The Social Studies Department is dedicated to providing students with an education in Social Studies with both rigorous and challenging standards that will prepare them for success at the college level. The stable and structured environment of the Academy better allows students to focus on the academic challenges facing them and produces more cooperative learning situations. By incorporating the Benedictine values of service, respect, mutual support, and the value of work in the classroom, the Social Studies department will better enable students to be life-long learners and produce good citizens for the 21st Century.