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SOCIAL SCIENCE ELECTIVES
Geography (one semester course)
*Student must choose 2 one semester courses
Course # 1520 Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 Prerequisites: None
UC Approved - G- Elective Courses
Credits: 5
This course is designed to produce a geographically informed student who sees meaning in the arrangement of things in space and applies a spatial perspective to life situations. The geographically informed student knows and understands the following: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the uses of geography.
AP Human Geography A/B
Course # 1523/1524 Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: None
UC Approved - G- Elective Courses
Credits: 10
AP 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 will use spatial concepts and landscape analysis to understand human social organization and its environmental consequences. The course will also provide students with the tools and methods geographers use in their science and practice. There may be a summer assignment.
Psychology (one semester course)
*Student must choose 2 one semester courses
Course # 1560 Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: None
UC Approved: G – Elective Courses
Credits: 5
This course establishes a foundation for the learning of motivations, behaviors, and principles behind human interaction. This will allow the students to understand the social environment in which they live and be able to make some simple applications.
