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AP Seminar AP Research
Grade 11 or 12 Grade 12
Course Number 170 Course Number 171
Full Year Course - 1 credit Full Year Course - 1 credit
Prerequisite: Recommendation Prerequisite: Recommendation
Estimated Fee: A.P. Test Registration Estimated Fee: A.P. Test Registration
Recommended For: College Bound Recommended For: College Bound
Career: CORE Career: CORE
AP Seminar is a foundational course that AP Research allows students to deeply explore
engages students in cross-curricular an academic topic, problem, or issue of
conversations that explore the complexities of individual interest. Through this exploration,
academic and real-world topics and issues by students design, plan, and conduct a year-long
analyzing divergent perspectives. Using an research-based investigation to address a
inquiry framework, students practice reading research question.
and analyzing articles, research studies, and In the AP Research course, students further
foundational literary and philosophical texts; their skills acquired in the AP Seminar course
listening to and viewing speeches, broadcasts, by understanding research methodology;
and personal accounts; and experiencing employing ethical research practices; and
artistic works and performances. Students accessing, analyzing, and synthesizing
learn to synthesize information from multiple information as they address a research
sources, develop their own perspectives in question. Students explore their skill
research-based written essays, and design and development, document their processes, and
deliver oral and visual presentations, both curate the artifacts of the development of their
individually and as part of a team. Ultimately, scholarly work in a portfolio. The course
the course aims to equip students with the culminates in an academic paper of 4000-5000
power to analyze and evaluate information words (accompanied by a performance or
with accuracy and precision in order to craft exhibition of product where applicable) and a
and communicate evidence-based arguments. presentation with an oral defense.
Students enrolling in this course are expected Students enrolling in this course are expected
to take the AP exam in May. to take the AP exam in May.
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