Social Studies

Course #4101-4102
Full year = 1 World History/World Geography credit

This course focuses on World History from approximately the mid-1300s to the modern day. Students will examine important concepts in geography, history, and culture pertaining to regions around the globe. Students will analyze significant events, individuals, developments and processes across the world from the perspective of multiple and varied voices for a vivid and complex picture of history. This course is global in nature, with a multicultural, rather than Eurocentric, approach. Students will engage in historical thinking, robust academic discussions, and informational and argumentative writing. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, global expansion, empires and kingdoms of the world, the Enlightenment and revolutions, the rise of nation states, imperialism, industrialization, WWI, 20th Century revolutions, global depression, WWII, decolonization, the Cold War, globalization, and modern issues.

Course #4111-4112
Full year = 1 World History/World Geography credit (Advanced Placement)

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university world history course. In AP World History students investigate the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped the world from approximately 1200 CE 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 comparisons; and utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides nine thematic units that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: the Global Tapestry, Networks of Exchange, Land-Based Empires, Transoceanic Interconnections, Revolutions, Consequences of Industrialization, Global Conflict, Cold War and Decolonization, and Globalization. Students are required to take the AP exam in May. All AP exams have a cost associated with them.
 

Course #4117-4118
Full year = 1 World History/World Geography credit

This course is an integrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of the world in the study of people, places, and environments. Designed within the guidelines set forth in the National Geography Standards, its subject matter is Earth's surface and the processes that shape it, the relationships between people and environments, and the connections between people and places. Students will analyze significant events, individuals, developments and demographics across the world from the perspective of multiple and varied voices for a vivid and complex picture of cultural geography. Students will be encouraged to examine and understand the inter-connectedness of the world around them. The course will focus on major world regions, including: the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The content of this course meets the World History requirement for graduation.
 

Course #4181-4181
Full year = 1 World History/World Geography credit (Advanced Placement)

This course is equivalent to an introductory college-level course in human geography. The 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 socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. This course is organized around seven units that students explore throughout the course: thinking geographically, population and migration patterns and processes, cultural patterns and processes, political patterns and processes, agriculture and rural land-use patterns and processes, cities and urban land-use patterns and processes, and industrial and economic development patterns and processes. The curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards (2012). Students are required to take the AP exam in May. All AP exams have a cost associated with them.
 

Course #4131-4132
Full year = 1 US History credit

This course focuses on the history of the United States from the turn of the century to the present day. American founding documents and democratic principles will provide for the foundation referenced throughout this course while maintaining focus on the multicultural history, economics, civics, and geography of the modern era. This course includes multiple and varied voices and perspectives for a vivid and complex picture of U.S. History. Students in the course will engage in historical thinking, robust academic discussions, and informational and argumentative writing. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: Nativism/Populism, Imperialism, the Gilded Age/Industrial Revolution, Progressivism, WWI, the 1920s, the Great Depression, WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the rights movements of the 1970s, globalism, terrorism, and modern issues.
 

Course #14233-14234
Full Year = 1 Elective Credit for HIST 101; 1 US History credit for HIST 102(dual credit)
This course is offered on the McQueen Campus during the school day. Students will enroll in TMCC's dual credit program and will earn 6 college credits upon successful completion.

HIST 101 - US History to 1877
Survey of U.S. political, social, economic, diplomatic and cultural development from colonial times to 1877. Satisfies the United States Constitution requirement.
 
HIST 102 - U. S. History since 1877
Survey of U.S. political, social, economic, diplomatic and cultural development from 1877 to the present. Includes examination of the Nevada Constitution and satisfies the Nevada Constitution requirement.
 

Course #4161
One semester = 0.5 American Government credit

Productive civic engagement requires knowledge of the historical foundations and principles of American democracy, understanding the unique processes of local, state, and national institutions, and the skills necessary to apply civic dispositions and democratic principles. In this semester long course, students will analyze the powers and civic responsibilities of citizens and examine the origins, functions, and structure of the U.S. government. Content will include multiple historical eras and the various changing perspectives in America’s past, as well as connections between historical events. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: founding documents, the federal system, the legislative process, the judicial system, the executive branch, elections, political parties, interest groups, rights and responsibilities of citizens, international relations, public policy, economic policies, media literacy, and contemporary issues.
 

Course #4205
One semester = 0.5 Economics and Personal Finance credit

The Economics and Financial Literacy course is grounded in knowledge about how people access and choose to use resources. Economic decision making involves setting goals and identifying the resources available to achieving those goals. Students will examine concepts and tools necessary to foster an economic way of thinking to better understand the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets, workings of the national economy, and interactions within the global marketplace. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: supply and demand, financial institutions, labor markets, globalization, standard of living, economic indicators and policy, financial decision-making, saving and spending, credit and debt, and college and career preparedness.
 

Course #14228
Introduction to American Politics
One semester = 1 American Government credit (Advanced Dual Credit)    

This is a One semester college course covering a survey of American national, state, and local governments. The course includes Nevada's constitution, government, and contemporary issues. This class satisfies the American Government graduation requirement. Expectations for this course are determined by the partner University/College. To be enrolled in the class, students must maintain consistent attendance.
 

Course #14101
Economics and Personal Finance
One semester = 1 Economics and Personal Finance credit (Advanced Dual Credit)

This is a One semester college course offered through the University of Nevada Reno. The course includes personal finance, selected microeconomic and macroeconomic principles applied in a non-technical manner to improve understanding of everyday problems and social issues. This class satisfies the Economics and Personal Finance graduation requirement. Expectations for this course are determined by the partner University/College. To be enrolled in the class, students must maintain consistent attendance.
 

Grades 11, 12
Course #14153-14154
General Psychology
Full year = 1 Arts/Humanities credit (Advanced Dual Credit)
Course Fee: $10

This college course is a survey of the basic foundations of psychology with emphasis on psychological theories, research methods and principles of behavior. Expectations for this course are determined by the partner University/College. To be enrolled in the class, students must maintain consistent attendance.