The social studies curriculum offers students a sequence of required and elective courses related to various social sciences. Required courses focus on American history, career awareness and decisionmaking, global geography and world cultures, American government, economics and social issues.
Elective courses focus on a study of psychology, future studies and community learning and service.
This courses focuses on early American history from discovery and exploration through Reconstruction after the Civil War and westward expansion. An introduction to career awareness and decisionmaking and an understanding of current events is also provided. This course concentrates on events, people and movements in American history following the Civil War and Reconstruction. Historical themes, related to life today and destined to have an impact on the future, are studied. These themes begin in the last quarter of the 19th century and follow through the 20th century and to the present.