0513 HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY
Offered in grades 11, 12       1.0 credit
Class meets 6 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendation: 80% or better in Biology & Chemistry
This is an introductory college level course designed to explore in detail the interrelationships of the major systems of the human body. Structure and function will be stressed in discussing such topics as homeostasis, circulation, respiration, nutrition & digestion, reproduction, embryology & development, nervous & endocrine control and genetics. Requirements include dissection and a term paper.

0514 CHEMCOMM
Offered in grades 11,12       1.0 credit
Class meets 6 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendation: None
This course is an integrated, practical, hands-on approach to chemistry. Chemistry is applied to real environmental issues including: resources, water quality, petroleum use, nuclear energy, food chemistry, and the human populations impact. It is meant for students interested in building a chemistry base of knowledge.

0520 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Offered in grades 11,12       1.0 credit
Class meets 6 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendations: Biology
This course is intended for the student who has a real interest in his/her role in the environment. Included will be cause and effect relationships with plants and animals, a person’s role in conservation, problems dealing in energy conservation and pollution. Topics covered will include wildlife, natural resources, energy, and pollution. Laboratory work will be an integral part of the course.

0545 OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE BIOLOGY
Offered in grades 11,12       1.0 credit
Class meets 6 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendations: A passing grade in grade 9 Earth Science and Biology.
This course is designed as an elective for 11th and 12th grade students who wish to pursue a more in depth understanding of fundamentals learned in Earth Science. The course will include Marine Biology, Marine Geology, coastal changes, and Physical and Environmental Oceanography. Man’s interaction with the oceans will be discussed.

0551 PHYSICS HONORS
Offered in grades 11,12       1.2 credits
Class meets 7 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendation: 80% average in Honors Chemistry or 90% average in Academic Chemistry, 80% average in Math
This course is designed for students considering a technical or science career in college. Subject matter is mechanics, waves and optics, electricity magnetism. This is not a calculus based course, although it is very demanding mathematically. Algebraic, trigonometric and geometric concepts will be used on command, and there will be a strong emphasis on problem solving. Laboratory work is integral to the course as traditional physics problems will be analyzed in great detail.

0530 ACADEMIC CHEMISTRY
Offered in grades 11,12       1.2 credits
Class meets 7 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendations: 80% or better in Academic or Honors Biology and 80%
or better in Algebra I. (Selected tenth graders may qualify for this course.)
This course covers basic chemistry in light of modern concepts. Fundamental
theories, laws, and chemical calculations receive thorough attention. Laboratory
work is an integral part of the course.

0535 CHEMISTRY HONORS
Offered in grades 10, 11       1.2 credits
Class meets 7 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendations: 80% or better in Bio. 0512 - Honors & 8th grade Alg. 1
80% Honors Algebra I, Honors Geometry and Honors Biology or
90% Academic Algebra I (9th grade), Academic Geometry, Academic Biology
This course is an intensive, accelerated, first-year chemistry course requiring excellent mathematical and reasoning skills. Topics such as equilibrium, kinetics, acid/base reactions, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry will be studied at a level requiring advanced mathematical, reasoning abilities.

+1981 ADVANCED PLACEMENT BIOLOGY
Offered in grades 11, 12                1.3 credits
Class meets 8 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendation: 80% average in Biology 512 - Honors
80% average in Chemistry (Honors Chemistry preferred)
Department approval
Students who wish to schedule this course must secure an application.
This course offers an in depth study of biological processes and structures. It
is intended to prepare the student to take the Biology AP Exam or to better prepare them for a 1st year college Biology course.
The Advanced Placement Biology course seeks to meet the objectives of general biology courses at the college level. The aim of the course is to achieve the following:
1. Knowledge of the facts, principles, and processes in biology.
2. Understanding of the means by which biological information is collected, how it is interpreted, and how one formulates hypothesis from available data in order to make further predictions.
3. Understanding that science is a human endeavor with social consequences.
The student taking this course should be self motivated and an independent worker.

+1979 ADVANCED PLACEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Offered in grades 11, 12 1.3 credits
Class meets 8 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendation: 80% average in Biology
80% average in Chemistry
70% Average in Algebra
Departmental approval
Students who wish to schedule this course must secure an application . This course is designed for the student considering a career in an environmental science or related field. It will offer a detailed, “hands on” study of environmental issues and topics. Field studies and lab work will emphasize many of the concepts covered in the course. Topics will include field work methodology and techniques, air, soil, and water quality, investigation of pollutants and their impact on the environment, earth process, and the interaction of humans within their environment. Students are expected to take the AP exam in the spring. A summer assignment will be given.

+1980 ADVANCED PLACEMENT CHEMISTRY
Offered in grades 11, 12         1.3 credits
Class meets 8 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendations: 80% average in Biology 512 - Honors
80% average in Algebra II/Trig. - Honors
90% average in Algebra II/Trig.
85% average in Honors Chemistry
95% average in Academic Chemistry
Department approval

+1982 ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS
CALCULUS BASED)
Offered in grade 12                1.3 credits
Class meets 8 mods per cycle, all year
Recommendations: 87% average in Physics
Concurrently taking AP Calculus or Contemporary Calculus
May be available to qualified eleventh graders with departmental approval
Department approval
This course is designed for the student pursuing a career in engineering or science. The subject matter is principally mechanics, electricity and magnetism, with approximately equal emphasis on these areas. Strong emphasis is placed on solving a variety of challenging problems, some requiring calculus. There is emphasis on analysis in the laboratory as well as in the classroom.