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PDLA AP Human Geography 2220 12 2 1
Human Geography is a college-level course designed to prepare students for the AP Human Geography Exam. The goal of the course is to provide students with a geographic perspective through which to view the world. Through a combination of direct instruction, documentary videos, and online readings, students will explore geographic concepts, theories, and models; human environment interactions; and interactions among human systems. Topics covered include population, culture, political organization of space, agricultural land use, industrialization, and urban land use. Students will demonstrate their understanding and acquisition of skills through essays, document-based questions, student collaborative activities, and practice AP exams.
Economics/Law 209 12 2 1
This course is designed to provide the student with core knowledge in both economics and in law. Semester one focuses on economics and semester two focuses on law. During the economics semester, MICROECONOMICS students will examine how people produce goods and services necessary to satisfy their needs and wants. The course will be centered on scarcity and choice, markets and economic systems, functions of government, economic interdependence, and income profit and wealth. During the law semester, students will examine the origins of American Law, criminal law and juvenile justice, tort law, and the individual’s rights and liberties. Extensive projects, essay writing, oral presentations, as well as homework, discussion, and tests are important components of this course. A major research assignment and major projects are required. ​College credit (3 cr) is available for this course through Carlow University. Click ​here​ for more information on College in High School.
PREREQUISITE: Student must have the following:
● Successful completion of a junior year Social Studies course.
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PDLA Economics 2209 12 2 1
This course invites students to broaden their understanding of how economic concepts apply to their everyday lives—including microeconomic and macroeconomic theory and the characteristics of mixed-market economies, the role of government in a free-enterprise system and the global economy, and personal finance strategies. Throughout the course, students apply critical-thinking skills while making practical economic choices. Students also master literacy skills through rigorous reading and writing activities. Students analyze data displays and write routinely and responsively in tasks and assignments that are based on scenarios, texts, activities, and examples. In more extensive, process-based writing lessons, students write full-length essays in informative and argumentative formats.
World Geography 211 12 2 1
This course has been constructed to provide the student with geo-literacy skills necessary to function in everyday life with respect to news, travel and general conversation. It also attempts to explain the many interrelationships between man’s cultures and his physical environment. This understanding of man’s interdependence with the earth is accomplished through the study of physical, cultural, economic and demographic (population) factors which are analyzed through the techniques of geographic thinking. A second semester project must be completed by the student. PREREQUISITES: Student must have the following:
● Passing grade in World Cultures or any AP Social Studies course.
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