The Cambridge AICE Diploma Program is currently available to FLVS Full Time students entering 9th or 10th grade for the 2025-26 school year. Learn more about the Cambridge AICE Diploma Program.
English General Paper AS:
Pre Requisites: None
This Cambridge/AICE course is developed to develop learners who are confident, responsible, reflective, innovative, and engaged. Students explore a broad range of topics in Cambridge English General Paper to gain knowledge and understanding of complex issues facing society in local, national, and international arenas. Through the study of these broad topics, students learn to effectively communicate their opinions and ideas as they gather information and build an argument. This course helps students to think globally and prepares them to take the Cambridge International AS English General Paper exam. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.
English Language AS:
Pre Requisites: None
AICE English Language encourages students to gain a greater depth and breadth of knowledge and develop confidence in applying skills to new situations. The course focuses on developing transferable skills such as articulating thoughts through writing, constructing arguments, analyzing texts, and presenting thoughts and ideas. This focus enables students to master core English skills as well as gain the confidence to express their individual interpretation of texts and compose creative responses to a variety of prompts. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.
Environmental Management AS:
Pre Requisites: None
Cambridge International AS Level Environmental Management develops a set of transferable skills including handling data, practicing practical problem-solving, applying the scientific method, and evaluating strategies for a sustainable future. Learners develop relevant attitudes such as objectivity, integrity, inquiry, initiative, and inventiveness to take on the global issue facing humanity and the balance of Earth's systems. They acquire the essential scientific skills required for progression to further studies or employment. Our approach in Cambridge AS Environmental Management courses encourages learners to be confident, responsible, reflective, innovative, and engaged. The key concepts for this course are sustainability, interactions, pressure on the environment, global dimensions, and research methodology.
Global Perspectives and Independent Research 1 AS:
Pre Requisites: None
This Cambridge/AICE course is developed to develop learners who are confident, responsible, reflective, innovative, and engaged. Exploration, research, reflection, and communication are skills students broaden in the Cambridge Global Perspectives & Research course. Students identify their area of focus to explore multiple perspectives on issues facing the world both today and in the past through collaboration, discussion, seminars, research, and writing. This course enables students to think globally and prepares them to take the Cambridge International AS Global Perspectives & Research exam and the Team Project component. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.
International History AS:
Pre Requisites: None
Students explore varied lenses and perspectives to analyze history between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Within their study of modern history, students examine the emergence of world powers and the League of Nations, and how it affected international relations in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the impact of the nations of China and Japan on the world stage. Students use multiple tools such as discussion, seminars, research, and writing to expand their knowledge and views on the emergence of world powers through these turbulent eras. This course encourages diverse thinking and expression and prepares students to take the Cambridge International AS History exam. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.
Marine Science 1 AS:
Pre Requisites: None
AICE Marine Science is designed to help students develop practical and theoretical marine science skills. Through projects, case studies, and practical activities, students are encouraged to gain a greater depth and breadth of knowledge, the confidence to apply their knowledge and skills to new scenarios, and the vocabulary needed to show links between various aspects of marine science. By using the key concepts of experimentation, the science of water, Earth processes, organism classification, biodiversity, and marine ecosystems, students achieve a level of mastery in marine science to help them enter higher education. Further course details can be found in the course syllabus:
Media Studies AS:
Pre Requisites: None
AICE Media Studies encourages students to enjoy and appreciate the media and its role in their daily lives while developing independence in research skills and their application. As they explore the impact of media within a variety of cultures and how they influence social values, students will develop critical understanding of international media through engagement with media products, concepts, and creative application of practical skills. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.
Psychology 1 AS:
Pre Requisites: None
AICE Psychology is designed to enable students to develop a greater knowledge and understanding of psychological research studies, think independently and make informed judgments on ethical issues, and apply their knowledge to novel and current psychological matters and debates. By using the key concepts of nature versus nurture, ethics in psychological research, choice of psychological research methods, that no one view in psychology is definitive, and the relevance of psychology in contemporary society, students explore a variety of approaches and interpretations of psychological case studies and situations. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.
United States History 1 AS:
Pre Requisites: None
AICE United States History is designed to enable students to develop a greater knowledge and understanding of historical periods and themes, think independently and make informed judgments on issues, and gain a firm foundation for further study. Using the key concepts of cause and consequence, change and continuity, interpretations, significance, and similarity and difference, students explore a variety of approaches and interpretations of historical issues and situations within the United States. Further course detail can be found in the course syllabus.