Introduction to Citizenship (OE9511, 9611)
Open to Grade: 10
Prerequisite: None
Length: 1 year
The course will teach students about the foundation of the American Government and the American and global economies. It will provide the student with an opportunity to better understand his/her rights, responsibilities, and role in a democratic society. The course focuses primarily on the American Government but also looks at other American social institutions and the American economy.
Economics (SS3011)
Open to Grade: 12
Prerequisite: None
Length: 1 quarter
The course will examine basic economic concepts, consumerism, major types of United States’ markets, global trade, and the workings of modern business. The course will focus on the development of a business portfolio with the assistance of a member of Milwaukee’s business community.
Psychology (SS3511)
Open to Grades: 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Length: 1 year
Psychology provides a broad overview of the study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include methods of research; social psychology, physiological psychology; child, adolescent, and adult development; altered states of consciousness; motivation and emotion; stress and adjustment; sensation and perception; learning; memory; language development; personality theories; abnormal behavior; and therapy. Students in Psychology are expected to do experiments as well as research projects.
Advanced Placement Psychology (ST1211, 1311)
Open to Grades: 11, 12
Prerequisite: Instructor’s Consent, DC Approval, and/or Counselor Approval
Length: 2 quarters
The AP Psychology 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. Students also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice. Major content areas covered include History and “Schools” of Psychology; Research methods; Biological bases of behavior; Sensation and perception; states of consciousness; Learning; Cognition; Motivation and emotion; Developmental psychology; Personality; Testing and individual differences; Abnormal psychology; Treatment of psychological disorders; and Social psychology.
Minorities in American Society (SS331)
Prerequisite: None
Length: 1 semester
Minorities in American Society gives students an opportunity to examine the many contributions of various cultural, ethnic, and religious groups in American society. Students further study the social forces that affect minority groups entering the mainstream of our society. Students examine their attitudes as well as those of society regarding discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice. An attempt is made to develop better attitudes toward various ethnic and cultural groups, gender issues, sexism, racism, and religious bigotry.
Sociology (SS3611)
Open to Grades: 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Length: 1semester
The course will introduce students to the systematic study of human social behavior both from a small group (friendship, community, and local) and a large group (society) perspective. The very nature of this course lends itself to a multicultural and multi-ethnic perspective. The course will provide the student with a study of a variety of social groupings within the broader societal framework allowing for familiarization with differing, but not necessarily competitive, value orientations.
United States History (SS2211B/SS2311B)
Open to Grades: 10, 11
Prerequisite: None
Length:1 year
United States History builds upon the skills, concepts, and historical perspectives achieved by students in Grades 5 through 8. It is a study of the emergence of American society and culture. This includes an examination of the establishment of this nation as a geographic and political entry, development and interplay of the nation’s social institutions, and the approaches Americans have used to face both domestic and international problems. Since a multi-ethnic/multicultural/ non- sexist approach is used throughout this course, students will better understand and appreciate the pluralistic nature of American Society. United States History 1 emphasizes the colonial period, the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the development and launching of the federal system of government, United States History 2 includes the emergence of modern industrial America, the involvement of the United States on the world scene in 1898, the Progressive Era, World War 1 and the aftermath, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movements, and other recent developments at home and abroad. The ultimate goal is to help the students better appreciate the role of the United States in a changing world. Current affairs are related where appropriate to important issues in United States history.
Advanced Placement United States History (SS4011, 4113, 4112)
Open to Grades: 11 and 12
Prerequisite: Instructor’s Consent, DC Approval, and/or Counselor Approval
Length:1 year
AP U.S. History is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses.
Students should 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.
Advanced Placement Human Geography (ST1611, 1711)
Open to Grades 9, 10, 11, 12.
Length:1 Year
The purpose of the AP course in Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine the human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. By the end of the course, students should be able to: Use and think about maps and spatial data; Understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places; Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes; Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process, and Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places.
Advanced Placement United States Government (SS4651)
Open to Grades: 11, 12
Prerequisite: Instructor’s Consent, DC Approval, and/or Counselor Approval
Length: 1year
A well-designed AP course in U.S. Government & Politics will give students an analytical perspective on government and politics in the United States. This course includes both the study of general concepts used to interpret U.S. politics and the analysis of specific examples. It also requires familiarity with the various institutions, groups, beliefs, and ideas that constitute U.S. politics. Topics include Constitutional underpinnings of U.S. government; Political beliefs and behaviors; Political parties, interest groups, and mass media; Institutions of the national government; Public policy; and Civil rights and civil liberties. Taught only as part 1 of a 2-semester sequence.
World Studies (SS1411, 1511)
Open to Grade: 9, 10, 11
Prerequisite: None
Length:1 year
World Studies is a course designed to help students understand the world around them and the linkage they have with the many other people of the world. Through the study of such societal/cultural regions such as Europe, China, India, North American, Latin America, the Middle East, Soviet Union, Japan, and Sub-Saharan Africa, the students gain valuable insights into the modes and manners of our global neighbors. The course provides a geographical, historical, political, economic, and social perspective of each region as it gives the students an opportunity to appreciate, respect, and understand the cultural differences of the people of these regions and their relationship to the United States in the contemporary world.