Malibu High School. C o u r s e C a t a l o g University Information. Academic Information

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1 Maibu High Schoo Morning View Drive Maibu, Caifornia (310) Fax (310) C o u r s e C a t a o g Academic Information University Information The purpose of this cataog is to assist both student and parent in seecting an educationa program. Course seection shoud be based on individua goas, keeping in mind graduation and coege requirements. Review the course descriptions carefuy; be mindfu of course tite, grade eve, and prerequisites. Course seections made in the spring are binding. MHS creates its master schedue based on these choices. A students wi be asked to seect aternate course choices; in some cases first choice seections may be canceed due to ow student sign-up or irresovabe scheduing conficts. In this case aternate choices are used. Drop/Add poicy Course programs are created for the year. Students are expected to remain in the courses seected. Changes to course programs wi be done ony in the foowing cases: 1) computer/ schoo error; 2) course work competed in the summer (with counseor approva); 3) student does not have prerequisite for the cass; 4) teacher request. Course programs are never changed for period or teacher preference. Requests for a schedue change MUST be turned in during the first six weeks of each semester. No changes wi be made after this period; courses dropped after the sixth week of each semester wi appear on the students officia transcript as a WF (withdraw/fai). Repeating Courses Students are aowed to repeat courses to raise their grade; counseor approva is required. When a course is repeated both grades appear on the officia transcript. Both grades are used to compute the grade point average. Note: Credit is awarded for the course ony once. Four year coeges recommend that any grade of D at semester in a core course shoud be REPEATED. D s in core courses count as a subject omission by most universities and may affect admission. Minimum Course Load A ninth, tenth, eeventh, and twefth graders are required to sign up for six courses (30 credits). Ony twefth graders in good academic standing may request a shortened day. Students need to provide proof of enroment in coege courses, empoyment or an internship to be considered for a shortened day. MHS does not award work experience credit. University of Caifornia (UCLA, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Berkeey, San Diego, Davis, Irvine, Riverside, Merced) I. Subject Requirement: a. History - 2 years: One year of United States History and one year of Word History or European History. b. Engish - 4 years. c. Mathematics - 3 years: Agebra I, Geometry, and Agebra 2. A fourth year is strongy recommended. d. Laboratory Science - 2 years: Bioogy and Chemistry. A third year is strongy recommended. e. Foreign Language - 2 years of the same anguage other than Engish; three recommended. f. Visua and Performing Arts - 1 year required. Courses must be year ong and on our approved UC course ist. Areas incude dance, drama/theatre, music and visua arts. g. Coege Preparatory Eectives - 1 year: One year in addition to those required in a through f above, to be chosen from at east one of the foowing subject areas: history, Engish, advanced mathematics, foreign anguage, socia studies, fine arts, and aboratory science. Refer to the UC Approved Course List avaiabe on the schoo website for ist of quaifying courses. II. Schoarship Requirement: 3.0 minimum GPA An appicant must have earned semester grades of C or better, in a high schoo courses used to satisfy the a-g subject requirements. Athough the 9th grade courses can be used to meet subject requirements the grades earned are NOT used in computing the grade point average for the schoarship requirement. Ony grades earned in a-g courses taken in grades 10 through 11 wi be used to compute the grade point average for admission. Grades earned in up to eight semesters of courses designated Honors and/or Advanced Pacement wi be weighted so that A=5, B=4, and C=3. This appies ony to 11th and 12th grade Honors/AP courses designated on the UC Approved Course ist. III. Examination Requirement: Appicants must submit scores from either the SAT or the ACT with writing. Athough SAT subject tests are no onger required, some competitive majors ike Engineering may highy recommend Subject tests in appropriate areas. Caifornia State University (Bakersfied, Channe Isands, Chico, Fuerton, Humbodt, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angees, Northridge, Pomona, San Diego, San Marcos, SLO, Sonoma...) I. Subject Requirement: Same as subject requirements for University of Caifornia described above. II. Schoarship Requirement: 2.0 minimum GPA Same as schoarship requirements for University of Caifornia described above. III. Examination Requirement: Freshman appicants must submit scores from either the SAT or ACT. The SAT Subject tests are not required.

2 University Information (continued) Private Coeges/Out-Of-State Universities (Stanford, Pepperdine, USC, Yae, Smith, Harvard, NYU, Boston...) I. Subject Requirement: Requirements wi vary from schoo to schoo. Generay, students are best advised to compete the same pattern of course work required of the UC or CSU systems. Consut the schoo website for specific requirements. II. Schoarship Requirement: Requirements wi vary from schoo to schoo. Grade point average in coege preparatory courses and strength of curricuum are factors considered. III. Examination Requirement: Appicants must submit scores from either the SAT or ACT with writing. A schoos accept either the SAT or ACT equay. SAT Subject tests may or may not be required. Check specific coege websites for testing requirements. Caifornia Community Coeges (Moorpark, Pierce Coege, Oxnard Coege, Santa Barbara City Coege, Santa Monica City Coege...) Other than a high schoo dipoma, there are no specific course, grade point, or examination requirements for admission. Students can pursue a termina Associate Degree program (2 years) or compete a specific sequence of coursework in order to transfer after 2 years to a university. United States Service Academies (West Point, Nava Academy, Air Force Academy, Merchant Marine Academy, Coast Guard Academy) These are some of the most seective academic institutions in the country. Ony students who have taken the most rigorous academic programs are considered. Appication procedures begin in the spring of the junior year. Consut the Coege Counseor for more specific information. The Maibu High Schoo Library is committed to providing the students and staff of Maibu High with the resources and skis necessary to succeed in the Information Age and to encourage ife-ong reading. The ibrary houses twenty thousand voumes. This core coection is suppemented by significant onine resources incuding a fortyseven thousand voume high schoo research coection (Questia Schoo) and a number of onine reference databases providing access to over two thousand periodicas and journas. These onine resources provided by the District and the Maibu High Schoo PTSA provide students twenty-four seven access to materias. In addition to the onine resources, through our district union cataog, students have access to the one hundred and fifty thousand books contained in the SMMUSD coection. The ibrary houses some specia coections that support our curricuum. The Robert Perry Marine Bioogy coection supports the Marine Bioogy and Bioogy casses. The music CD coection supports our music program. The ibrary aso contains a sma coection of works by oca authors. The ibrary is open Monday through Thursday from 7:00 AM