AP, Concurrent, and Blended Learning Course Information

AP COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Students and parents are required to sign an expectation contract, attend a one-time mandatory AP Parent meeting, and AP Orientation course on Canvas. There is a fee for the required end-of-year AP exam. College credit may be earned with an appropriate score on the exam.

2025-2026 AP Exam Fees (2026-2027 fees are not yet available):

AP Research, AP Seminar $100 per exam

All other AP Exams $100 per exam

AP Capstone Course Information

3720AP AP Seminar $ (Capstone Core)

Full Year Course

Sophomores only

Credit Type: English

Initial course in the AP Capstone diploma program

AP Seminar is the first of 2 required courses in the AP Capstone sequence. It also serves as the sophomore English credit for eligible students

Prerequisite: application process 

$ AP exam fees

In AP Seminar students tackle a wide variety of literary, philosophical, historical and current events readings, and write multiple essays analyzing the argumentation in these readings and synthesizing sources into original argumentative essays. Students also write three research papers and make three videotaped oral presentations; the last two of each are uploaded to the College Board and serve as part of the student’s AP score. Students are admitted to the course through an application process based on PreACT test scores, teacher recommendations, and fully submitted application. Students must be concurrently enrolled in AP World History. This demanding course requires students to complete long-term projects and meet multiple deadlines.

3730AP AP Research $ (Capstone Core)

Full Year Course

Juniors and Seniors

Credit Type: Elective

Prerequisite: AP Seminar, department approval, and summer course work

$ AP exam fees

AP Research is the second component in the AP Capstone sequence. To enroll, students must have successfully completed AP Seminar, have departmental approval, and develop a topic of inquiry over the summer. In AP Research students build on the reading, research, public speaking, and writing skills developed in AP Seminar, to develop an original line of inquiry on a topic of their choice. Students learn to formulate research questions, design a study to answer those research questions, and then carry out their study design. Critical thinking, problem-solving, and independent learning are exercised throughout the class. The course culminates with a 5,000-word individual research paper, and a 15-20 minute presentation and oral defense of the students' work. Students are encouraged, but not required, to seek summer internships at research institutions, government agencies, museums, or clinical settings to pursue a research project.

5320AP AP World History Modern $ (Capstone Core)

Full Year Course

Sophomores only

Credit Type: Social Studies

Prerequisite: department approval

Class is limited to those students entering the AP Capstone program and are concurrently enrolled in AP Seminar

$ AP exam fee

AP World History is a college-level year-long world history class where students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.

Taken as a year-long class, with 2 parts: 1333/1334

1333 Capstone Theology I: The Philosophy of Religion (Capstone Suggested) 

Fall Semester 

Juniors only

Credit Type: Theology

Prerequisite: Approval of both Theology and AP Capstone Department Heads

1334 Capstone Theology II: The Philosophy of Religion (Capstone Suggested) 

Spring Semester 

Juniors only

Credit Type: Theology

Prerequisite: approval of both Theology and AP Capstone Department Heads

What makes an object an object? What is the fundamental nature of the universe? How can we eat Jesus Christ, and what does that say about God? Does evil actually exist, or is it the absence of good? In Capstone Theology students explore some of the biggest questions of existence from the Bishop’s curricular framework of Sacraments and Ethics. Students will examine and discuss ethical theories from antiquity to the Christian era, learning how to analyze modern social concerns through the Catholic perspective relying on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and sacred scripture.  Juniors will build on their backgrounds in art, history, and argumentation they have developed through the AP Capstone program.

Taken as a year-long class, with 2 parts: 5111H/571AP

571AP AP Art History $ (Capstone Suggested)

Full year course

Freshmen level

Spring semester (taken with 5111H Geography Honors in the fall)

Credit Type: Elective 

Prerequisite:  application process and department approval

$ Purchase of textbooks required, AP exam fee

This course is designed to provide students with a college-level introduction to the global history of fine arts, with a focus on art’s personal, social and cultural meaning and on cross-cultural exchanges that have enriched the artistic tradition. The course will provide students with knowledge and understanding of architecture, sculpture, painting, and other art forms from diverse historical and geographic contexts. Students will learn to look at art critically, identifying not only how artists employ different styles and techniques but also how art embodies and supports different religious traditions, upholds or challenges political authorities, and reflects changing views of nature and human space. The course culminates with students taking the AP Art History exam in May. Freshmen may use this full-year course to meet their semester geography requirement for graduation.

4150H Global Literature (Honors) (Capstone Suggested)

Full year course

Freshmen only

Credit Type: English

Prerequisite: approval of English Department Chair

Students will read a variety of world literature texts which coincide with the cultures they will study in AP Art History or Geography/Ancient Civilizations Honors. Students will practice close reading skills and work on synthesizing literary and critical sources into coherent essays. The class will place a heavy emphasis on the grammar skills of writing, including the construction of cohesive sentences, paragraphs, and essays. This course is highly recommended for students hoping to pursue an AP Capstone diploma.