HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE goals, and an assessment of various UN missions and programs since 1945. In addition, the course will deal with a wide range of topics dealing with international relations and how the UN has and might become involved in the future.
THE NEW YORKER: CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, ART AND POLITICS Open to Grades 11-12 Credit: .5 Students in this class will read and analyze the current issue of The New Yorker, a “weekly magazine offering a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs, popular culture and the arts, science and technology, and business, along with fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons.” Students will look at everything each week’s magazine offers, from reviews of current cinema to cartoon caption contests, comedy, and satire to indepth essays on current events. Students will work over the course of the term to create their own version of the magazine: illustrating a front cover, reviewing current art, music, and cinema, writing profiles, short fiction and non-fiction (with a particular emphasis on analytical writing) – even drawing their own cartoons and writing letters to the editors. Students will also pay particular attention to the way in which bias may be at work in the magazine and what role that plays in writing. When applicable, students may examine articles from other publications (ie: The National Review, The Economist, etc.) in an effort to look at issues from both sides of the political aisle. The only text is a semester-long subscription to The New Yorker magazine.
LIVING AT THE MARGIN: MAKING OPTIMAL DECISIONS USING ECONOMICS Open to Grades 11-12 Credit: .5 This semester-long course aims to apply the concepts of economics to the everyday life of the student. This will be accomplished by studying 29
