This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.
World History begins with a focus on the skills needed to read, understand, and analyze history. Students will discover how historians and social scientists arrive at conclusions about human history. In this course students will learn about the history of civilization, from hunter-gatherer societies through the earliest civilizations, to the Enlightenment period of Western Europe. In this course students will explore early intellectual, spiritual, and political movements, and their impact on interactions among world cultures.
Major topics include:
- Early civilizations
- The first cities and empires
- Roots of the world’s religions
- The Middle Ages
- The Age of Exploration
- The Reformation
- The Renaissance
- The Age of Reason
- The Enlightenment
Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.
This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.
Credit recovery courses do not meet initial eligibility requirements for NCAA. Students who require flexible courses meeting initial eligibility requirements should consider VHS Learning self-paced courses, which can be found in the VHS Learning Catalog.
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Students should confirm that their high school will accept this course for credit recovery before
registering for this course.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Connect historical evidence to conjectures made about past life.
- Evaluate the impact of early hunter-gatherer societies on future civilizations.
- Compare and contrast early European civilizations and progress to the civilizations of East Asia.
- Relate early exploration to modern advancements.
- Connect independence movements to the Industrial Revolution.