unti 4:30 PM and Friday from 7:00AM unti 12:30 PM. Monday through Thursday the ibrary houses a drop-in tutoring program where students can receive hep with their home work. The extended hours provide students with access to resources they may not have at home and a safe pace to work mornings and afternoons. The ibrary wi be moving. The od ibrary is schedued for demoition and wi be repaced by a new arger state of the art ibrary as part of the BB bond. This ibrary wi contain a sef contained cassroom as we as four project work rooms. Academic Information continued Attendance Poicy Students who miss cass cannot make up the participation that occurs during the cass periods. Certainy, students can make up the assignments, but it is very important to participate in the cass. When a student misses 15 days, teachers reserve the right to issue a grade no higher than a C. Summer Schoo Students are encouraged to attend summer schoo for enrichment or credit recovery. Required courses for graduation shoud be taken at MHS during the schoo year. Counseor approva is required for a summer schoo course work. Independent Study PE/PE Exemption Students may appy for independent study PE. Requests are accepted during the month of May of the previous academic year. No requests are considered after this period. Students need to compete an appication. Independent Study (Due to extended absence) Independent Study Program. MHS ISP is an aternative educationa program with imited avaiabiity for students. Students that are interested must meet with their counseor. Caifornia High Schoo Proficiency Exam The CHSPE is an aternative to receiving a high schoo dipoma. Students who are 16, or are enroed in the second semester of the 2 10th grade, may consider taking this exam. A passing score entites the student to a Certificate of Proficiency. No high schoo dipoma is issued, and the student woud not be aowed to participate in graduation ceremonies. Note: A passing score on the CHSPE does not aow a student to eave high schoo uness they are 16 and have a parenta permission note on fie with the registrar. High Schoo Graduation Students must compete 220 credits of required and eective course work, and compete 80 hours of community service. Students who fa short, wi not be aowed to participate in graduation ceremonies. The dipoma is withhed pending competion of A requirements. Credit Deficiency At the competion of the 1st semester of the junior year, students who have a credit deficiency wi be required to enro at Oympic High Schoo to catch up in course work; upon verification of work competed, students may return to MHS to graduate. Advanced Pacement Courses Students enroed in an AP Cass are expected to take an AP exam in May.

3 Engish COURSE: Engish 9 P (Year Course) GRADE: 9 DESCRIPTION: Engish 9 introduces students to the expectations and standards for reading and writing at the high schoo eve. Students read works of Shakespeare, Steinbeck, and Goding, among others. Seections from short stories and from Greek and Roman mythoogy are aso taught. Persuasive and anaytica writing, persona narrative, and speech are a important eements of the course. Increasing reading fuency and comprehension, grammar skis buiding, and vocabuary deveopment are aso stressed. COURSE: Engish 9 HP (Year Course) GRADE: 9 PREREQUISITE: Recommended grade of A or B in Engish 8. DESCRIPTION: Honors Engish 9 is a course designed for extensive reading and writing in a genres as a preparatory cass for 10th grade Honors Engish and 11th grade Advanced Pacement Engish. COURSE: Freshman Seminar (Year Course) GRADE: 9 DESCRIPTION: Freshman Seminar is an interdiscipinary, year-ong course that bends a curricuum on heath with a consideration of socia and ethica issues. The course focuses on academic writing, and students are taught a step by step approach to writing a research paper. The research topic is chosen by students as they deveop an area of interest stemming from the topics discussed in cass. The research paper sets the groundwork for community service that students wi compete in their sophomore year. COURSE: Engish 10 P (Year Course) GRADE: 10 PREREQUISITE: Engish 9 DESCRIPTION: Engish 10 is a chaenging course in which many of the core texts expore the theme of coming of age or connect to the history curricuum. Students are required to read at east four noves pus one Shakespearean pay. Course emphasis is on writing across the domains, with a continued focus on anaytica and persuasive writing. Graduation requirements Subject Area Semesters Credits Required Earned Engish 8 40 Word History 2 10 United States History 2 10 U.S. Government 1 5 Economics 1 5 Mathematics 6 30 Bioogica Science 2 10 Physica Science 2 10 Fine Arts 2 10 Freshman Seminar 2 10 Physica Education 4 20 Eectives - 65 Tota COURSE: Engish 10 HP (Year Course) GRADE: 10 PREREQUISITE: Recommended grade of A or B in Engish 9. DESCRIPTION: Honors Pacement Engish 10 is a demanding course in word iterature. Students read pays, poetry, and modern thematicay-based noves focusing on war and its impact, the Hoocaust, and criticisms of technoogy and the modern word. Each seection wi incuding suppementa nonfiction pieces that connect the iterature to modern issues. Students are expected to become increasingy sophisticated in anaytica writing, incuding the abiity to make thematic connections among the works. COURSE: Engish 11 P (Year Course) GRADE: 11 PREREQUISITE: Engish 10 DESCRIPTION: Engish 11 is a survey course of American Literature. Students read seections from the historica foundation to the modern period, write anaytica and persuasive essays, and deveop istening and speaking skis. COURSE: ENGLISH 11 AP (Year Course) GRADE: 11 PREREQUISITE: Recommended grade of A or B in Engish 10. DESCRIPTION: Advanced Pacement Language and Composition is a rigorous course focusing on rhetorica anaysis, persuasive writing and academic research. It is a comprehensive course taught at a coege eve; demands and expectations are high. In addition to preparing students for the nationa Advanced Pacement exam in May, the course aso incudes a survey of major works in American Literature. COURSE: Engish 12 P (Year Course) GRADE: 12 PREREQUISITE: Engish 11 DESCRIPTION: The iterature in this course wi vary, but wi be based on the themes from American Literature, Shakespeare and other word iterature. Students wi read four to six noves, as we as short stories and poetry. Students wi write in a variety of anaytica and creative styes. COURSE: Engish 12 AP (Year Course) GRADE: 12 PREREQUISITE: Recommended grade of A or B in Engish 11. DESCRIPTION: The AP Engish Literature and Composition course is designed to engage students in the carefu reading and critica anaysis of word iterature. Through the cose reading of seected texts, students can deepen their understanding of the ways writers use anguage to provide both meaning and peasure for their readers. As they read, students shoud consider a work s structure, stye, and themes, as we as such smaer-scae eements as the use of figurative anguage, imagery, symboism, and tone. The course prepares students for the nationa Advanced Pacement exam in May. COURSE: Journaism I (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Recommended grade of A or B in previous year s Engish cass. Appication Required. Description: By taking this course, students are joining the staff of Maibu high Schoo s student newspaper The Current. In addition to earning the principes of journaism, students wi be required to contribute to the newspaper through writing artices, photojournaism, assisting with ayout, updating the onine newspaper, seing advertising and fundraising.

