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The Group 3: Individuals and societies subjects of the IB Diploma Programme consist of ten courses offered at both the Standard level (SL) and Higher level (HL): Business Management, Economics, Geography, Global Politics, History, Information technology in a global society (ITGS), Philosophy, Psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, and World religions (SL only). [1]
International Baccalaureate North America (IBNA) was established in 1975 [12] by Peter Nehr, International Baccalaureate Africa, Europe and Middle-East (IBAEM) in 1986, [13] and International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific (IBAP) during the same period. [14]
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, IB Diploma from the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in 1991. [27] Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockton, California, IB Diploma from Franklin High School (Stockton) Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, King of the Netherlands, graduate of United World College of the Atlantic [28]
Peterson retired in 1977, and he was made an honorary member of the IBO's Council of Foundation in 1983. In 1987, he published the book Schools Across Frontiers: The Story of the International Baccalaureate and the United World Colleges, a historical account on the development of the IB programmes and the United World Colleges closely linked to ...
A systematic school of philosophy in its own right for the first time in history – exerted an immense and profound influence on modern Western thought in general, [142] [143] with the birth of two influential rationalistic philosophical systems of Descartes [144] [145] (who spent most of his adult life and wrote all his major work in the ...
The historian Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas [8] and initiated its systematic study [9] in the early decades of the 20th century. Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of ideas; [10] he worked there as a professor of history, from 1910 to 1939, and for decades he presided over the regular meetings of the History of Ideas Club. [11]
According to the IB's "Find a World School" list, as of September 2022 there are over 5500 schools offering one or more IB programmes. [ 1 ] Notable examples include:
The Language A2 is no longer offered by IB and integrated to Group 1 Language A. [13] Language A2 corresponded to a near-native level of fluency in the foreign language, and as such concentrated less on studying the actual language and more on the literature and culture of the countries where the language is spoken.