Geography
This class will explore aspects of physical and cultural geography. Some points of emphasis will be basic cosmology, cartography and map skills, weather and climate factors, natural resources, human demographic patterns and shifts, natural hazards and disasters, human-environmental interaction, along with study some of the different cultural hearth areas of our world.
Course Detail- 0.5 Credit
- Grade 9
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 30 minutes nightly
- Degree of Difficulty: 2
- Credit Type: G, NCAA
- Students will be required to complete one major writing assignment per month.
- Students will be required to read 200 pages from a book outside of their textbook per month.
- All work taken home must be word processed, with the exception of work done from the textbook.
The course will emphasize conceptual thinking about the earth and its inhabitants.
The coverage will be organized around the five major themes of Geography as outlined by the National Geographic Society:
- Location
- Place
- Region
- Movement
- Human/environmental interaction
Geography Honors
(Not offered 2016/2017)
This class will explore aspects of physical and cultural geography.
Course Detail
- 0.5 Credit
- Grade 9
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: By Application/acceptance into Honors Program
- Homework: 30 minutes nightly
- Degree of Difficulty: 3
- Credit Type: G, NCAA
This class will explore aspects of physical and cultural geography. Some points of emphasis will be basic cosmology, cartography and map skills, weather and climate factors, natural resources, human demographic patterns and shifts, natural hazards and disasters, human-environmental interaction, along with study some of the different cultural hearth areas of our world. Students will be required to do an extensive project for each term in the class where exploring some of themes in depth will take place.
AP Human Geography
AP Human Geography is a yearlong freshman course designed to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of the Earth’s surface. In AP Human Geography students learn to employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis as tools to examine human social organization and the environmental results. They also learn the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. The course teaches the origins and development and current relationships of human organization of space. In addition, students learn how to use and interpret maps, data sets, and geographic modes.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grade 9
- Fees: $25, plus $94 for AP test
- Prerequisite: Teacher approval
- Homework: 2-3 Hours per Week
- Degree of Difficulty: 4
- Credit Type: G, AP, NCAA
The intent of the AP Human Geography course is to not only prepare the high school student to earn college cred by successfully passing the AP Human Geography exam at the end of the school year, but also to challenge young students with a pre-college level course that is similar to an actual college level geography introductory course.
- Use and Think About Maps and Spatial Data
- Understand and Interpret Implications of Associations among Phenomena in Places
- Recognize and interpret at different scales relationships among patterns and processes
- Define Regions and evaluate the regionalization process
- Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places
World Civilizations
The four main themes for Modern History will be the Industrial Revolution, Imperialism and World War I, World War II and the Cold War to contemporary history and issues.
Course Detail- 0.5 Credit
- Grade 10
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 1-2 Hours per Week
- Degree of Difficulty: 2
- Credit Type: WC, NCAA
Particular topics also included are:
- Imperialism
- Age of Empires
- World War I
- Totalitarianism
- World War II
- East-West Relations (Cold War)
- Postwar World
- The present
AP European History
This course focuses on developing students’ understanding of European history from approximately 1450 to the present.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 10-12
- Fees: $94 for AP test
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 30 minutes per night
- Degree of Difficulty: 5
- Credit Type: WC, AP, NCAA
AP European History is designed as a college level course. It focuses on the period 1350 (Renaissance) to 2012.
- First Term the course focuses on the Renaissance (1350) to the Wars of Religion (1500’s).
- Second Term studies cover the Growth of Western Europe (late 1500’s) to the French Revolution (1789).
- Third Term the focus is on 19th century Europe through the Great War (1920).
- Fourth Term the course covers the 20th century and a detailed review for the AP Exam.
U.S. History
Students will be introduced to a thematic approach to US History. Term 1 themes will colonial America, the French and Indian War, origins of the American Government and Constitution and Presidential Leadership. Term 2 will feature growth and expansion in America. Term 3 will focus on war and conflict while Term 4 will explore the technological change, current issues and Civil Rights.
English skills are improved through reading, writing, conversation, and presentation.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 30 minutes per night
- Degree of Difficulty: 3
- Credit Type: US, NCAA
AP U.S. History
AP United States History is designed as a college level course. It focuses on the period of colonization (1500) to the present day (2012), with an emphasis on 1800-1900. Expectations are high. The textbook is written on a college level and we will be supplementing our student with primary documents, supplemental readings and historical theories.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grade 11-12
- Fees: $94 for AP test
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 2-3 Hours per Week
- Degree of Difficulty: 5
- Credit Type: US, AP, NCAA
The test also covers:
- Art history (we will be studying the great painters)
- Philosophers
- Writers of the American past
Psychology
(Class not available in 2017/2018 school year.)
This class studies the behavior of people. By understanding why people behave as they do, society can increase the quality of life. As the student progresses in his study of psychology, he should emerge with an ever-increasing appreciation for the dignity, the importance, and the brotherhood of man.
