Link to Rhetta Bittle Web Site support for World History classes. The Social Studies Department is multi-disciplinary in structure, offering courses in history, geography, political systems, economics, psychology, law, and current issues. Many of the required courses for graduation are offered in levels of college prep, honors, and gifted. The Social Studies Department's aim is not to train future politicians and historians, but to train students to think logically and historically. Students will have to master a certain amount of factual information, but facts are not the ultimate goal.
Facts are a means to an end.
Students will learn how to evaluate facts and evidence and then synthesize them into relationships. Through these relationships, students will recognize that our current times are related to the events from the past. Due to a change in the curriculum for the 1998-1999 school year, entering freshman will follow a new recommended schedule of course offerings in order to satisfy requirements for graduation. Minimum Required by the state for graduation. Social Studies I and II are a blend of familiar courses.