SOCIAL STUDIES

WORLD HISTORY

This course engages students in historical thinking focused on the Pre-Modern era to the present, from 1300 to the present. History is the study of past events, often including an explanation of their causes. Students need to understand their historical roots and those of others and how past events have shaped their world. In developing these insights, students must know what life was like in the past and how things change and develop over time. Reconstructing and interpreting historical events provides a needed perspective in addressing the past, the present and the future.

*Graduation Requirement
Grade 9-10
Credit 1

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT & CIVICS

This course focuses on the development of historical thinking skills (chronological reasoning, comparing and contextualizing, crafting historical arguments using historical evidence, and interpreting and synthesizing historical narrative) and the development of students’ abilities to think conceptually about American Government.

PREREQUISITE: World History
*Graduation Requirement
Grade 10 (Only if not previously taken)
Credit 1

U.S. HISTORY

This course explores events, movements and ideas from 1877 to the present. History is the study of past events, often including an explanation of their causes. Students need to understand their historical roots and those of others and how past events have shaped their world. In developing these insights, students must know what life was like in the past and how things change and develop over time. Reconstructing and interpreting historical events provides a needed perspective in addressing the past, the present and the future.

PREREQUISITE: World History
*Graduation Requirement
Grade 11
Credit 1

AP U.S. HISTORY

What is the nature of human conflict? What caused the American Civil War? Does industrialization and progress cause immorality? How is history impacted by social, political and economic change? These are some of the questions you will encounter in AP U.S. History. This college-level class is an overview of American History from pre-colonial to present day. You  will be able to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history through analyzing and interpreting historical documents and events. You can earn college credit with successful completion of AP exam. 

Offered at TNHS for TNHS & NCHS students.

PREREQUISITE: AP Government & Civics
1 Credit, Grade 11-12

HISTORY 109 DUAL CREDIT COURSE

This course is an overview of the history from Reconstruction through current events; American and world affairs. 

*This course may be taken as a one graduation requirement for social studies
*Course is taught by a NCHS teacher

Dual Credit ECTC
Grade 10-12
1 credit

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

This course is equivalent to an introductory college-level course in human geography. The course introduces 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 examine socio-economic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. College credit is earned with a qualifying score on an AP exam.

Grade 9-12

Elective credit only.
1 credit

LAW & JUSTICE

Law and Justice is a study of law-civil, criminal, constitutional, and international; the legal and justice systems. Students will examine the need for rules and regulations; interpretations of the constitution, both state and federal; Supreme Court decisions; the Bill of Rights, and individual rights law, criminal law, family law, and consumer law. The study of the basic social contracts of society will enable students to understand the preferred democratic values: justice, equality, responsibility, freedom, rule of law, human rights, honesty, equity, rational process and human dignity.If this course is selected as one of the three credits for social studies needed for graduation, the standards used for the course would have to be supplemented to ensure that a student receives all of the essential high school social studies standards within the three credit requirements. Meaning, the district will need to ensure that students have the opportunity to access all of the standards found within the Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies. These credits must incorporate the inquiry practices of questioning, investigating, using evidence and communicating conclusions and the four social studies disciplines of civics, economics, geography and history and the standards therein.

PREREQUISITE: Grades 9-12.
Elective credit only
Credit 1

HISTORICAL & CULTURAL INFLUENCES OF THE BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT

The History and Literature of the Biblical Era: New Testament course focuses on the historical impact and literary style from texts of the New Testament era. Topics may include historical background and events of the period, the customs and cultures of the peoples and societies, and the influence of the texts on law, history, government, literature, art, music, customs, morals, values, culture and events, including recent and current events.This course could serve as a social studies elective for high school graduation, but not as one of the three required social studies courses to ensure students have access to all Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies.

PREREQUISITE: Grades 9-12.
Elective credit only
Credit 1

KENTUCKY STUDIES

The Kentucky Studies elective course brings together various elements of Kentucky Studies. The course focuses on the historical and cultural forces that have influenced the people and the institutions of the Commonwealth. The Kentucky Studies elective should give equal chronological coverage to Kentucky before and after the World Wars. It should stress the role of geography in the state's development and the importance of the regional variations across Kentucky. 

PREREQUISITE: Grades 9-12.
Elective credit only
Credit 1

AP PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology is an introduction to the basic scientific theoretical principles of individual human behavior. Students will be exposed to various topics in the field of psychological research.

Offered at TNHS for TNHS & NCHS students.

1 Credit, Grade 10-11
*Serves as an elective.

AP COMPARATIVE POLITICS

An introductory course comparative government and politics. The course uses a comparative approach to examine the political structures; policies; and political, economic, and social challenges of six selected countries: China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Students cultivate their understanding of comparative government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like power and authority, legitimacy and stability, democratization, internal and external forces, and methods of political analysis.​​​​​​

Offered at TNHS for TNHS & NCHS students

1 Credit, Grade 11-12

*Serves as an elective.