World History and Cultures

World History

World Cultures

Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Credit: 1 Credit per semester

Term: 1 semester or 1 year

Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Credit: 1 credit

Term: 1 semester

World History is an elective course that will meet the semester social studies requirement for graduation. It may be taken as a semester course or a full year course. The flexibility of the course is designed to allow students to take the course at any time during the high school career. It is a study of world history, which includes geography, historical events and various cultural aspects of living in a world community both today and in the past. The objective of the course is to increase the students' knowledge and understanding of the world around them.

First semester begins with prehistoric time and concludes in the mid 1700's. It includes all classical civilizations of the world and their contributions to civilizations that followed them.
Second semester begins with the ideas of liberalism, nationalism, and democracy. It follows those concepts from the late 1700's through the present including the Industrial Revolution, the World Wars, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, and Desert Storm.

World Cultures is an elective course that will meet the semester social studies requirement for graduation. Throughout the course the semester students will research and study different cultures that exist around the world. Students will examine different aspects of cultures within the United States, Middle East, Africa, Europe, South America, and East Asia. This includes the study of region, customs, politics, economics, conflict, and sociology. Students will view and study how cultural traits and geography contribute to conflict and affect interaction between countries throughout the globe. The course looks at other cultures and stresses an awareness and acceptance of man's cultural backgrounds, interaction between man and his physical world, and how each affects the other.