<p>Help!! I'm a rising senior and right now my senior schedule looks like:</p>
<p>Computer Apps (required)
Lifeguarding (required)
Honors Humanities I & II
AP Prob and Stats
Cultural Anthropology Honors
Western Civilization
Tao in Thought and Literature</p>
<p>Ok, here in lies my problem. I have 1 hour left and can either take Spanish 4 or Honors physics. I have taken Earth Science, Honors Biology (3 on AP test self-study), and chemistry (no honors but self-studying for the AP test). I have taken Spanish 1-3 and am self-studying Latin. I want to go into either ancient history, anthropology, or classics [nothing scientific]. </p>
<p>So should I take the science or the language? My other option is to have an independent study hour for my Latin [btw, I am probably going to minor in Latin in college]. </p>
<p>Gah!! Or if anybody has any other suggestions, I'm open to them.</p>
<p>I would suggest Spanish or independent study Latin to more closely fit your major. Most people say that you need to take Physics during high school, but I think it'll be fine. We don't really know how the new teacher will be, anyway.</p>
<p>Spanish would probably be more relevant to your major, and you already have a decent science record. I'm also guessing that you would enjoy spanish more?</p>
<p>I'd probably go with the independent study hour--actually, I'm independently studying the Aeneid in Latin at the moment for one of my classes myself. What level of Latin are you at, out of curiosity? Or what textbook are you using? </p>
<p>If you don't want to self-study, I'd suggest Spanish, but if you want to be a Classics or ancient history major, Latin is going to be much more useful than Spanish. It would probably be helpful to put some more time into it now.</p>
<p>I'm using the Cambridge Latin course and I just finished the first book (I just started over winter break) so I don't know how that translates haha.</p>
<p>Oh, so you're pretty much done with Intro to Latin/Latin 1/2, then. Or Latin I, depending on the level of the school; that was the book used by my first-year class, and I was playing catch-up for weeks when I moved and my new school had a better Latin program. </p>
<p>Cambridge is awesome. The stories in it are the best I've ever come across in a foreign language textbook. I sort of miss it.</p>
<p>Yep, just the little red book. :) I think Cambridge goes up to level III (in three books), but there may be a fourth. A friend of mine who is also self-studying Latin (although he's several levels below me) was going on about hearing about a fourth book, in which Quintus saves Rome from Martians, but I'm not sure I believe him. :D</p>
<p>You really have some interesting options for courses. All my school offers are the bare basics and only four AP classes. The joys of poor, inner city schooling! Go with Spanish, by the way. If you are going into those intended majors, you shouldn't even be in a physics class in college that will need that prerequisite high school physics knowledge.</p>
<p>I am planning on going into Geography, but I am signing up for Honors Physics this week for senior year because I might have to run into a physics class in college if I concentrate in GIS (Geographical Information Systems). Good luck to you!</p>
<p>I would echo the encouragement to do Spanish or Latin. If you want to study language in college, you will have to do a placement test or be placed according to SAT II or AP, if that's what you take. If you don't do language in HS for a year, you will forget a lot, and then be placed too low. That could be really boring for you, as it will probably be a review of what you already learned, and it will also be a wasted semester or two. Also, if you change your mind about studying language, and if your college requires languages in their curriculum, you will have the same problem about needing to place into a course, or out of the requirement. Your sciences in HS are already very good, and you say you don't really want to study science. For anthro, ancient history or classics, Spanish and/or Latin would be really good-- so much Latin American anthropology and ancient history! Obviously for classics, Latin is the thing.</p>