<p>hmm… AP Film? AP Music Production? AP Cinema Studies? Anything related to performing arts besides music theory, haha.</p>
<p>AP Business
AP Law
AP Multivariable Calculus</p>
<p>AP music history
AP astronomy
AP etymology</p>
<p>Get rid of APES and have two APs:
AP Geology
AP Astrology </p>
<p>If you want so many ap classes, why dont we just eliminate high school and have college just after finishing middle school! Furthermore, even with the current amount of ap courses, the american education cannot be better than the european educ. yet!</p>
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Like horoscopes and stuff?</p>
<p>I would love to see:</p>
<p>AP Game Theory
AP Reddit
AP Web Design
AP Anatomy
AP Law
AP Pharmaceutical Sales
AP Psychic
AP Myth and Legends of the mid 1530s
AP Linear Equations
AP Trivia
AP Course Design
AP Test Prep
AP Writing a forum post
AP Twitch Plays Pokemon
AP Game Design
AP Raccoon Biology</p>
<p>Most of these wouldn’t be the most popular, but I would love to take all of them.</p>
<p>AP Nap Time? </p>
<p>@picuberoot - You’re thinking way too small. AP Lucid Dreaming.</p>
<p>AP Igbo Language. That way I could just ask my parents to teach it to me and I’d be able to get an advantage like the native speakers of Spanish and French at my school.</p>
<p>AP GOD DARN ASTRONOMY. I don’t even like astronomy, but I think it would be suuuuch a fuuuun class to take.</p>
<p>ap culinary arts?</p>
<p>and definitely AP CollegeConfidential</p>
<p>An AP Computer Science class that actually teaches Computer Science and not how to make AbstractBeanFactories in Java.</p>
<p>AP Latin American History.
AP African History.
AP Asian History.</p>
<p>I mean, c’mon, we need more history :D</p>
<p>AP basketweaving</p>
<p>I’ve actually thought about this a lot and have talked to my schoolboard about it. I’m very active with AP curricula, I encourage everyone to take AP classes at my school and have gotten a couple new classes added to our program of studies through petitions.
I think there should be an AP history course for every continent- you know, Asian History, African History, I guess make a conglomerate Latin American History for everything south of Mexico.
Having taken every AP science course, I think that Biology should be split into two classes like Physics C, because at my school, the sheer breadth of the material is overwhelming. In my opinion, there should be a class that encompasses ecology and animal behavior (macroscopic concepts), and a class that encompasses cell biology, genetics, and neurobiology (microscopic concepts).
There should be something along the lines of AP International Relations. Foreign policy, international business, and other related majors are becoming much more common, and I think an IR class in high school is an important resource. It’s a chance to open the ever-nearsighted eyes of American students to the outside world and show them a course of study that few know exists until they get into college. Also, having been a longtime Model UN participant, it’s kind of a shame that so few people (at least around the New England area where I live) understand anything about international relations or the UN. Even in the relatively small subset of people who do Model UN in Maine, those who are there to actually get some exposure to the UN are a stark minority, and I think if an IR class were offered at the AP level, more people would get the chance to look into it and subsequently take it and learn more about foreign policy (an increasingly important skill in today’s geopolitical environment).
AP Russian (I’ve heard it’s being implemented)
AP Romanian
AP Portuguese
AP Greek (Ancient or Modern; could be like the Latin curriculum but for Greek literature)
AP Arabic
AP Swahili
AP Korean
AP Norwegian (or Danish, or Swedish. It doesn’t really matter, they’re mutually intelligible)
AP Dutch
AP Hungarian
AP Multivariable Calculus</p>
<p>AP Russian lit
AP Film studies
AP Music history
AP Pseudoscience… I think this might be funny</p>
<p>I’m amazed that this thread is still around five years after I created it.</p>
<p>Now that I’m a rising senior in college, here are a few classes that are practical, relevant to lots of high school students, and were courses I wish I’d had the opportunity to take in high school.</p>
<p>AP Discrete Math – this is arguably just as useful as statistics, and more useful than calculus. How do numbers work, and what are some cool properties of them? What exactly is a function? What do different magnitudes of infinity represent? What are graphs, and why are they important? This would go a long way toward taking the kind of student who isn’t traditionally “good at math” and showing them what math is actually about.</p>
<p>AP Accounting – it is critically important to understand how a company works at the financial level, and the only way to learn that is by understanding accounting. Accounting is a necessary foundation for corporate and personal finance. Moreover, the fact of the matter is that many people are going to end up in a finance or business-related role, especially people who were somewhat quantitative in high school but choose not to pursue a career in research science.</p>
<p>AP Ethics – many of you are yawning at the idea. However, a foundation in ethics and ethical philosophy has a lifetime of dividends to pay. Ethics is not a bland, cut-and-dry field in which the questions du jour are of the form, “If you witness a mugging, should you or should you not call 911?” Ethics is all about the different lines of reasoning needed to arrive at a fair decision. Practical issues in ethical philosophy include whether Merck should freely distribute a drug to a developing country stricken by disease, whether corporate bribery is moral in a country where it is an illegal but widely accepted business practice, and whether American expats should be paid the same as local workers in a multinational corporation. Understanding ethical philosophy will make you a person of integrity. I would imagine the design of this exam to be very similar to the AP Psychology exam; there is sufficient theory for MCs and FRQs, and there would be a collection of College Board-standardized case study material for teachers to cover.</p>
<p>AP African History</p>
<p>@"Keasbey Nights" , AP Discrete Math would be great, especially for people wanting to be CS majors. That way, people who think CS it’s just making the next Facebook can get weeded out before wasting a year or school.</p>