Updated 12/2024
Social Studies Courses for Humanities Credits
3742 Native American Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12
Native American History and Humanities studies the history and culture of Native Americans, including North, Central, and South America. Particular emphasis is placed on cultures and societies of North America. Students will explore early Paleo-Indian society, the diversity of Native American cultures, the religious and social worlds of Native Americans, artistic and architectural traditions, and the interactions and transformations that accompanied European and American empire-building. Throughout, students will gain a deeper understanding of Native America, engage with differing interpretations of the past, and analyze historical change over time.
3740 American Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
This class combines United States history, humanities, and United States literature. Students are encouraged to explore their roles in the community while incorporating art, music, and current events within historical units. At FRHS: American Humanities is designed to give students a broader appreciation of and exposure to United States culture from its foundation to the present. By becoming aware of the various movements in literature, events in history, fine arts works, musical movements, and various forms of popular culture, students will consider how people within different eras of American history have defined their understanding of what it is to be an American and how that identity has evolved.
3770 Classical Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
Students will study the history of Western Civilization through the literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of major historical periods. The student will examine a variety of responses to the universal questions that humans have explored through the humanities. The course will include Ancient Greece and Rome, Hebrew thought, the Christian Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance and Reformation.
3780 Contemporary Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
Students will study the history of Western Civilization through the literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of major historical periods. The student will examine a variety of responses to the universal questions that humans have explored through the humanities. This course is a continuation of the first-semester Classical Humanities, studying the development of Western Civilization in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. At FRHS: This course will focus on European contributions to the Humanities from the Enlightenment to World War II. It is recommended, but not required, that students first take World History or CP (College Prep) World History.
3800 World Humanities Asia
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
Students will study the cultures of India, China, Japan and other Asian countries through historical events, art, literature, philosophy, music, and architecture. Study will include relating events and concepts of Asia with those of Western Civilization. At FRHS: World religions will also be a focus of study.
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12
Native American History and Humanities studies the history and culture of Native Americans, including North, Central, and South America. Particular emphasis is placed on cultures and societies of North America. Students will explore early Paleo-Indian society, the diversity of Native American cultures, the religious and social worlds of Native Americans, artistic and architectural traditions, and the interactions and transformations that accompanied European and American empire-building. Throughout, students will gain a deeper understanding of Native America, engage with differing interpretations of the past, and analyze historical change over time.
3740 American Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
This class combines United States history, humanities, and United States literature. Students are encouraged to explore their roles in the community while incorporating art, music, and current events within historical units. At FRHS: American Humanities is designed to give students a broader appreciation of and exposure to United States culture from its foundation to the present. By becoming aware of the various movements in literature, events in history, fine arts works, musical movements, and various forms of popular culture, students will consider how people within different eras of American history have defined their understanding of what it is to be an American and how that identity has evolved.
3770 Classical Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
Students will study the history of Western Civilization through the literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of major historical periods. The student will examine a variety of responses to the universal questions that humans have explored through the humanities. The course will include Ancient Greece and Rome, Hebrew thought, the Christian Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance and Reformation.
3780 Contemporary Humanities
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
Students will study the history of Western Civilization through the literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of major historical periods. The student will examine a variety of responses to the universal questions that humans have explored through the humanities. This course is a continuation of the first-semester Classical Humanities, studying the development of Western Civilization in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. At FRHS: This course will focus on European contributions to the Humanities from the Enlightenment to World War II. It is recommended, but not required, that students first take World History or CP (College Prep) World History.
3800 World Humanities Asia
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Humanities
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
Students will study the cultures of India, China, Japan and other Asian countries through historical events, art, literature, philosophy, music, and architecture. Study will include relating events and concepts of Asia with those of Western Civilization. At FRHS: World religions will also be a focus of study.