PSYCHOLOGY   Course Type:          Elective Credit:                       .5 Course Length:      Semester Pre-requisite:           None                                                  Grades 11-12 Description:   This course will deal with the history of psychology and its development and growth as a science.  It will deal with such areas as development and growth, abnormal behavior, adjustment, motivation, perception and various fundamental theories in this field, as they relate to human decision making.     SOCIAL PROBLEMS   Course Type:          Elective Credit:                       .5 Course Length:      Semester Pre-requisite:           None                                                  Grades 11-12            Description:   Social Problems will explore the far reaching effects of group behavior on society, explain why society is the way it is while looking at the various definitions of what a social problem is, and determine major problems faced by our society and their possible solutions.     GEOGRAPHY             Course Type:          Elective Credit:                       .5 Course Length:      Semester Pre-requisite:           None                                                  Grades 11-12            Description:   This course will emphasize and explore the cultural and social aspects of various geographic peoples and areas around the world.  Emphasis will be placed on cultural geography and its importance in the social world.  Map skills are a minor part of the course.     CURRENT ISSUES   Course Type:          Elective Credit:                       .5 Course Length:      Semester Pre-requisite:           None                                                  Grades 11-12            Description:   A semester course which will investigate and analyze current news events happening locally, nationally and around the world.  Special attention will be focused on current news issues.  The relationship to history and their impact on society will be studied.  Students will have access to weekly news magazines and newspapers which they will use as resources, and to special topical units put together by the instructor. World War II   Course Type:          Elective Credit:                       .5 Course Length:      Semester Pre-requisite:           Instructor & Counselor Approval         Description: This course will emphasize and explore the causes of, course of, and consequences of WWII for both America and the World.