4 Engish continued COURSE: Creative Writing P (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: This year-ong course assumes that a students have an interest in deveoping their artistic writing skis. In other words, a student's enroment in this course assumes that he or she enjoys writing and is interested in moving forward in that endeavor. The first semester expores the nuts and bots aspects of writing, beginning with nonfiction and then moving into the fied of fiction and writing short stories. Assignments wi consist of a variety of journa entries, which wi ater be edited and revised, occasionay in a workshop atmosphere, and then be presented in a fina portfoio. Second semester continues to expore aspects of fiction incuding poetry, fairy taes, chidren's stories, comic books, and the screen pay. COURSE: Advanced Creative Writing P (Year Course) GRADES: 11,12 PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or above in Creative Writing DESCRIPTION: Advanced Creative Writing is the second year of the creative writing program. The goas of the cass are to buid off of the concepts earned in the first year and to further define and sharpen your voice, stye, and proficiency at various forms, from story deveopment to poetic expression. The cass studies a variety of different phiosophies on writing, and expores the nature of creativity as it appies to students' writing. A passing grade in the first year of Creative Writing is a prerequisite for taking the cass. COURSE: Fim Studies (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: This eective course wi introduce students to the history of fim and chart the progress and deveopment of cinema, focusing on American cinema. The cass wi cover techniques and devices used by fimmakers to communicate meaning. The course wi consist of reading, fim viewing, ecture, anaysis incuding creating short fims, a designed to increase understanding and appreciation of fim as an art form. COURSE: Advanced Fim Studies P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Fim Studies cass DESCRIPTION: This eective course wi continue to expore fim as an art form, utiizing concepts and materia earned from the Fim Studies course as a starting point. Students wi write, fim and edit short fims. Students wi produce documentary, music video, TV and fim scenes, as we as origina short fims. COURSE: Fim/Video Production 1&2: Broadcast Fim (Year Course) GRADES: 11,12 DESCRIPTION: By taking this course, students are joining the cast and crew of the Maibu High Schoo s Shark TV. This eective cass revoves around the production of our schoo news broadcast. Students wi serve as anchors, writers, camera peope, ighting, grip or editors in order to produce the weeky program. This is a student driven course with the requirement of the finished weeky product of Shark TV. Science COURSE: Lab Bioogy P (Year Course) GRADE: 9, 10 DESCRIPTION: Bioogy is a rigorous coege preparatory course designed to satisfy the University Caifornia requirement for a aboratory science. It utiizes a standards aigned curricuum framework to encompass the essentia concepts of bioogica science: origins, structures, functions, heredity, growth and deveopment, interactions among, and behavior of iving things. Content is buit around major bioogica concepts, incuding biochemistry and the bioogy of ces, genetics, evoution, ecoogy, and physioogic systems. Students wi anayze and expain the nature of science in the search for understanding the natura word, as we as practice the appication of technoogy, scientific toos and critica thought skis in soving probems. Students wi focus on the bioogica structures and their functions at mutipe eves of organization in iving things, as we as expore the patterns, processes and systems within bioogy. As scientific earners, students wi coect and anayze data, interpret resuts, draw concusions and communicate their findings. Throughout the course, students wi work both independenty and coaborativey, in a aboratory based cassroom with an active earner approach. The goa for the course is for students to gain a more meaningfu understanding of the iving word around them as we as a deeper appreciation of their pace in it. COURSE: Lab Bioogy Honors P (Year Course) GRADE: 9, 10 PREREQUISITE: An A or B in Agebra 1. DESCRIPTION: Bioogy is a rigorous coege preparatory course designed to satisfy the University of Caifornia requirement for a aboratory science. It utiizes a standards aigned curricuum framework to encompass the essentia concepts of bioogica science: origins, structures, functions, heredity, growth 4 and deveopment, interactions among, and behavior of iving things. Content is buit around major bioogica concepts, incuding biochemistry and the bioogy of ces, genetics, evoution, ecoogy, and physioogic systems. Students wi anayze and expain the nature of science in the search for understanding the natura word, as we as practice the appication of technoogy, scientific toos and critica thought skis in soving probems. Students wi focus on the bioogica structures and their functions at mutipe eves of organization in iving things, as we as expore the patterns, processes and systems within bioogy. As scientific earners, students wi coect and anayze data, interpret resuts, draw concusions and communicate their findings. Throughout the course, students wi work both independenty and coaborativey, in a aboratory based cassroom with an active earner approach. The goa for the course is for students to gain a more meaningfu understanding of the iving word around them as we as a deeper appreciation of their pace in it. COURSE: Lab Marine Bioogy HP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: The course is open to any student in grades 11, 12 that earned a B or better in Bioogy. Students must know how to swim. Transportation fee requested. DESCRIPTION: Honors Marine Bioogy is a one year aboratory and outdoor fied research course taught at the coege eve. The inquiry approach to earning science wi be used through the use of hands on/minds on activities. Students make extensive use of the beaches, offshore waters, and iving marine specimens of southern Caifornia for their hands-on studies. Honors Marine Bioogy requires more cacuating, graphing and reading technica scientific iterature than Reguar Marine Bioogy. The course fufis the University of Caifornia admissions requirement for aboratory science at the Honors eve.

