STUDENTHANDBOOK

We offer 3 types of courses and 2 certificates:

• AP® courses & APID® certificate

• A-Levels

• Specialised Courses & Internal Diploma

The next 2 pages will go over the requirements needed to get each diploma, as set by the govern-ing boards.

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GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

Today we live in a global community that greatly impacts how we share information, communicate and do business. That’s why the College Board is focused on helping students build the knowledge, skills and global perspectives to succeed in university and beyond.

The AP International Diploma (APID) is a globally recognized award for students interested in interna-tional studies. It requires students to display mastery on AP Exams across several disciplines, and represents an exceptional level of achievement.

The APID is available to all students throughout the globe. It is an optional certificate that is available to students attending secondary schools outside the U.S. and to students attending U.S. high schools who are applying to universities outside the country. To earn an APID, a student attending a school within the U.S. must at least send one AP score report to a university outside the U.S. It is sent automatically by the College Board for student who filled the criteria.

In order to get the APID, students must earn scores of 3 or higher on five or more total AP Ex-ams, based on the exam criteria requirements listed within each of the content areas below.

Summary:

Two AP Exams from one world language & culture course and one English course;One AP Exam offering a global perspective; One AP Exam from either the sciences, or math & computer science;One additional AP Exam; cannot be English or a world language.

The detailed instructions are in the next page.

Example of Acceptable Combinations:

THE APID®

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1 2 3 4

Languages

Global Perspective

Sciences

Elective

• Italian • English Literature (Year 1)

• Japanese • English Language (Year 1)

• French • English Literature (Year 1)

• German • English Language (Year 1)

• Human Geography (Year 2)

• World History (Year 2)

• Human Geography (Year 1)

• Comparative Government (Year 2)

• Biology (Year 1) • Calculus AB (Year 1) • Statistics (Year 2) • Computer Science

(Year 1)• Psychology (Year 2)

• Microeconomics (Year 2)

• US History (Year 2)

• World History (Year 2)

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Content Area CoursesTwo AP Exams from one world language & culture course and one English course. Latin may not be used in order to satisfy this requirement. Students who are fluent in a language not mentioned here can be exempted from World Language course and do a course from another content area instead.

World Language & Culture Courses• Chinese Language and Culture• French Language and Culture• German Language and Culture• Italian Language and Culture• Japanese Language and Culture• Spanish Language• Spanish Literature and Culture

English Courses• English Language and Composition• English Literature and Composition

One AP Exam offering a global perspective • World History• Human Geography• Comparative Government and Politics

One AP Exam from either the sciences, or math & computer science

• Calculus AB• Calculus BC• Computer Science A• Statistics• Biology

One additional AP Exam; cannot be English or a world language. Can be from any category besides languages. Students may take more AP exams, including in languages; taking more AP exams improve your college application.

Arts• Art History• Latin: Vergil• Music Theory• Studio Art: Drawing• Studio Art: 2-D Design• Studio Art: 3-D Design

History & Social Science• European History• Macroeconomics • Microeconomics • Psychology • U.S. Government and Politics • U.S. History

or from Math & Computer Science or Sciences

Our specialised programmes for high school stu-dents are adopted degree programmes. We cre-ated them using our college lecturers based on the highlights of the relevant BA programme.

Our programmes include Journalism (based on the UNESCO curriculum), Harry Potter Studies (the only programme in the world), Marketing, and Asian Studies. Each programme is 2 years at length, hence allowing Freshmen to take 2 pro-grammes.

The Basic Programme’s Structure

• 2 introductory-level courses;

• 2 in-depth courses;

• 1 research seminar;

• 3 other courses as the programme requires [for-eign language and electives]

In order to get the diploma granted by Harari Col-lege Worldwide, one must complete all 8 courses with a passing grade.

