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Challenge and Change in Society, Grade 12, University Preparation
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UNIT 1: Introduction

Students are introduced to the purposes, major concepts, terminology, research methods, and practitioners of the three social science disciplines. They will explore research questions and methodological approaches.  

Unit 2: Social Change

Students define and categorize factors that contribute to a state of mental, emotional and physical well-being. They examine birth patterns, aging, health care provision, impediments to accessing health care, and the social and cultural implications of each of these topics. Students will also have time to work on their culminating.

Unit 3: Social Trends

In this unit, students use the baby boom and demographic groups in order to explore social trends throughout time. Other demographic phenomena, such as fertility and mortality, are used as frameworks for examining different life-stage events. Student compare and contrast different theories that aim to explain social deviance in order to better understand authority, obedience, and maintaining social order.

Unit 4: Social Challenges

Students examine and debate different views of progress. They examine the causes and effects of contemporary positive global change in technology, medicine, social justice and human rights issues, ecological knowledge and resource management, legal and political developments, and the role Canadians have played in promoting or impeding change in these areas. Financial literacy will be a component of this course as students will be guided on their budgeting and financing in relation to changing global landscape.

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