Course Catalog


Holston Academy offers 300+ online courses, including: Middle School, college prep, Honors, Advanced Placement®, electives, world languages, and Specialty Partner courses.

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Civics

Course Overview: In this Civics online course students will understand the significance of government, law, and politics. They will examine the United States foundational documents and how they shaped the Unites States government. Students will examine the purposes and functions of federal, state and local government, the justice system, political systems, the environment, and the […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • Semester Course
  • University of California a-g courses

Economics

Course Overview: This Economics online course introduces the principles and the applications of economics in everyday life. Students develop an understanding of limited resources, and compare it with unlimited wants and needs. Students learn how individual and national economic decisions are made to allocate goods and services among competing users. Students apply economic principles to […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • Semester Course
  • University of California a-g courses

Economics Honors

Course Overview: This Economics Honors online course provides students with basic knowledge of the history and philosophy of the United States economy and the economic principles that guide our democracy. Students will demonstrate problem solving and their understanding of the processes for economic reasoning by applying economic principles to decisions they make as consumers, workers, […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • Honors
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • Semester Course
  • University of California a-g courses

Ethnic Studies

Course Overview: This Ethnic Studies online course is designed to help students to develop a more complex and nuanced understanding of the human experience as it relates to ethnicity, including the factors that influence individual and collective identity. Early lessons in the course guide students to build a conceptual framework for studying ethnicity and ethnic […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • Semester Course
  • University of California a-g courses

Middle School Geography

Course Overview: In this exploratory Middle School Geography online course, students will get an overview of both physical and human geography.  This one-semester online course begins with an introduction to geography. Students will then explore each of the major regions of the world–the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Asia, and Southern […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • Middle School Courses
  • Semester Course

Social Studies 6

Course Overview: The Social Studies 6 online course begins by introducing students to the beginnings of ancient civilization. We will trace the path of human origins in Africa and follow the path of migration around the Earth. This course will help students understand why we study history and the process in which we form conclusions […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • Middle School Courses
  • Yearlong Course

Social Studies 7

Course Overview: In this Social Studies 7 online course, students begin the course learning about America’s past while mastering the skills of historical interpretation. The first semester begins with the earliest arrivals of people and ends with the conclusion of the Civil War. Social Studies grade 7 continues with an emphasis on how historical ideas, […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • Middle School Courses
  • Yearlong Course

Social Studies 8

Course Overview: In this Social Studies 8 online course, students will understand the significance of government, law, and politics. They will examine the United States foundational documents and how they shaped the United States government.  Students will examine the purposes and functions of federal and state government, law, and political systems.  Learners will evaluate their […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • Middle School Courses
  • Yearlong Course

World Geography & Cultures

Course Overview: In this online World Geography and Cultures course, students will be taught to use the basic skills of map reading and development, geographic technology, and the recognition of geographic themes to make sense of the world. The course examines world regions including the nations, people, and cultures of the Americas and Western Europe. […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

World History

Course Overview: This World History online course begins with a focus on the skills needed to read, understand, and analyze history, also demonstrating how historians and social scientists arrive at their conclusions about human history.  Semester A covers the history of civilization from hunter-gatherer societies through the characteristics of the earliest civilizations to the Enlightenment […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

World History Honors

Course Overview: This World History Honors online course develops students’ understanding of the past so they can better understand the present and determine their direction for the future. Semester A covers ancient civilizations in a way that allows students to understand the geographic, political, economic, and social characteristics of people. In the second semester, World […]

  • Subject:
  • Social Studies
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • Honors
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course
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