THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE ELECTIVES AND DO NOT COUNT AS A SOCIAL STUDIES CREDIT REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION.
EL26632 AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 🕜🕜🕜
YEAR CREDIT 1.0
Fee: $97 (Exam Fee)
Satisfies one of the following: 1.0 elective credit
Grades: 9-12
Prerequisites: none
◆ AP Human Geography is about understanding the human impact on the planet through asking what is where, why there, and why care? AP Human Geography is a demanding but highly rewarding curriculum that helps prepare students to understand and compete in the 21st century. The dynamic of the push and pull of humanity is explored through population, climate/environmental and social challenges. Physical geographic skills, map interpretation, political struggle, development issues and language connections are covered. The focus is spatial organization of place and region in relation to humankind. Consider taking AP Human Geography as your first or last AP class. Students taking this class will be prepared to take the AP Human Geography Exam in the spring in order to earn a weighted grade and possible college credit. This course will require textbook and supplemental readings each week. Students will work individually and in groups. Students will be assessed regularly through projects, quizzes and chapter tests. Expect to spend 3 hours per week with homework. (2787)
For more information, click here: AP Human Geography flyer
EL36332 AP EUROPEAN HISTORY 🕜🕜🕜 🏆
YEAR CREDIT 1.0
$10 plus $97 Exam Fee
Satisfies one of the following: 1.0 elective credit
Grades: 11-12
Prerequisites: none
◆ Looking for an engaging and exciting history class with other curious upperclassmen? Want to make history come alive and build your historical thinking skills? Curious how history explains current events and how you fit into a global context? This college-level course acquaints serious social studies students with the major trends and events of modern European history. It is the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college Western Civilization course and the only LAHS elective that focuses on history. Students investigate cultural events, historical figures, social developments, and art movements from approximately 1450 to the present. Through in-depth study, creative activities, and class discussions, students use the same skills employed by historians to interpret and analyze European events and their relationship to modern global times. Students build critical thinking skills by examining primary sources, cause and effect, continuity vs. change. Students can expect to spend, on average, one hour per class on homework. A meaningful summer assignment is required to be completed before the first day of class. Students are required to pay for and take the AP Exam in the spring in order to earn a weighted grade. (2710)
For more information, click here: AP Euro website
EL32230AP AP AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 🕜🕜🕜
YEAR CREDIT 1.0
Fee: $97 (Exam Fee)
Satisfies one of the following: 1.0 elective credit
Grades: 11-12
Prerequisites: World History, US History (or AP US History)
◆ The interdisciplinary course is designed to offer students an evidence-based introduction to African American studies, reaching 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. Students are required to pay for and take the AP Exam in the spring in order to earn a weighted grade. (2710)
Please note: This course will be available to take in the 2025-2026 school year.
EL36411 PSYCHOLOGY 🏆
SEMESTER CREDIT 0.5
No Fee
Satisfies one of the following: 0.5 elective credit
Grades: 10-12
Prerequisites: none
◆ This course examines the behavior of human beings. Through large and small group discussion, hands-on experiences, video, and an individualized semester project, students study psychology’s major contributors, examine the brain, investigate human development and cognition, and analyze theories of personality and abnormal psychology. Psychology is an interdisciplinary course that relates to many other courses. (2770)
Note: Because we will examine human behavior and mental processes, self-awareness and maturity are needed for discussions and the semester project.
For more information, click here: Psychology website
EL36532 AP PSYCHOLOGY 🕜🕜🕜 🏆
YEAR CREDIT 1.0
$15 plus $97 Exam Fee
Satisfies one of the following: 1.0 elective credit
Grades: 11-12
Prerequisites: none
◆ Want to learn why people behave and think the way they do? Curious about the brain and neuroscience? Looking for a cool elective with other curious upperclassmen? Want to take a meaningful class that can relate to your life? This challenging course introduces students to the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings. Through in-depth study, creative activities, and class discussion, students learn the facts and principles associated with the classic units of an introductory college psychology course: scientific foundations, the brain, sensation/perception, learning, cognition, development, motivation/emotion, clinical psychology, and social psychology. Join the hundreds of upperclassmen who have taken AP Psych over the years and say AP Psychology is relevant to everyone and every field of interest. This interdisciplinary upperclassman elective perfectly interweaves the sciences and humanities. This course is intended for the committed student who has a strong interest in psychology and who is willing to work hard. AP Psych class has it all--stimulating conversations, numerous creative projects, meaningful teamwork, various video clips, lots of laughter, and a chance to apply new concepts to life. Enjoy many unique ways to learn the concepts of a classic content of a college-level psychology class. Students can expect to spend, on average, one hour per class on homework. There is no prerequisite for AP Psychology. A summer assignment is required to be completed before the first day of class. Students are required to pay for and take the AP Exam in the spring in order to earn a weighted grade. (2773)
For more information, click here: AP Psych website