World Language

FRENCH I 

#H5022 - College Prep 

Grades: 9-12  Full Year  Credits: 5

Prerequisite: None 

This course is designed for students who are beginning their study of French. Students will be introduced to the French language and culture via thematic units of study that focus on common informal settings and aspects of daily life. Emphasis is placed on listening and speaking with reinforcement from simple readings and some writing. Students will actively apply communicative skills through paired and small-group interactions simulating real-life scenarios. This course is for students who have never taken French or have been recommended for this course by a World Language teacher.

FRENCH II 

#H5121 - Honors 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Middle School French Grades: 6, 7 & 8, Placement Test and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for Middle School French or French I students who have achieved at a high level. Students will build upon their previous experience in French and continue to emphasize listening and speaking with some reading and writing with greater emphasis on grammar accuracy. Thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and provide students with situational communication skills.

FRENCH II 

#H5122 - College Prep 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Middle School French or French I 

This course is designed for students who have completed Middle School French or French I. Students will build upon their previous experience in French and continue to emphasize listening and speaking with some reading and writing. Thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and provide students with situational communication skills.

FRENCH III 

#H5221 - Honors 

Grades: 10 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: French II Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for students who have achieved at a high level in French II Honors or its equivalent. Students improve their oral and written communication skills via content-based thematic units. These units increase in their integration of language and culture and emphasize increased accuracy in expression of spoken and written language in preparation for AP. 

FRENCH III 

#H5222 - College Prep 

Grades: 10 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: French II 

This course is designed for students who completed French II or its equivalent. Students will build upon their previous language experiences by way of thematic units that integrate culture with language and provide students with opportunities to apply their interpretive, interpersonal and presentational language skills in authentic contexts.

FRENCH IV 

#H5321 - Honors

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: French III Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for highly motivated students who have achieved at a high level in French III Honors or its equivalent. Students will improve their oral and written communication skills by studying content-based thematic units that incorporate a variety of resources. These units integrate language and culture and provide students with a springboard for creative communication about topics of personal and general interest. This course is a precursor to AP French Language & Culture and will provide students with the language skills and cultural content they will need in order to be successful in AP French Language & Culture.

FRENCH IV 

#5322 - College Prep 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: French III

This course is for students who are highly interested in building upon their previous experience in French and who have successfully completed French III or its equivalent. Students will continue to emphasize oral and written communication skills. Thematic units integrate culture with language and provide students with more advanced communication skills. Topics of personal and general interest are incorporated into the curriculum using a variety of resources

FRENCH V 

#H5422 - College Prep 

Grade: 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: French IV 

This course is designed as a culminating experience for those students with a high level of interest in the French language and culture and who have successfully completed French IV or its equivalent. Students will continue to emphasize oral and written communication skills. Thematic units incorporate a variety of resources that provide a springboard for creative spoken and written language development.

AP FRENCH LANGUAGE & CULTURE 

#H5420 - AP 

Grade: 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: French IV Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed as a culminating experience for the highly motivated student who has achieved at a high level in French IV Honors.. In this course, students work to heighten their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Grammatical structures are fine-tuned as needed in preparation for the Advanced Placement French Language Exam. Students are given practice in hearing formal and informal French, in writing expository passages, and in reading material from a wide range of literary and journalistic sources. Students are expected to take the AP French Language and Culture Exam in May. There is a mandatory summer assignment for this course.

ITALIAN I 

#H5032 - College Prep 

Grades: 9-12  Full Year  Credits: 5

Prerequisite: None 

This course is designed for students who are beginning their study of Italian. Students will be introduced to the Italian language and culture via thematic units of study that focus on common informal settings and aspects of daily life. Emphasis is placed on listening and speaking with reinforcement from simple readings and some writing. Students will actively apply communicative skills through paired and small-group interactions simulating real-life scenarios. This course is for students who have never taken Italian or have been recommended for this course by a World Language teacher.

ITALIAN II 

#H5131- Honors 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Middle School Italian Grades: 6, 7 & 8, Placement Test and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for middle school Italian or Italian I students who have achieved at a high level. Students will build upon their previous experience in Italian and continue to emphasize listening and speaking with some reading and writing with greater emphasis on grammar accuracy. Thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and provide students with situational communication skills.

ITALIAN II 

#H5132 - College Prep 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Middle School Italian or Italian I 

This course is designed for students who have completed middle school Italian or Italian I. Students will build upon their previous experience in Italian and continue to emphasize listening and speaking with some reading and writing. Thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and provide students with situational communication skills.

