All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

AP U.S. Government and Politics provides a college-level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. You will study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions among political institutions, processes, and behaviors. You will also engage in disciplinary practices that require you to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, you will complete a political science research or applied civics project.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

This single-semester course is intended to give students an introductory understanding of the principles of economics. Economics Honors focuses on economic behavior, economic institutions, market structures and interactions, economic statistics and models, public policy, fiscal and monetary policy, financial and banking systems, trade, and personal finance. Students will develop a deep conceptual understanding of the subject and critical thinking skills that will be applied to real-world problems and issues of justice. Interested students should be prepared for a rigorous, college-paced course that requires strong and analytical reading skills as well as graphical analysis. The course text, supplementary readings, and assignments are typical of those offered in a freshman economics course, including research projects, problem sets, and policy debates.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

The AP European History Course is a 2-semester introduction to the major cultural, political, economic and social developments that have shaped Europe from 1450 to the present. If you are interested in the period of history when Europe emerged from the early Renaissance to ride Imperialism and Industrialism to become the ascendant region on the globe, and then plunge itself into destructive world war, ideological battles, and ethnic terror, then this is the class for you. In addition to a college level text, course materials will include art, music and literature. Students will take frequent practice tests and quizzes in preparation for the AP exam.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

This course will trace the African American experience from the Civil War to the present with an emphasis on the geographic, social, ethnic, economic, and cultural journey of "these other Americans." In addition to focusing on pioneers and seminal figures, we will examine black contributions and conflicts during the following time periods: Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, 20th Century Wars, and the Civil Rights Movement. We will conclude the course by examining contemporary issues and concerns of African Americans.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

This course will trace the black experience from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, into the dawn of freedom for these Americans. While examining pioneers and seminal figures in the struggle for freedom, we will study the geographic, social, ethnic, economic, and cultural journey of these African Americans. Primary reading sources including slave journals, poetry, diaries, autobiographies, letters, and newspaper articles will be examined.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

AP Psychology is a yearlong course designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. Students also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice. The goal is to provide the student with a learning experience equivalent to that obtained in most college introductory psychology courses. The following describes the major content areas covered in the class and the AP Psychology Exam: History and Approaches, Research Methods, Biological Bases of Behavior, Sensation and Perception, States of Consciousness, Learning, Cognition, Motivation and Emotion, Developmental Psychology, Personality, Testing and Individual Differences, Abnormal Psychology, Treatment of Psychological Disorders, Social Psychology.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

This course will use a cross-disciplinary approach to examine the roots of conflict in the modern world. Historical, economic, political, and especially cultural perspectives will be applied to theory and case studies to better understand why the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been plagued with so many wars, revolutions, uprisings, and violent movements. Case studies will focus on South East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Specific cases will include Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Israel/Palestine, and Rwanda. Instruction will be primarily lecture and discussion of readings. Assessment will take the form of teacher and self-generated portfolio style homework assignments, one research project that will culminate in an oral presentation, and an all essay midterm and final. Students will need strong research and note-taking skills, and an interest in history, culture, and social justice issues.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of economics. You will explore the foundational principles of scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, trade, and markets. During the semester, our focus will be on the concepts of supply and demand, business and financial markets, government fiscal and monetary policy, trade, and investing. Students who complete this course successfully will be able to: understand how scarce resources, incentives, and choices underly the decisions they make; explain how the concepts of supply and demand are composed and how they work together; describe how government fiscal and monetary policy can help (or harm) the economy and its level of growth; understand how our financial system (money and banking) operates and the Federal Reserve's role in that system; and see the importance of saving and investing for the long term.

All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.

A survey of the scientific study of human behavior covering experiments, observations, and theories relating to individual differences, personality, development, motivation, social behavior, deviant behavior, genetics, physiology of behavior, learning and cognitive processes, and sensory and perceptual processes. Discussion often centers around major social problems and psychologists' efforts to characterize and solve these problems.

All Juniors are required to take either AP US History or US History

A survey of American History from the age of discovery to roughly the end of the Reagan presidency, with only cursory attention to material from the 1990's on. Emphasis is placed on the critical analysis of history, not rote memorization of facts. Students will develop the ability to analyze historical events and learn the importance of context, cause-and-effect and change-and-continuity in historical study. Supplementary readings beyond the textbook are assigned to facilitate the development of reading, writing, and analytical skills. There are nightly homework assignments with a written component. All essays are completed in class. The course text and supplementary readings are typical of those assigned to college freshmen.