With extra study, students may elect to take the Advanced Placement U. S. History exam at the completion of this course. This course explores significant developments and defining events in American history during the twentieth century. A topic approach is used and issues chosen for consideration may vary from year to year. Students learn to use primary sources, documentary materials, pictorial evidence, as well as current technology. Grade 12 Economics presents basic economic concepts and applies them to such areas as capitalism, supply and demand, inflation and unemployment, taxation, and fiscal policy.
Sociology studies social life and social organization.
Topics include culture, family life, deviance and social control, gender questions, and minority groups within American society. This course introduces students to psychology, the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.