Registration is coming up soon and there are a lot of different classes to take, but only a few spots to fill. Kaneland High School offers a variety of social studies classes that could be a good way to fill up your schedule. Social studies isn’t even limited to just history.

Some semester long classes include armed conflicts, a class about connecting military conflicts with relationships between nations throughout history. Sociology, a class about analyzing groups of people and how they’re defined by how they interact. And psychology is a class about the history of psychology and how humans think. Junior Sam Negro, has furthered her knowledge in psychology this semester.

“You’ll learn a lot of things about the way you behave,” Negro said.

After world cultures or AP human geography, there are two more required classes to take, U.S. history and government. An alternative to taking these classes would be to take their AP counterparts instead. Taking AP government or U.S. history will take the place of the non AP class. An AP class means Advanced Placement, and an A in the class would result in a GPA of 5.0 in the class, instead of a 4.0.

American studies is a class that combines English 11 and U.S. history, and meets the requirement of both classes. Junior Katie Huber is taking American studies and decided it would be easier to combine the English and U.S. history together. Although it is two periods long some students say it is easier to learn about two subjects at once than two at different times.

World Histories I and II are the studies of prehistory to 1100 A.D. and 1200 A.D. to present day, respectively. Each class can be taken by any student, and it doesn’t have to be in order. Talking about ancient Egypt and Rome, and moving into more modern topics like the Ottoman Empire and the world wars. Sophomore Grant Wilk recommends this class to others

“It’s a really fun class, and you learn a bunch in the process,” Wilk said.