My daughter wants to study early World History next year, as opposed to all of world history. I figure the next year, we would likely do the 2nd half of world history basically. I noticed on the school catalog for a particular private school, they spend 2 years on world history, 9th and 10th, and they give world geography (1 credit) and world history (1 credit). This makes sense to me as if you really have studies world history, you got in the geography part. They call the first year (9th grade early world history) world geography and the 2nd year (10th grade, later world history) is titled World History. Should I just do it the same way? Another local private school breaks it up similarly, but I don't know how they title the classes. What do you suggest? Thanks!!
You could title them that way as far as I am concerned. You will be learning geography in both, but maybe they emphasize the geography part in the 9th grade. I was thinking my son and I would do a separate geography class and then re-thought it to just be a history/geography class.
Ancient History? If you want to break world history into two parts, why not Ancient History and Modern History? Calling them World History and World Geography would work if you need to meet state requirements, but world geography high school courses generally have a different focus than world history courses, even though a certain amount of history is necessarily incorporated into the classes.
In NY it is 2 years of World History. The call it Global Studies 1 and Global Studies 2 so you could just do World History 1 and then World History 2 if you wanted.
In college, that is how we basically did it (only by semester, not year). The early part was called Western Civilization I, the later part Western Civilization II.
I took "Humanities" at Oral Roberts. We started with the Ancient World, and went through Oliver Cromwell in England. We studied art, literature and drama, social...something, economics, political institutions, religion and philosophy. So when I transfered to Bowling Green, they gave me some silly credit I didn't need for it. I needed World History, and I WANTED a World History credit. So I talk with the person at BGSU, and listed all we studied in the class, as stated above. She looked me straight in the eye and asked, "But did you study HISTORY?" DUH!!! Isn't all of that PART of history? GEESH!!! (She finally did give me my history credit, btw!)
