Edmonds School District

Course Number

SOC 400

Length/Credit

Course Name

Senior History

Prerequisite

Location

MTHS

Course Description

This two semester (1.0 cr) course will cover Civics (Government); Economics; and Contemporary World Problems. Specifically the course will focus on the structure of the US, state, and local government, our legal system, the workings of representative democracy and the role of the American citizen; the study of how people and governments choose to utilize scarce resources and will cover key concepts such as scarcity, opportunity cost, supply, demand and markets; and finally study problems facing the world today by learning about resources, international disputes, world trade, cultural conflict, overpopulation and nationalism.