Social Studies
United States History 1
This course deals with the development of the United States from its establishment to 1900. Major emphasis is on the American Revolution, Federalism, Jeffersonian, and Jacksonian Eras, Manifest Destiny, The Civil War and Reconstruction, Industrialization, and elected Presidents and their administrations are also studied in depth.
AP/Honors United States History 1
This is a Year One of a Two-Year course designed to provide a college-level experience and preparation for the Advanced Placement (AP) examination to be taken in May of Junior Year. Emphasis will be placed on mastery of a significant body of factual information, interpretation of documents, and writing critical essays. Topics include: life and thought in colonial America, revolutionary ideology, constitutional development, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenth –century reform movements,, and Manifest Destiny. Other topics include the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration, and industrialism. In addition to the topics listed above, the course will emphasize a series of key themes throughout the year. These themes have been determined by the College Board as essential to a comprehensive study of United States History.
United States History 2
This course deals with the development of the United States from 1900 to the present. Major topics include 20th Century Wars, The New Deal and Social Legislation, United States Foreign Policy, 20th Century Presidents and trends toward the 21st Century.
AP United States History 2
This is Year Two of a Two-Year course designed to provide a college-level experience and preparation for the Advanced Placement (AP) examination to be taken in May of this year. Emphasis will be placed on mastery of significant body of factual information, interpretation of documents, and writing critical essays. Topics include: Populism, Progressivism, World War 1, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War 11, The Cold War, the post-Cold War era, and the United States at the beginning of the twenty- first century. In addition to the topics listed above, the course will emphasize a series of key themes throughout the year. These themes have been determined by the College Board as essential to a comprehensive study of United States history.
World History
The purpose of this course is to enable students to view and understand contemporary problems as products of complex historical, institutional, and environmental processes rather than isolated events. Students will survey the global causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, including technological advances, the growth of urban centers, the growth of capitalism, and the changing social levels; upper middle classes, bankers, merchants and the new factory workers. This course will address the most important democratic and social changes in Europe during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, which gave rise to European nationalism and imperialism. Students will analyze patterns of global change in the Era of New Imperialism in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the America. Students will explore the causes and consequences of World Wars 1 and 11, as well as their impact on the modern world.
AP European History
This course is the third advanced course offered in the subject of History. Students would be recommended to take this course in their sophomore year, to be able to take this course in their junior year. In AP European History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from approximately 1450 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction of Europe and the world, economic and commercial development, cultural and intellectual development, states and other institutions of power, social organization and development, national and European identity, and technological and scientific innovations. AP European History is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college or university survey of modern European history. This course blends the opportunity to earn college credit, with meeting the N.J. graduation requirement. World History Standards (NJSLS) apply to this course as with the college prep "World History" course.
AP Psychology
The AP Psychology course is designed to introduce students to the systemic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. They also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice.
Prerequisite: AP Criteria/Teacher Recommendation Required
Sociology
This course is organized to present an overview of the discipline of sociology. Also of importance will be the socialization process of the individual. The institutions of religion, education, the family, the economy, and social structures are included. Some time will be allotted to related current and world events.
AP Government & Politics
AP United States Government and Politics introduces students to key political ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the political culture of the United States. The course examines politically significant concepts and themes, through which students learn to apply disciplinary reasoning assess causes and consequences of political events, and interpret data to develop evidence-based arguments.
Criminal Justice
This course analyzes the history, development, and function of the police in a free society. A primary concern in the course is the relationship between the various components of the criminal justice system and the effectiveness of the system as a mechanism for social control.
Independent Study
The Independent Study/Online Elective is a hybrid course that combines online courseware and independent research. The Plato Courseware used in Lodi High School for various purposes offers full length standards-based online learning programs. Using this platform along with the supplementation of independent research projects in the course of study, we offer the students of Lodi High School the ability to take elective courses and diversify their transcript in a way our teacher energy could not reach. Those courses include African American Studies , Civics , Contemporary Issues, Native American Studies, and World Geography. This program has the ability to expand far past social studies. Teacher energy is not used as the assignments will be graded by teachers already assigned to the SAP/Credit Recovery Room. This will be a minimal additional responsibility to their everyday monitoring of the credit recovery program