Course Detail- 0.5 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 2-3 Hours per Week
- Degree of Difficulty: 3
- Credit Type: SS, NCAA
Topics to be studied include:
- The working of the mind
- The body and its behavior
- Learning psychological growth
- Human relations, personality and emotional life
- Methods in studying psychology
AP Psychology
AP Psychology is designed as a college level course focusing on an in-depth introduction to psychology. The course investigates many different fields of study within psychology, it’s goals, research methods, and growth as a science from its historical past to its dynamic present and future.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees: $15, plus $94 for AP test and/or $5/UVU credit – Student must enroll in class on UVU’s website to receive CE credit.
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework:
- Degree of Difficulty: 5
- Credit Type: SS, AP, CE, NCAA
The topics include:
- Physiology and behavior
- Sensation and perception
- States of consciousness
- Learning
- Memory
- Cognition and language
- Intelligence
- Infancy and childhood
- Adolescence and adulthood
- Motivation and emotion
- Personality
- Stress and adjustment
- Abnormal behavior
- Therapies
- Social psychology
- Industrial and organizational psychology
Concurrent Enrollment PSY 1010
An introductory course in modern scientific psychology. Covers major domains of scientific psychology including biological foundations, sensations, perception, learning, motivation, human development and abnormal psychology. Examines major psychological and professional applications.
U.S. Government
The main focus of this class will be exploring in depth the origins of American Government along with The Constitution/Bill of Rights. Students will also learn about other government and economic systems, the political parties and electoral systems of the United States, Civil Rights issues, along with participating in service projects where applicable and doable.
Course Detail- 0.5 Credit
- Grade 12
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: None
- Homework: 2-3 Hours per Week
- Degree of Difficulty: 2
- Credit Type: GOV, NCAA
Topics include:
- The history of the Constitution
- The structure of government
- Check and balances
- History and philosophy of party politics, etc.
U.S. Government, ESL
The main focus of this class will be exploring in depth the origins of American Government along with The Constitution/Bill of Rights. Students will also learn about other government and economic systems, the political parties and electoral systems of the United States, Civil Rights issues, along with participating in service projects where applicable and doable.
Course Detail- 0.5 Credit
- Grade 12
- Fees: None
- Prerequisite: Recommendation of ESL Coordinator
- Homework: 2-3 Hours per Week
- Degree of Difficulty: 3
- Credit Type: GOV
Topics include:
- The history of the Constitution
- Structure of the government
- Check and balances
- History and philosophy of party politics, etc.
English skills are improved through reading, writing, conversation, and presentation.
DL American National Government – POLS 1100
The study of the US Constitution and the forming of the US Government, it’s branches and their responsibilities. The course includes political views on the most current political practices, bills being introduced and political parties,
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees: $10, plus $5/UVU credit – Student must enroll in class on UVU’s website to receive CE credit.
- Prerequisite:Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Homework: As assigned by Professor
- Degree of Difficulty: 4
- Credit Type: SS, GOV, DL
- UVU CRN: 25603
DL Human Development Life Span – PSY 1100
This class covers the development of the human from the first stages of life in the womb through old age. It discusses the norms and abnormalities of human development from a biological and social point of view.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees: $10, plus$5/UVU credit – Student must enroll in class on UVU’s website to receive CE credit.
- Prerequisite: Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Homework: Reading, papers and in-class assignments
- Degree of Difficulty: 4
- Credit Type: SS, DL
- UVU CRN: 19418
DL Introduction to Sociology – SOC 1010
Studies and compares social groups and institutions and their interrelationships. Includes culture, socialization, deviance, stratification, race, ethnicity, social change, and collective behavior.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees:$10, plus $5/UVU credit – Student must enroll in class on UVU’s website to receive CE credit.
- Prerequisites: Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Homework: None
- Degree Difficulty: 4
- Credit Types: SS, DL
- UVU CRN:
This course studies and compares social groups and institutions and their interrelationships. It includes:
- Culture
- Socialization
- Deviance
- Stratification
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Social change
- Collective behavior
DL Ethics and Values – PHIL 205G
This course introduces the philosophers and their ideas that make up modern society both nationally and globally. This course meets the Global/Intercultural requirements for the university.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grade 12
- Fees:$10, plus $5/UVU credit – Student must enroll in class on UVU’s website to receive CE credit.
- Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1010 with C or higher. Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Homework: Readings, in-class lectures and discussion for understanding as well as quizzes and tests for comprehension
- Degree of Difficulty: 5
- Credit Type: SS, E, DL
- UVU CRN: 24655
Student will critically read works in:
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Religion
- History toward understanding the basis of their ethical views
DL General Psychology – PYS 1010
This is an introductory course in modern scientific psychology. It covers major domains of scientific, psychology including biological foundations, sensations, perceptions, learning styles, motivations, human development and abnormal behaviors and explores professional applications.
Course Detail- 1.0 Credit
- Grades 11-12
- Fees:$10, plus $5/UVU credit – Student must enroll in class on UVU’s website to receive CE credit.
- Prerequisite: Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Homework:
- Degree of Difficulty: 4
- Credit Type: SS, DL
- UVU CRN: