History is not dead and does not need resuscitation; it lives in our
habits of thought and our institutions, our prejudices and our purposes, and
what the history course does is to tell how these things and thoughts came
to be as they are.
Read first and last. History is for reading and developing a taste for
reading history ensures lifelong pleasure.
History, as its name indicates, is first of all a story. It tells what
hapened at a certain time and place to certain persons and peoples..... history
as a school subject is the account of human actions in the past. How do we
know what Franklin, Columbus, and the rest thought and did? They told us,
directly or indirectly. The consequences of history are with us still, present
all the time; we not only make history but are bathed in it. The essence of
genuine history is continuity and its main characteristic is combination (often
confusion) of acts, hopes, plans, moves, efforts, failures, triumphs, tragedies
- all these arising from the behavior of persons living at a certain time
and place. The student who reads history will unconsciously develop what is
the highest value of history: judgment in worldly affairs. It is not to make
us more clever the next time, but wiser for all time. (Jacques Barzun)
Our Social Studies Course Offerings are listed below. Each course provides
engaging reading, activites, and videos to help your student become comfortable
with an understanding of what our history teaches us.
Student Open Forum (
Required of All Full-Time Students)
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
Total for Course: $103.00
Through the open discussions, all students in the program get to know
each other. Students read articles and readings each week. Students
post their comments in the Student Open Forum and then are able to enjoy
the comments and perspectives of other students from around the country
and the world.
LA300/SS300 Student Open Forum - $103.00 per semester
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SS100 Geography for Life
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
Geography is described as the study of the “why of the where.” Geography for Life will explore how to use geography as a tool to better understand the world in which we live. Students will learn to evaluate and question the why and where of spatial perceptions that are read, seen, and heard. The six standards identified below are best understood when using the following geographic themes: location, place, movement, region, and human-environmental interaction.
Geography for Life is designed as a semester course. A semester course will include map skills with physical and human geography essentials, beginning with North America, South America, Europe, and their connections to other world regions.
SS100
- .5 credit course plus materials: $108.00
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| Understanding United States history is essential for the continuation of our democratic society. This course will help students make connections between their world and the rich heritage of United States history.
The course is designed as a survey of American history with an emphasis on
post-Reconstruction American (1876- Present), but should include a review
of the earlier period. The course can be taught using a thematic approach
or in chronological order.
U.S. History - Civil War
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
Program Overview: Students study U.S. History after reconstruction through the immigration movement and then to the westward movement.
SS200
- .5 credit course plus materials: $124.95
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U.S. History - Colonies to Constitution
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
Program Overview: Students study U.S. History after reconstruction through the immigration movement and then to the westward movement.
SS200
- .5 credit course plus materials: $124.95
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SS200 U.S. History IIa: Immigration and Westward Expansion
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
Program Overview: Students study U.S. History after reconstruction through the immigration movement and then to the westward movement.
SS200
- .5 credit course plus materials: $124.95
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SS210 U.S. History IIb: Depression and the 60's
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
Program Overview: Students study U.S. History through the world wars, depression, and into the sixties.
SS210
- .5 credit course plus materials: $124.95
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SS300 U.S. Government and Citizenship
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
The goal of this course is to foster informed, responsible participation in public life. Knowing how to be a good citizen is essential to the preservation and improvement of United States democracy. Upon completion of this course the student will understand the major ideas, protections, privileges, structures, and economic systems that affect the life of a citizen in the United States political system. This course is recommended for seniors due to their proximity to voting and draft age.
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.”
Thomas Jefferson (1820)
SS300
- .5 credit course plus materials: $110.00
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SS400 World Civilizations
Credit: .5 (semester course)
Course Fee: $85.00
Materials Fee: $18.00
E-Text Fee: $5.00
Total for Course: $108.00
The study of World Civilizations emphasizes the increasing interrelationships over time of the world’s peoples. These interrelationships have developed in two major arenas. First, the relationships have developed among major regions of the world: East Asia, South Asia, Southwest Asia (Middle East), Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America. Second, they have developed within all aspects of human activity: political, economic, social, philosophical and religious, scientific and technological, and artistic. This course is designed as a survey course.
SS400
- .5 credit course plus materials: $108.00
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