On the right you will find the list of required courses for each programme. FY = Full YearS = One-Semester

Journalism

• First Year: Reporting and Writing (FY), Media and Society (S), Journalism Ethics (S), 2 Workshops (S)

• Second Year: Specialised Reporting (FY), Ad-vanced Research Methods for Journalism (S), Ana-lytics and Opinion Writing (S), Thesis (S) or 2 Elec-tives (S)

Harry Potter Studies

• Semester A: Guided Reading; Harry Potter in Translation; History, Culture, and Mythology

• Semester B: Core Studies, Harry Potter: Law and State, Harry Potter and the Graphical Novel,

• Semester S: Guided Research, Foreign Language

Asian Studies

• Year 1: Two introductory courses + one foreign lan-guage credit

• Year 2: Two in-depth courses + two foreign lan-guage credits + one research seminar

Marketing

• First Year: One economics credit + one marketing theoretical course + one workshop + one elective

• Second Year: One economics credit + one market-ing theoretical course + one research seminar + one workshop + one elective

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The guidelines specified here are the basic laws and conditions of participating in Harari’s courses and programmes.

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HCW GUIDELINES

Academic Progress Reports

The main function of those reports is to inform the student and the parent/guardian of the pro-gress the individual student made in class. It is expected that accurate and objective reporting to the student and parent/guardian will encour-age the student to make use of his/her educa-tional opportunities to the best of his/her abilities. Interim progress reports (pink slips) may be given by the teacher to inform the student and parent/guardian of the student’s progress in a given subject area at that point of time. They are usually issued at the mid-point of a fourteen-week period. The reasons for an outstanding, sat-isfactory, unsatisfactory, or failing rating are marked. These notices act as a general guide to both parent/guardian and student so the student may improve his/her study and performance hab-its.

Grading Procedures

Reporting periods are fourteen weeks in length. In high school, if a student fails one semester of a full-year course and successfully completes the other semester of the same course, credit is granted for the semester successfully com-pleted.

Grading System

“A” - This mark indicates the student has done work in quality and quantity far in excess of the standards set forth for a satisfactory grade in the course.

“B” - This mark indicates that the student is do-ing work in quality and quantity above the stan-dards set forth for a passing grade in the course.

“C” - This mark is a satisfactory passing grade. It indicates that the student is acquiring the neces-sary information to proceed in the subject. He/she is meeting the standards set for a passing grade in the course.

“D” - This mark indicates that the student is not effectively mastering the work assigned but has sufficient understanding of the subject to justify the opinion that more growth will result from ad-vanced than from repetition of the course.

“F” - Insufficient progress in the subject to merit granting of credit in the course.

“WF” or “WP” - Student has been withdrawn from the course “failing” or “passing”,

“I” - Represents an incomplete grade on re-quired coursework due to an acceptable reason which is administratively determined. Student will be given a reasonable period to remove the in-complete mark.

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Part-Time Students

Part-time students may enroll in course(s) on a space-available basis and in the same time frame as full-time students. Part-time students wanting to attend a specific class in an alterna-tive school/program, must participate in the school/program entrance process on the same basis as full-time students. This may include tak-ing part in a lottery and being placed on a wait-ing list before being approved to be enrolled in the class(es).

Make-Up Procedures for Absences

Students provided an opportunity to make up work for absences will be granted one day of make-up privilege for each day of absence. When a family knows in advance that their stu-dent will be absent from school for five (5) or more days, a make-up request can be made through the school office. The actual work as-signed for grading is at the discretion of the teacher.

Course Withdrawal Procedures

Once students have selected courses, there will be no schedule changes, including withdrawals, after the beginning of the grading period except as determined by the principal or designee. Any student who is absent for the first three (3) days of a course may be withdrawn from that course. If this occurs, the student must reschedule. No records shall be kept on a student withdrawing from a course with the principal or designee’s permission prior to the end of the tenth (10th) day of the course. If a student withdraws from a course with the principal or designee’s permis-sion after ten (10) days of the course, he/she will have WF (withdraw failing) or WP (withdraw pass-

ing) recorded on his/her transcript. WF’s are in-cluded in the calculations of the student grade point average

Honor Roll

High school students earning a 3.5 grade aver-age will be eligible for the honor roll. Any “F’’ or “D’’ grade will disqualify a student for that grad-ing period. A high school student must be en-rolled in a minimum of four (4) subjects, and grades in all courses will be considered.

