AP Courses

The AP Capstone Diploma is granted to students who earn scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research and on 4 additional AP Exams of their choosing.

Advanced Placement Seminar

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AP Seminar is a foundational course that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives. Using an inquiry framework, students practice reading and analyzing articles, research studies, and foundational literary and philosophical texts; listening to and viewing speeches, broadcasts, and personal accounts; and experiencing artistic works and performances. Students learn to synthesize information from multiple sources, develop their own perspectives in research based written essays, and design and deliver oral and visual presentations, both individually and as part of a team. Ultimately, the course aims to equip students with the power to analyze and evaluate information with accuracy and precision in order to craft and communicate evidence-based arguments.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 10-11

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Advanced Placement Research

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AP Research allows students to deeply explore an academic topic, problem, or issue of individual interest. Through this exploration, students design, plan, and conduct research based investigation to address a research question. In the AP Research course, students further their skills acquired in the AP Seminar course by understanding research methodology; employing ethical research practices; and accessing, analyzing, and synthesizing information as they address a research question. Students explore their skill development, document their processes, and curate the artifacts of the development of their scholarly work in a portfolio. The course culminates in an academic paper of 4000–5000 words (accompanied by a performance or exhibition of product where applicable) and a presentation with an oral defense.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

Prerequisite:  AP Seminar

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition III

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AP English Language and Composition is a course, offered to students as an introductory level college class that combines American literature, global literature, and the study of rhetoric. Students will carefully analyze a broad range of nonfiction prose selections, write several types of essays, develop critical reading and writing skills through daily in-class activities, out-of-class assignments, seminar discussions, conferences with peers about personal essays, and a process approach to all five communication skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

Students will experience primarily American literature, interspersed with global literary selections, both fiction and nonfiction, through thematic units interspersed with diverse genres, which model and teach writing strategies, rhetorical devices, various genres, and stylistic devices.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11

PREREQUISITE: English II 

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Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition IV

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Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition is a study of fiction literature through the exploration of short stories, poetry, long fiction, and dramatic texts. This course is designed to engage students in careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students can deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students will consider a work's structure, style and themes, as well as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. This is a writing intensive course in which students will apply their knowledge of what they have read in short essays, papers, and presentations.

This rigorous course is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement test to earn credit for college freshman English. 

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 12

PREREQUISITE: AP English Language and Composition or English III

Advanced Placement US Government and Politics

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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. They will also engage in disciplinary practices that require them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they will complete a political science research or applied civics project.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 9-12

PREREQUISITES: None

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Advanced Placement United States History

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This is a college level United States History survey course. Students will use various texts while participating in a fast paced analytical presentation of U.S. History. Students will be required to write extensively, read widely, and offer analysis of those readings in class. This rigorous course is designed to prepare highly motivated students for the Advanced Placement Test to earn credit for college U.S. History. 

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

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Advanced Placement World History: Modern

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The AP World History: Modern course focuses on developing students' understanding of world history from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present. The course has students investigate the content of world history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides five themes (interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places encompassing the five major geographical regions of the globe: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 9-12

Advanced Placement Precalculus

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AP Precalculus centers on functions modeling dynamic phenomena. This research-based exploration of functions is designed to better prepare students for college-level calculus and provide grounding for other mathematics and science courses. In this course, students study a broad spectrum of function types that are foundational for careers in mathematics, physics, biology, health science, social science, and data science. Furthermore, as AP Precalculus may be the last mathematics course of a student’s secondary education, the course is structured to provide a coherent capstone experience and is not exclusively focused on preparation for future courses.

During this course, students acquire and apply mathematical tools in real-world modeling situations in preparation for using these tools in college-level calculus. Modeling, a central instructional theme for the course, helps students come to a deeper understanding of each function type. By examining scenarios, conditions, and data sets, as well as determining and validating an appropriate function model, students develop a greater comprehension of the nature and behavior of the function itself. The formal study of a function type through multiple representations (e.g., graphical, numerical, verbal, analytical), coupled with the application of the function type to a variety of contexts, provides students with a rich study of precalculus.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 9-12

PREREQUISITES: Math 3

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Advanced Placement Calculus AB

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Check out this video to learn more about AP Calculus: AP Calculus

Advanced Placement Calculus AB is a rigorous course designed to prepare highly motivated students for the Advanced Placement exam to earn credit for college calculus. Topics covered include limits, derivatives, and integrals. Students should expect daily homework requiring up to one hour. 

