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Elective AP Social Studies Classes

AP Human Geography

9th Grade elective, two- semester course. This course serves as an elective. AP Human Geography is the study of people from a spatial perspective. People are central to geography in that their activities help shape the earth’s surface largely through their interaction with the physical environment. Human settlements and structures are part of that tapestry of interaction. It is in that setting that humans either compete for control of space and resources or work out systems of social, economic, and political cooperation.

AP Psychology

AP Psychology is a two-semester elective for 11th and 12th graders. It is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. The topics covered include the brain, life span, sensation, perception, states of consciousness, learning, memory, thinking and language, intelligence, motivation, emotion, personality, psychological disorders, therapy and social psychology.