Let's think of ideas for new AP courses.

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<p>AP Investing (teach the stock markets, bonds, banking, and saving; could help kids earn some money and overcome fear of investing; develops citizens with a mindset of saving over consumption)</p>

<p>From my local community college, I would recommend:</p>

<p>AP Precalculus and Trigonometry (many college bound students need this knowledge much more than they need calculus and most colleges would give credit [not Ivy league])</p>

<p>AP Accounting (great for business majors; also teaches the basic principles of managing money in a business or organization)</p>

<p>AP Differential Equations (more useful than multivariable calculus, AP CALC BC would be prerequisite, applications in applied math, physics, engineering, biological models, demographic models, etc.)</p>

<p>AP World Religions (to teach a global view and encourage understanding and acceptance between cultures)</p>

<p>For fun, I would like to see AP Study Abroad (Study culture and language for a year, communicate with a pen pal, the exam is based on 3 month summer trip at the end [exam in August]) Destinations (Only one country per year): Europe, Far East, Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Latin America? Many colleges have programs like this, so credit would be easy to award as a language and culture class. Maybe this should be just a 3 month addition to the AP language and culture classes?</p>

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<p>ap philosophy</p>

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<p>AP Linear Algebra would be a much more useful course than the current AP Calculus.</p>

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<p>Ok Iā€™ll probably repeat b/c I donā€™t want to read through many pages, soā€¦</p>

<p>AP Chinese History (As I am Chinese)
bring back AP Italian
AP Sociology
AP Modern culture and media
AP Technology (how to create phones, computers, etc.)
AP Russian </p>

<p>Thatā€™s all I can think of right now.</p>

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<p>Org Chem is too important to be taught in high school - itā€™s a key class for premed and it really wouldnā€™t be appropriate, because there are situations in which a 5 can be earned largely by luck and not by knowing the material comprehensively =). And you never know, they might look through some of the books for research purposes etc to see how some of the problems were solved by students. In fact I wouldnā€™t be surprised at all if that were the case.</p>

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<p>@HLZ, i believe AP russian is either available or is under construction</p>

<p>my ideas;
AP sociology (like a mix of psych and human geography)
AP anatomy/health (would look good for premed)
AP portuguese (as important as german!)
AP anthropology (very interesting
AP geometry (geometry is my best math section and i find it fascinating)
AP arabic (they have russian, chinese, etc but not arabic yet?)</p>

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<p>My dream schedule of only APā€™s would be:

  1. AP Political Science/Politics
  2. AP Linear Algebra
  3. AP European Literature
  4. AP Anatomy
  5. AP Neuroscience
  6. AP Modern History
  7. AP Italian
  8. AP Comparative Government 2 (A harder class than the one they already offer)</p>
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<p>My dream schedule:</p>

<p>1) AP Ecosystem Analysis
2) AP English- Poetry (Dante, Shakespeare, Milton etc.)
3) AP Physics D: Astronomy (Calculus based)
4) AP Calculus 3/Differential Equations
5) AP Biology C: Veterinary Science
6) AP Chemistry B: Potions
7) AP Lunch
8) AP Human Geography B: Global Politics and Economics of the 21st Century</p>

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<p>Iā€™m actually surprised AP Sociology isnā€™t established yetā€¦ you have all of the other social sciences, (except Anthropology) and it seems like a pretty common/interesting courseā€¦</p>

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<p>AP Nature Call</p>

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<p>I think they like to pick classes with a certain amount of rigor involved for AP testing.</p>

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<p>I thought you have to take this to graduate anyway, and donā€™t you go straight into calculus in college? Anyway, thereā€™s no point offering this because it would downgrade APs, as the easiest one by miles and one pretty much everybody would take.</p>

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<p>AP LIFE, plz?</p>

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<p>AP Sexualityā€¦</p>

<p>;)</p>

<p>LOL jk, idk</p>

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<p>AP Last Minute Cramming (Standard & Express Editions)</p>

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<p>Has anyone thought of AP College Confidential?</p>

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<p>AP Oceanic History.</p>

<p>I would take this, if pirates were involved in the history.
It could be about how oceanic travel influenced modern life, or colonialization, etc.</p>

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<p>AP Sociology</p>

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<p>AP Interpretive Dance</p>

<p>AP Underwater Basketweaving</p>

<p>AP Sports - AP players are better than varsity</p>

<p>AP Spelling</p>

<p>AP Potpourri - A test about anything</p>

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<p>I would love more AP histories - though at some point, AP World History would become redundant. Once you have AP tests for Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, religion history, and the US, whatā€™s left for APWH? Australia and Antarctica lol.</p>

<p>APā€™s I would like to see made available:</p>

<p>Science:
-AP Astronomy
-AP Anatomy and Physiology
-AP Oceanography
-AP Geology</p>

<p>Social Sciences:
-AP Sociology
-AP Anthropology
-AP Asian History
-AP African History
-AP Middle Eastern History
-AP Latin American History
-AP World Religion / Religion History
-AP Philosophy</p>

<p>English:
-AP Media and Journalism
-AP Linguistics
-AP Theatre / Dramatic Writing
-AP Creative Writing
-AP World Literature</p>

<p>As you can see, Iā€™m not a math/art girl in the slightest. ;D</p>

<p>Seriously though, Iā€™m surprised that AP Philosophy has NOT been made available yet. Itā€™s a very common college course, and Iā€™ll bet it would be pretty popular, too.</p>