5 Science continued COURSE: Lab Chemistry P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Competion of Bioogy, Agebra 1 and minimum enroment in Geometry. DESCRIPTION: Chemistry is a coege-preparatory course designed to satisfy UC s requirements for a aboratory science. This course covers the basic concepts of genera chemistry: the mathematics of chemistry, atomic structure, inorganic nomencature, the concept of moe, chemica reactions, stoichiometry, the gas aws, properties of soutions and soution concentrations, and acid-base chemistry. The course has a aboratory component and is mathematica in nature. COURSE: Lab Chemistry Honors P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Concurrent enroment in Intermediate Agebra and a B in Bioogy. DESCRIPTION: Honors Chemistry is a course designed for students who have demonstrated exceence in Bioogy and Mathematics. The topics incude a those covered in Chemistry P pus additiona units in Quantum Chemistry, Chemica Periodicity, Thermochemistry and Equiibrium. The course is rigorous in nature, being both fast-paced and highy mathematica. It incudes a aboratory component. COURSE: Chemistry AP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Competion of Honors Chemistry with a B or better or competion of Chemistry P with a grade of A. DESCRIPTION: AP Chemistry is a second-year chemistry course, which mimics a coege eve Chemistry course, with in-depth treatments of topics, such as atomic structure, intermoecuar forces and bonding, chemica reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics, equiibrium, acids, buffers as we as a brief review of topics covered in the first year chemistry course. A major component of the course is competion of16 hands-on abs in preparation for the AP Exam in May. COURSE: AP Environmenta Science (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: An A in Laboratory Bioogy, or a B or higher in Honors Laboratory Bioogy, AND an A in Laboratory Chemistry, or a B or higher in Honors Lab. Chemistry. The math prerequisite is a B or higher in Agebra 2. A transportation donation is requested. DESCRIPTION: The goa of the AP Environmenta Science course is to provide students with the scientific principes, concepts and methodoogies required to understand the interreationships of the natura word, to identify and anayze environmenta probems both natura and human-made, to evauate the reative risks associated with these probems, and to examine aternative soutions for resoving and/or preventing them. The course prepares students for the Internationa Advanced Pacement exam in May. COURSE: Physics P (Year Course) GRADES: 11,12 (and 10 with specia permission) PREREQUISITE: Successfu competion of Intermediate Agebra with a grade of B or better. DESCRIPTI0N: Physics is a mathematica course covering the topics of motion, forces, energy, momentum, rotationa dynamics, fuids, heat, waves, sound, ight, static eectricity, circuits, magnetism with a touch of quantum physics and reativity at the end. Students earn through ecture, abs, the Physics Oympics and a fied trip for Physics Day at Magic Mountain. COURSE: AP Physics One (Year course) GRADES: 11,12 Prerequisite: Successfu competion of Trig/Pre-Cacuus and Chemistry with a grade of B or better. DESCRPTION: AP Physics One is a highy mathematica course covering the topics of motion, forces, energy, momentum, rotationa dynamics, mechanica waves and circuits. Students earn through ecture, abs, exporations, the Physics Oympics and a fied trip for Physics Day at Magic Mountain. Because ony haf the topics are covered as in Physics P, these topics wi be covered at a much greater depth in order to prepare students for the required Advanced Pacement exam in May. COURSE: AP Physics Two (Year course) GRADE: 12 PREREQUISITE: Successfu competion of AP Physics One with a grade of C or better DESCRPTION: AP Physics Two is a highy mathematica course that begins where AP Physics One eft off. It covers the topics of fuids, heat, waves, sound, ight, static eectricity, magnetism, quantum physics and reativity. Students earn through ecture, abs and exporations. Because ony haf the topics are covered as in Physics P, these topics wi be covered at a much greater depth in order to prepare students for the required Advanced Pacement exam in May. COURSE: Introduction to Engineering Design (Year course) GRADE: 9 (other grades with specia permission) PREREQUISITE: Successfu competion of Common Core 8 Math with a grade of Bor better. Since this course is an aternative to 9th grade science,students wi fi out an appication for the course, and after competing an interview, a portion of those who appied wi be chosen. DESCRIPTION: Introduction to Engineering Design is the first in a series of courses designed by the private company Project Lead the Way. Students wi earn how engineers take an idea through the design process. The emphasis wi be on probems soving, competing activities and projects (both individua and group), and communication through various means. Students wi earn how to make engineering drawings by hand. Students wi earn how to create spreadsheets in Exce. The major emphasis wi be on earning to use Inventor, which is a state of the art 3-D design software package from AutoDesk, which is used to create 3D different design projects and drawings. COURSE: Principes of Engineering (Year course) GRADE: 10 (other grades with specia permission) PREREQUISITE: Successfu competion of Common Core 9 Math (Agebra) with a grade of B or better and a competion of Introduction to Engineering Design with a grade of B or better. DESCRIPTION: Principes of Engineering is the second in a series of courses designed by the private company Project Lead the Way. Students wi continue in their earning of what it means to be an engineer. Students wi continue to use Exce to earn about Engineering Systems, Statics, Dynamics, Materias, Materia Testing, Thermodynamics, Testing for quaity and reiabiity and computer programming. The emphasis of this course wi again be on the competion of individua and group projects through buiding structures, mechanisms, machines, and robots using VEX components. 5

6 Science continued COURSE: Digita Eectronics (subsequent to change) Grade 11 (other grades with specia permission) PREREQUISITE: Competion of Principes of Engineering DESCRIPTION: This is the third year course of the Project Lead The Way sequence. From smart phones to appiances, digita circuits are a around us. This course provides a foundation for students who are interested in eectrica engineering, eectronics, or circuit design. Students study topics such as combinationa and sequentia ogic and are exposed to circuit design toos used in industry, incuding ogic gates, integrated circuits, and programmabe ogic devices. COURSE: Directed Science Research P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Instructor approva ony. DESCRIPTION: Directed Science Research is an advanced aboratory science course in which students design and impement aboratory and fied research projects using standard techniques. Mathematics COURSE: Agebra 1P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Successfu competion with a C or better in Core 8. DESCRIPTION: Agebra I is a course that uses a variety of representations (concrete, numerica, agorithmic, and graphica) to deveop the comprehensive understanding of inear and quadratic functions incuding systems of equations, inequaities, poynomias, and rationa and radica expressions. Students understand the reationships between equations, graphs, and soutions to the equations. Students sove probems by empoying agebraic techniques factoring and appying quadratic formua, and they extend their mathematica