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] There is also a transdisciplinary course, Environmental systems and societies (SL only), that satisfies Diploma requirements for Groups 3 and 4.
IB DP History teaches candidates to interpret and critically evaluate these sources and allows them to understand and appreciate the culture and context of those living in other periods of time.
Internal assessment accounts for the remaining 25% of the course grade at SL and 20% at HL.
Internal assessment includes three commentaries of current news items involving the use of economic concepts and terminology.
The program studies three main perspectives as influences on human behavior: the biological, the cognitive and the sociocultural.
[4] Each of the perspectives should be explored using the following four compulsory topics: The aims of the psychology course at HL and at SL are to: First, students must choose an experiment to replicate.
All students are required to study one text from the “IB list of prescribed philosophical texts” shown below: The IB Diploma Programme information technology in a global society (ITGS) course is the study and evaluation of the impacts of information technology (IT) on individuals and society.
It explores the advantages and disadvantages of the access and use of digitized information at the local and global level.
ITGS provides a framework for the student to make informed judgments and decisions about the use of IT within social contexts.
External assessment accounts for 75% of the grade for the entire course at SL, and 80% of that at HL.
[citation needed] This gives students more study time in their final year of school, as well as the option to spend more hours on their higher level subjects.