Advanced Placement

Get familiar with the concepts and tools of computer science as you learn a subset of the Java programming language. You'll do hands-on work to design, write, and test computer programs that solve problems or accomplish tasks.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Designing a program, developing the algorithms it needs, and writing code to implement them
• Testing program code and correcting errors
• Documenting and explaining how program coding works

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Learn the principles that underlie the science of computing and develop the thinking skills that computer scientists use. You’ll work on your own and as part of a team to creatively address real-world issues using the tools and processes of computation.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Making connections between concepts in computing
• Designing a program to solve a problem or complete a task
• Applying abstractions in computation and modeling
• Analyzing computational work
• Communicating ideas about technology and computation
• Working collaboratively to solve problems

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Learn about the elements of argument and composition as you develop your critical-reading and writing skills. You’ll read and analyze nonfiction works from various periods and write essays with different aims: for example, to explain an idea, argue a point, or persuade your reader of something.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Reading closely, analyzing, and interpreting a piece of writing
• Evaluating a source of information
• Gathering and consolidating information from different sources
• Writing an evidence-based argument
• Drafting and revising a piece of writing

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Learn how to understand and evaluate works of fiction, poetry, and drama from various periods and cultures. You’ll read literary works and write essays to explain and support your analysis of them.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Read the text closely and draw conclusions from the details.
• Identify the techniques used by an author and their effects.
• Develop an interpretation of a text.
• Present your interpretation and make an argument for it in writing.

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Explore the history of art across the globe from prehistory to the present. You’ll analyze works of art through observation, discussion, reading, and research.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Evaluating works of art from different eras and cultures
• Seeing connections to artistic traditions, styles, or practices in a work of art
• Developing a theory about the meaning of a work of art and explaining and supporting your interpretation

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Develop your 2-D skills through materials and processes such as graphic design, photography, collage, printmaking, fashion illustration, collage, and others. You’ll create artwork that reflects your own ideas and skills and what you’ve learned.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Investigating the materials, processes, and ideas that artists and designers use
• Practicing, experimenting, and revising as you create your own work
• Communicating your ideas about works of art and design

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Develop 3-D skills in materials and processes, such as sculpture, architectural rendering and models, metal work, ceramics, glass work, and others. You’ll create artwork that reflects your own ideas and skills and what you’ve learned.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Investigating the materials, processes, and ideas that artists and designers use
• Practicing, experimenting, and revising as you create your own work
• Communicating your ideas about works of art and design

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AP Drawing is an introductory college-level drawing course. Students refine and apply drawing skills to ideas they develop throughout the course.

Skills You’ll Learn:

Learn to recognize, understand, and describe the basic materials and processes of music. You’ll develop skills by listening to, reading, writing, and performing a wide variety of music.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Identifying features of pitch, interval, scales and keys, chords, meter, rhythm, and other musical concepts in performed and notated music
• Singing a notated melody on sight
• Notating music that you hear
• Completing music based on cues, following common-practice style

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To provide context and content for students to develop their skills in modes of communication, AP Spanish Language and Culture takes a thematic approach. This framework provides a clear and detailed description of the course requirements necessary for student success. The framework specifies what students must know, be able to do, and understand to qualify for college credit or placement. There are also many suggested authentic resources to support instruction throughout.

Skills You’ll Learn:

The course framework provides a clear and detailed description of the course requirements necessary for student success. It specifies what students must know, be able to do, and understand, with a focus on course skills, required texts, and themes that encompass core principles and theories of the discipline. The framework also encourages instruction that prepares students for advanced literature courses in Spanish and other college/university humanities courses by building skills in critical reading and literary analysis and contextualizing literary works within historical, geopolitical, sociocultural, and cultural contexts.

Skills You’ll Learn:

Explore the concepts, methods, and applications of differential and integral calculus. You’ll work to understand the theoretical basis and solve problems by applying your knowledge and skills.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Determining expressions and values using mathematical procedures and rules
• Connecting representations
• Justifying reasoning and solutions
• Using correct notation, language, and mathematical conventions to communicate results or solutions

Equivalency and Prerequisites:

Explore the concepts, methods, and applications of differential and integral calculus, including topics such as parametric, polar, and vector functions, and series. You’ll perform experiments and investigations and solve problems by applying your knowledge and skills.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Determining expressions and values using mathematical procedures and rules
• Connecting representations
• Justifying reasoning and solutions
• Using correct notation, language, and mathematical conventions to communicate results or solutions

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Learn about the major concepts and tools used for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. You’ll explore statistics through discussion and activities, and you'll design surveys and experiments.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Selecting methods for collecting or analyzing data
• Describing patterns, trends, associations, and relationships in data
• Using probability and simulation to describe probability distributions and define uncertainty in statistical inference
• Using statistical reasoning to draw appropriate conclusions and justify claims

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Study the core scientific principles, theories, and processes that govern living organisms and biological systems. You’ll do hands-on laboratory work to investigate natural phenomena.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Designing experiments and procedures to test a prediction or theory
• Collecting and analyzing data
• Interpreting data to draw conclusions
• Developing and supporting a scientific claim with evidence

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Learn about the fundamental concepts of chemistry including structure and states of matter, intermolecular forces, and reactions. You’ll do hands-on lab investigations and use chemical calculations to solve problems.

Note: Save your lab notebooks and reports; colleges may ask to see them before granting you credit.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Designing experiments and procedures to test a prediction or theory
• Creating graphs, diagrams, and models that represent chemical phenomena
• Explaining how the microscopic structure of a substance determines its chemical properties
• Balancing a chemical equation
• Making a scientific claim and supporting it with evidence

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Explore and investigate the interrelationships of the natural world and analyze environmental problems, both natural and human-made. You’ll take part in laboratory investigations and fieldwork. 

Note: Save your lab notebooks and reports; colleges may ask to see them before granting you credit.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Explaining environmental concepts and processes
• Analyzing data, visual representations, and writings
• Applying quantitative methods in solving problems
• Proposing a solution for an environmental problem and supporting your idea with evidence
• Analyzing a research study to identify a hypothesis

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Learn about the foundational principles of physics as you explore Newtonian mechanics; work, energy, and power; mechanical waves and sound; and introductory, simple circuits. You’ll do hands-on laboratory work to investigate phenomena.

Note: Save your lab notebooks and reports; colleges may ask to see them before granting you credit.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Interpreting and describing representations and models
• Using mathematics to solve science problems
• Formulating a scientific question or hypothesis
• Designing an experiment to answer a scientific question or to test a hypothesis
• Analyzing data and evaluating evidence
• Working with scientific explanations and theories
• Making connections

Equivalency and Prerequisites:

Expand your understanding of physics as you explore topics such as fluids; thermodynamics; electric force, field, and potential; electric circuits; magnetism and electromagnetic induction; geometric and physical optics; and quantum, atomic, and nuclear physics. You’ll do hands-on and inquiry-based in-class activities and laboratory work to investigate phenomena.

Note: Save your lab notebooks and reports; colleges may ask to see them before granting you credit.

Skills You’ll Learn:

• Interpreting and describing representations and models
• Using mathematics to solve science problems
• Formulating a scientific question or hypothesis
• Designing an experiment to answer a scientific question or test a hypothesis
• Analyzing data and evaluating evidence
• Working with scientific explanations and theories
• Making connections

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