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Topical Issues 12 grade
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Course number: 2430 Semester .50 Credit
Prerequisite: World and US History (C+ average)
Each semester of Topical Issues is designed as two (2) nine-week seminars on topics of interest and
relevance to today’s young adults. Examples include Heroic Leadership, History and the Movies, Politics
and the Olympics. Student research is a major component of this course

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Advanced Placement Psychology 12 grade
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Course Number: 2355 Full year 1 Credit
Prerequisite: Psychology
AP Psychology is college-level in nature, scope and intensity of instruction and textual materials, and is
intended for students desiring a greater intellectual challenge in the study of psychology. The course is
designed to prepare the student for the College Board examination (the instrument most colleges utilize in
determining and recognizing a student’s success for purposes of advanced credit) which the student is
required to take in May of the school year. This course will introduce students to the systematic and
scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students will be
exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields
of psychology; they will also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and
practice. Because of the intensive, in-depth reading and writing demands of this course, letter grades are
weighted. Students entering this class must be highly motivated, exhibit an enthusiasm for extensive and
varied study of history, and possess an interest in exchanging ideas and challenging assumptions that
appear in primary and secondary sources. Summer work is required for this course: the assignment will be
given prior to the end of the school year and collected the first day of class.
Students enrolled in Advanced Placement course(s) are REQUIRED to take the Advanced Placement Exam.

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Social Injustice and Anti-Racism 11 , 12 grade
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Course Number: 2530 One Semester .50 Credit
Prerequisite: None
This course in Social Justice is taught through the school’s Language Arts and Social Studies departments
and is designed for upperclassmen. This course allows students to explore the societal injustices that
permeate our nation’s history as well as the current world in which we live. The campaigns, movements,
and people who sought, and continue to seek the creation of a more equitable society will be examined.
Students will evaluate the inequalities from the past in order to analyze the current racial strife that endures
economically, politically and socially in our nation. A large component of this course will be to assist
students in finding their own agency, giving them the skills to understand, express, and finally, to create
necessary and lasting changes in their community, and in their country. Co-Curricular class with ELA.

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