Advanced Placement (AP) Courses

An Advanced Placement English course in Language and Composition is a course in effective writing and an increased ability to think and read critically. The structure is designed as the equivalent to English 1010, the required college writing course and designed to help students improve their writing so they can meet communication demands in college, on the job, and in the community as well as preparing the student for the AP exam offered during fourth term for college credit. Students who do well with this course and are successful in passing the AP Language exam are advised to take AP Literature senior year. 

*AP Test fees may apply.

This class is helpful for CLEP Tests, college writing, and some fun and highly useful thinking, language and writing strategies. Literature and writing will include poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays from British and U.S. authors, as well as some contemporary world literature. 

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This college course is equivalent to Calculus 1 and is a requirement for a degree in the exact sciences, medicine, law, economics, business, etc. The four topics covered in this course are derivatives, limits, indefinite and definite integrals and their applications.

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Calculus BC includes all topics covered in Calculus AB plus additional topics. This college class is equivalent to Calculus 1 & 2 and is designed to qualify you for placement and credit in a course that is one course beyond what is granted for Calculus AB.

*AP Test fees may apply.

This course is a survey of Human Geography including political, economic, and cultural systems. It surveys the regions of the world as well. Students will have the option of taking the AP Human Geography exam at the end of the school year.  

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This college level course highlights the nature of changes, the causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. Relevant factual knowledge, in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence, focuses on the past thousand years of global experience. College credit is available by passing the AP test. 

*AP Test fees may apply.

This is an advanced placement, college level course that focuses on developing students’ understanding of American History from the age of discovery to the present. The aim of this class is to have students investigate US History’s significant events, individuals, developments, and processes by utilizing the skills employed by historians such as making historical comparisons, calculating chronological reasoning, and creating argumentation. College credit may be obtained by successfully passing the AP US History exam at the end of the year. 

*AP Test fees may apply.

AP Economics is a college level introductory course in the social science of both Macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole) and Microeconomics (individual markets and decision makers in the economy). You will gain a thorough understanding of the effect consumers, business, the government, and foreign trade and investment have on our economy and standard of living, as well as the economic factors that affect individual firms and business. You will be a better-informed citizen for having taken this class and gain a much greater understanding of the world around you! Any student planning any sort of career related to any kind of business would particularly benefit from this course.  

*AP Test fees may apply.

AP Economics is a college level introductory course in the social science of both Macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole) and Microeconomics (individual markets and decision makers in the economy). You will gain a thorough understanding of the effect consumers, business, the government, and foreign trade and investment have on our economy and standard of living, as well as the economic factors that affect individual firms and business. You will be a better-informed citizen for having taken this class and gain a much greater understanding of the world around you! Any student planning any sort of career related to any kind of business would particularly benefit from this course.  

*AP Test fees may apply.

AP Psychology is a more in-depth examination of human behavior and mental processes and covers basic information from each of Psychology’s perspectives and subfields. College credit may be obtained by passing the AP Exam. Students who engage in daily reading and study are very successful in obtaining the desired credit. 

*AP Test fees may apply.