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HSED 5.09 - Social Science
Course Outcome Summary
Course Information
Description
This course explores four main topics related to the social sciences: United States
History, World History, Economics, and Geographic regions of the world.
Course Competencies
1
Analyze major themes in U.S. history
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
Criteria
Performance will be satisfactory when:
you include different points of view on the same historical theme
you include a minimum of three sources, including primary sources
you include an analysis of the historical theme and its relationships to different historical time frames
you include an explanation of the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas to the historical
theme
you include an explanation of the significance of technological advances, urbanization, and population growth to
the historical theme
Learning Objectives
Describe the founding of the U.S.
Describe Western Expansion
Describe the role of Isolationism, including its role in the US entering the two World Wars
Describe Equality/Civil rights
Describe the impact of Immigration on the U.S.
Describe the impact of Industrialization/Urbanization on the US
Describe the impact of the Cold War on the U.S.
Describe Foreign Policy since 9/11
Compare the impacts of Nationalism and Sectionalism on U.S. history
Relate current events to themes in U.S. history
Describe the impact of the Vietnam War in the U.S.
Describe the Revolutionary War
Describe the Civil War
2
Analyze major themes in World History
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
Criteria
Performance will be satisfactory when:
you include different points of view on the same historical theme
you include a minimum of three sources, including primary sources
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you include an analysis or the historical theme and its relationships to different historical time frames
you include an explanation of the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas to the historical
theme
you include an explanation of the significance of technological advances, urbanization, and population growth to
the historical theme
you include analysis of why governments of various countries have sometimes sought peaceful resolution to
conflicts and sometimes gone to war
you include an analysis of ongoing change within and across culture such as: the development of ancient
civilizations, the rise of nation-states, and social, economic, and political revolutions
Learning Objectives
Discuss how multiple world religions such as: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism impacted world
history
Explain how expansion and centralization of power, including the decline of feudalism impacted world history
Discuss how global unrest, change, and revolution impacted world history
Discuss how global encounters, industrialization, urbanization, and imperialism impacted world history
Describe how post-industrialism, global interdependence, and fragmentation in the contemporary world continues
to impact the world
Relate current events to themes in world history
Relate current events to themes of global interdependence
3
Analyze basic economic concepts
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
Criteria
Performance will be satisfactory when:
you use basic economic concepts such as: supply and demand; production, distribution, and consumption; labor,
wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market economy and command economy
you compare different types of economies such as: traditional, command, market, and mixed
you explain financial institutions such as: credit companies, banks, payday loan stores, and insurance companies
you analyze the ways in which supply and demand, competition, prices, incentives, and profits influence what is
produced and distributed in a competitive market system
you explain global economic interdependence and competition, using examples to illustrate their influence on
national and international policies
you analyze the economic roles of institutions, such as corporations and businesses, banks, labor unions, and the
Federal Reserve System
Learning Objectives
Describe basic economic concepts such as: supply and demand; production, distribution, and consumption; labor,
wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market economy and command economy
Describe the role of the Federal Reserve System's monetary policies related to overall levels of employment,
interest rates, production, and prices
Describe different types of economies such as: traditional, command, market, and mixed
Describe the operations of financial institutions such as: credit companies, banks, and insurance companies
Describe the roles that supply and demand, competition, prices, incentives, and profits influence what is produced
and distributed in a competitive market system
Identify what market forces influence interest rates
Describe global economic interdependence and competition, using examples to illustrate their influence on
national and international policies
Describe the economic roles of institutions such as: corporations and businesses, banks, labor unions, and the
Federal Reserve System
Relate current events to themes of global interdependence
4
Compare major geographic regions and features
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
Criteria
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Performance will be satisfactory when:
you analyze the ways in which the unequal global distribution of natural resources influences trade and shapes
economic patterns
you analyze geographic information to examine the effects that a geographic or environmental change in one part
of the world such as: volcanic activity, river diversion, ozone depletion, air pollution, deforestation, or
desertification, may have on other parts of the world
you analyze how different economic, social, political, religious, and cultural systems have adapted to the major
ecosystems around the world
Learning Objectives
Use a variety of geographic information such as: different types of maps, charts, graphs, and tables
Collect geographic information to examine the effects that a geographic or environmental change in one part of the
world, such as volcanic activity, river diversion, ozone depletion, air pollution, deforestation, or desertification, may
have on other parts of the world
Collect relevant data to analyze the distribution of products among global markets and the movement of people
among regions of the world
Identify the world's major ecosystems
Identify cultural factors and values that influence the design of places in urban, suburban, and rural areas
Give examples of conflict and cooperation in the establishment of cultural regions and political boundaries
Relate current events to themes of global interdependence
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