Seminar/Discussion: Course Selections and Offerings

Each student will complete 4 years of school in a semester program. CVH offers two
semesters per year, two of the classes of the six must be represented by a laboratory or
studio each year. Pre-requisites may exist and must be completed in order to proceed to
more logic and theory based courses. An independent study will be embodied either by a
language or supplemental course.

Seminar/Discussion: History
US History: First Years
US Politics and Government:
A course where students will develop skills that they can use in their political exploitations. One will study the impacts of history
on the politics and government, students will also participate in engaging debates where resolutions are argued upon.

US History:
Civil War and Reconstruction:
America in Depression and War:
Philosophy of
World History: Second Years
Econ and World History:
In this course, you will learn about both the historical and the economic changes in the world since ancient civilizations first
began trading and selling goods

World History:
Culture and Globalization
Monarchs, People and History:
Historical Supplemental: Third Years and Fourth Years
Women Studies:
Academic Global Studies:
European History:
The Royal Family:
Through this course, you can learn a great deal about the British royal family from 1714 to the present Students will have to work
hard in this class that combines film and writing as an history.

Intro to Human Behavior Reaction to War:

Modern America:
Current Events:
**The Social Studies path is required due to the fact that application will be necessary through many
career paths

Seminar/Discussions: English
English (US): First Years
Religion in American Literature:
US English:
Ruined America:
The course will focus on contemporary dystopian novels about America. We will try to understand the heightened anxiety about
apocalypse, and the ethical dilemmas imposed by prospect of our diminished state. Among the kinds of dystopias considered:
counter-factual histories which present a dystopian past that we have fortuitously averted; works that portray the present as
dystopian; and of course visions of a dystopian future, including visions of a post-apocalyptic world, and those that extrapolate
broken societies out of an assessment of current evils (Williams College)

English (World): Second Years

Reading like a Historian:
Rebels and Romantics:
World English:
New World:
English Supplemental: Third Years and Fourth Years
Creative Writing:
This course focuses on the expressive modes of writing including poetry, fiction, dramatic scenes, television scripts, true
narratives, and essays. Students who are interested in developing writing as a creative outlet will practice descriptive and
narrative techniques as well as the conventions of a variety of genres.

Journalism Editors:
Humor in Literature:
Money, Power and Social Justice
Theater Arts
War Stories Perception vs Reality
Shakespeares Philosophy
Great Thinkers of Transcendentalism