Manitoba Education
Distance Learning
Teacher Mediated Option
Social Studies
Grade 9 Social Studies (10G) 1 credit (1998)
This course is designed to help you gain greater understanding of society, your role in society, and Canada's role in the world.
This course covers Canadian themes including:
- Canada’s physical environment
- Canadian identity
- Canadian society (government, law, and economics)
- Canada and the world
* A list of required/suggested resources will be available in September to students enrolled in this course.
Grade 10 Geography (20G) 1
credit (2000)
Grade 10 Geography (20G) takes a regional approach
to the study of North America, focusing on the characteristics
and similarities of different regions in Canada, the United
States, and Mexico.
The course covers a general overview of:
- North America
- The Agricultural Interior
- The North
- The Western Cordillera
- Atlantic Canada–Appalachia
- The Industrial Heartland
- Canadian, continental, and world issues
* A list of required/suggested resources will be available in September to students enrolled in this course.
Grade 11 Agriculture (30S)
1 credit (2005)
Grade 11 Agriculture is a full credit course that provides a comprehensive introduction to agriculture in Manitoba, including historical prespectives, as well as present concerns and trends. The aim of the course is to assist students in learning about the many dimensions of agriculture. The course draws upon the knowledge base of a vareity of disciplines.
The course examines physical and climatic features of Manitoba, the agricultural resource base, soil management practices, crop varieties, and plant and animal science.
The course matieral has been organized into four modules:
- Module 1: Manitoba Agriculture: An Overview
- Module 2: Soil Science
- Module 3: Plant Science
- Module 4: Animal Agriculture in Manitoba
Resources
A supplementary resource package will be provided with the course materials.
Grade 11 Canadian History (30G)
1 credit (1987)
This course examines the historical development of Canada
and focuses on social and political history. These two perspectives
are central to this study of Canadian history: lifestyles
and the impact of change on those lifestyles, and constitutional
development. A number of historical themes are developed chronologically.
Topics include the life of Aboriginal people, immigration,
French and British societies before Confederation, and the
development of government, federalism, and politics. The second
half looks at the growth of Western Canada, social and economic
change due to the Industrial Revolution, and Canada's external
relations.
* A list of required/suggested resources will be available in September to students enrolled in this course.
Grade 12 Geography (40S)
1 credit (2002)
This course deals with the interrelationships
of humans and the worldwide environment. Students explore
the environment, population, food supply, resources, industrialization,
urbanization, and how human relationship with the environment
also influences economics, sociology, politics, and ecology.
* A list of required/suggested resources will be available in September to students enrolled in this course.
Grade 12 History of Western Civilization
(40S) 1 credit ( 2000)
This course introduces the people, ideas, and events that
have shaped Western civilization. Canadian political,
economic, legal, and social systems are based on these
traditions. In this senior history course, more than thirty
centuries of material is handled using six major themes:
religion, ideology, humanism, individualism, secularism,
and skepticism. It is structured into modules as follows:
- Historical Overview
- Pre-modern Western Civilization
- Renaissance, Reformation, and Absolutism vs. Representative Government
- The Age of Reason and the Political, Agricultural, and Industrial Revolutions
- Major Movements and Events from 1815 to 1919
- 1919 to the Present
* A list of required/suggested resources will be available in September to students enrolled in this course.
