2012-13 Courses

During the 2012-13 school year, AP4ALL is offering 14 Advanced Placement courses:

AP Art History: The AP Art History course…

AP Calculus AB: The Calculus AB course is primarily concerned with developing the students’ understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. Read more about this course >

AP Calculus BC: The AP Calculus BC course will be taught as a continuation of AB Calculus for students who have taken that course in their junior/sophomore years and/or students who have taken a calculus course at the college level. We will review the major concepts from AB Calculus to start the year and then continue on with the additional Calculus concepts covered under the BC curriculum. This course typically corresponds to Calculus 102 taught at most colleges. Read more about this course >

AP Chemistry: The AP Chemistry course…

AP Computer Science: The AP Computer Science course…

AP English Language and Composition: The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Students learn to be aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. Read more about this course >

AP English Literature and Composition: The AP English Literature and Composition course is designed to engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students can deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students learn to consider a work’s structure, style, and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Read more about this course >

AP French Language and Culture: The AP course in French Language course emphasizes the use of language for active communication and helps students develop the ability to understand spoken French in various contexts, and a French vocabulary sufficiently ample for reading newspaper and magazine articles, literary texts, and other non-technical writings without dependence on a dictionary. Students will also develop the ability to express themselves coherently, resourcefully, and with reasonable fluency and accuracy in both written and spoken French. Read more about this course >

AP Macroeconomics: The AP Macroeconomics course is a concentration of several key issues and problems in macroeconomics. Topics of study include, but are not limited to, the market system, supply and demand, gross domestic product, economic growth and instability, the aggregate expenditures model, fiscal policy, monetary policy money and banking, and international trade. The goal of this course is to prepare students for the AP exam in May. Read more about this course >

AP Microeconomics: The AP Microeconomics course is the study of how scarce resources in this world get distributed.  It seeks to answer questions like why some people have more wealth and others less, it tries to explain how people exchange goods and services, and it develops models that describe how markets work. Micro economics focuses on how productive organizations make decisions of how much they will produce and what price they will ask. Micro economists have a wide range of study interests such as how law enforcement effects drug dealing, how cigarettes can act like money in prisons, how Apple decides what price to ask for its iPhone, and why people will walk a mile to save five dollars in purchasing a pair of shoes but not for purchasing a 46″ T.V. Read more about this course >

AP Psychology: The AP Psychology course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of behavior and cognitive processes. Students will explore psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. Students will also examine methods used by psychologists in their science and practice. AP Psychology is a course that covers material similar to what is taught in Introductory Psychology in college. This course is very similar in pace to a college course, covering approximately 85% of the material that a standard university covers in the same time frame. Read more about this course >

AP Statistics: The AP Statistics course is designed to introduce students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Students are exposed to four broad conceptual themes: Exploring Data – describing patterns and departures from patterns; Sampling and Experimentation – planning and conducting a study; Anticipating Patterns – exploring random phenomena using probability and simulation; and Statistical Inference – estimating population parameters and testing hypotheses. Read more about this course >

AP U.S. Government and Politics: The AP United States Government and Politics course gives students an analytical perspective on government and politics in the U.S.. This course includes both the study of general concepts used to interpret U.S. government and politics and the analysis of specific examples. It also requires familiarity with the various institutions, groups, beliefs, and ideas that constitute U.S. government and politics. Students will also become acquainted with the variety of theoretical perspectives and explanations for various behaviors and outcomes. Read more about this course >

AP World History: The AP World History course…