| Course Description:
This two semester course will serve as the standard social studies requirement
for freshmen. Students will use geographical skills and historical concepts
to deepen their understanding of global themes. Students will use research
tools to ask questions and acquire relevant information. They will use
primary and secondary sources, produce maps, timelines and other graphic
representations to interpret geographic and historical problems and events.
Key concepts include change over time, cultural landscape, diffusion,
human environment interactions, physical systems, and spatial organization
and variation.
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