AP Computer Science students will become familiar with the concepts and tools of computer science as they learn a subset of the Java programming language. Students do hands-on work to design, write, and test computer programs that solve problems or accomplish tasks.

Advanced Placement Language and Composition is the equivalent of a first-year college composition course. The coursework in this year-long class is challenging and academically rigorous. This course requires a high level of commitment from the student in both effort and time, but the rewards are great. Taking this class is perhaps the most important step a student can make in preparing for the challenges of college writing.

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition is the equivalent of a first-year college literature course. The course work in this year-long class is challenging and academically rigorous. This course requires a high level of commitment from the student in both effort and time. Students will study literature from the 16th century to contemporary times and interpret structure, style, themes, and literacy elements. Students who have previously taken Advanced Placement Language and Composition will find this class an excellent progression.

The purpose of this course is to provide a college level course in the biological science and to prepare the student to seek credit and/or appropriate placement in college biology courses. The content should include, but not be limited to, molecular and cellular biology, organismal biology, and population biology. Opportunities to understand the interactions of science with technology and society should be provided. Specific laboratory activities are course requirements.

In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures. This class meets the graduation requirement for US History.

This course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. The curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards (2012).

$\scriptstyle { 1 } / \_ { 2 }$ credit AP U.S. Government and Politics provides a college-level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students will study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions among political institutions, processes, and behaviors. This class meets the graduation requirement for US Government.

# $\scriptstyle { 1 } / \_ { 2 }$ credit AP Microeconomics is a college-level course that introduces students to the principles of economics that apply to the functions of individual economic decision-makers. The course also develops students’ familiarity with the operation of product and factor markets, distributions of income, market failure, and the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. Students learn to use graphs, charts, and data to analyze, describe, and explain economic concepts. This class meets the graduation requirement for Economics.

In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation. This class meets the graduation requirement for World History.

AP European History is an introductory college-level European history course. Students cultivate their understanding of European history through analyzing historical sources and learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like interaction of Europe and the world; economic and commercial developments; cultural and intellectual developments; states and other institutions of power; social organization and development; national and European identity; and technological and scientific innovation.

The AP Studio Art Program consists of three portfolio exams—2-D Design, 3-D Design, and Drawing—corresponding to the college foundation courses. Portfolios allow flexibility of coursework while guiding students to produce college-level quality, artistic investigation, and breadth of work. The Drawing portfolio addresses issues such as line quality, light and shade, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulation, the illusion of depth, and mark-making. Students' portfolios demonstrate skills and ideas developed, refined, and applied throughout the course to produce visual compositions. Students may choose to submit any or all of the portfolios. Portfolios are evaluated based on standardized scoring descriptors aligned with skills and understanding developed in college foundation courses.

The AP Studio Art 2-D course is a very broad interpretation of two-dimensional (2-D) design issues. It involves purposeful decision-making about how to use the elements and principles of art in an integrative way. It is for the advanced student who wishes to seek AP credit through submitting a Portfolio of work for consideration by the College Board. This course requires the production of drawings and paintings for exhibition/contests as well as research and reading about all aspects of art. Specialty art materials and sketchbooks are required.