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GRADE 12 CGW4U – World Issues: A Geographic Analysis, Grade 12, University Preparation 1 CREDIT What are the most pressing issues of our time and why are they significant? This course examines current issues that we hear about on a regular basis (but know little about) and some that you may not be aware of. For example, how important is it for people and places to have access to technology and be connected digitally? Or what role has climate change played in the recent civil war in Syria? What is poverty and what does it look like in the 21st century? Is the world overpopulated (and what does it mean for the world to be overpopulated)? How has a nurse in Malawi helped people infected with HIV lead healthy lives? Are our lives sustainable or will we face the same fate as Easter Islanders? This course examines global issues from a geographical perspective. This involves examining physical characteristics such as the role that location, land, climate and vegetation play in issues as well as the role that human factors including the number of people, culture, history, economics and politics play. In this course you will read, write, talk, listen, meet interesting guests, examine graphs, maps and visuals, research ideas of interest to you, develop ideas and, most importantly, raise many questions about the world we live in. Prerequisite: Any University or University/College Preparation course in Canadian and World Studies, English, or Social Sciences and Humanities We live in a world full of amazing technological changes and devastating world events and they can seem to come out of nowhere. History is about understanding where these events come from so we can understand where our world is going. CHY4U examines the world as it progresses, changes and evolves beginning in the mid-15th century to the present day. You will critically examine revolutions, world wars, treaties, economic and ideological theories, important men and cultural movements in a Harkness-style, university preparatory class. It’s not just a straightforward history of the “this battle happened in this year” variety because the western world is so complicated and nuanced, so you will have to draw on knowledge from all over the place. You will really understand, analyse and dissect history rather than just absorb it. Examples of assignments: researching how the French Revolution affected Japanese Samurai and selecting the most important primary source to share CHY4U – World History Since The Fifteenth Century, Grade 12, University Preparation 1 CREDIT

with your classmates or writing test-format answers to overarching questions using prior knowledge of the unit with the help of primary documents. Prerequisite: Any University or University/College Preparation course in Canadian and World Studies, English or Social Sciences and Humanities CGR4Me – The Environment and Resource Management Grade 12, University/College Preparation, e-Learning 1 CREDIT This course investigates interactions between natural and human systems, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of human activity on ecosystems and natural processes. Students will use the geographic inquiry process, apply the concepts of geographic thinking, and employ a variety of spatial skills and technologies to analyse these impacts and propose ways of reducing them. In the course of their investigations, they will assess resource management and sustainability practices, as well as related government policies and international accords. They will also consider questions of individual responsibility and environmental stewardship as they explore ways of developing a more sustainable relationship with the environment. Prerequisite: Any university, university/college, or college preparation course in Canadian and World Studies, English or Social Sciences and Humanities CIA4U – Analysing Current Economic Issues, Grade 12, University Preparation 1 CREDIT Economics is about what we earn and what we can get for it and the economic decisions of governments, corporations and the Kardashians. People who can understand these decisions form an intelligent opinion and who can articulate their views look after their own interests and the things that matter to them. In the worlds of John Kenneth Galbraith, people who know economics no longer “surrender all power to those who understand, pretend to understand, or believe they understand.” Some people are put off by the terminology, but, like other professions, once you know the language, you are in the game. Concept by concept we demystify principles and terminology and analyse our individual and collective economic choices. Economic understanding is a handy tool in a complex world, a useful lens for current affairs and a little bit of fun along the way. Prerequisite: Any University or University/College Preparation course in Canadian and World Studies, English or Social Sciences and Humanities

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