Social Studies 9-12
WORLD HISTORY: 1500 TO PRESENT (Grade 9)
Course Code: 04053G1000
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
This ninth grade level course requires students to think critically about the various forces that combined to shape the world today. Emphasis is placed on geographic impact, developments of civic knowledge/responsibilities, and emerging economic systems within a chronological context.
UNITED STATES HISTORY I (Grade 10)
Course Code: 04102G1000
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
This study of American History provides the opportunity for students to understand the quest for freedom, justice, opportunity, and democracy in the United States, analyze the establishment of representative democracy in America, and relate the significance of the past to their own lives, both private and public, and to their society. The integration of history, geography, economics, and government with American literature, shows relationships to present accurate and meaningful content and to interpret past events and conditions. Alabama’s history and geography are included in this chronological study of United States history.
DUAL ENROLLMENT HISTORY 201
Course Code: 04999C1009
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
This course surveys United States history during colonial, Revolutionary, early national and antebellum periods. It concludes with the Civil War and Reconstruction. This course earns an additional .5 quality points of weighted credit. Additional costs for this course.
UNITED STATES HISTORY II (Grade 11)
Course Code: 04103G1000
1 Credit
Prerequisite: US History & Geography: Beginnings to 1877
This course is a comprehensive study of critical issues and events in modern U.S. history. The eleventh-grade course focuses on twentieth-century America and beyond. Knowledge and understanding gained during previous years of study provide the foundation for the critical analysis required in this course. Emphasis is placed on America’s expanding industrialization, urbanization, intervention in world affairs, and changes in economic, social, and political structure.
DUAL ENROLLMENT HISTORY 202
Course Code: 04999C1009
1 Credit
This course is a continuation of HIS 201 and US History Grade 10; it surveys United States history from the Reconstruction era to the present. This course earns an additional .5 quality points of weighted credit. Prerequisite. Additional costs for this course.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Course Code:- 04151G0500
½ Credit (pairs with Economics)
Prerequisite: None
In this course, participants will draw upon the knowledge and skills from their previous studies of the United States, world history, and geography to be utilized as background information. This course will focus on the origins, development, and functions of representative democracy in America with emphasis on the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
ECONOMICS
Course Code: 04201G0500
½ Credit (pairs with US Government)
Prerequisite: None
This course emphasizes the workings and institutions of modern-day economic systems and economic theory. In particular, the course places a particular focus on the workings of the American modified free enterprise system and how the American system differs from other systems around the world. At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to analyze current issues and problems in economic systems.
PSYCHOLOGY
Course Code: 04254G1000
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
This elective course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of psychology. This class studies the nervous system and why people act, think, and feel as they do. Although the study of psychology is done scientifically, this class is not available as a science credit on any diploma.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Course Code: 04001G1000
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces major world geographic areas; interrelationships between people and habitat; and political, social, cultural, and economic geography.