reasoning by modeing rea word mathematica reationships. COURSE: Geometry P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in Agebra 1. DESCRIPTION: The main purpose of Geometry is to deveop geometric skis and concepts and to appy these in constructing forma ogica arguments and proofs. Logica arguments are rooted in expaining the why and how of geometric vocabuary, definitions, and theorems. A variety of representations are used (concrete, pictoria, agebraic, and coordinate). Students participate in activities and investigations that ead to geometric discoveries in order to experience the inductive and deductive reasoning processes. Athough weighted in favor of pane Eucidean geometry, there is room for pacing specia emphasis on coordinate geometry and its transformations. Topics of study incude: patterns, geometric constructions, properties of ines, anges, poygons, trianges, circes, and poyhedrons, congruence and simiarity, the Pythagorean theorem, and trigonometry of right trianges. COURSE: Geometry HP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of A in Agebra 1 or Agebra 1P, quaifying score on the readiness test, and teacher recommendation. DESCRIPTION: Most topics of study in Honors Geometry are the same as described in Geometry P. The Honors Geometry course assumes a higher eve of understanding of mathematica concepts and moves at a faster pace than Geometry P. Coursework is more in-depth and there is an emphasis on appying agebraic expressions to geometry probems. COURSE: Agebra 2P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in Geometry and Agebra 1. DESCRIPTION: Agebra II expands on the mathematica content of Agebra I and Geometry. A variety of representations (concrete, numerica, agorithmic, graphica) are used to expand the reationship between agebra and geometry and the understanding of functions inear, quadratic, exponentia and ogarithmic. Higher eve thinking is required to anayze, interpret, and sove probems. Many new concepts and techniques are introduced that wi be basic to more advanced courses in mathematics and the sciences and usefu in the workpace: compex numbers, ogarithmic functions, sequences, series, trigonometry functions and basic probabiity with statistics incuding a study of the norma curve. Graphing cacuators are required. COURSE: Agebra 2HP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of A in Geometry or B or better in Honors Geometry with teacher recommendation. DESCRIPTION: In one year, students wi compete the course materia as described in the Agebra II course. The Honors Course assumes a higher eve of understanding of mathmatica concepts and moves at a faster pace. Graphing cacuators are required. COURSE: Pre-Cacuus/Trigonometry P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in Agebra II. DESCRIPTION: Students study poynomias and exponentia and ogarithmic functions and their appications. In addition, students study conic sections and matrices, and trigonometric, poar, and parametric functions. Graphing cacuators are required. COURSE: Pre-Cacuus/Cacuus A HP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade B or better in Agebra IIHP or Agebra II with an A. DESCRIPTION: Students wi compete the course materia as described in the Pre-Cacuus course. The honors course assumes a higher eve of understanding of mathematica concepts and moves at a faster pace. In Cacuus A students wi study imits, continuity, derivatives and appications. After successfuy competing this course, students wi have the option of taking AP Cacuus AB or AP Cacuus BC. Graphing cacuators are required. 6

7 Mathematics continued COURSE: AP Cacuus AB (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of B or better in Trigonometry/Pre-Cacuus. DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Pacement Examination in Cacuus AB and covers the curricuum typica of a coege eve Cacuus course (first semester). Students expore a types of functions and their graphs and earn how to evauate imits. Students then make a connection between imits and the definition of the derivative, and go on to spend the majority of the course time focusing on techniques and appications of derivatives and integras. Graphing cacuators are required. COURSE: AP Cacuus BC (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of B or better in Cacuus AB or Cacuus A. DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Pacement Examination in Cacuus BC and covers the curricuum typica of two semesters of coege eve Cacuus. This course incudes a more extensive and in-depth coverage of a topics described in Cacuus AB, pus additiona topics incuding sequences and series, vectors, improper integras, and functions in poar and parametric form. Graphing cacuators are required. COURSE: Statistics P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade C or better in Agebra II DESCRIPTION: This course incudes an introduction to statistics and probabiity. It covers descriptions of sampe data, methods of anayzing data, samping, norma distribution, hypothesis testing, and rues of probabiity. The graphing cacuator is required and used intensivey. COURSE: Mutivariabe Cacuus (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade C or better in Cacuus BC DESCRIPTION: Muti-Variabe Cacuus corresponds to the university eve cacuus course that foows the courses in Cacuus of a Singe Variabe. This course is designed for high schoo students who have successfuy competed Advanced Pacement Cacuus BC. The content of the course consists of the differentia and integra cacuus of severa variabes as we as the cacuus of vector vaued functions. Specia Education The Specia Education department offers core casses at a grade eves in anguage arts, mathematics and science. Casses may be muti-grade and muti-subject. Curricuum may be modified to meet student needs. COURSE: SAI Study Tutoria PREREQUISITE: IEP DESCRIPTION: SAI is strongy recommended and usuay required for SAI students who need sma group one-on-one assistance and support academicay, sociay and/or hep with their organization and executive functioning skis per their IEP s. COURSE: SAI Life Skis PREREQUISITE: IEP The SAI/Life Skis program provides intensive services to students with more significant disabiities by teaching the functiona academics, communication, daiy iving, sef-hep and vocationa skis needed for the students to become as independent as possibe. The Life Skis program aso provides Community Based Instruction, to teach rea-ife skis such as shopping, money skis, accessing pubic transportation, appropriate socia interaction skis and safety concepts such as crossing streets, stranger awareness and recognizing community hepers. Students in the Life Skis program participate in career exporation and deveopment through activities that incude career interest surveys and job skis deveopment. 7

