L810 AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/472
Credit: 1.0 Language Arts
Grades: 11
Prerequisite: Lit and Comp 10
Following the College Board’s suggested curriculum designed to parallel college-level English courses, AP English Language and Composition courses expose students to prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. These courses emphasize the interaction of authorial purpose, intended audience, and the subject at hand, and through them, students learn to develop stylistic flexibility as they write compositions covering a variety of subjects that are intended for various purposes.
L820 AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/185
Credit: 1.0 Language Arts
Grades: 12
Prerequisite: AP Language and Composition or Lit and Comp 11
Following the College Board’s suggested curriculum designed to parallel college-level English courses, AP English Literature and Composition courses enable students to develop critical standards for evaluating literature. Students study the language, character, action, and theme in works of recognized literary merit; enrich their understanding of connotation, metaphor, irony, syntax, and tone; and write compositions of their own including literary analysis, exposition, argument, narrative, and creative writing.
M603 AP PRECALCULUS
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/187
Credit: 1.0 Mathematics
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: Accelerated AGS 3
Following the College Board's suggested curriculum designed to parallel college-level precalculus courses, AP Precalculus courses introduce students to mathematical modeling and functions that serve as a foundation for calculus and other college-level mathematics needed for a variety of STEM majors and careers. Topics typically include polynomial & rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric & polar functions, and functions involving parameters, vectors, and matrices.
M750 AP CALCULUS AB
Couse link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/243
Credit: 1.0 Mathematics
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: Pre-Calculus
This course is open to students who show a high degree of proficiency in Pre-Calculus. Thorough
instruction in single variable differential and integral calculus, analytic geometry, and their applications, is provided in a collegiate-level course. Topics include limits, derivatives, related rates, graph behavior,
antiderivatives, and techniques of integration, area, and volume as well as differential equations and
slope fields. All students, regardless of Dual Credit status, will be held to the same grading standards.
M775 AP STATISTICS
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/187
Credit: 1.0 Mathematics
Grades: 11, 12
Prerequisites: AGS 3
This college-level course in statistics introduces students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Topics include describing data distributions, collecting data using sampling and experiments, probability and random variables, and statistical inference.
C590 AP CHEMISTRY
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/189
Credit: 1.0 Science
Grades: 11,12
Prerequisite: STEM Chemistry or STEM Physics
Students enrolled in this course should attain an in-depth understanding of fundamental skills in solving chemical problems, gain experience in laboratory techniques, and develop data analysis skills. Topics such as the structure of matter, kinetic theory of gases, chemical equilibrium, and the basic concepts of thermodynamics will be presented in considerable depth.
C693 AP PHYSICS
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Credit: 1.0 Science
Grades: 11, 12
Prerequisite: STEM Physics
Designed by the College Board to parallel first-semester college-level courses in algebra-based physics, AP Physics 1 courses focus on Newtonian mechanics (including rotational motion); work, energy, and power; mechanical waves and sound; and introductory circuits. These courses may also include college-level laboratory investigations.
C490 AP BIOLOGY
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/364
Credit: 1.0 Science
Grades: 10,11,12
Prerequisite: STEM Chemistry
This course follows the curriculum similar to that of a first year college level biology course. Topics include ecology, conservation biology, evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Skills gained from lab experiences include microscope analysis, growing plants and bacteria, agar preparation, micro-pipetting, gel-electrophoresis for crime scene analysis and small animal husbandry. This course is a necessary component for careers such as nursing, physical therapy, medical doctor, conservation and wildlife biologist, veterinarian and other health related careers. College level credit is often granted to students who pass the AP exam in the spring and the student is able to register for courses where biology is a prerequisite.
C790 AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/580
Credit: 1.0 Science
Grades: 10,11,12
Prerequisite: STEM Chemistry or taken at the same time as another 1.0 credit Science course
AP Environmental Science courses are designed by the College Board to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems (both natural and human made), evaluate the relative risks associated with the problems, and examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. Topics covered include science as a process, ecological processes and energy conversions, earth as an interconnected system, the impact of humans on natural systems, cultural and societal contexts of environmental problems, and the development of practices that will ensure sustainable systems.
S410 AP U.S. HISTORY
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/246
Credit: 1.0 Social Studies
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Global Studies 9
Following the College Board’s suggested curriculum designed to parallel college-level U.S. History courses, AP U.S. History courses provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to critically address problems and materials in U.S. history. Students learn to assess historical materials and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. The course examines the discovery and settlement of the New World through the recent past.
S340 AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Credit: 1.0 Social Studies
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Global Studies 9
Following the College Board’s suggested curriculum designed to parallel college-level Human Geography courses, AP Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped the ways in which humans understand, use, and alter the earth’s surface. Students use spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences and also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.
W206 AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/1458
Credit: 1.0 World Language
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Spanish III
Designed by the College Board to parallel third-year college-level courses in Spanish language, AP Spanish Language and Culture courses build upon prior knowledge and develop students’ ability to express ideas, exchange opinions, and present information in Spanish, both orally and in writing. These courses also help students understand and interpret written and spoken Spanish. In addition, students explore the culture of Spanish-speaking people in historical and contemporary contexts.
S725 AP PSYCHOLOGY
Course Link: https://www.apexlearning.com/course/191
Credit: 0.5 Elective
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Following the College Board’s suggested curriculum designed to parallel a college-level psychology course, AP Psychology courses introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals, expose students to each major subfield within psychology, and enable students to examine the methods that psychologists use in their science and practice.
A481 AP COMPUTER SCIENCE PRINCIPLES
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts / Elective
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
AP Computer Science Principles is an introductory college-level computing course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. They incorporate abstraction into programs and use data to discover new knowledge. Students also explain how computing innovations and computing systems—including the internet—work, explore their potential impacts, and contribute to a computing culture that is collaborative and ethical.
