World History Honors will provide students the opportunity to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the past in terms of what has been interpreted about change or process as it is related to the development of humanity. Implicit in this is an understanding of the historical method, the inquiry process, historical reasoning and interpretation. One credit of world history is required for graduation.

Through World Geography Honors, an elective, students acquire understanding of the interrelationships between people and their natural and cultural environments and between nations and people in a geo-political context. Appropriate concepts and skills will be developed through study of physical geography, natural resources, and contemporary problems and conflicts stressing the economic, political, social, cultural, religious and historic aspects of human activity in and among selected world regions.

American History Honors will provide students with the opportunity to acquire an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the chronological development of the religious, military, scientific, and cultural events. Implicit in process, historical reasoning and interpretation, and the issues of external and internal validity. One credit of American history is required for graduation.

Students will acquire a comprehensive understanding of American government and political behavior. Appropriate concepts and skills will be developed through an evaluation of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, an analysis of the roles of the three branches of government at the local, state, and national levels, a comparative view of the changing nature of political parties and interest groups in determining government policy, an evaluation of citizen rights and responsibilities in a democratic state, and the importance of civic participation in democratic political processes. One-half credit of American Government is required for graduation

Economics Honors will provide students the opportunity to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the way in which society organizes to utilities its limited resources to satisfy unlimited fuck aurthurand the distinguishing characteristics of other types of economic systems with particular attention to other types of economic systems with particular attention to the American mixed system. The major emphasis is to provide the student with the tool to examine and analyze the implications of market solutions and public policy decision related to economic problems. Specific content to be covered will included, but not be limited to, the role and impact of economic wants, productive resources, scarcity and choices, opportunity costs and trade-offs, economic incentives, specialization, comparative advantage, division of labor, interdependence, price determination, types of market failures, savings and investment, the role and function of governmental policy, labor supply and demand, the distinction between micro and macroeconomic problems, types of competition, inflation, unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and socioeconomic goals: freedom, economic efficiency, equity, full employment stability, and growth. One-half credit of economics is required for graduation.