World History & Civilization

WORLD HISTORY & CIVILIZATIONS: World History and Civilization emphasizes events and developments in the past that greatly affected large numbers of people across broad areas and that significantly influenced peoples and places in subsequent eras.  Key events related to people and places as well as transcultural interaction and exchanges are examined in this course.  Students are expected to compare and contrast events and developments involving diverse peoples and civilizations in different regions of the world.  They will examine examples of continuity and change, universality and particularity, and unity and diversity among various peoples and cultures from the past to the present. Students are also expected to practice skills and process of historical thinking and research and apply content knowledge to the practice of thinking and inquiry skills and processes.  There will be continuous and pervasive interactions of processes and content, skills and substance, in the teaching and learning of history.

 Full year                     

Suggested Prerequisite: *None                                 

Grade Level: 9-10-11-12

A Core 40 and Academic Honors Course

*It is recommended that 9th grade students taking World History should have earned a C or above in both 9th grade English and Social Studies.