Advanced Placement Studio Art is a course designed to assist students in the preparation of a comprehensive portfolio of artwork. Students will be responsible for completing several independent assignments outside of class time. Only extremely motivated college bound students should enroll in this course.

At the conclusion of the course, students are required to submit their portfolio for Advanced Placement credit. Students are required to take the Advanced Placement exam, which for this course is a portfolio submission. AP exams will be ordered for all students who are in an AP class on Nov. 15th. Note that a $40 unused exam fee will be applied to anyone who drops the AP courses after Nov. 15th.

A full-year, college-level Advanced Placement course designed to give the students a strong conceptual understanding of Calculus, along with preparing them to take the Advanced Placement exam in the Spring. Topics will include a review of pre-calculus, limits and continuity, the derivative, basic differentiation rules (including Chain Rule and implicit differentiation), related rates, extrema, Mean Value Theorem, the first derivative test, curve sketching, and optimization problems; anti-derivatives, area under curves, Riemann Sums. Definite Integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Trapezoidal Rule, techniques of integration; application – volumes of solids of revolution, growth and decay problems, separation of variables, etc.

Advanced Placement Calculus BC includes all the topics of Calculus AB plus the following additional topics: parametric; polar; and vector functions; analysis of planar curves given in parametric form; polar form; and vector form; including velocity and acceleration; derivatives of parametric; polar and vector functions; numerical solutions of differential equations using Euler’s method; L’Hopital’s Rule including its use in determining limits and convergence of improper integrals and series; applications of integrals; antiderivatives by substitution of variables; parts; and simple partial fraction decomposition; and improper integrals; convergence/divergence of a series; integral test; p-test; comparison of series; alternating series test; ratio and root tests; Taylor Polynomials; power series; Taylor and Maclaurin Series.

This is a very rigorous full year, college level mathematics course. The areas of Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics will be examined thoroughly. Topics will include frequency distributions, measures of central tendencies and variations, probability, expectations, random sampling, the experimental design process, tests of hypotheses, class intervals, linear regression, non-linear regression and analysis of variance. The mathematics of Statistics has become the fastest growing mathematics application in recent years with all colleges requiring undergraduates to take Statistics.

The AP French Language and Culture course emphasizes communication (understanding and being understood by others) by applying the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication in real-life situations. This includes vocabulary usage, language control, communication strategies, and cultural awareness. The AP French Language and Culture course strives not to overemphasize grammatical accuracy at the expense of communication. To best facilitate the study of language and culture, the course is taught almost exclusively in French.

The AP French Language and Culture course engages students in an exploration of culture in both contemporary and historical contexts. The course develops students' awareness and appreciation of cultural products (e.g., tools, books, music, laws, conventions, institutions); practices (patterns of social interactions within a culture); and perspectives (values, attitudes, and assumptions).