Lebanese Baccalaureate - Literature & Humanities (LH) case studies
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The Lebanese Baccalaureate in Literature & Humanities (Bac LH, رسميًا فرع الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية) is the national secondary-school leaving certificate awarded to students who complete the humanities track of the Lebanese General Secondary Certificate. It is designed for candidates who read, argue, and write well rather than calculate: students heading toward law, journalism, languages, education, philosophy, history, or the social sciences at university, and anyone whose strengths lie in text and interpretation. The Lebanese Baccalaureate - Literature & Humanities (LH) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,655 words.
1Rhetoric in a Municipal Campaign Poster
A student committee in a Lebanese town of 12,000 residents designs a poster for a candidate running for municipal council. The draft slogan reads (in Arabic): «نحن الأقوياء، ونحن من سيبني لكم كل شيء» ("We are the strong, and we are the ones who will build everything for you").
515 words, about 3 min2Reading a French Editorial: Fact, Opinion, and Inference
In a French class, students read this editorial excerpt: «Les villes côtières investissent massivement dans des digues. Selon une étude de 2023, 40 % des zones basses seraient submergées d'ici 2060 sans protection.
471 words, about 2 min3Epistemology: Is a 'Proven' Correlation Really Knowledge?
A philosophy seminar debates a local health survey: towns with more ice-cream sales report more drowning incidents. A student concludes: 'Ice cream causes drowning - the data prove it.' A second student says: 'Then knowledge is just whatever the numbers show.' The teacher introduces three distinctions: correlation vs.
515 words, about 3 min4Lebanon's 1943 National Pact: A Geography-History Judgment
A history-geography student prepares a dossier on the 1943 National Pact (الميثاق الوطني) and the 1989 Taif Agreement. The dossier must explain how confessional power-sharing was tied to demographic geography : the Maronite population concentrated in Mount Lebanon and the north, Sunnis in the coastal cities (Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon), and Shia in the south and Bekaa.
571 words, about 3 min5Cartography and Economic Reasoning: A Map That Misleads
A geography class receives two maps of the same region (population 4 million). Map A is a choropleth shading each district by total population; the largest district by area (a sparsely populated mountain district, 3,000 km², 80,000 people) appears darkest because it has the biggest absolute number of residents, while a tiny coastal district (200 km², 600,000 people) appears pale.
583 words, about 3 min