<p>AP classes really aren’t that hard unless your teacher teaches above the standards. When you get into stuff like Above AP courses it really starts to get tough.</p>
<p>My chemistry teacher is actually thinking about teaching an iPhone app development class, which I think would be pretty cool.</p>
<p>Our student gov’t is pretty cool. It’s the most in demand class. I guess our journalism class is pretty fun. I always see them walking around with cameras, and the whole school watches their show on fridays.</p>
<p>Like… health class. Seriously, we have really limited language options and the rest are like Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, History, Geography, Economics and Art. Yeah. Nothing.</p>
<p>my 2 favorite and most interesting classes so far have been International Relations (only a 1 semester class) and AP Art History!</p>
<p>Philosophy and American Law & Justice (my friend took it, and she said that the teacher creates a fake crime scene and court case; when I walked by the classroom, I saw he had that yellow caution tape around all the desks–looked freaking awesome).</p>
<p>Of course I’m taking both of those classes next year. :D</p>
<p>There’s a humanities class that is offered that is dual taught with an amazing social studies teacher (also teaches AP Econ), and an english teacher I’m not aware of. It’s basically a really good overview of all things art and philosophy. Somehow, it’s not an honors course, but apparently it’s pretty difficult.
I’d love to take it, but there are so many other classes I’d still rather take.</p>
<p>Our school also has CAD (computer aided drafting) as well. Cool stuff.</p>
<p>Unique:
James Joyce’s Ulysses
Constitutional Law
International Relations
Organic Chemistry
Race, Class, Gender
African-American History and Literature (cotaught by history & lit teachers)
Old Testament as Literature</p>
<p>I’d say Joyce’s Ulysses is definitely the most enriching of all of these.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize that early childhood was considered unique. We have an actual Pre-school. The class is a joke though. I took it freshman and sophomore year. It was so easy. My average was never below 100. The tests and material were common sense.</p>
<p>My school has Japanese and Chinese.</p>
<p>There are so many courses I want to take, but so little time!!, raw rear rawr!! We have some cool English electives like mythology and Shakespeare and classical American writers and major authors and creative writing. We also have work study classes where kids leave school to work at a job. And then there’s a big computer science curriculum, and lots of engineering course stuffs. Wow, my school sounds really cool in writing, but you can only take 2 electives a year, of which I am taking band and music theory</p>
<p>My school has this 25?-minute class called success for life.</p>
<p>I prefer to call it suckess for life</p>
<p>The Human Body and the Parasites that Love Them (I’m not kidding.)
Philosophy
Psychology
Zoology
Journalism
Global Voices of Poetry (yeah, idk either)
Graphic Design
Mythology/Lit and Comp (■■■)
Zumba
Yoga
Ballet, Jazz, and Ballroom Dance as PE ELECTIVES (double ■■■)</p>
<p>Our humanities department is beyond great. We have to take a class called Foundations of the American Experience. It covers the government and economics credits needed to graduate, but the class was really just examining a bunch of political philosophers and how theory influenced political practice. We got to simulate the trial of Plato and even have a mock trade day set during the early 1500s. </p>
<p>Also there’s a class called Critical Approaches to Literature. Here’s the course description: This literary criticism course uses Freudian and Jungian psychology to analyze literature that focuses on the theme of the dual personality. Students delve into what is often labeled as true self vs. the false self, the concept of the double, ego vs. alter ego or mirroring personalities, and id, ego, and super-ego. Through psychological and archetypal analysis, the course examines different writers and genres using written composition, oral participation, and critical thinking to engage in ongoing investigation and inquiry. The theories of Freud and Jung are employed to analyze such literary works as Grimms Fairy Tales, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Winesburg, Ohio, A Dolls House, The Metamorphosis, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, Faust, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Demian, and Beloved. Students investigate psychological motives, unconscious desires and anxieties, myths and dreams as symbolic projections of peoples hopes, fears, and aspirations as they analyze the underlying human behavior of classical literary characters.</p>
<p>I’ve only heard great things about the class and I can’t wait to take it next year. Our science department also has cool electives like Medical Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Genes, Germs, and Geography.</p>
<p>Film as literature (the only textbook in the school with spiderman on it), child development maybe, astronomy, zoology (for those who actually want to dissect stuff), and a ton of tech campus offerings</p>
<p>-------------------------------------------If it is to be, it is up to me…</p>
<p>My school has marine biology, but apparently it’s for the dumb kids who can’t pass regular biology… </p>
<p>I took a class in TV production where we produced the daily news, but most schools probably have a class like that.</p>
<p>Other than that I don’t know because I was busy filling my schedule with APs. :(</p>
<p>Interesting thread by the way.</p>
<p>Child Development…Im not kidding</p>
<p>We have child development…I took that class in 10th grade</p>
<p>What is child development?</p>