10th Grade Social Studies Options updated: 12-2019
7210 World Geography and Culture
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Social Studies
Open to Grades: 10
This course is a study of geography with a primary emphasis on Asia, Africa and Latin America. The course analyzes the physical geography, cultural, political, religious and historical perspective of each region.
7227 AP Human Geography
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Social Studies
Open to Grades: 10
The AP geography course will introduce 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 analyze human social organization and its environmental consequences. Students learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. At FRHS: Student and parent must have an AP Expectations sheet turned in prior to enrollment. It is recommended, but not required, that students first take World History.
7230 Economics
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics
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 to Economics.
7236 Economics of Social Issues
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics
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.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Social Studies
Open to Grades: 10
This course is a study of geography with a primary emphasis on Asia, Africa and Latin America. The course analyzes the physical geography, cultural, political, religious and historical perspective of each region.
7227 AP Human Geography
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Social Studies
Open to Grades: 10
The AP geography course will introduce 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 analyze human social organization and its environmental consequences. Students learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. At FRHS: Student and parent must have an AP Expectations sheet turned in prior to enrollment. It is recommended, but not required, that students first take World History.
7230 Economics
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics
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 to Economics.
7236 Economics of Social Issues
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Economics
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.