Prerequisite: 1360EL/1360ELV Advanced Seminars and Investigations or Teacher Approval.

The gifted facilitator works with students to secure an internship opportunity with a CPS Partner Community Contributor in an academic, service, or professional field. Securing an internship can be an elaborate process, so students must declare their intention early in the year, and they must provide their own transportation to and from the internship. During the Internship, students must maintain a daily log of their hours and an annotated description of their day-to-day experiences. The course culminates with students presenting narrative and project submissions to Investigations, our digital anthology of internship experiences.

Advanced Seminars and Investigations provides students in Columbia Public Schools’ gifted education program the opportunity to learn how to structure independent learning and work in a self-taught project-based learning environment. They craft project- and process-based SMART goals in pursuit of answers to a big question, solutions to a problem, or perspectives on an issue. These experiences are facilitated by Mr. Meyer as "guide on the side" but are ultimately student-directed. Advanced Seminars and Investigations builds all sorts of transferable skills and serves as a prerequisite for the Gifted Internship course.

Egypt, Greece, Rome; Judaism, Christianity, Islam; Renaissance Italy, Gothic France, and Andalusian Spain; Painting, Sculpture, Philosophy, Religion, and Architecture. Join Mr. Meyer for a whirlwind tour of the people, places and ideas that brought the West to the Modern World. Fulfills the Fine Arts graduation requirement.