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From Maggie Herrick, Social Studies Program Advisor,
Arkansas Department of Education

American Government is a 1-semester high school elective course.

Civics for Core Curriculum is a 1-semester civics class for students whose parents have determined not to place them in the Smart Core curriculum.

Civics, as well as Civics/American Government, is the 2-semester course required of all smart core students beginning with the 2006-07, 9th-grade class. Essentially this is the same course – Civics/American Government has a little more American government than Civics. The specific courses and SLEs can be compared to determine which course a district would prefer to offer and teach, but both Civics and Civics/American Government meet the requirements.

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Social Studies Frameworks

• Social Studies K-8 - PDF | WORD Revised 2006, Amended November, 2007



• Courses
  
  
  • American Government - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • American History (U.S. History) - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Arkansas History Grades 7-8 - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Arkansas History Grades 9-12 - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Civics for Core Curriculum (1 semester only) - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Civics - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Civics/American Government - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Contemporary United States History - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Economics - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Psychology - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • Sociology - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • World Geography - PDF | WORD Revised 2006
  
  
  
  • World History - PDF | WORD Revised 200

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