This course is normally paired with Advanced Economics to make a full credit course of study. Specific content includes, but is not limited to, an understanding of the current theories and methods used by psychologists, human growth and development, self-concept development, motivation and desire, personality and behavior, conformity, autonomy, alienation, mental health and therapy, stress, intelligence, conditioning and learning, memory, and abnormal behavior. This course is designed to give students an understanding of societies and the values and norms that shape social institutions, influence group behavior, and promote social change. Topics include the transmission of group behavior, the characteristics of social groups and their interrelationships and interdependence, and the methods and techniques used by sociologists in solving social problems. This course provides students with an understanding of the chronological development of humanity by examining the political, economic, social, religious, military, dynastic, scientific, technical, and cultural events that have shaped and molded humanity.
Content includes the development of civilization from earliest times to the modern era.
Included with this content is a study of Americanism vs. Communism. The course is designed to provide students with an effective understanding of the past in terms of change or process as it relates to the development of humanity. This is done by looking at the political, economic, social, religious, military, dynastic, scientific, technical, and cultural events that have shaped and molded humanity. Implicit in this is an understanding of the historical method, the process of inquiry, the movement of history in cycles of development and decay, the issues of external and internal validity and the use of historical reasoning to seek solutions to contemporary problems. Content included covers the development of humanity from earliest times to the modern era.