Academic Letter

To earn an academic letter, a 3.5 GPA must be maintained for two (2) consecutive semesters. These semesters need not fall in order of fall and spring semester, but may be considered con-secutive if the GPA is earned spring semester and the following fall semester. For each semes-ter subsequent to the awarding of the academic letter that a student earns 3.5 to 4.0 GPA, a silver star is awarded. For any semester subsequent to the awarding of the academic letter that a stu-dent earns a 4.0 GPA, a gold star is awarded.

SAT Preparation

Students must enrol themselves into at least ONE SAT Preparation Class. The classes are con-ducted on A/B basis, i.e. once every two weeks.

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Regular and punctual school attendance pro-vides you with an essential foundation for achiev-ing academic success and assists you in devel-oping habits necessary for college, career and professional life. Consistent attendance enables you to benefit from shared experiences that are integral to your learning process and cannot be replicated outside of the classroom. Your parents or guardians share in the responsibility for help-ing you develop and maintain daily attendance.

Policy

Credit for all courses is based on Class Atten-dance as well as Academic Achievement. SE-MESTER COURSE, consisting of two terms: You are allowed no more than four (4) absences (ex-cused or unexcused) per term and no more than eight (8) absences (excused or unexcused) for the semester. YEARLONG COURSE THAT MEETS DAILY, consisting of four terms: You are allowed no more than four (4) absences (ex-cused or unexcused) per term, no more than eight (8) (excused or unexcused) per semester and no more than sixteen (16) absences (ex-cused or unexcused) for the year. COURSE THAT MEETS EVERY OTHER DAY FOR THE YEAR: You are allowed no more than four (4) ab-sences (excused or unexcused) for the first half of the course and no more than eight (8) ab-sences (excused or unexcused) for the entire course.

Your classroom teacher will submit an Atten-dance Warning Notice to your respective Assis-

tant Principal when you reach your third (3rd) ab-sence in any class and your Assistant Principal will communicate with you and your parent about the attendance concern. If you accumulate more than four (4) absences per term in any course, you will receive a grade of “N” on your report card, indicating No Credit due to poor atten-dance. If you receive an “N” for one term, you can still receive a passing grade for the semes-ter or year if you maintain a passing grade aver-age and are not absent more than four (4) times in the other terms. It is important to remember that when you receive an “N” on your report card, it represents a notice that you and your par-ents need to monitor your school attendance more closely and set a goal to improve your at-tendance. It does not represent that you are fail-ing the course from an achievement level. If you are failing the course, your report card would re-flect the failing grade, not an “N.” Keep in mind that the goal of this policy is to help students gain the maximum benefit from the high school curriculum and the dialogue that occurs between you, your teacher and the peers in your courses. If you earn two “N’s” in a semester course or a course that meets every other day for the full year, you will receive No Credit for the course and likewise, if you receive four “N’s” in a full year course, you will receive No Credit for the course. If you receive No Credit for a course, it is recommended that you set up a meeting with your respective Assistant Principal and your guid-ance counselor to discuss and make arrange-ments to repeat the course or its equivalent. If

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you receive one or more “N” grades, you will be ineligible for Honor Roll.

Absences not counted towards the maximum absent totals:

• Observance of religious holiday (documented by a note from parent or guardian)

• Medical appointment (documented by a note from a doctor on official letterhead)

• Prolonged illness (documented by a note from a doctor on official letterhead)

• Surgery/Hospitalization (documented by a note from the doctor/hospital on official

letterhead)

• Death in the family / extenuating family emer-gency (documented by parent or

guardian to the respective Assistant Principal)

• College visits: Three per year (documented by official college note or parent note)

• Court appointment (documented by an official court note)

• School-sponsored field trip

• Absences warranted by unusual circum-stances: (must be approved by your Assistant Principal)

You and your parents can keep track of your high school attendance record by reviewing the cumulative record of absences, tardies and dis-missals that are listed on your term report cards.

You and your parents will be responsible for ob-taining any assignments missed during ex-tended absences.

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The student is responsible to create his or her own schedule, submit it to approval, and track its status.

