a. World Geography (1 credit): This course examines people, places, and environments at local, regional, national, and international scales from spatial and ecological perspectives of geography. Students will describe the influence of geography on events of the past and the present.

b. World History (1 credit): This course is a survey of world civilizations with emphasis on cultural, social, political and economic developments in Western Europe and the New World.

c. U.S. History (1 credit): This course is a survey of American history from the Civil War to the present, with attention to the broad social, economic, and political development of the trends and institutions of American culture.

d. U.S. Government (1/2 credit): This course is a survey of national, state, and local government with emphasis on constitutional development and actual governmental practice as influenced by contemporaneous affairs. This course is normally restricted to juniors and seniors.

e. Economics (1/2 credit): This course emphasizes the major concepts of conditions concerning the economic and socioeconomic problems of today. Subjects include the nature of our economic system, production and prices of goods and services, distribution of national income, money, credit, banking, government expenditures, taxation and personal and family economic problems. The free enterprise system and its benefits are a strong feature of the economics course.

f. History of Cinema (1/2 credit per semester): This course offers an overview of the historical evolution of motion pictures, examines how movies help us understand the specific places and times during which they arose, and illuminates the particular concerns and belief-systems of the people who made them.

g. College U.S. History (1 credit): This college dual-enrollment course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the major historical events of U.S. History from its founding until present day. Students should learn to assess historical materials—their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance—and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.

h. College Psychology (1/2 credit): This elective dual-credit course covers human development, with emphasis on early childhood and adolescence; personality theory, focusing on the ideas of Freud and Jung; the self and its experience of identity, love, anxiety, and aggression; abnormal psychology, its pathology, and treatment; experimental psychology, perception, conditioning, and learning; and social psychology, beliefs, and attitudes. Successful students will be awarded 3 hours of college credit. (Juniors & Seniors Only)

i. College Psychology of Personality (one semester, ½ credit): A survey of psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, trait, and behavioral personality theories, and research methods. This 3-hour college course includes special topics such as personality testing, anxiety, self-control, and defense mechanisms. (Prerequisites: College Psychology).