12th Grade - Typical Course of Study
Social
Studies
· Principles of U. S. government
· The democratic ideal
· Basic documents of the U. S.
· Agriculture in the U. S.
· Urbanization
· Conservation
· Business and industry in the U. S.
· American party system
· Propaganda and public opinion
· Comparative governments
· Comparative economic systems
· Consumer education
· Crime and delinquency
· Psychology
· Labor-management relations
· Economic concepts and theories
· Taxation and finance
· Distribution and exchange of goods and services
· International relations
· American foreign policy
· International organizations
· Public education
· Women's role in today's society
· Family economics and management
· Physics
· Electricity and magnetism
· Photoelectric effect
· Heat
· Light and optics
· Sound and acoustics
· Wave motion
· Quantum theory
· Relativity
· Force
· Mechanics
· Space, time, and motion
· Work, energy, and power
· Electronics
· Nuclear energy
· Nuclear physics
· Solid-state physics
· English literature
· Shakespeare
· Literary, social, and political heritage of England
· Literature of the 1900's
· World literature
· Cross-cultural literature
· The theater
· Nature of tragedy and comedy
· Techniques of acting
· Film as an art form
· Critical and evaluative reading
· Current periodical literature
· Mass communication
· Comparative study of mass media
· Radio and television
· Listening skills
· Parliamentary procedures
· Identifying verbals
· Report writing
· Writing social and business letters
· Writing book reviews, précis, essays
· Writing term papers
· Bibliography development
· Derivative of a function
· Logarithmic and trigonometric functions
· Indeterminate terms
· Computation of derivatives
· Rate of a change of quantity
· Maxima and minima
· Integrals
· Length of curves
· Volume and surface areas
· Computer analysis of graphs
· Tabular data
· Graphs
· Measures of central tendency
· Quartiles and percentiles
· Measures of dispersion
· Simple correlation
· Statistical inference
· Permutations
· Combinations
· Binomial theorem
· Sets of numbers
· Binomial theorem
· Progressions
· Complex numbers
· Theory of equations
· Permutations
· Functions and their graphs
· Combinations
· Probability
· Determinants
· Inequalities
· Matrix algebra
· Mathematical inductions
· The derivative