CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL ' S
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Course Name: AP Microeconomics Type of Course: Core Course Available to: 12th grade
Prerequisites: H. US History( 90 %+) OR AP US History( 85 %+)
Description: This course is an introductory college-level microeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to the functions of individual economic decision-makers by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like scarcity and markets; costs, benefits, and marginal analysis; production choices and behavior; and market inefficiency and public policy. This course will be taken as a full semester, and the course will involve extensive readings, independent study, and frequent written / graphical analysis to prepare students for the AP Microeconomics Exam. This course will be completed in one semester and is paired with AP United States Government and Politics during the same or other semester. Students will earn a 1.0 credit for this course. Students earn an additional 1.0 quality point towards their GPA for this course.
Course Name: AP United States Government and Politics Type of Course: Core Course
Available to: 12th grade
Prerequisites: H. US History( 90 %+) OR AP US History( 85 %+)
Description: This course is an introductory college-level course in U. S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U. S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis. This course will be taken as a full semester, and the course will involve extensive readings, independent study, and frequent written / document analysis to prepare students for the AP US Government and Politics Exam. This course will be completed in one semester and is paired with AP Microeconomics during the same or other semester. Students will earn a 1.0 credit for this course. Students earn an additional 1.0 quality point towards their GPA for this course.
Course Name: PIB Economics / Personal Financial Literacy Type of Course: Core Course
Available to: Magnet 10th grade
Prerequisites: Must be in the IB Program
Description: This advanced course provides a description and analysis of economic operations in contemporary society. An emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of economic concepts and policies as they apply to everyday life. Topics include basic economic principles; economic forces and indicators; capital and labor; price, competition, and monopoly; money and banking; government expenditures, federal and local; fluctuations in production, employment, and income; and the United States economy in perspective. Students will earn a 0.5 credit for this course. Students earn an additional 0.5 quality point towards their GPA for this course.
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