COURSE ID: VSSCW_A

Contemporary World, S1

Current 2024-25
Start Date: August 19, 2024
End Date: May 22, 2025
District: Goshen County School District #1
Grade Levels: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Course Type: Hathaway Scholarship Eligible
Provider: GCSD 1 Virtual Education

Contemporary World History is a yearlong course designed to strengthen learners’ knowledge about the modern world. Multimedia tools, including custom videos, custom maps, and interactive timelines, will engage learners as they complete this course. Learners will explore the importance of geography, the influence of culture, and the relationship humans have with the physical environment. They will also focus on the responsibility of citizens, democracy in the United States, U.S. legal systems, and the U.S. economy. Ultimately, learners will complete this course as global citizens with an understanding of how to help and better their community and the world.