Use multiple disciplinary lenses to examine how complex problems manifest at local, regional, and global scales and identify challenges and opportunities for solutions.

Analyze the rise of early agrarian civilizations, their legal frameworks, and methods of historical periodization.

Compare civic participation, representative systems, and imperial administration across classical Greece, Rome, China, and India.

Construct persuasive arguments in social studies using claims and evidence from multiple diverse sources while acknowledging limitations and counterarguments.

Investigate pressing geopolitical, environmental, and human rights issues in the Eastern Hemisphere and evaluate sustainable civic solutions.

Critique and analyze social studies sources for author point of view, historical context, propaganda, and reliability when encountering conflicting evidence.

Analyze medieval European feudalism, the Magna Carta, the Renaissance, and early intellectual roots of representative government.

Use geographic tools, spatial models, and thematic data to analyze human settlement patterns and eco-regions across the Eastern Hemisphere.

Analyze market principles of supply, demand, profit, competition, and international trade barriers in a globalized economy.

Assess individual and collective capacities to address public issues across local, regional, and global scales using varied levers of power and civic strategies.

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships within the living histories, struggles, and achievements of ethnic, religious, and marginalized groups across Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Examine the political structures, scientific advancements, and cultural transformations of medieval empires in Asia, Africa, and Europe.