Honors Social Science Colloquium will incorporate learning to develop skills and cultivate interest in the academic enterprise. This course will engage students with Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate curriculum focused on social science or history topics of a conjunction course to deepen the understanding of the topics and solidify critical thinking and research skills. Through higher order thinking activities, students will participate in substantial reading and writing, develop oral and listening skills, and apply the College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards when analyzing historical, economic, government or geographic facts and concepts. Students will be provided with the opportunity to examine primary sources, such as documentary material, pictorial and graphic materials, maps, political cartoons, statistical tables, and works of art. In addition, students will be provided with exposure to both factual narrative and to the interpretations from the perspectives of a variety of different writers and historians. Students will also be provided with the opportunity to develop analytical and interpretive writing skills, practicing short-answer questions as well as document-based and long essay questions similar to items on high-stakes exams (e.g. Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, PSAT, SAT, CAASPP).