| World History and Civilization
This two-semester course emphasizes key events and developments in the past that influenced peoples and places in subsequent eras. Students are expected to practice skills and processes of historical thinking and inquiry that involve chronological thinking, comprehension, analysis and interpretation, research, issues-analysis, and decision-making. They examine the key concepts of continuity and change, universality and particularity, and unity and diversity among various peoples and cultures from the past to the present.
At the high school level, the Indiana Academic Standards for social studies provide Standards for specific courses that focus on one of the five content areas that make up the core of the social studies curriculum: history; civics and government; geography; economics; and individuals, society, and culture (psychology, sociology, and anthropology). One of these content areas may be the major focus of the course while the other areas play supporting roles or become completely integrated into the subject matter. (Supporting content areas are indicated in parentheses.) Each high school course continues to develop skills for thinking, inquiry and research, and participation in a democratic society.
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