<p>i am an atheist too..</p>
<p>AP Theology was just an idea..</p>
<p>AP Theology... I would have to say nay to that one. Teaching religion in highschool (particularly public) has and will always ruffle a few feathers despite the best intentions... I'd rather avoid that mess entirely.</p>
<p>AP Philosophy... good one too, since I think most college philosophy courses also touch upon religion w/o quite the same complications. </p>
<p>AP Sociology...somewhat similiar to psychology. i don't think its likely due to the CLEP test already available. </p>
<p>AP Sleep... yeah, good idea. but again, we already have AP psych... (lol... snap!)</p>
<p>Personally, I think if they were to expand the sciences, I'd revamp bio entirely by splitting it into smaller sections. (AP Bio is simply too broad of a subject.) My suggestions for some of the splits:</p>
<p>AP Zoology
AP Microbiology
AP Human Anat/Physiology
AP Botany</p>
<p>AP Evolution... nah... evolution is intertwined with every science already. no sense in making a separate class for it.</p>
<p>"AP Sociology...somewhat similiar to psychology"</p>
<p>Uhh . . .</p>
<p>I read a sociology and a psychology textbook this summer, and let me assure you there is almost no similarity at all between the two. The only overlap was in the chapter in both called "Social Psychology." Other than that, nothing. They are completely different.</p>
<p>AP Hindi Language
AP Russian Language
AP Physiology
AP Philosophy
AP Sociology
AP Astronomy</p>
<p>Operative words being "somewhat similiar," as opposed to "exactly alike."</p>
<p>I can't speak for your experience, but when I was studying sociology, I can remember being glad that I studied psychology first. For me, the child development section in sociology was mainly a review from psych (with a few new details thrown in here and there). Both of them also covered groupthink, Ash's experiment, and Milgram's experiment. Some aspects of deviance (or, in psych, "abnormalities") were shared as well.</p>
<p>IMO, since our behavior is guided by an intricate interplay of both socialization and psychology, it would be hard to study one and not touch the other.</p>
<p>AP Philosophy would definately be interesting.</p>
<p>AP Organic Chemistry</p>
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<p>Just because you can't teach it in public high schools doesn't mean College Board shouldn't offer it. There are plenty of homeschooled and privately schooled kids who could take it, as well as kids who could self-study it.</p>
<p>I am not a religious person but I would love to take AP Theology. It would be like a history class for me. </p>
<p>Although, "Theology" is probably too broad a subject. You would have to break it into individual religions... AP Christian Theology, AP Jewish Theology, AP Islamic Theology, etc. </p>
<p>Most of the books that are read in AP English Literature courses (like Jane Eyre and Tess of the D'Urbervilles) are filled with Biblical allusions and Christian imagery. AP European History also discusses many aspects of Christianity. so if it's okay to teach to those books why not teach the actual Bible too? A book like The Bible shouldn't be taught like "This is the truth" but taught in a professional, academic manner, where it is analyzed like any work of literature, where the philosophies in it, history and impact of it discussed and criticised.</p>
<p>I wouldn't mind taking all three - AP Christian, Jewish and Muslim Theology. They're all different branches of the same tree to me anyway. AP Buddhism and AP Hinduism would be awesome too.</p>
<p>I think it's a mistake not to teach kids religions in school. It's a vital part of human history that shouldn't be ignored.</p>
<p>There's a difference between teaching something academically, and teaching it as dogma which must be accepted as truth. I think they should teach kids the philosophy behind all the major religions, and let them decide which ones they believe in. Many of them will choose not to believe any of them, which is fine. But they'll have learned a tremendous amount of history, philosophy, literature in the process which is very worthwhile. And of course it should be an elective. No one should have to study any religion if they don't want to.</p>
<p>^I wouldn't mind learning about different religions either. I just fear different fractions would disagree on how their religions are presented in the material (which may just boil down to choice of textbooks, but yeah). And, speaking as a former homeschooler, if not enough schools come to an agreement on how the class will be presented, there won't be enough testing sites to make offering the test worthwhile.</p>
<p>just a lot of concerns that other subjects wouldn't have to deal with.</p>
<p>AP Marching Band...</p>
<p>AP Human Ecology</p>
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My school combines psych and socio into a single course.</p>
<p>AP Science PowerPack
AP History PowerPack
AP Social Sciences PowerPack
AP Languages PowerPack</p>
<p>AP Video Games (imagine the exam possibilities!)
AP Modern Culture (just sitting around listening to music and watching TV!)
Can't think of anymore cool ones, so now realistic:</p>
<p>AP Philosophy (everbody seems to think it's a good idea, and I agree)
AP Russian Language (TBA?!?!?! I'll forget my Russian by then!)
AP Engineering (mostly in theory since there are so many kinds)</p>
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<p>College Board won't offer it unless it's cost-effective. Maybe I've inherited my parents' cynicism on the subject, but these standardized tests are made by companies--not entirely altruistic sorts of organizations. ^.^</p>
<p>I myself think there are quite enough AP exams. I think it would be a shame if every interesting subject were spoiled by having a standardized test attached to it. I mean, really--I adore literature, but preparing for the AP lit exam wasn't the thing to reinforce my fondness. It taught me how to take the exam: how to write an essay in 40 minutes, how to read passages and multiple-choice questions efficiently... I can imagine how a year spent looking at a favorite subject in this light would make a person start to feel differently about it. I haven't had this problem, but that's perhaps because my AP lit and my AP Spanish teachers were both delightful to work with, so the classes and coursework were perfectly bearable. (AP language was a far different story, but then the subject--grammar...?--wasn't as dear to me as those of my other APs so far.)</p>
<p>AP SAT as weird as it may sound... itll be helpfull</p>
<p>AP philosophy and biochem would be so awesome :o
I'd want... AP ...-shrugs- I dunno, I don't have too many very specific interests XD
But actually I think it's good that the APs AREN'T so specific. APs give you a lot of knowledge over a wide section of material--biology, english literature, etc. It doesn't go too deep into each specific bit, but gives you enough to see what it's like. That way, you get to see what you like and don't. If someone automatically took, for example, biochem instead of biology, maybe he'd never find out about some other part of bio that would, in fact, interest him even more than biochem. You know what I mean? I think APs should just be spread to the full high school curriculum, so that everyone got a really good look at all the... "stuff" out there for lack of a better word. Then by the time we hit graduation, we'd know exactly what we want to study, and we'd be able to go to college and spend all four years specifically focusing on that one study area, rather than spending one or two years studying everything and figuring out what we like.</p>
<p>That turned out rambly, but really. Wouldn't it be great? :D</p>
<p>Actually someone above brough a good point--the classes would be even better if they weren't oriented to a single standardized test, but rather to a large test at the end (come on, we need motivation) that was more... "scholarly" and less standardized, if that makes sense? </p>
<p>-sigh- america's education system just needs a major overhaul.</p>
<p>AP Life
hmm id fail that tho</p>
<p>ap physics d. it could prepare you for the olympiad.</p>
<p>AP LAW!</p>
<p>Yeah, I took Legal Issues and it was awesome, but I want AP Law.</p>