Course Offerings
BUSINESS & MARKETING EDUCATION
Accounting I
Course Number: 037111V/037112V
Prerequisite: None
Students interested in learning how businesses operate, students interested in accounting or business as a major in college, and students interested in learning about keeping the financial records for their own business in the future, can all benefit from taking Accounting I. Students will learn financial accounting concepts including the accounting equation, the accounting cycle, entering transactions, posting to ledgers, preparing financial statements and payroll systems. Students will learn to utilize spreadsheet programs and automated accounting software to perform accounting procedures. Connections between accounting principles, the business world, as well as career opportunities in Accounting are provided.
Honors Accounting II
Course Number: 038121V/038122V
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Accounting I
Accounting II gives students the opportunity to apply their knowledge from Accounting I by mastering advanced accounting activities and concepts. The topics included are departmentalized accounting, inventory planning, depreciation, notes, accrued expenses and revenues, stocks, bonds, and dividends. Students will continue to utilize spreadsheet programs and automated accounting software to perform accounting procedures. Accounting II provides the foundation of skills and knowledge with which to pursue study in college or enter the work world.
FINE ARTS
AP Art History
Course Number: 029561V/029562V
Prerequisite: None
The AP Art History course welcomes students into the global art world to engage with its forms and content as they research, discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art making, and responses to and interpretations of art. By investigating specific course content of 250 works of art characterized by diverse artistic traditions, students develop an in-depth, holistic understanding of the history of art from a global perspective. Focus will also be placed on significant historical events, art periods/styles, specific artworks/artists, and issues and themes that connects the artworks. Students learn and apply skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis to engage with a variety of art forms, developing understanding of individual works and interconnections across history. AP Art History is the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university art history survey course. (This course does not qualify for NCAA eligibility.)
AP Music Theory
Course Number: 129701V/129702V
Prerequisite: Ability to read and write musical notation and basic voice or instrument performance skills
AP Music Theory is a year-long course that provides a solid foundation in intervals, scales, chords, metric/rhythmic patterns, and the terms used to describe these elements of music as related to the major-minor tonal system. With this foundation, the course progression includes more complicated tasks, such as the following: dictation of melodic and harmonic materials; the analysis of music, including the study of motivic treatment and the rhythmic and melodic interaction between voices; harmonic analysis of a functional chord passage; and the realization of figured bass. The course provides students with the opportunity to develop, practice, and master music theory skills essential to success in post-secondary music theory course work. This course will prepare students to take the AP Music Theory College Board exam.
MATHEMATICS
Honors Calculus III
Course Number: 118761V/118762V
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Calculus BC
Calculus III is a continuation of the material covered in AP Calculus BC. The course emphasizes a multi-representational approach to calculus through the exploration of limits, differentiation, integration, series, parametric functions, polar functions and many applications within these areas. In this course, students will study in depth situations involving change and accumulation using descriptive, analytical, numerical and graphical approaches. This course prepares students to take the College Board AP Calculus BC examination, which fulfills the requirements for Calculus I and Calculus II and follows the syllabus approved by the AP Audit.
Honors Differential Equations
Course Number: 118771V/118772V
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Calculus 3
Differential Equations introduces methods of solving ordinary differential equations, which are used to model and describe a wide range of physical phenomena. Topics included are first order differential equations, higher order differential equations, LaPlace transform methods, systems of differential equations, and applications. Studying differential equations provides students with a versatile and powerful set of tools for understanding, modeling, and solving problems in a wide range of scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields.
SCIENCE
AP Physics C: Mechanics
Course Number: 139320V
Prerequisite: You should have taken Calculus or be taking Calculus at the same time as this course
AP Physics C: Mechanics is a one-semester course. It is the first of a two-course sequence that is equivalent to a first-semester college course in calculus-based physics sequence taken by science and engineering students at most colleges and universities. Course topics include kinematics, dynamics, energy, momentum, rotation, gravitation, and oscillation. Students who enroll in this class may receive college credit through successful performance on the AP Physics C: Mechanics College Board examination.
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
Course Number: 139330V
Prerequisite: You should have taken Calculus or be taking Calculus at the same time as this course.
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism is a one-semester course. It is the second of a two-course sequence that is equivalent to a first-semester college course in calculus-based physics sequence taken by science and engineering students at most colleges and universities. Course topics include conductors, capacitors and dielectrics, electric circuits, magnetic fields, and electromagnetism. Students who enroll in this class may receive college credit through successful performance on the AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism College Board examination.
WORLD LANGUAGES
American Sign Language 1
Course Number: 065511V/065512V
Prerequisite: None
American Sign Language (ASL) 1 is an introduction to the most widely used sign language in the United States. Students will study the basic vocabulary, structure, syntax and grammar of ASL. Students will focus on mastering the basics of finger spelling, facial grammar and sentence structure; and will also learn conversational/cultural behaviors necessary to hold a beginning-level conversation in ASL, with deaf/hard-of-hearing native users of the language. Introductory information about deaf culture will also be presented to provide students with a broad picture of language and culture. This course is intended for students that have little to no experience with ASL. Subsequent levels of this course will be dependent on student enrollment.
American Sign Language 2
Course Number: 065521V/065522V
Prerequisite: Successful completion of ASL 1
ASL is for students at a proficiency level that are able to express uncomplicated communicative tasks in straightforward practical and social situations and want to be able to do more with ASL. Students will continue to compare and contrast spoken English/hearing culture and ASL/Deaf culture in greater depth and more detail. By the end of the course, students will be able to use the language to communicate for many different purposes such as telling stories, talking about the past, giving preferences and opinions, describing people, things, and places, and making requests. Emphasis will be on learning to communicate in ASL.
Chinese 1
Course Number: 067611V/067612V
Prerequisite: None
Chinese 1 will introduce the students to the basic components of Mandarin Chinese through theme-based content and activities. Pinyin Romanization, simplified forms of Chinese characters and basic grammar patterns, as well as functional everyday expressions will be taught within the living context of Chinese culture. This course is designed for students who wish to develop skills in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Mandarin Chinese. Topics will start from self-introduction and develop to students' immediate surroundings such as school, family and daily life. Cultural components will be taught through movies, video, songs, crafts, festival celebrations and geographic context.
Chinese 2
Course Number: 067621V/067622V
Prerequisite: Chinese 1
Chinese 2 is the second year of the Chinese language program. It is designed for those who successfully completed Chinese 1. In this course, students will continue to develop their basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through the use of authentic materials. Students will develop their cultural understanding and appreciation through comparisons of different regions in China as well as between China and the United States of America. By the end of the year, students are expected to be able to engage in basic daily conversation using accurate tones and pronunciation, read simple texts, and write for daily needs.