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If high school students are currently enjoying their holidays, the month of September is getting closer and maybe some of them are already thinking about what to expect in September. This resumption of classes will be particularly busy in innovations for students of first, who will discover the new subjects introduced by the reform of high school.
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During the end-of-year class councils, the students did not choose a course as was the case previously (Literary, Economic and Social, Scientific), but three specialties. These specialties include "HGGSP" for "History-Geography, Geopolitics and Political Science", or "HLP" for "Humanities, Literature and Philosophy". The specialty "HGGSP" was acclaimed by 33.4% of future students of first, according to the figures of the Ministry of Education. Among them, Thais, 15, who is already looking forward to study "the political system in India", "the emergence of democracy in the world", or "the appearance of borders".
Philosophy arrives in first class
There are five themes that will be studied in "HGGSP", confirms at the microphone of Europe 1 Hugo Billard, professor of geopolitics and author of textbooks. On the menu, then, "democracy, the dynamics of international powers, borders, 'getting informed', with for example questions of communication or the report to the sources for journalism, and a fifth theme: State and religions".
Selected by 18.5% of students, the "Humanities, Literature and Philosophy" is really a new course in the mind, allowing in particular to study philosophy from the first class. Students will work from texts, images or even films, on themes that mix literature and philosophy. For example: speech and its powers or the relationship between man and animal.