World Humanities: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Culture

Understand the ways in which societies and cultures have expressed the "human ideal."

Understand the views of morality within different societies and cultures.

Understand the ways in which societies and cultures have addressed mortality.

Understand the interpretations of justice by different societies and cultures.

Understand the methods societies and cultures have used to balance individual rights and the common good.

Understand the effects a society's environment has on its culture.

Understand how imperialism and colonialism impacts culture.

Understand how innovations initiate cultural and ideological turning points.

Compare the various ways in which pragmatic and idealistic philosophies have addressed humanity's desire to understand life and the process of living.

Explain how the use of heroes and heroism in the arts and literature impacts cultural understanding of the human ideal.

Compare enforcement of social norms and mores.

Analyze how different societies have seen human emotions, such as desire, anger and love, as positive or negative attributes.

Analyze how various societies have viewed violence as a creative force.

Distinguish between the idea of romantic love and practical arrangements in marriage.

Evaluate different societies' views on morality as either a human or divine mandate.

Compare various views of mortality, through either fear or acceptance.

Distinguish between scientific and mythologizing understandings of mortality.

Analyze how the concepts of legacy, history and the family are influenced by a society's view of mortality and the afterlife.

Analyze differing beliefs about death through art and literature.

Evaluate why some societies see a dichotomy between free will and fate.

Compare how different societies have understood the distinction between divine and human justice.

Explain how some societies have viewed revenge as a method for dispensing justice.

Deconstruct the concept of equality.

Distinguish between unspoken mores and written laws.

Summarize literary commentary on individual property laws in various cultures.

Judge the concept of "the good life" in various cultures in terms of materialism, family life, spiritual, creative or emotional fulfillment and enlightenment.

Infer different society's representations of nature through art.

Judge how the cyclical nature of seasons denotes both permanence and change and how different societies have either reconciled this contradiction or favored one view over the other.

Critique peoples' view of nature in different societies, in terms of how it is reflected in their art, literature and philosophy.

Explain the cultural impact of independence movements that resulted from colonialism and imperialism.

Analyze the rise of economic development and disparity in terms of their cultural impacts.

Analyze various revolutions in terms of their cultural impacts.

Evaluate innovation in terms of how it makes people less as well as more dependent upon each other.

Compare the human quality of curiosity as both a positive and negative attribute.