Tonka Online offers the courses listed below. Click on a course title below to read specific details. Note the term each course is offered, as some are available throughout the year and others are only during the summer term.
Please note that due to the supplemental nature of Tonka Online, courses run if they meet enrollment requirements. If you have questions about pending courses, please contact the Tonka Online Lead Teacher.
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Course: #AP216
Online Option: T2108, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
This college-level course analyzes the political systems of the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Mexico, Nigeria and Iran. By examining these six countries, students will develop an understanding of political concepts and themes.
Course: #AP208, S1
Course: #AP210, S2
Online Option: #T2112F, Tonka Online
Online Option: #T2114W, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
*Online, complete part 1 before part 2.
Prerequisites: Contemporary U.S. History; AP U.S. History; American Studies 10 Honors (B or better)
This class will survey the major trends and events in European history from the Renaissance (1350) to present day.
Course: #AP218
Online Option: #T2106W, Tonka Online
*Select term S=Summer, W=winter
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
Students will study economic growth, inflation, unemployment, foreign trade, monetary, and fiscal policies at a college freshman level.
Course: #AP220
Online Option: #T2100, Tonka Online
This course may also be taken as part of VANTAGE #V200
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
Psychology is the study of behavior and mental process. This AP class is an introduction to college-level Psychology using a college text, “collegiate-style” pace and classroom climate, and college-level exams.
Course: #AP214
Online Option: #T2110, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
Through readings, research, discussions, field experiences, and media presentations, students will study political ideologies, parties, campaigns, elections, interest groups, bureaucracy, civil liberties, role of the media, the judicial, legislative and executive processes, and the creation of public policy.
Course: #AP224, S1
Course: #AP225, S2
Online Option:#T2102F, part 1, Tonka Online
Online Option:#T2104W, part 2, Tonka Online
Grades Offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Contemporary U.S. History; AP U.S. History; American Studies 10 Honors (grade B or better)
Students complete advanced level reading, writing, and analysis on topics in World History.
Course: #2004, S1
Course: #2006, S2
Online Option: #T2004*, Tonka Online
*Select term S=summer, F=fall
Online Option: #T2006*, Tonka Online
*Select term S=summer, W=winter
Grade(s) offered: Grade 10
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Human Geography and Civics; AP Human Geography
This two-semester course will provide a thematic study of persons, events and national developments in U.S. History with a focus on the 20th Century to the present. This course will prepare students for an understanding of the role of the U.S. in the world after WWI.
Course: #2016
Online Option: T2016
Grade(s) offered: 11-12
Credits: .5 (semester course)
This course may also be taken as part of VANTAGE #V300 (choose one).
Prerequisites: None
This introductory economics course integrates macroeconomic and microeconomic concepts into the complexities of our evolving global landscape.
Course: T2099*, Tonka Online (W=winter, S=summer)
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: This course can be requested by contacting your student's counselor. Students are not able to request the course in Skyward.
This online course is designed to meet the needs of students seeking credit for the completion of U.S. government and politics standards that are required for graduation.
Course: #2012, S1
Course: #2014, S2
Online Option: T2012F, part 1, Tonka Online
Online Option:T2014W, part 2, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Contemporary U.S. History; AP U.S. History; American Studies 10 Honors
This course concentrates on the historical and geographic themes of the world from Early Civilizations through the Modern World.
Benjamin Stanerson
Tonka Online Lead Teacher
tonkaonline@minnetonkaschools.org
952-401-4047