8 Socia Studies COURSE: Word History P (Year Course) GRADE: 10 DESCRIPTION: Students in grade ten study major turning points that shaped the modern word, from the ate eighteenth century through the present, incuding the cause and course of the two word wars. They trace the rise of democratic ideas and deveop an understanding of the historica roots of current word issues, especiay as they pertain to internationa reations. They extrapoate from the American experience that democratic ideas are often achieved at a high price, remain vunerabe, and are not practiced everywhere in the word. Students deveop an understanding of current word issues and reate them to their historica, geographic, poitica, economic, and cutura contexts. Students consider mutipe accounts of events in order to understand internationa reations from a variety of perspectives. COURSE: AP European History (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of B or better in Engish 9HP or an A in Engish 9P. DESCRIPTION: AP European History focuses on deveoping students abiities to think conceptuay about European history from approximatey 1450 to the present and appy historica thinking skis as they earn about the past. Five themes of equa importance interaction of Europe and the word, poverty and prosperity, objective knowedge and subjective visions, states and other institutions of power, and individua and society provide areas of historica inquiry for investigation throughout the course. These themes require students to reason historicay about continuity and change over time and make comparisons among various historica deveopments in different times and paces. Since this is the equivaent of a coege course, students shoud be prepared for the use of primary and secondary sources aong with heavy amounts of coegeeve reading, writing, and anaytica thinking. COURSE: United States History P (Year Course) GRADE: 11 DESCRIPTION: In U.S. History students examine major turning points in American history in the 20th century as they refect continuity and change from the nation s beginning. Topics incude the Progressive Era, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, Word War II, the Cod War, hemispheric reationships in the post war era, Civi Rights, and the United States in recent times. COURSE: United States History AP (Year Course) GRADE: 11 PR E R EQU I S ITE: Grade of B or better in Engish 10 HP or European History AP, or a grade of A in Engish 10P or Word History P. Students not meeting the above prerequisites must see their counseor to waive into the cass. DESCRIPTION: Advanced Pacement United States History is a survey course of American History from the discovery of America to the present. The course prepares students to take the AP United States History exam in May. Students focus on knowedge of historica facts, abiity to anayze, and deveopment of skis in taking essay examinations. Students use a textbook as a primary source of reading in addition to two suppementa history books, and assorted readings from other historians. This highy anaytica course requires a substantia amount of reading and writing. COURSE: U.S. Government P (Semester Course) GRADE: 12 PREREQUISITE: NONE DESCRIPTION: American Government is an introduction to the American Poitica System focusing on: The Constitution and its historica framework; the organization and functions of Congress; the Presidency; the Supreme Court and the judicia system; the eectora process; civi rights; and Caifornia state and oca government. COURSE: U.S. Government AP (Semester Course) GRADE: 12 PREREQUISITE: Grade of B or better in Engish 11 AP or United States History AP or A in Engish 11P or United States History P. Students not meeting the above prerequisites must see their counseor to waive into the cass. DESCRIPTION: Advanced Pacement U.S. Government and Poitics is an in-depth study of the American Poitica System that prepares students to take the AP U.S. Government exam in May. Topics that are covered by the course incude the constitutiona underpinnings of the U.S. Government, the poitica beiefs and behaviors of individuas, poitica parties, interest groups, the media, Congress, the presidency, the federa courts, the bureaucracy, pubic poicy, civi iberties, and civi rights. Students focus on knowedge of facts pertaining to the U.S. Government and the abiity to anayze the many different ways our government functions. Knowedge of current events is hepfu, and it wi be necessary for students to have a working understanding of what major events are currenty shaping our country. COURSE: Economics P (Semester Course) GRADE: 12 DESCRIPTION: Economics introduces basic economic principes and their appications. The economy of the United States and its roe in internationa trade is stressed. NOTE: This course fufis the G UC requirement and C S U coege prep eective requirement. COURSE: Psychoogy P (Semester Course) DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and menta processes of human beings and animas. Students are exposed to the psychoogica facts, principes, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfieds within psychoogy. They aso earn about the methods psychoogists use to expore the processes invoved in norma and abnorma perceptions, thoughts, feeings, and actions. NOTE: This course fufis the G UC requirement and CSU coege prep eective requirement. COU RS E: Socioogy P (Semester Course) DESCRIPTION: This one-semester course buids on the first semester of Psychoogy. Students wi examine forces which mod cuture and impact the sociaization processes of infancy to od age. From there, students earn about socia and goba stratification with particuar focus on race, ethnicity, gender, poitics, and reigion. Students wi be evauated using tests and research projects. NOTE: This course fufis the G UC requirement and CSU coege prep eective requirement. 8

9 Socia Studies continued COURSE: Word Issues: Human Geography P (Year Course) Grades: 11, 12 DESCRIPTION: Word Issues-Human Geography is a two-semester course that introduces students to a systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and ateration of the Earth s surface. Content is presented thematicay rather than regionay and is organized around the discipine s main subfieds: economic geography, cutura geography, poitica geography, and urban geography. The approach is spatia and probem oriented. Case studies are drawn from a word regions, and ocay in Southern Caifornia, with an emphasis on understanding the word in which we ive today. Historica information serves to enrich the anaysis of gobaization, cooniaism, and human environmenta reationships on paces, regions, cutura andscapes, and patterns of interaction. Students wi deveop skis in approaching probems geographicay, thinking criticay about texts and graphic images, interpreting cutura andscapes, and appying geographic concepts such as scae, region, diffusion, interdependence, and spatia interaction, among others. By the end of the course, students shoud be more geoiterate, more engaged in contemporary goba issues, and more muticutura in their viewpoints. NOTE: This course fufis the G UC requirement and CSU coege prep eective requirement. Word Languages COURSE: Spanish I P (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: This beginning course provides the student with the means to communicate effectivey in Spanish in the present tense through istening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, it provides exposure to the goba Spanish-speaking cutures. COURSE: Spanish II P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in Spanish I. DESCRIPTION: This course continues to deveop understanding of the Spanish anguage and the cutures that speak Spanish. This course focuses on the deveopment of conversationa proficiency that incudes the mastery of the underying grammatica structures for the present and past tenses. Students continue to buid on the four basic anguage skis. COURSE: Spanish III P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in Spanish II. DESCRIPTION: This course guides students toward forma communications in reading, writing and speaking whie buiding on Spanish II proficiency. In addition to expanding conversationa skis for various audiences and mastering in-depth grammatica structures, this course prepares students for the advanced study of Spanish in the 4th and 5th (Advanced Pacement) years. COURSE: Spanish IV P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in Spanish III. DESCRIPTION: This advanced course concudes the forma study of grammatica structures and begins the