Social Studies

Social Studies courses are designed to complement the Massachusetts Common Core of Learning, which is designed to promote inquiring and independent thinking and to empower students to demonstrate personal, social and civic responsibility. Our courses are also designed to meet the requirements of the History and Social Science Frameworks, which were approved by the State Department of Education and are adjusted periodically. Although most of the Social Studies courses offered to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors emphasize history, these courses also develop content knowledge in other areas of the social sciences, such as geography, citizenship and government (known as political science), psychology, and economics.