ITALIAN III 

#H5231 - Honors 

Grades: 10 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Italian II Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for students who have achieved at a high level in Italian II Honors or its equivalent. Students improve their oral and written communication skills via content-based thematic units. These units increase in their integration of language and culture and provide students with situational communication skills demanding a higher degree of accuracy in spoken and written language in preparation for AP.

ITALIAN III 

#H5232 - College Prep

Grades: 10 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Italian II 

This course is designed for students who completed Italian II or its equivalent. Students will build upon their previous language experiences by way of thematic units that integrate culture with language and provide students with opportunities to apply their interpretive, interpersonal and presentational language skills in authentic contexts.

ITALIAN IV

 #H5331 - Honors 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5

Prerequisite: Italian III Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is meant for students who have completed Italian III or its equivalent and wish to continue with a more intense study of the language and culture of Italy. Students will improve their oral and written communication skills by studying content-based thematic units that are supported by a variety of resources. These units increase in their integration of language and culture and provide students with a springboard for creative communication about topics of personal and general interest. This course is a precursor to AP Italian Language & Culture and will provide students with the language skills and cultural content they will need in order to be successful in AP Italian Language & Culture.

ITALIAN IV 

#H5332 - College Prep 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Italian III 

This course is meant for students who have completed Italian III or its equivalent and wish to continue with a more intense study of the language and culture of Italy. Students will continue to improve their oral and written communication skills via content-based thematic units. Resources include: readings, videotapes, audiotapes, special projects, and Internet research.

ITALIAN V 

#H5432 - College Prep 

Grade: 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Italian IV 

This course is designed as a culminating experience for those students with a high level of interest in the Italian language and culture and who have successfully completed Italian IV or its equivalent. Students will further improve their oral and written communication skills using a variety of resources. Content-based thematic units aim to engage students in Italian readings and are supplemented by audio, video, writing and Internet research assignments.

AP ITALIAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE 

#H5430 - AP 

Grade: 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Italian IV Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed as a culminating experience for the highly motivated student who has achieved at a high level in Italian IV Honors.. The course material will enhance the students’ skills in interpretive listening and reading, and interpersonal speaking, and presentational writing. There will be special emphasis on the cultural aspects of studying a language, and students will come to view Italy as a political entity in the modern world. Students will work independently and collaboratively to enhance their language skills in preparation for the AP Italian Language and Culture Advanced Placement exam. Students are expected to take the AP Italian Language & Culture Exam administered in May. There is a mandatory summer assignment for this course.

MANDARIN I 

#H5142 

Grades 9 – 12 

Level: College Prep  Full Year  Credits: 5 

This course is open to students in grades 9 – 12 who are looking to expand their cultural and global understandings through the study of a non-Western language. This introductory course to the Mandarin Language and Culture will engage students in activities that promote basic communication skills through a thematic approach that includes common informal settings and aspects of daily life. Emphasis will be placed on developing students’ interpretive listening and interpersonal speaking skills through authentic scenarios. Students will acquire some basic interpretive reading and interpersonal and presentational writing skills in Mandarin Chinese at the novice-mid proficiency level. Students will also gain important cultural perspectives as they compare and contrast aspects of the Eastern Chinese culture with those of their own culture.

MANDARIN II 

#H5242 

Grades 10 – 12 

Level: College Prep  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Mandarin I and Teacher Recommendation

This course is open to students who have successfully completed Mandarin I. Students in Mandarin II Academic will continue to expand their cultural and global understandings through a series of units thematically organized around topics that explore various aspects of daily life and common informal settings, such as clothing and shopping, travel and city life, food and health, and cultural celebrations. Language and skills acquired in Mandarin I will be readdressed in new and deeper contexts to facilitate greater communicative proficiency. While some reading and writing will be addressed, emphasis will continue to be placed on developing students’ interpretive listening and interpersonal speaking skills through active participation in authentic scenarios. Students will continue to gain important cultural perspectives as they compare and contrast aspects of Eastern Chinese culture with their own culture through exposure to and interaction with authentic cultural artifacts, literature, visuals, videos, songs, websites and other multimedia sources.

MANDARIN II

#H5241  

Grades 10 – 12 

Level: Honors Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Mandarin I and teacher recommendation

This elective is open to students who have completed Mandarin I and achieved a higher level of language proficiency. Students in Mandarin II Accelerated will continue to expand their cultural and global understandings through a series of units thematically organized around topics that explore various aspects of daily life and common informal settings, such as clothing and shopping, travel and city life, food and health, and cultural celebrations, in more rigorous formats. Language and skills acquired in Mandarin I will be readdressed in new and deeper contexts to facilitate greater communicative proficiency. There will be a greater focus on speaking and writing with accuracy. Emphasis will continue to be placed on developing and refining students’ interpretive listening and reading and interpersonal speaking and writing skills through active participation in authentic scenarios. Students will continue to gain important cultural perspectives as they compare and contrast aspects of Eastern Chinese culture withtheir own culture through exposure to and interaction with authentic cultural artifacts, literature, visuals, videos, songs, websites and other multimedia sources.

