of high school history in summer school. |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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This course is offered to provide the student with preparation for the Advanced Placement Examination in United States History. Students use college level textbooks, study topics in greater scope and depth than in a college prep class, and write numerous essays in preparation for that section of the AP exam. Students should expect a minimum of one hour of homework each day in this class.
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| COURSE: | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT | SEMESTER COURSE: | 5 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SGPS | GRADE | 12 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | Subject A |
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This course is required of all twelfth grade students. It is a semester-long introduction to the American Political System. It focuses on: 1) the historical and constitutional framework, 2) the various ways in which Americans participate in our political system, 3) the structure and functions of the major institutions of government, including Congress, the presidency and the executive bureaucracy, and the Supreme Court and judicial system, 4) civil liberties, and 5) California state and local government.
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| COURSE: | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AP | YEAR COURSE: | 5 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SGPH | GRADE | 12 |
| PREREQUISITE: | An “A” or “B” in U.S. History AP or an “A" both semesters of U.S. History P. It is recommended that students wishing to take this course not have taken their previous two years of high school history in summer school. |
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Advanced Placement American Government is designed to prepare students to take the Advanced Placement examination in May. Emphasis will be put on the nature of the American political system, its development over the past two hundred years and especially how it works today. Principle processes and institutions through which the political system functions will be examined as well some of the policies that these institutions establish and how they are implemented.
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| COURSE: | ECONOMICS | SEMESTER COURSE: | 5 credits |
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COURSE CODE: | SEPS | GRADE | 12 |
| PREREQUISITE: | None |
| UC/CSU: | Subject G |
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This course is a requirement for all 12th grade students & is aligned with the state standards. The curriculum begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of economics, such as scarcity, trade-offs, and opportunity costs, & progresses to include concepts in microeconomics, macroeconomics, & international economics. These concepts include supply & demand, competition & market structures, business organizations, labor & wages, fiscal & monetary policies, the Federal Reserve System, investments, money & banking, macroeconomic policies & measures, & international trade.
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