<p>Don’t hate on Human Geo. It has pretty limited uses (geography majors, maybe some general ed. and at one college I saw I could get credit for an International Studies minor) but I’ve never been in a class like it before. It’s a very interesting subject that I would have never been exposed to. My school doesn’t offer any geography classes except for 6th grade physical geography and then AP human geo.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong. I LOVED APHG. That was probably the first class where I actually learned about how the world works. I just think the content was a little on the skimpy side.</p>
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<p>I’d like to see AP Latin Literature and AP Computer Science AB reinstated.</p>
<p>As for absolutely new courses, umm… I guess I’d want:</p>
<p>AP Syntax and Grammar
AP Discrete Math
AP Anatomy
AP Philosophy
AP Number Theory
AP Greek
AP Logic
AP Astronomy</p>
<p>I agree with those that say to drop AP Environmental Science entirely and replace it with a true AP Geology course. Geology is the one glaring hole in high school education and the refusal of the College Board to create a proper introduction to true earth science is doing a disservice to students who will be growing up in the era of green jobs. AP ES is much too broad and lacking in academic rigor to prepare any students for college. A good AP Geology course could focus on radiometric dating, tectonic processes, geophysics, climatology and petrology.</p>
<p>The main problem is the stigma that earth science has been given by forcing high school students on the advanced track to skip it and start in biology.</p>
<p>Since when does Geology = Environmental science? Instead of cutting out subjects they need to edit them, make them more difficult and focused. All of the “easy” subjects have a use in the real world. I agree that Earth science is treated really horribly. At my HS they’re going to be cutting 9th grade earth science and just making it an option out of a ton of others for 11th/12th. Pretty much all the advanced kids think Earth Sci is a joke, for the time being everyone still has to take it but a lot of kids take a class during the summer and pass a test and they don’t have to do it.</p>
<p>AP Philosophy/Ethics - Easy necessity
AP Business of Some Sort - Necessity
AP Engineering (Intro, as in introducing people to types of engineering) - Would be a great class</p>
<p>That’s all I can think of that would really be beneficial to collegeboard, and many people would take those classes I think.</p>
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<p>These would be good to have as high school courses, but there is no point in having AP tests, since there is not a common freshman business course over all undergraduate business majors (most common but not universal is accounting), and engineering courses other than freshman seminars where engineers tell students what they do typically require math and physics prerequisites.</p>
<p>“These would be good to have as high school courses, but there is no point in having AP tests, since there is not a common freshman business course over all undergraduate business majors”
There is no universal course for science majors either but we still have AP science tests. I don’t understand why we couldn’t have several common business classes.</p>
<p>Forget new AP Languages, they need AP English sub-levels. Just as Shiyayo said, I would most definitely take AP Syntax & Grammar, a course that should delve into the improvement of common areas like sentence structure and punctuation.
Other than that, I definitely agree that we need:
AP Astronomy
AP Zoology/Marine Biology
AP Journalism and Publications
AP Photographic Arts (NOT AP Studio Art 2D)
AP Performing Arts (specifically catering to drama students)</p>
<p>I do not agree with the AP Earth Science suggestion, though a revision of the AP Earth and Environmental exam would be fantastic. I loved the class and did consider a major Environmental Engineering for quite some time. Also, I think that AP Psychology needs to have at least two levels, like an AP Psychology A and an AP Psychology B. Even an AP Psychology: Neurology course would be great.</p>
<p>I don’t see how they’d test you on AP Performing Arts…</p>
<p>AP Astronomy would be an amazing course! So many people don’t know squat about astronomy and it’s really sad, because it is such an interesting subject. I think that they should split AP Biology into AP Macrobiology and AP Microbiology. My teacher in AP Bio last year told me that the AP Bio course is really two years of biology crammed into one year. And after going through it (and getting a four 
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<p>I think AP Entrepreneurship would be a very valuable course. The test could kind of be like AP Studio Art (where you submit something that you’ve been working on all year) and you had to make a big business plan or something and then you had to be tested on Marketing and Business stuff. I think that would be popular</p>
<p>Some others should be like AP Biology: Genetics would be really cool. AP Engineering would be sooooo valuable for people too.</p>
<p>I don’t think we need more languages, or more arts (I think Studio Art + Music Theory are enough). While I’d really really like to see another AP Math course (Geometry, Calc III - the one I’d prefer most, or Linear Algebra), I can see why they might not be widely taken (although I still think about 5-10k people would take it, and it might encourage students to push further ahead in math), so I think that AP Astronomy is the most useful suggestion put forth so far. (Other than the reinstatement of AP Computer Science AB). I think French Lit could be brought back, too (as well as Latin + German), but I wouldn’t prioritize them as higher than Astronomy or Computer science AB (or even any of the math courses). AP Anatomy might be a good idea too.</p>
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<p>I disagree. I think they should just put more material into the AP Psychology test. As it is now, it’s super simple, and rather than splitting it into two and then going into more depth, they could just add more depth to that one exam, to make it more challenging but also more useful.</p>
<p>There’s definitely a need for more AP arts, especially for instrumental music. Music theory only tests you on oral.</p>
<p>I would LOVE for there to be:
AP Philosophy
AP Forensics (combining chemistry, biology, and some engineering topics)
AP Astronomy
AP Geology (instead of AP Environmental Science)
AP Discrete Mathematics (some computer science, linear algebra, etc.)
AP Ancient History
AP Greek
AP Arabic
AP Microbiology Research (a Post-AP Biology course)
AP Instrument (you learn a classical instrument)</p>
<p>How about AP Music History? It could compliment Art History and/or Music Theory.</p>
<p>I would like:
AP Anatomy
AP Astronomy
AP Philosophy
AP Forensics</p>
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<p>AP Astronomy - (this would be calculus based astronomy)
AP Stat AB/BC - (ab would be your normal stat, and bc would be your calculus based statstics</p>
<p>I second the call for more history: AP Ancient History, AP Asian History, that sort of thing. Also, AP World Literature or AP Comparative Literature.</p>
<p>I like AP World Literature. Also, why the f-word is there no AP Sociology?</p>