Full Year 2025-2026

  • Virginia & U.S. History

    The goal of this course is to provide an overview of Virginia and United States history, from exploration and colonization to the present day. The course offers students the opportunity to think about our past in a new way and to better understand how yesterday’s actions will impact the present and future. In addition to preparing…

  • AP World History: Modern

    This course is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university world history course in which students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods, from approximately 8,000 B.C.E. to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary…

  • AP European History

    From the College Board: “In AP European History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from approximately 1450 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and…

  • World History & Geography: 1500 A.D. to the Present

    This course enables students to explore the historical development of people, places, and patterns of life from 1500 A.D. to the present. Students will learn how the world shifted from medieval ways of life and thinking to “modern” thought and action. Content will begin with the Renaissance in Italy and extend to the modern day,…

  • World History & Geography to 1500 A.D.

    In this course, students take a journey back in time to explore civilizations, world events, and notable people from prehistory through 1500 A.D. The course begins with the Paleolithic time period and the dawn of humankind, then moves to examine ancient river valley civilizations, like Mesopotamia and Egypt, ancient India and China, classical Greece and…

  • AP Human Geography

    AP Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of the Earth’s surface. In this course, students will study diverse peoples and areas organized around concepts like location and place, scale, pattern, spatial organization, and regionalization. This course aligns with the College Board’s learning goals…

  • World Geography

    In this course, students will focus on the study of the world’s peoples, places, and environments, with an emphasis on world regions. Using geographic resources, students will employ inquiry, research, and technology skills to ask and answer geographic questions. In particular, students will apply geographic concepts and skills to their daily lives. This course aligns…

  • AP Comparative Government & Politics

    AP Comparative Government & Politics introduces students to the rich diversity of political life outside the United States. The course uses a comparative approach to examine the political structures, policies, and political, economic, and social challenges of six selected countries: China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Students compare the effectiveness of approaches…

  • AP U.S. Government & Politics

    AP U.S. Government & Politics is designed to present students with an analytical perspective of government and politics in the United States, tracing the history, development, and nature of U.S. governmental institutions and processes, as well as societal perspectives and behaviors related to such institutions and processes (and influences on those perspectives and behaviors.) This…

  • Virginia & U.S. Government

    Virginia & U.S. Government is designed to introduce students to the concepts of government and politics in both the United States and Virginia. As such, it considers foundational elements of the American system: the Constitution and its origins; the party system and related political behaviors and ideologies; various institutions related to government; conceptual origins of…