Course: SS302 Modern European History 1500 to Present

Grade: 11, 12

Subject Area: Social Studies

Type: Standard

Credits: 0.5

Course Information:

Students will explore the development of European society and investigate and analyze the effect European expansion had on the world. Units will include the age of exploration, world colonization, industrialization, development of modern European ideology, and global conflict.

Outcomes:

• Acquire knowledge of basic events and movements in modern European History (up to the 20th Century)

• Understand the patterns and connections of historical events to past eras

• Express historical understanding through clear, coherent, and organized written communication

• Identify main ideas, analyze supporting details, and evaluate inferences within discipline specific readings

• Use appropriate technology to gather, analyze, apply, and synthesize historical data and information

• Read primary source historical documents to form logical inferences about historical events or movements and discern between varying points of view