Harari College Worldwide sets its periods accord-ing to GMT. Each academic hour starts fifteen minutes later and ends fifteen minutes earlier. For example, the first period actually starts on 2:15pm (14:15) and ends on 3:45pm (15:45).

School starts on Monday and ends on Thursday. There are no classes on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays.

Periods (GMT)

• 1st Period: 2:00pm (14:00) to 4:00pm (16:00)

• 2nd Period: 4:00pm (16:00) to 6:00pm (18:00)

• 3rd Period: 6:00pm (18:00) to 8:00pm (20:00)

Marking Periods

• Full Year: October 15 to August 3

• Semester A: October 15 to January 21

• Grade Posting: January 21 to February 3

• Semester B: February 16 to May 25

• Grade Posting: May 25 to June 9

• Semester S: June 16 to August 3rd

• Grade Posting: August 3 to August 15

Conflicting Courses

A student may not take courses that are taking place in the same hours. No exceptions can be made, unless one of the courses is marked as audit.

Student Requests

In the period between October 1 and October 14, the SIS will enable student to request specific teachers or periods for their courses.

Requests submitted after October 14 will not be read.

Sample Schedule

This table can help you plan your schedule. Please find the form in the next page to officially plan your schedule.

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Schedule Approval Request

This form is also available on Moodle. Please submit this form no later than October 1st to your Assis-tant Principal.

Student Name: ______________________________________________Department: ______________________________________________Email Address: ______________________________________________

I, the undersign, hereby request Harari College Worldwide to add the following courses to my sched-ule for the ______________ school year.

I have read the school’s policy on withdrawals and agree to it.

Electronic Signature: ______________________________________________Guardian’s Electronic Signature: ______________________________________________

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Course Name Course Code Period Teacher

Internal Exams

Internal exams are set in advance by the school. Each final exam will have a make-up date that can be taken with instructor’s approval.

Exams are proctored electronically by human proctors.

AP Exams

Every student is responsible for his own exam registration and payment, which is not done against Harari College Worldwide.

The schools posts a list of schools in each coun-try that are willing to accept independent test tak-ers. We will assist in signing up for the exam, but it is on the student’s responsibility.

EXAMS

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• Library and Resources Centre

• Accessibility Office

• English Language Learners

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STUDENT SERVICES

Harari’s eLibrary includes over 40,000 books and articles from over 2,000 journals.

Students and faculty may also receive complementary or dis-counted access to ABC Analyser, Adobe + Microsoft: Student and Teacher prices, AIMMS, Aluka, Animoto, AppCode, ARTStor, BitBucket, ChemAxon, DigitalTheatrePlus, Diigo, DiskAid, dot-Cover, dotTrace, Educator.com, Enthought, Fetch, Github, Groubi, iCyte, IntelliJ IDEA, iSpring, JStor, Learning.com, Learn-ThatWord, Library of Arabic Literature, Lucidchart, MagniComp, MediaCore, PhpStorm, PoraOra, Realtime Board, ReSharper, Revolution Analytics, Showbie, Sketchup, Vectorworks, Virtual-Ned, and WebStorm.

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Education is not accessible. Not for everyone. The Harari Acces-sibility Office ensures that every man and woman on this earth are able to get Harari Virtual Education.

Do you have special needs? Financial struggles, learning disabili-ties, or maybe physical impairment? Let us know.

Accessibility Officer Dr. Shunit Shahal Poratshunit.sp@harari.edu.plExtension 934

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COURSE CATALOGUE

AP Chinese Language and Culture AP French Language and Culture AP German Language and CultureAP Italian Language and Culture AP Japanese Language and Culture AP Spanish LanguageAP Spanish Literature and Culture AP English Language and CompositionAP English Literature and Composition

DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES

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AP Chinese Language and CultureSemester: FYID: WLCH02

AP French Language and CultureSemester: FYID: WLFR02

AP German Language and CultureSemester: FYID: WLCH02

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Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

AP Chinese is a full-year course that covers the equivalent of a second-year (and /or the fourth semester) college Chinese course. It includes aural/oral skills, reading comprehension, grammar, and composition. The AP Chinese Language and Culture course is designed to provide students with varied opportunities to further develop their proficiencies across the three communicative modes: interpersonal (speaking, listen-ing, reading and writing skills), interpretive (listening and reading skills), and presentational (speaking and writing skills); and the five goal areas (communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities) as outlined in the Standards for Foreign Language Learn-ing in for the 21st Century. Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

