In this course, students analyze the relationships between people, places, and environments. A significant portion of the course will center on physical processes, places, and regions, the environment, the political, economic and social processes that shape cultural patterns, human systems such as population distribution and urbanization patterns, and the economic conditions, which have led to and reinforced the developed and developing world. Students will explore our responsibilities as stewards of God’s earth through the themes of ecology, justice, and peace. Incorporated into our studies will be some sociology, economics, political science, and current events.

World Geography is an introduction to how the discipline of geography makes sense of the world, its different people, places, and regions. Central to this disciplinary perspective is an emphasis on the ways in which people and places interact across space and time to produce particular outcomes. It is important to recognize that this course is not an empirical survey of place names and national statistics. Rather, this course is an exploration of several key issues shaping our world today. This course will address important issues in a way that highlights historical roots, local experiences, and the global processes that shape it.

World History is a comprehensive survey course on the history of the ancient, medieval, and modern world. Its purpose is to provide students with a thematic study of world history. Students study and answer questions surrounding major themes in history including environment, government, economics, belief systems, cooperation and conflict, and humanities. This approach allows students to make connections between historical and current events.

World History is a comprehensive survey course on the history of the ancient, medieval, and modern world. Its purpose is to provide students with a thematic study of world history. Students study and answer questions surrounding major themes in history including environment, government, economics, belief systems, cooperation and conflict, and humanities. This approach allows students to make connections between historical and current events.

The AP World History course is the equivalent of a college-level world history course. It is a survey course with a global approach, reflecting human development and interaction from the earliest societies to the end of the 20th century. Much more than an effort to learn and memorize all that has happened in history, the focus of the course is on the development of four historical thinking skills and five themes in world history. The five main themes are: interaction between humans and the environment (demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology); development and interaction of cultures (religions, belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies, science and technology, the arts and architecture); state-building, expansion, and conflict (political structures and forms of governance, empires, nations and nationalism, revolts and revolutions, regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations); creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems (agricultural and pastoral production, trade and commerce, labor systems, industrialization, capitalism and socialism); and development and transformation of social structures (gender roles and relations, family and kinship, racial and ethnic constructions, social and economic classes).

This course design provides a college-level preparation. An emphasis is placed on interpreting documents, mastering a significant body of factual information, and writing critical essays. Topics include life and thought in colonial America, revolutionary ideology, constitutional development, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenth-century reform movements, and Manifest Destiny. Other topics include the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration, industrialism, Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the post-Cold War era, and the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

AP U.S. History covers the spectrum of American history from pre-Columbian days to the present. Using chronological and thematic approaches to the material, the course exposes students to extensive primary and secondary sources and to the interpretations of various historians. Class participation through seminar reports, discussions, debates, and role-playing activities is required. Special emphasis is placed on critical reading and essay writing. The course is structured chronologically, divided into 21 units. Each unit includes one or more of the nine periods and/or key concepts outlined in the AP U.S. History curriculum framework. Students will develop their abilities to read, understand, and use these sources.

Dual Credit United States History covers the spectrum of American history from pre-Columbian days to the present. Using chronological and thematic approaches to the material, the course exposes students to extensive primary and secondary sources and to the interpretations of various historians. An emphasis is placed on interpreting documents, mastering a significant body of information, and writing critical essays. Specific topics during the first semester include life and thought in colonial America, revolutionary ideology, constitutional development, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenth-century reform movements, Manifest Destiny, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. The spring semester will cover the spectrum of American history since the end of Reconstruction. Specific topics during the second semester include early progressive movements, American imperialism, the First and Second World Wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, Cold War culture and society, and new conservatism in the 1980s.

This one semester course will give students opportunities to investigate the workings of American government at the federal, state, and local levels. Through this knowledge students will make connections between the concept of popular sovereignty, which states that all political power resides with “We the People,” and the actual powers government exercises. Students will learn how to exercise the powers and responsibilities of citizenship to contribute to the advancement of American society, and to ensure the success of democracy. Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: The Constitution, Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches, Judicial Review, The Bill of Rights, Political Parties, Special Interest Groups, and the operation of Texas State and Local Governments.

This one-semester course provides the student with the opportunity to study various elements of the governing process at national, state, and local levels. The course includes, but is not limited to the study of the foundations of American government, the federal system, civil rights, the structure and operation of the three branches of the federal government, the functioning of political parties and special interest groups, and will place a special emphasis on the formation and application of public policy on a practical level. 

This one-semester course provides students with the opportunity to study in depth the various elements of American national government. The course includes, but is not limited to the study of the foundations of American government, the federal system, civil rights, the structure and operation of the three branches of the federal government, the functioning of political parties and special interest groups, and will place a special emphasis on the formation and application of public policy. Throughout the course, students will be expected to analyze and interpret tables, charts, cartoons, graphs, and primacy documents relevant to U.S. government and politics.

AP Macroeconomics is a one-semester course designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the principles of economics in examining aggregate economic behavior. Students taking the course can expect to learn how the measures of economic performance, such as GDP, inflation, and unemployment, are constructed and how to apply them to evaluate the macroeconomic conditions of an economy. Students will also learn the basic analytical tools of macroeconomics, primarily the aggregate demand and aggregate supply model and its application in the analysis and determination of national income, as well as evaluating the effectiveness of fiscal policy and monetary policy in promoting economic growth and stability. Recognizing the global nature of economics, the students will also have ample time to examine the impact of international trade and international finance on national economies. Various economic schools of thought introduced as solutions to economic problems are considered.

This course is a survey of the history of Rome from its humble beginnings as a village on the Tiber in the 8th century B.C. through it meteoric rise as an imperial power to its inevitable fall. In addition to history, students will examine the culture, religion, art, architecture and legacy of Rome.