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

PREREQUISITE: Pre-Calculus

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Advanced Placement Calculus BC

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Check out this video to learn more about AP Calculus: AP Calculus

Advanced Placement Calculus BC covers, at an accelerated pace, all the topics from AP Calculus AB, followed by a rigorous treatment of AP Calculus BC topics such as advanced integration techniques, infinite series, parametric equations, vectors and polar coordinates. This course is designed to prepare highly motivated students for the Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam to earn credit for one or two semesters of college calculus. Students should expect daily homework requiring up to one hour. 

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

PREREQUISITE: Pre-Calculus

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Advanced Placement Statistics

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Check out this video to learn more about AP Statistics: AP Statistics

In Advanced Placement Statistics, the student is introduced to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. The content for the course is centered on four broad conceptual themes: exploring data, sampling and experimentation, anticipating patterns, and statistical inference, and the student will make extensive use of the available technology. This course requires that students communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms, so it is highly recommended that each student have strong writing skills for written responses. This rigorous course is designed to prepare highly motivated students for the Advanced Placement exam to earn credit for college statistics. Students should expect daily homework requiring up to one hour. 

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

PREREQUISITE: Math 3

Advanced Placement African American Studies

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The interdisciplinary course reaches into a variety of fields—literature, the arts and humanities, political science, geography, and science—to explore the vital contributions and experiences of African Americans.   

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 9-12

PREREQUISITES: None

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Advanced Placement Human Geography

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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).

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 9-12

PREREQUISITES: None

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Advanced Placement Music Theory

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This class is designed for students to learn and use basic and advanced music theory concepts. Through experience in class, group instruction, individualized instruction, assignment, ear-training practice, sight-singing, melodic and harmonic analyses and notation, part-writing practice, student will be prepared to take the advanced placement exam.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 10-12

PREREQUISITES: Students should be able to read and write musical notation.  it is strongly recommended that the student has acquired at least basic skills in voice or on an instrument.

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Advanced Placement Psychology

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The AP Psychology course introduces students to the systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. While considering the psychologists and studies that have shaped the field, students explore and apply psychological theories, key concepts, and phenomena associated with such topics as the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning and cognition, motivation, developmental psychology, testing and individual differences, treatment of abnormal behavior, and social psychology. Throughout the course, students employ psychological research methods, including ethical considerations, as they use the scientific method, evaluate claims and evidence, and effectively communicate ideas.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 10-12

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Advanced Placement Spanish Language

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AP Spanish Language is a fifth level course. The course is designed for students who have mastered the fundamentals of the Spanish language and who are now ready to apply those skills in all subject areas. Communication and comprehension are emphasized. Students will improve their proficiency by various means, such as exclusive use of the target language in class, listening comprehension activities, challenging readings, extensive review of grammatical concepts, and AP practice tests. Students will increase proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening. AP students are required to attend two out of three after school workshops in the Spring.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 10, 11, 12

PREREQUISITE: Spanish I, II, and III

Advanced Placement Biology 

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Advanced Placement Biology is a rigorous and demanding course of study that provides a deeper understanding of biological concepts that were introduced in Introductory Biology. Success in this course is greatly influenced by independent study to enhance understanding of lecture and laboratory investigation.  AP students are required to attend two out of three afterschool workshops in the Spring.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools. 

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

 RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE: Biology and Chemistry

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Advanced Placement Chemistry

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AP Chemistry is the equivalent of an introductory college-level chemistry course. AP Chemistry has both the content and the laboratory components of a typical college level chemistry course. The College Board recommends that students who take AP Chemistry should have successfully completed a first-year course in chemistry and have the math skills attained in Algebra I and II. AP Chemistry builds on the skills and knowledge attained in a standard high school course and provides the student with an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of chemistry and the ability to think critically and to solve problems. AP students are required to attend two out of the three afterschool workshops in the Spring.

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 11-12

 RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE: Honors Chemistry and Math 3 ______________________________________________________

Advanced Placement Environmental Science 

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Check out this video to learn more about AP Calculus: AP Environmental Science

Why is everyone concerned about bees? Is a hybrid vehicle really going to help the environment? What can I do to help the Earth? These questions and MANY more are answered through investigation, observation, and analysis in this course. The goal of AP Environmental Science course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand how ecosystems, natural and manmade, interact, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving or preventing them. 

All students will be required to take the Advanced Placement test in May. The cost of the exam will be paid by Asheboro City Schools.

CREDIT: 1

TYPE: Advanced Placement

GRADE: 10-12

 RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE: Biology, Math I, and Chemistry