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This Social Studies course examines African Americans, their history, and their culture in order to develop an understanding and an appreciation of the role played by the African Americans in the history of America. Students will be able to trace African American history and culture back to the kingdoms of ancient Africa.

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This Social Studies course examines the political, cultural, and economic inter-relatedness of Africa and the United States, including the contributions of Africa to American society. This course also explores the socio-economic, geographic, and political structures of various African countries and the current political and economic relationships between Africa and the United States.

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This Social Studies course examines a variety of topics related to Asia, including the physical and political geography, history, languages, literature, philosophy, culture, fine arts, ecology, economics, and politics of its various countries.

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Students will participate in an Organization of American State model assembly. Thereby, students represent a country through in-depth study of country's position on topics they will be advocating on behalf during committee sessions. Topics may include political and economic stability, environmental protection, drug trafficking, human rights, refugees and repatriation, economic development and trade, the status of women and indigenous populations, education and scientific training, and the inter-American system.

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This Social Studies course examines the history, politics, culture, religion, economics, and current events of three major regions of the Middle East, including the Near East, North Africa, and the Arabian Gulf. Students will be able to understand and appreciate the distinct historical and cultural traditions that developed in each region.

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This Social Studies course develops an understanding of international issues from the perspective of people in other countries. It examines the political, social, and economic systems of various nations and regions of the world. This course will require students to demonstrate an appreciation of various ethnicities and international cultural groups.

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This Social Studies course is an experiential course that helps students learn how to effectively mediate student conflicts. Students will understand the dynamics of conflict and communication, learn to communicate with various parties in conflict, and guide disputants to resolutions of conflicts. Upon completion of the course, all successful students will be certified to become Peer Mediators.

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This course is project-based and inquiry-driven to support students in learning the history of activism and protests in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Using lenses of race, gender and sexuality, and class, students will complete inquiry arcs to understand how the historical context of different activist movements has shaped and influenced contemporary activism today. Additionally, students will learn the skills and steps needed to effectively take informed action, and by the end of the course they will implement a collaborative informed action project into their local community to help advocate and push for change and social justice.

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This Social Studies course enables students to identify issues of concern for themselves and their peers both within their school and their surrounding community. Students will be able to organize themselves under the organizational structure of SGA, to empower themselves to work for change that is in the best interest of themselves and their peers. Students will learn through reflection on their work together how to be resourceful, how to come together for a common purpose, and how to create change.

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This Social Studies course enables students to identify issues of concern for themselves and their peers both within their school and their surrounding community. Students will be able to organize themselves under the organizational structure of SGA, to empower themselves to work for change that is in the best interest of themselves and their peers. Students will learn through reflection on their work together how to be resourceful, how to come together for a common purpose, and how to create change.

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This Social Studies elective course will introduce students to the U.S. Constitution and the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution. Students will read excerpts of important cases in constitutional law (including, but not limited to, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District, Brown v. Board of Education, and Goss v. Lopez) and study how the Constitution affects their lives as young people and society at large. The course also involves experiential learning, including: developing a class constitution; participating in moot court competitions; engaging in voter education and registration efforts; visiting the Constitution-in-Action Lab at the National Archives; observing oral arguments at the Supreme Court; and participating in workshops at the Newseum. 0.5-credit. Offered in collaboration with American University's Washington College of Law.

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This Social Studies elective is the first part in the two-part Street Law program. The course introduces students to foundational legal concepts relating to individual rights and responsibilities and the U.S. legal system. Students will learn about U.S. court systems and processes, criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional and human rights, among other topics. 0.5-credit version. For use in first semester in year-long schedule-format schools only. Note: Students in the CTE Public Safety pathway must complete JK1 before enrolling in HJA and JK2.

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This Social Studies course serves as an introductory survey of women in the United States and the wider world, from the seventeenth to the late twentieth first century. It will explore roles of women in the social, economic, and political development of the United States. Questions about race, class, ethnicity, and gender will be explored in this course.

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This Social Studies course is designed for systemic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of the Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human and social organization and its environmental consequence. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. The particular topics in this course should be judged in light of the following five college-level goals that build on the National Geographic Standards developed in 1994 and revised in 2012. The student should be able to: 1) Interpret maps and analyze geospatial data; 2) Understand and explain the implications of associations and networks among phenomena in places; 3) Recognize and interpret the relationships among patterns and processes at different scales of analysis; 4) Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process; 5) Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places. This course is taught with college-level texts, and preparation for the AP test will be a goal of the course. Participation in AP professional development is required to teach an AP course.

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This Social Studies course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. They also learn about ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice. The course is taught with college-level texts, and preparation for the A.P. test will be an integral part of the course. This program of study prepares students for intermediate and advanced college social studies courses. Participation in AP professional development is required to teach an AP course.

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This Social Studies course gives students a critical perspective on politics and government. It is taught with college-level texts, and preparation for the AP test will be an integral part of the course. Students will learn to assess historical materials--their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance--and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. The course will develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. This course prepares students for intermediate and advanced college social studies courses. Participation in AP professional development is required to teach an AP course.

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This Social Studies course is designed to give students a thorough understanding of principles of economics that apply to the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers, within the economic system. It places primary emphasis on the nature and functions of product markets, and includes the study of factor markets and of the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. The course is taught with college-level texts, and preparation for the A.P. test will be an integral part of the course. This program of study prepares students for intermediate and advanced college social studies courses. Participation in AP professional development is required to teach an AP course.

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This course, in its pilot stage, is College Board's new AP course in which students look at the history, politics, culture, and economics of North American people of African descent. From the slave economy to the civil rights movement, and from the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have had a huge role in shaping American society and culture. If you major in African American studies, you'll learn about their achievements.You'll also examine the hardships African Americans faced during their history. Further, you'll dive into the difficult issues, such as unequal educational opportunities, they deal with today. Scholars in African American studies play a key role in the development of modern academics. By focusing on people and viewpoints that have been ignored in other fields, they lead they way in integrating minority experiences into all academic subjects.