Compare diverse forms of early modern governance, including divine right absolutism in Europe and Asia, the rise of English constitutionalism, and enlightened despotism.

Examine biological and environmental influences on human aggression, conflict resolution, altruism, and the bystander effect.

Analyze the rise of agrarian populism, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma, organized labor in mining, and the Green Corn Rebellion.

Examine the origin and diffusion of plant and animal domestication, the Second Agricultural Revolution, and the Green Revolution.

Explain the naturalization process and analyze civic virtues, legal duties, and voluntary responsibilities essential to sustaining constitutional government.

Analyze the constitutional division of delegated, implied, concurrent, and reserved powers and trace the historical evolution of American federalism.

Analyze the causes, conflicts, and diplomatic strategies driving the rise of American overseas imperialism from the Spanish-American War through the Wilson administration.

Analyze the patterns of behavior, structural causes, and societal implications of juvenile crime, drug addiction, and unemployment.

Summarize diverse military rebellions, diplomatic strategies, modernization movements, and cultural resistance against Western and imperial domination.

Examine the establishment and prosperity of Tulsa's Greenwood District, the racial tensions leading to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and the devastating violence of the assault.

Identify and describe the structure and function of the major brain regions, lobes, and subcortical structures.

Analyze the stages of American elections from nomination through the Electoral College, alongside the political forces, campaign finance rules, and media dynamics shaping electoral outcomes.

Analyze the rise of the post-Civil War cattle trails and the economic agreements between cattlemen and tribal nations in Indian Territory.

Explain the complex long-term causes (M-A-I-N) and immediate catalysts that plunged European and global empires into the First World War.

Examine devolution, centrifugal forces, supranationalism, and globalization as challenges to traditional state sovereignty.

Analyze how citizens monitor government, influence public policy formation, and hold elected leaders accountable through democratic processes.

Evaluate landmark legal victories desegregating higher education, the Clara Luper-led sit-in movement, and Governor Raymond Gary's executive leadership in desegregating public schools.

Explain and differentiate the major behavioral theories of learning: Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning and B.F. Skinner's operant conditioning.

Examine how coal extraction, railway expansion, labor migration, and new settlements reshaped the economy and tribal sovereignty of Indian Territory.

Analyze cognitive strategies and cognitive impediments involved in problem solving, reasoning, and daily decision making.

Evaluate domestic anti-communist investigations, McCarthyism, the nuclear arms race, the Space Race, and mass media in modern elections.

Describe how collective behavior, organized demonstrations, sit-ins, and digital activism mobilize people to transform society.

Analyze China's 1949 Communist Revolution, Mao Zedong's social and economic campaigns, the Tiananmen Square protests, and Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms.

Analyze the core constitutional principles that structure American governance and preserve individual liberties.

Examine major social, economic, environmental, and civic issues facing modern presidential administrations and contemporary American society.

Evaluate 21st-century transnational challenges including demographic changes, global health, gender equality, environmental crises, terrorism, and the Syrian civil war.

Analyze ongoing 21st-century public policy challenges facing Oklahoma, including criminal justice reform, education funding, environmental issues, and economic diversification.

Compare industrialization models and economic transformations across the Pacific Rim, Central Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Explain the mechanisms of cultural diffusion, acculturation, assimilation, syncretism, and globalization in defining regions.

Assess spatial dimensions of culture defined by language families, religious diffusion, ethnic enclaves, and gender roles.

Compare world cultural landscapes, architectural styles, toponyms, and sacred spaces that create a distinctive sense of place.

Differentiate between culture and society and evaluate the nature versus nurture debate in shaping human behavior.

Assess African independence movements, Pan-African ideology, post-colonial governance challenges, and the dismantling of South African apartheid.

Execute the scientific method of sociological inquiry from hypothesis formulation to data analysis and reporting.

Analyze the criteria for determining abnormal behavior and evaluate the diagnostic tools, classification systems, and clinical models used to assess psychological disorders.

Examine grassroots nonviolent direct action, major federal civil rights and voting legislation, and the evolution of Black Power philosophies.

Examine the environmental, political, economic, scientific, and technological factors that drive short-term and long-term social change.

Analyze constitutional protections for due process, rights of the accused, privacy, and cruel and unusual punishment through landmark Supreme Court rulings.

Analyze the origins of the Cold War, containment doctrine, international alliances, the Korean War, and Kennedy-era foreign crises.