2025-26 Course Descriptions - Catalog - Page 35
be ethical producers of their own work - through
engaging in a variety of journalistic forms, from
local news reporting to long-form international
magazine writing. Students engage in fact-checking,
investigation of biases, news analysis, and historical
context research to develop their understanding of
our complex contemporary media world and the
historical events that lead us here. They develop
practical skills such as interviewing, researching,
writing, revising, and producing their own pieces
of journalism with the goal of creating a polished
portfolio of “clips” for professional use, including a
capstone “Spotlight” project of sustained work on
a single, self-selected issue. Students display their
work throughout the year and publish on the Field
News website (www.Field-news.com) as well as at
an exhibit in May.
Note: This course is open to 11th and 12th graders
only. This course may be repeated.
12TH GRADE HISTORY PRACTICUM
The required (6-11) scope of history courses at The
Field School is designed to give students a breadth
of exposure to global and United States history. In
these senior-level practicum courses, students will
make their mark on the many 昀椀elds of practice
(policy, diplomacy, arts, education, etc) in which we
see historical knowledge and thinking skills at play
by combining specialized knowledge with skills that
they have developed and honed throughout their
Field careers. Each of the following courses requires
that students engage in intensive reading, deep
analysis, dynamic discussion, and interest-driven
research.
Holocaust and Human Behavior:
Sample texts:
The Wave by Todd Strasser, Night by Elie Weisel
Students apply the expertise they cultivate in this
course to an extensive Legacy Project that is classcoordinated to have an intentional impact on the
Field community.
History and Politics Through Film
Sample 昀椀lms:
It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934), The Cranes
are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957), Black Girl (Sembene,
1996), Close Up (Kairostami, 1990), Get Out (Peele,
2017)
The school year will culminate in a museum curation
project, during which students work with a curator
from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in
Los Angeles to design and pitch our own 昀椀lm history
exhibits.
International Human Rights
Sample case studies:
Germany and Japan’s crimes against humanity in
World War II, the Rwandan Civil War, Pinochet’s coup
in Chile, and Brazil’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
The students utilize this deep historical
understanding to better understand modern-day
human rights abuses, culminating in a policy paper
and presentation on an ongoing human rights case
study.
African American Studies
Sample texts:
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by
Jeanne Theoharis, Chocolate City: A History of Race
and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital by Chris
Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove.
In the 昀椀nal product of this course students critically
examine how Washington DC (Chocolate City)
contributed to African American history/culture
throughout the United States, and they unveil the
narratives of often overlooked personal histories of
Washingtonians.
Emerging Global Challenges
Sample texts:
The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft by Hal
Brands and Jeremi Suri
Sample case studies: responding to a global
pandemic, the emergence of arti昀椀cial intelligence,
and democracy and nation-building.
The course culminates in students creating their own
original explanatory frameworks for contemporary
global challenges through a 昀椀nal national security
paper on the issue of their choice.
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