社会课 (shè huì kè) means “social studies”

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今天我们上社会课。jīn tiān wǒ men shàng shè huì kè

Today we have social studies class.

A school subject that traces the links between people, their communities, the land they live on, and the past.

社会shè huì: The shared world of people living together.

学校里学习人们怎样生活和相处，以及历史、地理等知识的一门课。xué xiào lǐ xué xí rén men zěn yàng shēng huó hé xiāng chǔ yǐ jí lì shǐ dì lǐ děng zhī shí de yì mén kè

社会 (shèhuì, "society") + 课 (kè, "class") form a transparent compound whose topic comes first and whose final character identifies a class.

The word can refer to the subject on a timetable or to the lesson held at a particular time, so its classroom use is broader than a field of study alone.