MANDARIN III 

#H5342 – College Prep

 #H5341 – Honors 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Mandarin II

This course is designed for students who have experienced achievement in their study of Mandarin II and who have demonstrated language proficiency at least at the Novice Mid Reaching through Novice High Developing range. In the Mandarin III course, students will continue to expand their cultural and global understandings through the study of a non-Western language and culture within various thematic contexts such as school and home life, health and nutrition, travel, visual arts, communication and media, academics and career readiness, technology, or global challenges. Students will build upon their previous experience in Mandarin and will continue to hone their interpretive listening and reading skills, as well as their interpersonal and presentational speaking and writing skills. To gain proficiency, students are expected to take more risks and be more creative and spontaneous with the language. At this level, a greater emphasis is placed on accuracy in written and oral expression through a more intensive study of grammatical functions. Thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and will provide students with opportunities to apply communication skills to real-life situational contexts. Classes are conducted primarily in the target language and students are expected to use the target language for communication within the classroom. Students in both levels will experience the same content; however, the depth of study and expected proficiency in each mode of communication increases with each level.

MANDARIN IV 

#H5442 – College Prep

#H5441 – Honors

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Mandarin III 

This course is open to students who have successfully completed Mandarin II and who have demonstrated a higher level of language proficiency. Students will continue to attain increased communicative proficiency in each of three modes of communication: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational through exploration of thematic units related to aspects of families and communities, contemporary life, science and technology, global challenges, personal and public identities, and beauty and aesthetics. Students will participate in and perform practical activities and tasks that focus on meaningful communication in authentic scenarios, using more specialized vocabulary and finer points of grammatical structures, in more rigorous contexts. Students will continue to gain insight into Chinese culture, making deeper connections among cultural perspectives, practices and comparing aspects of the American and Chinese cultures.

​​SPANISH I 

#H5012 - College Prep 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

This course is designed for students who are beginning their study of Spanish. Students will be introduced to the Spanish language and culture via thematic units of study that focus on common informal settings and aspects of daily life. Emphasis is placed on listening and speaking with reinforcement from simple readings and some writing. Students will actively apply communicative skills through paired and small-group interactions simulating real-life scenarios. 

SPANISH II 

#H5111 - Honors 

Grades: 9 – 12 Year Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Middle School Spanish Grades: 6, 7, & 8, Placement Test and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for middle school Spanish or Spanish I students who have achieved at a high level. Students will build upon their previous experience in Spanish and continue to emphasize listening and speaking with some reading and writing with greater emphasis on grammar accuracy. Content-based thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and provide students with situational communication skills.

SPANISH II 

#H5112 - College Prep 

Grades: 9 – 12 Year Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Middle School Spanish or Spanish I 

This course is designed for students who have completed middle school Spanish or Spanish I. Students will build upon their previous experience in Spanish and continue to emphasize listening and speaking with some reading and writing. Text-based thematic units focus on the integration of culture and language and provide students with situational communication skills. 

SPANISH II 

#H5912 - College Prep 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

This level II course is designed for students who began and successfully completed their study of Spanish I at the high school level or for students who have completed a middle school sequence of Spanish, and want to continue to a level II course, but have not yet attained a novice-high level of proficiency in their interpretive, interpersonal and presentational language skills. In this course, students will build upon their previous experience in Spanish and will continue to develop their communicative language skills through active participation in paired and small group activities. Students will continue to acquire the necessary language skills to communicate, interpret information and present thoughts about themselves, their 81 families and friends, and the world around them. Thematic units will focus on the integration of cultureand language and will provide students with opportunities to apply communication skills to real-life situational contexts. 

SPANISH III 

#H5211 - Honors 

Grades: 10 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Spanish II Honors and teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed for students who have achieved at a high level in Spanish II Honors or its equivalent. Students improve their oral and written communication skills via content-based thematic units. These units increase in their integration of language and culture and emphasize increased accuracy in spoken and written language in preparation for AP. 

SPANISH III 

#H5212 - College Prep 

Grades: 10 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Spanish II 

This course is designed for students who completed Spanish II or its equivalent. Students will build upon their previous language experiences by way of thematic units that integrate culture with language and provide students with opportunities to apply their interpretive, interpersonal and presentational language skills in authentic contexts. 

SPANISH IV 

#H5311 - Honors 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Spanish III Honors or both Spanish heritage courses, “Spanish for Heritage Speakers” and “The Spanish Heritage Experience.” 

