Grade 12 History Online Course For Admission To Canadian Universities

 

GRADE 12 HISTORY COURSES BY WISS

At Waterloo Independent Secondary School (WISS), we offer a variety of online grade 12 courses for students to help prepare for university. WISS offers two online history courses: CHI4U CANADA: HISTORY, IDENTITY AND CULTURE and CHY4U WORLD HISTORY SINCE THE 15TH CENTURY. These two courses focus on different parts of history but are both important and will help prepare students for university history courses. To learn more about these courses, continue reading below, or contact us now to find out more about applying to WISS.

 

CHI4U CANADA

CHY4U WORLD HISTORY

 

CHI4U CANADA: HISTORY, IDENTITY AND CULTURE – GRADE 12

From Grade 12 Courses | WISS:

Prerequisites: Any university or university/college preparation course in Canadian and world studies, English, or social sciences and humanities
Grade: 12 (University)
Availability: WISS Online

CHI4U online traces the history of Canada, with a focus on the evolution of our national identity and culture as well as the identity and culture of various groups that make up Canada. Students will explore various developments and events, both national and international, from pre-contact to the present, and will examine various communities in Canada and how they have contributed to identity and heritage in Canada. Students will investigate the development of culture and identity, including national identity, in Canada and how and why they have changed throughout the country’s history. In CHI4U online, students will extend their ability to apply the concepts of historical thinking and the historical inquiry process, including the interpretation and analysis of evidence, as they investigate the people, events, and forces that have shaped Canada.

  • Essential Question: What events, people and organizations helped to shape Canadian identity in 1776?

    In this unit, students will explore the history of Canada from before the European contact through to the outbreak of the American Revolution, looking at how events, issues, and individuals have helped to shape our history and identity.

  • Essential Question: What events, people and organizations helped to shape Canadian identity to 1867?

    In this unit, students will explore the history of Canada from the American Revolution through to our own Confederation, looking at how events, issues, and individuals have helped to shape our history and identity.

  • Essential Question: What events, people and organizations helped to shape Canadian identity to 1945?

    In this unit, students will explore the history of Canada from Confederation in 1867 through to the end of World War II, looking at how events, issues, and individuals have helped to shape our history and identity.

  • Essential Question: What events, people and organizations helped to shape Canadian identity since 1945?

    In this unit, students will explore the history of Canada from the end of World War II through to the modern period, looking at how events, issues, and individuals have helped to shape our history and identity.

  • 30% of Final Grade

    This exam is the final evaluation of CHI4U online. Students need to arrange their final exam 10 days in advance. All coursework should be completed and submitted before writing the final exam, please be advised that once the exam is written, any outstanding coursework will be given a grade of zero. The exam will be for two hours.

 

CHY4U WORLD HISTORY SINCE THE 15TH CENTURY – GRADE 12

From Grade 12 Courses | WISS:

Prerequisites: Any university, university/college preparation course in Canadian and world studies, English, or social sciences and humanities
Grade: 
12 (University)
Availability:
 WISS Online

CHY4U online traces major developments and events in world history since approximately 1450. Students will explore social, economic, and political changes, the historical roots of contemporary issues, and the role of conflict and cooperation in global interrelationships. In CHY4U online, students will extend their ability to apply the concepts of historical thinking and the historical inquiry process, including the interpretation and analysis of evidence, as they investigate key issues and ideas and assess societal progress or decline in world history.

  • Essential Question: How did innovations in science and exploration during the Renaissance shape and impact society?

    In this unit, students will learn about the Renaissance. This period of time means rebirth and the term is used by scholars to refer to the time period from about 1400 to 1600 in Western Europe.

  • Essential Question: How did contact between European explorers and Native Americans influence each other? What were the short and long-term effects?

    In this unit, students will learn about early voyages of exploration. From ancient times, Europeans had hypothesized about distant worlds. The Greeks speculated about Atlantis, Medieval maps placed Jerusalem at the centre and depicted a Garden of Eden at the edge of the known universe, along with references to heaven, hell, and strange lands on the borders of the Earth.

  • Essential Question: In what ways did the ideals of the Enlightenment encourage and support social change across the world?

    In this unit, students will study the age of Enlightenment and Revolution. This period in Europe from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 has been called the age of the religious wars. Conflicts arose between Protestants and Catholics, and sometimes Protestants and Protestants.

  • Essential Question: How did the rise of industrialism change the structure of society? What implementations during this period are relevant to us today.

    In this unit, students will examine Industrialization, Liberalism, and Nationalism. This period began in Great Britain around 1750 passed through the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and ended in united Italy and Germany in 1871.

  • Essential Question: How was the shifting political landscape in 19th century Europe a contributing factor to World War One?

    In this unit, students will explore European Hegemony. In this period, people accepted Newton’s vision of a harmonious machine-like universe, working according to laws that could be expressed in mathematical formulas. This gave birth to social philosophers in the nineteenth century who claimed to have discovered “scientific” socialism, and scholars who developed the “social sciences,” the systematic study of individual and social behaviour. The word “science” became synonymous with the idea of truth.

  • Essential Question: How did international allegiances change between 1914 and 1945?

    In this unit, students will study the history of the first world war. World War I, known as the Great War, lasted until November 1918. The century that had started the French Revolution ended with unprecedented carnage, arresting the liberal optimism and the faith in progress that had dominated Western thinking since the Enlightenment. The Great War radically rearranged the map of Europe. By 1919, a host of new, independent states, supposedly based on the principle of nationality, had come into being.

  • Essential Question: How can we solve and navigate through modern issues such as terrorism, immigration, the threat of nuclear war, social movements etc. by investigating the past?

    In this unit, students will examine the world from 1945 onwards. In this period, European states lost their centuries-old status as great colonial powers. Independence movements in the colonies forced the process of decolonization upon them. The Europeans often went reluctantly, and not without some vicious conflicts. Decolonization also had a powerful impact on domestic European politics. The emergence of Japan as a major industrial nation was also important for Europe and the West.

  • 10% of Final Grade

    This project is one of the final evaluations of CHY4U online. This project will be worth 10% of the final grade.

  • 20% of Final Grade

    This exam is the final evaluation of CHY4U online. Students need to arrange their final exam 10 days in advance. All coursework should be completed and submitted before writing the final exam, please be advised that once the exam is written, any outstanding coursework will be given a grade of zero. The exam will be for two hours.

 

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