In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Through reading of challenging texts and extensive writing, students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing…

In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals,developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course…

This course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. This course…

This course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. This course…

Advanced World History Studies is a survey of the history of humankind. The major emphasis is on the study of significant people, events, and issues from the earliest times to the present. Traditional historical points of reference in world history are identified as students analyze important events and issues in western civilization as well as…

This elective AP course is a history of Western Civilization from 1450 to present, from the High Renaissance to the recent past. It is designed to provide a basic knowledge of the intellectual-cultural, political-diplomatic, and social-economic history of Europe. The course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make…

AP African American Studies, an elective course, is designed to offer high school students an evidence-based introduction to African American studies. The interdisciplinary course reaches into a variety of fields—literature, the arts and humanities, political science, geography, and science—to explore the vital contributions and experiences of African Americans. The historical thinking skills required in an…

**THESE TWO COURSES MUST BE TAKEN TOGETHER TO RECEIVE THE FULL CREDIT** The Advanced Studies in Psychology course is a semester long course that provides students with the opportunity to learn psychological principles and phenomena, develop their understanding of behavior and mental processes, as well as to learn and use scientific methods in the study…

This course will fulfill the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum requirements for Group 3, Individuals and Societies. This is a two year curriculum. The course is designed to integrate the histories of Canada, Latin America and the United States. Included will be a comparative analysis of cultural, political, social, and economic issues. This course will fulfill…

This one-year course fulfills the International Baccalaureate IB requirement for Group 6, Arts/Electives. This course will cover both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Students will learn how supply and demand are tools for a wide variety of issues, locally as well as globally. They will understand the principles of economics that apply to the economic system as…