reading and interpretation of iterature. Students continue to improve their proficiency in speaking and forma writing in Spanish. Students strengthen the skis they wi need to continue on with Advanced Pacement Spanish. COURSE: French I P (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: This beginning course provides the student with the means to communicate effectivey in French in the present tenses through istening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, it provides exposure to the goba French-speaking cutures. COURSE: French II P (Year Course) GRADES: 9, 10, 11,12 PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in French I. DESCRIPTION: French II is a course in French anguage and French cuture. It is predominanty a study of grammar and conversation which buids on the foundation of information earned in French I. COURSE: French III P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in French II. DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to guide students toward forma communications in reading, writing and speaking. In addition to expanding conversationa skis for various audiences and mastering indepth grammatica structures, this course prepares the student for advanced study of French in the 4th year. COURSE: French IV P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of C or better in French III DESCRIPTION: French IV is a course in French anguage and Francophone cuture. It is a continued study of grammar and conversation which buids on a information earned in French I, II, and III. This cass concudes the forma study of grammatica structures and continues to deveop skis in reading and interpretation of iterature. In addition, students continue to earn how to write formay in French. COURSE: Spanish V AP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of B or better in Spanish IV. DESCRIPTION: The Advanced Pacement Spanish Language course is a composition and conversation course that continues to deveop students' communicative abiities in Spanish. Grammar is reviewed. Course prepares students for the AP exam which is taken in May. 9

10 Word Languages continued COURSE: French V AP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of B or better in French IV. DESCRIPTION: The Advanced Pacement French Language course seeks to deveop anguage skis that can be used in various activities and discipines. Training in the organization and writing of compositions is aso emphasized. This course prepares students for the AP exam which is taken in May. Note to Spanish or French speakers or students with experience in Spanish or French: The course of study presented in the MHS Spanish and French Language Program buids sequentiay to deveop academic anguage proficiency. Whie it is understood that Spanish or French speakers or students with exposure to Spanish or French may have achieved some ora anguage proficiency, these courses of study ensure that students earn the academic foundations of standard Spanish or French. Therefore, students are expected to progress through the course sequence, or begin study of a new anguage. Non-Departmenta COURSE: Student Counci (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: 2.0 Cumuative GPA and no F grades from previous semester, seection by ASB cabinet and approva by ASB Advisor DESCRIPTION: Student Counci teaches eadership skis and offers students reaistic opportunities to appy these skis. The course incudes theories of eadership, debate, probem-soving, speech-making, committee work and citizenship deveopment. Much of the time is aso devoted to organizing and participating in supervising schoo activities and events (incuding a major schoowide fundraiser). COURSE: T.A. s for the SAI Cass DESCRIPTION: Working directy with Midde and High Schoo Specia Education students, heping them with cass assignments such as: reading aoud, heping them with math work. Responsibiities aso incude assisting the teachers with preparing and correcting casswork and organization of the room. The most important responsibiity is interacting in an appropriate and positive way with the students, such as being a good roe mode, heping them with their socia skis and anguage deveopment. Physica Education COURSE: Physica Education (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: The high schoo curricuum wi buid on what has been previousy earned in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade casses. In each unit the skis and strategies wi be more advanced. During the sports program students wi gain an understanding of mechanica principes and the effects of exercise on the body. They wi aso deveop interpersona skis in the foowing activities: softba, basketba, soccer, voeyba, touch footba, tennis, track, swimming, cross-country and weight training. Students wi earn the concepts eading to ife-ong fitness. Warm-up and exercise activities wi invove fexibiity, strength and cardiovascuar fitness. Two semesters of Physica Education is rerquired by a 9th Graders. COURSE: Weight Training (Semester Course) DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to deveop strength, fexibiity, and endurance. Students wi better understand the muscuar system and the reationship of each musce or set of musces to various ifts. A pre and post ifting test wi be a significant portion of the student assessment, as we as participation, and an understanding of the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs. Engish Language Deveopment (ELD) COURSE: Engish Language Deveopment (ELD) GRADES: 9, 10, 11,12 PREREQUISITE: Testing DESCRIPTION: Engish Language Deveopment Services are avaiabe for a imited Engish proficient students. Students are tested upon entering Maibu High Schoo, and those rated eves 1-3 (beginning intermediate) are seen daiy for Engish anguage deveopment. Those students rated eves 4-5 (advanced) are mainstreamed into reguar casses and monitored by the ELD teacher. The ELD study skis cass is avaiabe to a imited Engish proficient students. 10

11 The Arts COURSE: Visua Arts (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: Visua Arts is a course that introduces students to the four basic art discipines. The discipines are drawing and painting, twodimensiona design and three-dimensiona design. Students wi create works of art utiizing a variety of media and earned techniques that express their ideas creativey and effectivey. Students wi earn how to manipuate the principes and eements of art whie they deveop technica skis with various toos and media. Art appreciation wi be presented to hep students anayze the roe and deveopment of visua arts in the past and present. This art course presents a core of knowedge essentia to a other art casses COURSE: Drawing and Painting I(Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Visua Arts Students wi design and execute individua artworks based on eements and principes of design as we as responses to historica, phiosophica, and cutura references. Emphasis is paced on the eement of design, ski buiding and technique in drawing and painting production. A wide variety of media wi be addresses incuding graphite, pen and ink, water coor and acryic. COURSE: AP Studio Art: Drawing (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Visua Arts DESCRIPTION: Studio Art is for committed art students to pursue their studies in depth. This environment is for the advanced student who wishes to master the skis acquired through a rigorous cassica training. Those students preparing for a career in Art and/or entrance to a coege Art Major wi greaty benefit from this course Option: AP Studio Art-Coege Board. Studio Art Majors may eect to fufi the requirements for AP Studio Art program during this