All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.
California History is a one semester class in which students explore the rich history of the state through a variety of lenses: the relationship between humans and the natural environmental, migrations and demographic change, social interactions and social justice, political and economic development, and the technological and cultural innovations that are a hallmark of California's past and present. Particular attention will be paid to Santa Clara Valley as it develops from a region home to several thousand Ohlone, to one central to Spanish and Mexican regional interests, to its privileged place in the first years of statehood, to “The Valley of Heart’s Delight,” and finally to modern-day Silicon Valley.