This course is designed as a culmination of students’ French studies in high school. At this point, they have already learned the structures nec-essary to communicate in French. In AP French, students review and refine those grammatical structures while learning new vocabulary to communicate in French on a variety of topics. AP French emphasizes all aspects of language: listening, speaking, reading, writing and cul-ture. This course is designed to prepare students for the AP French Lan-guage and Culture examination. AP French Language and Culture is conducted exclusively in French.

Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

AP® German is an advanced study of language and culture. The pri-mary objective of the course is to prepare the students for the AP® Ger-man Language and Culture exam, which is taken in May. Instructional materials, activities, assignments, and assessments are comparable to what one would experience in a third-year college course. The materi-als include a variety of authentic literary and listening texts as well as visual materials, which support the various topics taught throughout the year. The course is taught exclusively in German and students likewise are expected to communicate in German.

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Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

AP Italian emphasizes the use of Italian for aural/oral skills, reading comprehension, grammar and composition. This course will enable stu-dents to view their own culture, as well as the culture of the target lan-guage, with a more global perspective. Viewing one's own culture through the lens of others assists in understanding global issues and practices. This course will broaden perspectives while enhancing inter-personal communication and experiences. The ability to express ideas both orally and written will be brought to life via interactions with teach-ers, peers, family, and the global communityPrerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

The AP Japanese Language and Culture course students are prepared to demonstrate their proficiency at the Intermediate Mid to Intermediate Low range of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Lan-guages (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines. In addition to communication, this course seeks to incorporate cultural appreciation and awareness, connections to other fields of study, comparisons between the Japa-nese language and culture and the students’ own language and cul-ture, and use the many communities beyond the classroom to enrich the students’ learning (Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century). The course is conducted almost entirely in Japanese.

Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

This course follows the guidelines of the College Board® AP Spanish Language and Culture course and provides opportunities for students to demonstrate their proficiency in the modes of communication from the Intermediate to the Pre-Advanced range as defined in the learning objectives in the Curriculum Framework. The three modes of communi-cation (Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational) defined in the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century are foun-dational to the AP® Spanish Language and Culture course. The AP Spanish Language and Culture course is conducted exclusively in Spanish

AP Italian Language and CultureSemester: FYID: WLIT02

AP Japanese Language and CultureSemester: FYID: WLJP02

AP Spanish LanguageSemester: FYID: WLSP02

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Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

This course is advanced Spanish class that surveys Peninsular and Latin American literature from the Middle Ages to today. It is the equiva-lent of an upper-division college course and serves as an introduction to literary analysis and discussion of Spanish-language literature. Be-yond developing reading comprehension, students will actively engage with text, understand the context in which it was written, think critically about its themes and greater message, and analyze the author’s craft. The class is conducted entirely in Spanish and students will learn the terminology and academic language to discuss content, structure, theme, character development, and figurative language. They will also write interpretive and analytical compositions and work to develop their academic writing skills in Spanish. The primary goal for the class is that students enjoy reading the classics of Spanish-language literature and develop their autonomy in reading on all levels.Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their abil-ity to work with language and text with a greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. Course readings feature expository, analytical, personal, and argumentative texts from a variety of authors and historical contexts.

Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

The AP® English Literature and Composition course is characterized by all those things you were wishing fervently for last year when you signed up for it: lots of reading from books that will either make your head spin or clog you up with questions such as: “What was that about?” There will be lots of writing (on average, a composition every two weeks); lots of vocabulary; grammar instruction as the need dic-tates; and practice writing college application essays. We will discuss with verve and insight every provocative question we can come up with. You will be asked to keep a notebook (or computer file) for vocabu-lary, grammar, and class discussion of literature.

