IB courses offered at AST / combinations of courses that do and do not fit together...

• IB Course Selection Guidance 

• IB Mathematics options 

Full IB Diploma Candidates need to reference the IB Hexagon - which has 6 Groups. Generally speaking, Full Diploma Candidates are required to take one course from each group. Students must have 3 HL courses and 3 SL courses. The Group Two component can be replaced with a 2nd course taken in Group One. The Group Six component is fulfilled by taking either Visual Arts or an elective; your elective choices are: Psychology,  French ab initio, or a 2nd IB Science course.  To have a visual representation of the IB Hexagon, go to this link: IB General Hexagon. 

**Additionally, this reference sample can be helpful to guide conversations: Sample Schedule for Students interested in being an IB Full Diploma Candidate 

Group One: a minimum of one course is required. Many students at AST take 2 Group One courses (English and Spanish). When this is done, the student is not mandated to take a Group Two course. 

Group Two: one course can be taken, but if a student has 2 Group One courses the requirement to take a Group Two course (see above) is no longer mandatory.

Group Three:  a minimum of one course is required. Students earning the Honduran Bachillerato cannot take both History HL and Business Management HL. 

Group Four: a minimum of one course is required. Students can take up to two of the following IB science courses: Biology SL, Chemistry SL, Physics SL, or Biology HL. However, students taking Biology IB HL or IB Biology SL are not positioned to take IB Physics as a 2nd IB science course.

Group Five: The student can take either Math Application and Interpretation SL, Math Analyses and Approaches SL, or Math Analysis and Approaches HL. 

Group Six: a minimum of one course is required. Students can take either Visual Arts or an elective; your elective choices are: Psychology, French ab initio, or a 2nd IB Science course. 

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Students can take only one of the following courses due to scheduling conflicts: French SL, Chemistry SL, Psychology SL, or Art SL. There is one exception; students can take both Psychology SL and Chemistry SL.  Also, Students can take two IB Science class; however, students cannot take both IB Physics and IB Biology SL or Biology HL.

• Students earning the Honduran Bacheillerato Diploma (all Honduran citizens) cannot take both IB Business Management HL and IB History of the Americas HL.  

• Regarding IB Math Analysis and Approaches HL and IB Biology HL: students enrolled in both IB Biology HL and IB Math HL cannot enroll in IB Business Management HL or IB History of the Americas HL.

• Students who take IB Chemistry cannot take 11th grade Computer Science Principals: the curriculum includes, but is not limited to the following topics: Computer Coding - using Python computer programming language, and Analyzing large data samples. Students will still take 12th Grade Computer Science; there is not gap between these two Computer courses, as the learning outcomes are not linear or related.