This course is designed for highly motivated students who have achieved at a high level in Spanish III Honors or have completed the two-year sequence of both Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses. Students will improve their oral and written communication skills by studying content-based thematic units that incorporate a variety of authentic resources representing the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. This course is a precursor to AP Spanish Language & Culture and will provide students with the language skills and cultural content they will need in order to be successful in AP Spanish Language & Culture.

SPANISH IV 

#H5312 - College Prep 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Spanish III 

This course is for students who are highly interested in building upon their previous experience in Spanish and who have successfully completed Spanish III or its equivalent. Students will continue to emphasize oral and written communication skills. Thematic units integrate culture with language and provide students with more advanced situational communication skills. Topics of personal and general interest are incorporated into the curriculum using a variety of resources.

SPANISH V 

#H5412 - College Prep 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Spanish IV 

This course is designed as a culminating experience for those students with a high level of interest in the Spanish language and culture and who have successfully completed Spanish IV or its equivalent. Students will continue to emphasize oral and written communication skills. Thematic units incorporate a variety of resources that provide a springboard for creative spoken and written language development.

AP SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE 

#H5410 - AP 

Grades: 11 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Spanish IV Honors or both Spanish heritage courses, “Spanish for Heritage Speakers” and “The Spanish Heritage Experience” and a teacher recommendation. 

This course is designed as a culminating experience for the highly motivated student who has achieved at a high level in Spanish IV Honors. In this course, students work to heighten their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Grammatical structures are fine-tuned as needed in preparation for the Advanced Placement Spanish Language Exam. Through thematic units students are given practice in hearing formal and informal Spanish, in writing expository passages, and in reading material from a wide range of literary and journalistic sources. Students are expected to take the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam in May. There is a mandatory summer assignment for this course.

SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS (offered in 2025-2026) 

#H5611 - Honors

 Grades: 9 – 12 Year Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Placement Test and teacher and/or supervisor recommendation. 

This course, together with The Spanish Heritage Experience course, provides a two-year language sequence for heritage or native Spanish speakers, which satisfies our district’s two-year world language graduation requirement. The two courses do not need to be taken in a particular sequence and are not designed sequentially. This course will rotate with The Spanish Heritage Experience course, with each course offered in alternating years. To be placed in this course, students will need to demonstrate language skills at the Intermediate Low proficiency range or higher. Heritage Spanish speakers who demonstrate language skills at lower proficiency levels will be placed in regular Spanish College Prep or honors courses appropriate to their ability. 

This course, like The Spanish Heritage Experience course, is intended to help students expand their knowledge of their heritage language while addressing their linguistic needs and exploring relevant cultural and socio-linguistic issues. In this course, students will develop an understanding of the language variations of the Hispanic community and the role of language in their lives. Specific literacy needs of Spanish speakers that are related to the use of standard/academic Spanish in their written and oral expression will be addressed. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be recommended for The Spanish Heritage Experience, Spanish IV Honors, or Spanish V AP.

**A non-heritage Spanish speaker could also take this course providing he/she has successfully completed the highest level of Spanish offered at the high school (Spanish V, or AP Spanish Language & Culture)

THE SPANISH HERITAGE EXPERIENCE PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE (Offered in 2026-2027) 

#H5711 - Honors 

Grades: 9 – 12  Full Year  Credits: 5 

Prerequisite: Placement Test and teacher and/or supervisor recommendation.

This course, together with the Spanish for Heritage Speakers course provides a two-year language sequence for heritage or native Spanish speakers, which satisfies our district’s two-year world language graduation requirement. The two courses do not need to be taken in a particular sequence and are not designed sequentially. This course will rotate with the Spanish for Heritage Speakers course, with each course offered in alternating years. To be placed in this course, students will need to demonstrate language skills at the Intermediate Low proficiency range or higher. Heritage learners who demonstrate language skills at lower proficiency levels will be placed in regular Spanish College Prep or Honors courses appropriate to their ability. 

This course, like The Spanish for Heritage Speakers course, is intended to help students expand their knowledge of their heritage language while addressing their linguistic needs and exploring relevant cultural and socio-linguistic issues. Students will explore aspects of the historical and cultural events that led to the development of the various Spanish-speaking countries. They will learn to view the past by analyzing existing artifacts of beauty and aesthetics in various Hispanic cultures. Students will examine the economic challenges faced in different Hispanic countries, and explore how they can use their unique knowledge, skills, and cultural background to make a difference in the global society. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be recommended for Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Spanish IV Honors, or AP Spanish Language & Culture. 

**A non-heritage Spanish speaker could also take this course providing he/she has successfully completed the highest level of Spanish offered at the high school (Spanish V, or AP Spanish Language & Culture)