AP Spanish Literature and CultureSemester: FYID: WLSP03

AP English Language and CompositionSemester: FYID: WLEN02

AP English Literature and CompositionSemester: FYID: WLEN03

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Prerequisites: Pre-AP or Instructor’s Permission

In this course you will continue your efforts to read, comprehend, and translate Latin. In addition, you will spend much more time than before on the contextualization and analysis of Latin, specifically poetry through Vergil’s Aeneid and prose through Caesar’s Gallic War. You will no longer simply practice your grammar and translation skills or read mythology and history in the vacuum of a textbook; now you will call fully upon the knowledge you have acquired in the language and in the culture to enhance your understanding of both.

AP Latin: VergilSemester: FYID: WLLA02

AP World HistoryAP Human Geography AP Comparative Government and Politics

AP European HistoryAP Macroeconomics AP Microeconomics AP Psychology AP U.S. Government and Politics AP U.S. History

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AP World HistorySemester: FYID: SCHI03

AP Comparative Government and PoliticsSemester: AID: SCGT01

AP Human GeographySemester: FYID: SCHG01

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Prerequisites: None; AP European History recommended

This full-year course explores the expansive history of the human world. You will learn many facts, but also the critical thinking skills necessary to analyze historical evidence. Five themes will be used as a frame of reference in the chronological study of our world’s history; these themes are: Interaction between humans and the environment; develop-ment and interaction of cultures; state-building, expansion and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and develop-ment and transformation of social structures.Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to provide students with the conceptual tools necessary to develop an understanding of some of the world’s diverse political structures and practices. We will examine six countries in de-tail: China, Great Britain, Russia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Iran. These coun-tries are taught because they are excellent examples of the six core top-ics of a comparative course. These topics include methodology, power, institutional structure, civil society, political/economic change and pub-lic policyPrerequisites: None

AP® Human Geography is a yearlong course that focuses on the distri-bution, processes, and effects of human populations on the planet. Units of study include population, migration, culture, language, religion, ethnicity, political geography, economic development, industry, agricul-ture, and urban geography. Emphasis is placed on geographic models and their applications. Case studies from around the globe are com-pared to the situation in both the United States and locally.

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Prerequisites: None

The AP® European History course is a college-level survey course that introduces students to the rich political, cultural, social, and intellectual heritage of Europe. It is part of a cooperative endeavor by high schools, colleges, and the College Board to provide highly motivated students the challenge and opportunity to earn college credit during their high school years. Performance on the AP European History Exam determines a student’s eligibility to earn college credit. Course curricu-lum, materials, and expectations are designed to prepare students for success with this three-hour exam. The overall purpose of this course, however, extends beyond the possibility of earning college credit by providing students the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge that will form a foundation for their continuing educational endeavors.Prerequisites: None

AP Macroeconomics emphasizes economic principles as applied to the economy as a whole. Topics discussed will reflect the material in-cluded in the booklet AP Economics Course Description from the Col-lege Board. Lessons include an analysis of national income and its com-ponents, economic indicators, inflation and unemployment, money and banking, stabilization policies, and the United States and world trade.

Prerequisites: Macroeconomics recommended

This course is an introduction to microeconomics. Microeconomics intro-duces students to the cost–benefit analysis that is the economic way of thinking. This analysis is used to understand smaller segments of the economy—specifically, consumers and producers—as they interact in output markets and resource markets, and to understand the govern-ment’s impact on these specific economic units.

AP European HistorySemester: FYID: SCHI02

AP MacroeconomicsSemester: AID: SCEC01

AP MicroeconomicsSemester: BID: SCEC02

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Prerequisites: None

The purpose of AP® Psychology is to introduce students to the system-atic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of hu-man beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychologi-cal facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. A variety of activities, demonstrations, and projects will be provided to meet this goal of instructing scientific and empirical approaches. Prerequisites: None

AP® United States Government and Politics is an intensive study of the formal and informal structures of government and the processes of the American political system, with an emphasis on policymaking and im-plementation. This course is designed to prepare students for the AP Exam.

Prerequisites: None

This course examines the evolution of the American republic from the initial European incursions into North America to the present. Our inves-tigation of the nature of American democracy includes methods, evi-dence, and scholarship from the areas of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history. The course is divided into periods of time and focuses on the themes in the AP Course Description, includ-ing national identity, economic transformation, and U.S. actions on the world stage.

