History
IB History
Close attention to causation, continuity and change, competing interpretations, source evaluation, and evidence-based argument.
Teaching
Questions, evidence, and interpretation
Teaching across history and economics begins with a shared practice: identifying significant questions, examining evidence, and explaining how conclusions are reached.
History and Economics
Course design emphasizes analytical habits that transfer across periods, regions, and disciplines.
Social science
Economics
Economic reasoning grounded in models, incentives, tradeoffs, data, institutions, and the limits of any single explanation.
History
U.S. History
Political, social, economic, and cultural developments studied through primary sources and contested historical interpretations.
History
Global History / World Systems
Connections among regions, states, economies, and peoples, with attention to exchange, power, dependency, and historical scale.
History
History of Science
Scientific ideas and institutions examined in their political, cultural, intellectual, and material contexts.
History
Sports History
Sport as a way to investigate identity, institutions, race, regional change, public memory, and mass culture.
Inquiry and Independent Research
Ways of knowing
Theory of Knowledge
Questions about evidence, interpretation, perspective, certainty, expertise, and the standards used to justify claims across fields of knowledge.
Long-form inquiry
Extended Essay
Support for narrowing a topic, developing a viable research question, evaluating sources, sustaining analysis, documenting evidence, and revising an extended argument.
Teaching Priorities
Interpretation
Explain how historians and other scholars build different accounts from evidence and assumptions.
Causation
Weigh multiple causes, mechanisms, contexts, and consequences instead of relying on a single-factor answer.
Argumentation
Make a defensible claim, address complexity, and organize reasoning so that the evidence can be evaluated.
Perspective
Recognize how position, purpose, context, and available knowledge shape both sources and later interpretations.