Course #4101-4102

Grade 10

Full Year = 1 World History/World Geography credit

This course focuses on World History from approximately the mid-1300s to the modern day. Students will examine important concepts in geography, history, and culture pertaining to regions around the globe. Students will analyze significant events, individuals, developments and processes across the world from the perspective of multiple and varied voices for a vivid and complex picture of history. This course is global in nature, with a multicultural, rather than Eurocentric, approach. Students will engage in historical thinking, robust academic discussions, and informational and argumentative writing. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, global expansion, empires and kingdoms of the world, the Enlightenment and revolutions, the rise of nation states, imperialism, industrialization, WWI, 20th Century revolutions, global depression, WWII, decolonization, the Cold War, globalization, and modern issues.

Course #4117-4118

Grade 10

Grade 9 for Elective Credit

Full Year = 1 World History/World Geography credit

This course is an integrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of the world in the study of people, places, and environments. Designed within the guidelines set forth in the National Geography Standards, its subject matter is Earth's surface and the processes that shape it, the relationships between people and environments, and the connections between people and places. Students will analyze significant events, individuals, developments and demographics across the world from the perspective of multiple and varied voices for a vivid and complex picture of cultural geography. Students will be encouraged to examine and understand the inter-connectedness of the world around them. The course will focus on major world regions, including: the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa and Oceania. The content of this course meets the World History requirement for graduation.

Course #4111-4112

Grade 10

Full Year = 1 World History/World Geography credit (Advanced Placement)

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university world history course. In AP World History students investigate the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped the world from approximately 1200 CE to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical comparisons; and utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides nine thematic units that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: the Global Tapestry, Networks of Exchange, Land-Based Empires, Transoceanic Interconnections, Revolutions, Consequences of Industrialization, Global Conflict, Cold War and Decolonization, and Globalization. Students are required to take the AP exam in May. All AP exams have a cost associated with them.

Course #4181-4181

Full Year = 1 World History/World Geography credit (Advanced Placement)

Grade 10

Grade 11, 12 for Elective Credit

This course is equivalent to an introductory college-level course in human geography. The course introduces 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 socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. This course is organized around seven units that students explore throughout the course: thinking geographically, population and migration patterns and processes, cultural patterns and processes, political patterns and processes, agriculture and rural land-use patterns and processes, cities and urban land-use patterns and processes, and industrial and economic development patterns and processes. The curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards (2012). Students are required to take the AP exam in May. All AP exams have a cost associated with them.

Course #4131-4132

Grade 11

Full Year = 1 US History credit

This course focuses on the history of the United States from the turn of the century to the present day. American founding documents and democratic principles will provide for the foundation referenced throughout this course while maintaining focus on the multicultural history, economics, civics, and geography of the modern era. This course includes multiple and varied voices and perspectives for a vivid and complex picture of U.S. History. Students in the course will engage in historical thinking, robust academic discussions, and informational and argumentative writing. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: Nativism/Populism, Imperialism, the Gilded Age/Industrial Revolution, Progressivism, WWI, the 1920s, the Great Depression, WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the rights movements of the 1970s, globalism, terrorism, and modern issues.

Course #14233-14234

Grade 11

Full Year = 1 US History credit (dual credit); 1 Elective

This course is offered on the McQueen Campus during the school day. Students will enroll in TMCC's dual credit program and will earn 6 college credits upon successful completion.

HIST 101 - US History to 1877

Survey of U.S. political, social, economic, diplomatic and cultural development from colonial times to 1877. Satisfies the United States Constitution requirement.

HIST 102 - U. S. History since 1877

Survey of U.S. political, social, economic, diplomatic and cultural development from 1877 to the present. Includes examination of the Nevada Constitution and satisfies the Nevada Constitution requirement.

Course #4161

Grade 12

One Semester = 0.5  American Government credit

Productive civic engagement requires knowledge of the historical foundations and principles of American democracy, understanding the unique processes of local, state, and national institutions, and the skills necessary to apply civic dispositions and democratic principles. In this semester long course, students will analyze the powers and civic responsibilities of citizens and examine the origins, functions, and structure of the U.S. government. Content will include multiple historical eras and the various changing perspectives in America’s past, as well as connections between historical events. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: founding documents, the federal system, the legislative process, the judicial system, the executive branch, elections, political parties, interest groups, rights and responsibilities of citizens, international relations, public policy, economic policies, media literacy, and contemporary issues.

Course #4205

Grade 12

One Semester = 0.5 Economics credit

The Economics and Financial Literacy course is grounded in knowledge about how people access and choose to use resources. Economic decision making involves setting goals and identifying the resources available to achieving those goals. Students will examine concepts and tools necessary to foster an economic way of thinking to better understand the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets, workings of the national economy, and interactions within the global marketplace. Some of the topics of study will include, but are not limited to, the following: supply and demand, financial institutions, labor markets, globalization, standard of living, economic indicators and policy, financial decision-making, saving and spending, credit and debt, and college and career preparedness.

Course #4175-4176

Grade 12

Full Year = 1.0  American Government/Economics credit (Advanced Placement)

This class satisfies both the American Government and Economics requirements.

The "We the People" instructional program provides students with a course of instruction on the historical development of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the basic principles of constitutional democracy. The program is designed to foster civic responsibility through the development of an understanding of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the fundamental principles and values that students embody. The program also helps the student gain an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our constitutional democracy. The "We the People" curriculum examines the following topics at levels appropriate for students at the senior high school/college level: political philosophy, history, and experience, writing the Constitution, establishing the government, protection of basic rights, and the responsibilities of citizenship. Students taking this course will be competing in simulated congressional hearings on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and will be giving oral presentations before a panel of judges from the community. Students will be required to do research work in the school library and at UNR. Students will also be required to give unit presentations before other classes, community organizations, and community professionals. Students are required to take the AP exam in May. All AP exams have a cost associated with them.

Course #14228

Grade 12

One Semester = .5 Credit (American Government; Dual Credit)

Upon Successful completion, 3 College/University Credits will be awarded through UNR

American government and the discipline of political science; surveys participation, pursuit and use of power, constitution formation, and contemporary political issues.

For students planning to attend UNR, this course satisfies the Univeristy's CO6, CO8 requirements. 

Course #14101

Grade 12

One Semester = .5 Credit (Economics and Personal Finance; Dual Credit)

Upon Successful completion, 3 College/University Credits will be awarded through UNR

Selected microeconomic and macroeconomic principles applied in a non-technical manner to improve understanding of everyday problems and social issues.

For students planning to attend UNR, this course satisfies the University's CO6 requirement. 

Course #4245-4246

Grade 9-12

Full Year = 1 Humanities/elective credit

Course Fee: $10

The course begins with a review of the ways people have sought to explain human behavior from ancient times through today. Students explore research methods and discover how the scientific method has moved psychology from hypnosis and mesmerism to using serious inquiries to prove theories. They also investigate brain personality theories to help understand such complex mental processes as learning, memory, thought, and language.

Grades 11, 12

Full Year = 1 credit (dual credit)

Course #14153-14154

Upon Successful completion, 3 College/University Credits will be awarded through UNR

Can be used to satisfy the Flex credit graduation requirement

Course Fee: $10

Presents psychology as a science concerned with the actions of organisms in a social and cultural context.

For students attending UNR, this course satisfies the University's CO6 requirement.