AP PsychologySemester: FYID: SCPS01

AP U.S. Government and PoliticsSemester: BID: SCGT02

AP U.S. HistorySemester: FYID: SCHI01

AP Calculus ABAP Computer Science AAP StatisticsAP Biology

DEPARTMENT OF MATH AND SCIENCES

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AP Calculus ABSemester: FYID: MS01

AP Computer Science ASemester: FYID: MS02

AP StatisticsSemester: FYID: MS03

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Prerequisites: None

Students do best when they have an understanding of the conceptual underpinnings of calculus. Rather than making the course a long laun-dry list of skills that students have to memorize, we stress the “why” be-hind the major ideas. If students can grasp the reasons for an idea or theorem, they can usually figure out how to apply it to the problem at hand. We explain to them that they will study four major ideas during the year: limits, derivatives, indefinite integrals, and definite integrals. As we develop the concepts, we explain how the mechanics go along with the topicsPrerequisites: None

AP® Computer Science A is both a college-prep course for potential computer science majors and a foundation course for students plan-ning to study in other technical fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry, and geology. The course emphasizes programming method-ology, procedural abstraction, and in-depth study of algorithms, data structures, and data abstractions, as well as a detailed examination of a large case study program. Instruction includes preparation for the AP Computer Science A Exam. In teaching this course, my reward comes when students can apply the programming tools they have learned to real-life examples on their own. Computer science is more than just pro-gramming. Students should leave my class with a clear understanding of Java and the ability to adapt to any new programming language that they are taught in college. I want them to have the confidence to tackle any problem-solving obstacles they encounter.Prerequisites: None

Students will use graphical and numerical techniques to study patterns and departures from patterns in data; learn how to develop a plan for data collection; use probability to anticipate expected distributions; de-velop a model; use inferential techniques for testing hypotheses or esti-mating with confidence; and make statements about the reasonable-ness of their conclusions. Students will develop skills in interpreting re-sults and writing conclusions in context.

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Prerequisites: None

The course is designed around the AP Biology Curriculum Framework that focuses on the major concepts in biology and their connections. Additionally, the Curriculum Framework provides a basis for students to develop a deep conceptual understanding as well as opportunities to integrate biological knowledge and the science practices through inquiry-based activities and laboratory investigations without having to teach a textbook from cover to cover.AP Macroeconomics emphasizes economic principles as applied to the economy as a whole. Topics dis-cussed will reflect the material included in the booklet AP Economics Course Description from the College Board. Lessons include an analy-sis of national income and its components, economic indicators, infla-tion and unemployment, money and banking, stabilization policies, and the United States and world trade.

AP BiologySemester: FYID: MS04

AP Art HistoryAP Music Theory AP Studio Art: DrawingAP Studio Art: 2-D Design AP Studio Art: 3-D Design

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AP Art HistorySemester: FYID: AR01

AP Music TheorySemester: FYID: AR02

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Prerequisites: None

The art history course offers a chronological survey of Western art from the beginning of civilization to the present time, including the most mod-ern trends and ideas in the ever-changing world of art. Although there is an effort to involve students with images and ideas that lie outside the Western tradition, the larger context in which these images are dis-cussed is Western. The course combines proper historical techniques and procedures with an emphasis on the unique position and role played by the artist and the work of art, its context, and the critic. Spe-cial attention is given to our interpretation of a work of art based upon its intended use, audience, and role in a particular society. As a survey course, the material is approached as an introduction to the discipline. Two goals of the course are to encourage the student to pursue further study in college as well as become versed in the visual language of art. Prerequisites: None

AP Music Theory is an advanced level course designed to engage stu-dents in learning activities that will help them to achieve the outcomes assessed by the College Board’s Advanced Placement Music Theory Examination. The AP Music Theory course is designed to develop a stu-dent’s ability to recognize, understand, and describe the basic materi-als and processes of music that are heard or presented in a score. These abilities will be developed through various listening, perform-ance, written, creative, and analytical exercises. Although this course focuses on music of the Common Practice Period (1600 – 1900), materi-als and processes found in other styles and genres are also studied.