Updated 12/2024
11th Grade Social Studies Options
7220 United States History
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): US History
Open to Grades: 11
This course is a chronological survey of events and people that characterize each of the major eras in U.S. History. The eras studied include: The Americas to 1600, The Colonial Era, The Revolutionary Era, Nation Building, The Expanding Nation, Civil War and Reconstruction, Development of the Industrial United States, The Progressive Era, Emergence of the United States as a World Power, the 20's Prosperity and Problems, Depression and New Deal, World War II and Post War United States, and Contemporary United States. The course analyzes political, social, economic, religious, and military issues.
7225CECU AP United States History
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): US History
Open to Grades: 11
This course is designed to prepare the student to challenge the Advanced Placement Examination in United States History. The chronology will begin at the pre-Columbus experience and conclude with America as a world power in the late 20th Century. This course requires extensive reading, writing, research, and participation. The reading -text, historical documents, and historiography - is at the college fresh-man/sophomore level and students may expect to read perhaps 50 to 100 pages a week. At FRHS: Students may earn college credit by either enrolling concurrently through CU-Succeed or taking the AP United States History Exam.
7230 Economics (Basic Economics)
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12 (12th is recommended)
As the world’s economies become increasingly interdependent, it is essential that students become economic thinkers. Using micro and macro-economic tools and concepts, students in this course will build the foundation necessary for understanding real-world economic issues. Students will understand the allocation of scarce resources in societies through analysis of individual choice, market interaction, and public policy. Units of study include: Economic Thinking, Market Capitalism, The Business Cycle, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and Global Markets. The economic foundation built in this course will also enhance understanding of other social science disciplines, such as political science, geography, history, and sociology. This course fulfills the PSD graduation requirement for Economics.
7236 Economics of Social Issues
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
The course will approach economics through the lens of current societal issues, problems, and topics and will then explore the economics concepts, content, and skills that help us to understand and solve those problems. It will be a thematic approach toward understanding economics concepts and principles. Those themes will include sports; wealth, poverty, and inequality; globalization; education and the education gap; banking, the stock market, and money; and crime and welfare.
7234 AP Micro Economics
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 11 & 12 (12th is recommended)
The purpose of this AP course in economics is to give students a thorough understanding of the principals of micro and macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers, within the economic system. It places primary emphasis on the nature and functions of product markets and includes the study of factor markets and the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. Macroeconomics studies the economic system as a whole. Emphasis is placed on the study of national income and price-level determination. Students are familiarized with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics. This course meets the PSD graduation requirement for Economics.
7233 AP Macro Economics
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 11 & 12 (12th is recommended)
The purpose of this AP course in economics is to give students a thorough understanding of the principals of micro and macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers, within the economic system. It places primary emphasis on the nature and functions of product markets and includes the study of factor markets and the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. Macroeconomics studies the economic system as a whole. Emphasis is placed on the study of national income and price-level determination. Students are familiarized with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics. This course meets the PSD graduation requirement for Economics.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): US History
Open to Grades: 11
This course is a chronological survey of events and people that characterize each of the major eras in U.S. History. The eras studied include: The Americas to 1600, The Colonial Era, The Revolutionary Era, Nation Building, The Expanding Nation, Civil War and Reconstruction, Development of the Industrial United States, The Progressive Era, Emergence of the United States as a World Power, the 20's Prosperity and Problems, Depression and New Deal, World War II and Post War United States, and Contemporary United States. The course analyzes political, social, economic, religious, and military issues.
7225CECU AP United States History
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): US History
Open to Grades: 11
This course is designed to prepare the student to challenge the Advanced Placement Examination in United States History. The chronology will begin at the pre-Columbus experience and conclude with America as a world power in the late 20th Century. This course requires extensive reading, writing, research, and participation. The reading -text, historical documents, and historiography - is at the college fresh-man/sophomore level and students may expect to read perhaps 50 to 100 pages a week. At FRHS: Students may earn college credit by either enrolling concurrently through CU-Succeed or taking the AP United States History Exam.
7230 Economics (Basic Economics)
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12 (12th is recommended)
As the world’s economies become increasingly interdependent, it is essential that students become economic thinkers. Using micro and macro-economic tools and concepts, students in this course will build the foundation necessary for understanding real-world economic issues. Students will understand the allocation of scarce resources in societies through analysis of individual choice, market interaction, and public policy. Units of study include: Economic Thinking, Market Capitalism, The Business Cycle, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and Global Markets. The economic foundation built in this course will also enhance understanding of other social science disciplines, such as political science, geography, history, and sociology. This course fulfills the PSD graduation requirement for Economics.
7236 Economics of Social Issues
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
The course will approach economics through the lens of current societal issues, problems, and topics and will then explore the economics concepts, content, and skills that help us to understand and solve those problems. It will be a thematic approach toward understanding economics concepts and principles. Those themes will include sports; wealth, poverty, and inequality; globalization; education and the education gap; banking, the stock market, and money; and crime and welfare.
7234 AP Micro Economics
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 11 & 12 (12th is recommended)
The purpose of this AP course in economics is to give students a thorough understanding of the principals of micro and macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers, within the economic system. It places primary emphasis on the nature and functions of product markets and includes the study of factor markets and the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. Macroeconomics studies the economic system as a whole. Emphasis is placed on the study of national income and price-level determination. Students are familiarized with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics. This course meets the PSD graduation requirement for Economics.
7233 AP Macro Economics
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics, Financial Literacy
Open to Grades: 11 & 12 (12th is recommended)
The purpose of this AP course in economics is to give students a thorough understanding of the principals of micro and macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers, within the economic system. It places primary emphasis on the nature and functions of product markets and includes the study of factor markets and the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. Macroeconomics studies the economic system as a whole. Emphasis is placed on the study of national income and price-level determination. Students are familiarized with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics. This course meets the PSD graduation requirement for Economics.