The aim of social studies education has been described as:
“…a study of people and their relationships with their social and physical environments. The knowledge, skills, and values developed in social studies help students to know and appreciate the past, to understand the present and to influence the future. Therefore, social studies in the school setting has a unique responsibility for providing students with the opportunity to acquire knowledge, skills and values to function effectively within their local and national society which is enmeshed in an interdependent world”
Source: (Saskatchewan Education, 1984. Report of the Social Sciences Reference Committee. Regina, SK. p. 1).
The Social Studies 30 course available here consists of 5 main units including: 1. the examination of change and its attendant properties; 2. Canadian economics; 3. Canadian culture; 4. Canadian government; 5. Globalization forces and processes. Students are expected to engage in dialectical forms of evaluation and discussion and interact with the course material in a variety of ways.