The Christian Scriptures course is a required one-semester course for Freshmen. It should be seen indirect relation to Hebrew Scriptures offered in the Fall. Christian Scriptures employs Historical-Contextual methods of Biblical study to introduce the students to the Gospels. The students use these modern tools of Biblical criticism to analyze each Gospel’s unique audience, themes, and understandings of Jesus. Besides paying special attention to material that is specific to each Gospel, the students will identify and assess the themes common to all the Gospels: the ways Jesus interacted with, and was impacted by, the dominant groups and sociological realities of first century Palestine; Jesus’ preeminent concern for the Kingdom of God; Jesus’ teachings and acts of mercy; the Passion of Jesus Christ; the Resurrection and call to discipleship. Building off the theme of discipleship, the students will assess how Catholic Social Teaching connects to modern instances of injustice.

The religious studies course during the fall semester of freshman year introduces students to the central stories, characters, and themes of the Hebrew Scriptures. Students will study the development of the Bible, literary forms in Scripture, and critical reading and contextual interpretation of biblical texts. The fundamental perspective of the course is that the Bible is the revealed Word of God written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit—God’s living word which speaks to us today of God’s faithful love in our lives. In accord with Ignatian spirituality, this course will incorporate prayer and reflection on Scripture so that students may grow in spiritual maturity and better praise and serve God and others in their lives.

This course will apply and extend what students have learned in previous courses by focusing on finding connections between multiple representations of functions, transformations of different function families, finding zeros of polynomials and connecting them to graphs and equations of polynomials, and modeling periodic phenomena with trigonometry. The course is well-balanced between procedural fluency (algorithms and basic skills), deep conceptual understanding, strategic competence (problem-solving), and adaptive reasoning (extension and transference). On a daily basis, students use problem-solving strategies, questioning, investigating, analyzing critically, gathering and constructing evidence, and communicating rigorous arguments justifying their thinking. Under teacher guidance, students learn in collaboration with others while sharing information, expertise, and ideas.

Note: this is not an honors course; this is a hybrid course which combines both Algebra 2 and PreCalc concepts - covering each in less depth - to allow entrance into high-school Calculus as a Senior with qualifying grades

The purpose of the AP course in statistics is to introduce students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data. Students are exposed to four broad conceptual themes – exploring data; sampling and experimentation; anticipating patterns and statistical inference. In this course, students will describe patterns and departures from patterns; plan and conduct a study or experiment; use statistical tools to calculate probabilities of random phenomena and use that data to estimate population parameters. The course also focuses on preparing students for the AP examination.

This course will introduce students to the main ideas in data science through tools such as Google Sheets, Python, Data Commons and Tableau. Students will learn to be data explorers in project-based units, through which they will develop their understanding of data analysis, sampling, correlation/causation, bias and uncertainty, probability, modeling with data, making and evaluating data-based arguments, the power of data in society, and more! At the end of the course students will have a portfolio of their data science work to showcase their newly developed abilities.

This is an introductory course to the basic concepts of probability and statistics using real world examples/data. Statistics topics include graphical and numerical representations of distribution, sampling techniques, experimental design, confidence intervals, and linear regression. Probability topics include counting techniques, simple probability, and conditional probability.

Designed in accordance with the Advanced Placement curriculum, this course is equivalent to the first and second parts of a college-level calculus sequence. Attention focuses on preparing students for the AP examination. In addition to the topics listed in Calculus AB AP, students will study additional techniques of integration, Euler's method and logistic models with differential equation, arc length and distance along a smooth curve, parametric and polar curves, vector valued functions, infinite sequences, and series.

This course offers students the opportunity to explore the fundamental principles of Calculus at a pace that provides students time to understand, appreciate, and apply these concepts, ultimately preparing students for success in a first-year college Calculus course. Topics include limits, some techniques of differentiation and integration, and applications

Designed in accordance to the Advanced Placement curriculum, this course is equivalent to the first part of a college-level calculus sequence. Attention focuses on preparing students for the AP examination. Topics include limits, the derivative, techniques of differentiation, the integral, integration, applications of derivatives and integrals, separable differential equations, and slope fields.

This course expects fluency with the major concepts from Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2. Topics include: functions, trigonometry, modeling, algebraic manipulation, complex numbers, and area under the curve. The course is well balanced among procedural fluency (algorithms and basic skills), deep conceptual understanding, strategic competence (problem solving), and adaptive reasoning (application and extension).On a daily basis, students work collaboratively with others as they use problem-solving strategies, complete investigations, gather evidence, critically analyze results, and communicate clear and effective arguments while justifying their thinking.