Social Studies 2201 (Academic)

Unit 1: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 1. Civic Engagement

How democratic principles and civic engagement can influence the human experience.

• The principles of Canadian democracy
• Collaboration and acting to improve the human experience

Unit 2: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 2. Inquiry and Research

Analyzing information, events, ideas, and issues, responding to significant issues, and judging the significance of emerging innovations, political, economic, and geopolitical developments.

• Evidence, comparison, and causation
• Significance, perspective, and value judgements

• Framing questions and gathering information
• Interpreting information and arguing conclusions

• The significance of emerging innovations or ideas
• The significance of a current political trend
• The significance of a current economic trend
• The significance of a geopolitical dispute

Unit 3: History - 3. Time, Continuity, and Change

How innovations and ideas have influenced the human experience across the eras of human history.

• Innovations of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras
• Innovations of the Ancient to Modern Eras

• The Pre-Modern worldview
• Empiricism and the changing worldview

Unit 4: History - 4. Citizenship, Power, and Governance

How ideas of governance have changed over time and how the relationship between the individual and the state changed in Western Europe.

• Models of governance
• The development of governance and citizenship

• Political structures of the Pre-Modern Era
• Changing governance and the rise of the individual

Unit 5: History - 5. Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions

Developments in economics from the Paleolithic Era to the Early Modern Era, and economic innovations and ideas of the Late Modern Era.

• Economics from the Paleolithic to the Ancient Era
• Economics of the Pre-Modern and Early Modern Era

• The rise of capitalism and industrialism
• The rise of socialism

Unit 6: History - 6. Interdependence

How conflict and cooperation, and ideology, influenced the human experience across history and in the Modern Era.

• The rationale for conflict and cooperation
• Conflict and cooperation across the eras

• The ideology of imperialism
• Supranational agencies and interdependence