Humanities

Community Programming

By admin / December 6, 2022

Elective, Humanities, Term-length

Essays and Pirates

By admin / December 6, 2022

Elective, Humanities, Term-length

Global Paz

By admin / December 6, 2022

Elective, Humanities, Term-length

A Show of Hands

By admin / December 4, 2020

Global Stories, Elective, Humanities, Art, Social Studies, Term-length

How can puppets change the way we communicate? Throughout history and around the world, humans have used puppets to pass down stories, share cultural practices, and revolt against censorship. A…

Music That Matters

By admin / December 4, 2020

Global Languages, Elective, Humanities, Civics, Music

How can music change society? Music That Matters takes a humanistic approach to the study and production of music, understanding music as a language and languages as attached to peoples,…

Global Peace

By admin / August 4, 2020

Global Context, Humanities, Civics, Conflict Resolution, Social Studies, Mastery Project

What is peace? What is violence? What can you learn from Gandhi’s approach to building a nonviolent movement? While the Internet has served as a catalyst for revolutions around the…

SDG Map

By admin / January 8, 2020

Global Context, Humanities, Human Geography, Psychology, Mastery Project

The UN SDG Map project will ground you with fundamental reading, research, and writing skills necessary to enter into a conversation about our global priorities. Through project-based inquiry, you will…

Drawing Lines

By admin / December 3, 2019

Global Design, Elective, Humanities, Art, Elective, World History

How does public art create place? What is the geography of public art? How and where does public art happen? Drawing Lines is an Art History Elective that investigates public…

All the World’s A Stage

By admin / December 3, 2019

Global Stories, Elective, Humanities, Elective

How can drama be used to highlight oppression? Why? All The World’s A Stage is a combined STEAM/Humanities course that focuses on the “how” of theatrical productions and the “why”…

Poetic Justice

By admin / December 8, 2017

Global Stories, Elective, Humanities, Elective

How can you become a poet of social change? If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place…

Five Faces of Genius

By admin / February 17, 2015

Elective, Humanities, Elective

How do you live a more creative life? How do you understand and access your genius? How do you find your place in the world, and love it? How do…

Ollywood

By admin / February 17, 2015

Elective, Humanities, Elective

What makes a movie a movie? How is storytelling through film different from storytelling through literature? Which films deserve a “thumbs-up” and which deserve a “thumbs-down” – and why? These…

Global Peace

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Vision, Elective, Humanities, Conflict Resolution, Social Studies, Term-length

What is peace? What is violence? What does peace look like in your community? How does peace generate peace around the world? Why are there so many stories of nonviolent…

You Are Beautiful

By admin / November 29, 2014

Elective, Humanities, Elective

Why is it important for art to be accessible? How does public art spark human interaction? How does art go viral? Students will examine the history of public art and…

Equality

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Vision, Senior, Humanities, American Studies, English 4

“All men are born equal”. But, what about women? And, even if we are born equal, do we live in equality? How do wealth and resources fit in? In this…

Endurance

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Vision, Senior, Humanities, English 4, Psychology

How much are you willing to endure to change the world? This course will ask you to face your challenges, and learn endurance through endurance. The content of this course…

Journalism

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Vision, Senior, Humanities, English 4, Psychology

How do you know about the world? In this course, you will learn how to observe, analyze and report on current events through different media—Image, Sound and Text. In each…

A Nation’s Argument

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Government, Junior, Humanities, American Government, American History, English 3

A Nation’s Argument integrates historical and global revolutions and nation-forming with the language and logic skills needed to develop and sustain an argument. By anchoring our investigation in the birth…

Policy

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Government, Junior, Humanities, American Government, American History, English 3

Policy informs students how to use both rhetoric and argument to agree on a common good, so that living together is sustainable and nurturing. In this course, you will study…

Rhetoric

By admin / November 29, 2014

Global Government, Junior, Humanities, American Government, American History, English 3

Why do certain speeches “work” and so many others do not? Rhetoric supposes that we use language to persuade, challenge and unite, in all aspects of our lives. To awaken…