cass. Students fufi Coege Board Portfoio requirements Suppy fee required. COURSE: Ceramics/Scupture P (Year Course) PREREQUISITE None DESCRIPTION: Ceramics/Scupture is a course designed for students to acquire technica skis, utiizing cay construction and scupture techniques in a variety of media to express their ideas creativey and effectivey, Students wi study three-dimensiona form in the medium of day. This course incudes exporation of basic hand buiding techniques, throwing, and the process of gazing and firing. Art appreciation wi hep the students anayze the roe and deveopment of ceramics and scupture past and present. Students wi use these earning toos in the creation of their own three-dimensiona projects. COURSE: Ceramics IIP/3D-AP (Year Course) Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B in Ceramics/Scupture. DESCRIPTION: Ceramics IIP 3D-AP is a continuation of Ceramics/Scupture I with emphasis on student assignments suited to individua interests. Course emphasizes advanced concepts in ceramic/scupture and 3-D design. A student wanting to use this cass for 3-D Advanced Pacement must have consent of the instructor, compete a portfoio for AP assessment, and take the AP exam (a portfoio review) at the end of the cass. Students not doing AP wi compete cass projects directed towards individua interests. COURSE: Photography (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: In beginning photography, students earn the basic functions on both 35mm singe ens refex and digita singe ens refex cameras. They earn how to make exposures, how to work successfuy and safey in a darkroom, and how to process and print back and white fim. They aso get an introduction to Adobe Photoshop. Students study the history of photography, and upon critiquing their own creations, review the artistic concepts of composition, technique, tonaity and ight. COURSE: Photography IIP/2D-AP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Photography I, teacher approva and own a DSLR camera. DESCRIPTION: Photography II wi expore the use of B/W photography using a 35mm, medium format and digita SLR cameras. Artificia ight incuding studio eectronic fash, tungsten studio ight, and hand strobe wi be expored. Professiona quaity deveoping and printing incuding portraiture, cose-ups, product and action are emphasized. Students may choose to fufi the Coege Board Portfoio Requirements. COURSE: Symphony Orchestra (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Approva of instructor. DESCRIPTION: The Symphony Orchestra is open to any grade eve. It pays the music of major composers from baroque to contemporary. The music performed wi be difficut, chaenging and fun. The Symphony Orchestra merges with the Wind Ensembe for some performances; it aso performs as a separate entity. Course: Jazz Band (Year Course) Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 PREREQUISITE: Instructor Approva DESCRIPTION: The Jazz Band is open to any grade eve. It pays various styes of music from the jazz repertory that range from traditiona swing to contemporary arrangements. Students wi earn to deveop their jazz stye knowedge through both ensembe and improvisation participation. Historica context wi aso be provided for the music that is rehearsed and performed. COURSE: Wind Ensembe (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Approva of instructor. DESCRIPTION: The Wind Ensembe is open to any grade eve. It pays various styes of wind music from traditiona pieces by major composers to contemporary arrangements. The music wi be chaenging yet rewarding. COURSE: High Schoo Chorae (Year Course) DESCRIPTION: High Schoo Chora is a beginning voca technique cass that encourages students to earn to sing. Emphasis is paced on deveoping the basics in good voca production and earning to read music. Students are given individua as we as ensembe coaching by the director. Cassica, fok, muticutura, pop and Broadway styes of chora music are earned and performed. Performance requirements incude concerts, festivas, cinics and community events. 11

12 The Arts continued COURSE: AP Music Theory (Year Course) Prerequisite: Successfu participation in Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensembe, or High Schoo Chorae. Description: This course is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Pacement exam in music theory. Students wi focus on musicianship, theory, musica materias, and procedures whie integrating aspects of meody, harmony, texture, rhythm, form, musica anaysis, and composition. This in-depth study of reading and writing musica notation wi prepare students for the AP Music Theory exam in May. COURSE: Yearbook (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: B or better in Engish. DESCRIPTION: Yearbook revoves around the production of a 200 page book of memories. Students are invoved from start to finish in a eements of desktop pubishing incuding Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Iustrator and InDesign. They brainstorm theme ideas, create ayouts, se business advertisements, take photographs, and deveop graphic design skis. Yearbook provides students with opportunities to be eaders, artists, writers, saespeope and photographers. COURSE: Professiona Actor (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Drama Instructor Approva Ony (Auditions wi be hed in advance) DESCRIPTION: This advanced theater course is designed to further deveop the actor's acting technique through practica appication in production. Leadership, commitment, and working we under pressure are stressed. Go COURSE: Stagecraft Technoogy (Year Course) Grades: 10, 11, 12 PREREQUISITE: Instructor Approva DESCRIPTION: Learn how to conceptuaize and design ighting, sound, props, sets, costumes, and make-up. Learn about stage management, production scheduing, and pubicity for forma productions. Learn how to use, care and upkeep the equipment and suppies reated to production goas. COURSE: Digita Design (Year Course) GRADES 9, 10, 11, 12 DESCRIPTION: Learn the art of preparing art work for printing and get a head start on interviewing and job pacement as a Graphic Designer. Cass starts with a comprehensive foundation in design methods, conceptua skis and digita techniques to create visuay peasing and effective graphic communications. Then move to the mastery of the Mac patform: pubication design using InDesign, digita imaging using Photoshop, and eectronic imaging using Adobe Iustrator. As you buid mastery of these essentia toos, you wi earn he requirements of advertising and pubication design; and understand the technica requirements of digita prepress. COURSE: Digita Design IIP/2D-AP (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Digita Design and teacher approva. DESCRIPTION: Second Year Digita design students wi independenty working on their digita design portfoios to submit to the AP Coege Board. They use the entire Adobe Creative Suite. The portfoio is due in May, after the AP submitta they wi continue buiding their portfoio. COURSE: AP ART HISTORY (Year Course) PREREQUISITE: Grade of A in Engish 10P or Engish 11P or Grade of B or better in Engish 10HP or 11AP. DESCRIPTION: Art history emphasizes understanding works of art within their historica context by examining issues such as poitics, cass, reigion, patronage, audience, gender, function, and ethnicity. The AP Art History course aso teaches students visua anaysis of works of art.the course teaches students to understand works of art through both visua and contextua anaysis. The course is a broad survey which starts with ancient art, through Medieva and Renaissance art, and continues unti the present, with a focus on both European and non-european artistic traditions.