HPC 3O 

This course focuses on the skills and knowledge needed to promote the positive and healthy nurturing of children, with particular emphasis on the critical importance of the early years to human development. Students will learn how to meet the developmental needs of young children, communicate, and discipline effectively, and guide early behaviour. They will have practical experiences with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, and will learn skills in researching and investigating questions relating to parenting. 

HSP 3M 

This course introduces the theories, questions, and issues that are the major concern of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Students develop an understanding of the way social scientists approach the topics they study and the research methods they employ. Students are given opportunities to explore theories from a variety of perspectives and to become familiar with current theories on a range of issues researched by classical and contemporary social scientists in the three disciplines. 

HZB 3O 

Philosophy: The Big Questions provides students with an opportunity to discuss some of the great questions of our age such as: What defines goodf music? What is art? Is beauty really in the eyes of the beholder? Should the Bicentennial man be considered a person? What makes your life meaningful? Students develop inquiry and critical analysis skills, enabling them to tackle these and many other questions. This course develops students’ research and writing skills and assists them in becoming stronger logical thinkers. Philosophy: The Big Questions engages students’ interest and challenges them to think about the world in a new light. Philosophy: The Big Questions is to be comprised of three (or more) units selected from the six outlined in this profile. The course requires that students examine three (or more) of the following questions: 1) What is a person?; 2) What is a meaningful life?; 3) What are good and evil?; 4) What is a just society?; 5) What is human knowledge?; 6) How do we know what is beautiful in art, music, and literature? Unlike other courses it is neither the strands nor the grouping of expectations that defines the units of study. Rather, the six questions define the units. Question one, “What is a person?” is central to all of the remaining questions and is consequently the focus of the first unit. Aside from addressing the question “What is a person?” Unit 1 provides students with a sound introduction to the study of philosophy, laying the foundations for philosophical inquiry.  

HHS 4M 

Students analyse theories and research related to individuals and families ranging from mid-to-late adulthood. Students take into consideration diversity in personal and family roles as well as the roles of social institutions. Many important life issues that occur from mid-life through to death are examined. Students come to understand that at this stage in life we revisit some earlier issues from a different perspective. The final activity in this unit is designed to be one part of the culminating activity for the course. 

HSB 4M 

This course examines the theories and methodologies used in anthropology, psychology, and sociology to investigate and explain shifts in knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour and their impact on society. Students will analyse cultural, social, and biological patterns in human societies, looking at the ways in which those patterns change over time. Students will also explore the ideas of classical and contemporary social theorists, and will apply those ideas to the analysis of contemporary trends.