High School Advanced Placement

AP Art History 

Examine major forms of artistic expression from a variety of cultures and eras. You will learn to look at works of art critically, with intelligence and sensitivity, and to articulate what you see or experience. This course meets a performing/fine arts requirement for high school graduation.
Pre-Requisites: World History recommended

 

AP Biology 

This challenging two-semester course engages you in a wide variety of activities. There is substantial emphasis on interpreting and collecting data in virtual labs, writing analytical essays, and mastering biology concepts. This course meets one required science credit for high school graduation.
Pre-Requisites: Algebra I recommended

 

AP Calculus AB 

Comparable to college and university calculus, this course will help prepare you for the Calculus AB Advanced Placement exam. This course meets one required math credit for high school graduation. Pre-Requisites: Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, & Pre-Calculus or Trigonometry/Analytical Geometry

 

AP Calculus BC 

Comparable to college and university calculus, this course will help prepare you for the Calculus BC Advanced Placement* exam. This course meets one required math credit for high school graduation.  Pre-Requisites: Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, & Pre-Calculus or Trigonometry/Analytical Geometry

 

AP Computer Science 

Develop the skills required to write programs or parts of programs to correctly solve specific problems. You will learn design techniques to make programs understandable, adaptable, and reusable. This course provides elective credit only.
Pre-Requisites: Algebra I, Geometry, & Algebra II

 

AP English Language and Composition  

Read and analyze prose written in various periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts while gaining an understanding of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects. This course meets one required English credit for high school graduation.

Pre-Requisites: English I & II

 

AP English Literature  and Composition  

Develop critical standards for the appreciation of literary works and increase your sensitivity to literature as a shared experience. This course meets one required English credit for high school graduation.
Pre-Requisites: English I, II, & III

 

AP Macroeconomics   

Explore the patterns and processes that impact the way human’s understand, use, and change Earth’s surface. Geographic models, methods, and tools help you examine the effect that human social organization and interconnections have on our world. This course provides elective credit only.

 

AP Macroeconomics   

Understand the choices you make as a producer, consumer, investor, and taxpayer. This course provides you with the knowledge and decision-making tools necessary for understanding how a society must organize its limited resources to satisfy its unlimited wants. This course meets the Economics high school graduation requirement.

 

AP Microeconomics   

By taking on the role of a leader at a fictitious company, you will learn fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, opportunity costs and trade-offs, productivity, economic systems and institutions, exchange, money, and interdependence. This course meets the Economics high school graduation requirement.

 

AP Psychology 

Immerse yourself in modern psychological techniques investigating the ethics and morality of human and animal research. In this college-level course, you will learn the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each major area of psychology and enhance your scientific critical thinking skills. This course provides elective credit only.

 

AP Statistics

Actively construct your own understanding of the methods, interpretation, communication, and application of statistics. Each unit is framed by ideas and questions designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the concepts at hand, rather than memorization and emulation. This course meets one required math credit for high school graduation.

 

AP US Government

Research the roles of the media, political parties, interest groups, states, candidates, bureaucracy, and the public in the governmental process. You will experience the production of policy building in multiple economic and social settings. This course meets the United States Government high school graduation requirement.
Pre-Requisites: United States History recommended

 

AP US History

AP United States History focuses on developing  student’s abilities to think conceptually about US history from approximately 1491 to the present and apply historical thinking skills as they learn about the past. There are seven themes of equal importance built into this course: identity; peopling; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; environment and geography; and ideas, beliefs, and culture that provide areas of historical inquiry for investigation. These require students to reason historically about continuity and change over time and make comparisons among various historical developments in different times and places.