Dixie M. Hollins High School – AP Capstone Seminar

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

AP Seminar is available to students’ entering 10th or 11th grade. This course equips students with the power to explore academic and real-world issues through an interdisciplinary lens and consider multiple points of view. Through a variety of materials ─ from articles and research studies to foundational and philosophical texts ─ students will be challenged to explore "complex questions, understand and evaluate opposing viewpoints, interpret and synthesize information, and develop, communicate, and defend their own points of view." Teachers have the flexibility of choosing themes based on student interests, whether they are local and/or civic issues or international topics. Samples of themes that can be covered in the AP Seminar course include education, innovation, sustainability, and technology. Students are scored on a series of three assessments that combine to determine the exam score: a team project, followed by an individual project during the year and finally an end-of-course written exam taken during the traditional AP exam time in early May.