Students in this course design structures and spaces for human activity. They work through a series of open-ended, progressively more complicated design assignments, each of which offers a new puzzle in three-dimensional problem-solving. In working on these assignments, students learn the fundamentals of architectural drafting and model-making. Sample projects include a refugee shelter, the redesign of an urban multi-use building and an original treehouse. Throughout the semester, students are encouraged to make revisions and improvements, as needed, to all completed work. Progress is measured by students according to the achievement of their intentions, by students and teacher together in routine design class reviews and by the teacher within the context of course expectations. Field trips and guest speakers supplement the studio experience. Students may elect to pursue additional semesters for advanced study.

This course compares the Classical and Romantic temperaments found in Western art music while surveying some of the masterpieces composed between 1750 and 1900.

Stagecraft introduces the beginning theater artist to theories and practices of theater technology.

This Global Online Academy course focuses on psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and depression.

For students with a strong foundation in Algebra 1 and Geometry, this course emphasizes multiple representations of functions and fluency between them, through guided collaborative exploration and class discussion.

A preparation for studies in calculus, Accelerated Precalculus explores numerical, graphical and analytical approaches to real valued functions.

Through selected authentic videos, films and news articles, students will be able to have in-depth conversations about various topics. Assignments in the course include research papers, debates, and in-class skits.

Advanced Ethics explores selected writings of ancient and modern ethical philosophers on the course theme of right conduct. Students develop their capacity to decode philosophical texts, explore their meaning and significance in collaboration with their peers, and apply their insights to contemporary ethical issues.

This course introduces students to the different ways in which French-speaking communities around the world are impacted by, and respond to global challenges. Topics range from climate change to food insecurity, global health, economic inequality, social justice, human rights, and war.

Women exploded into print in England during the nineteenth century, asserting their place in the literary landscape. But there were a few who stood out among all the rest as artists who equaled the creative genius of the best male writers, and they initiated the idea of a uniquely feminine perspective on the way the world operates, capturing the hearts and imaginations of readers until this present day.

While traditional high school chemistry courses focus on predicting products and studying the properties of chemical reactions, organic chemistry focuses on the specific mechanisms by which bonds are broken and formed.

Following an introduction to population growth and ecosystem energy requirements, students will focus their interest on the human population. They will evaluate census data and case studies illustrating the interconnections between environments and population growth in several countries. Using this knowledge, they will choose one issue to further investigate its implication on the relationship between a population's well-being and environmental health. Laboratory investigations will be incorporated throughout the semester to illustrate the factors that regulate population growth, the energy needs of various ecosystems, and the interdependence of environmental equilibrium and population growth. This course is also open to juniors.
 

“Big History Project” (BHP) is a course that invites us to think and to imagine on a really BIG scale, both in terms of time and space: it is designed to be a comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present (and even the future).

This Global Online Academy course explores the fundamentals of and vulnerabilities in the design of computers, networks, and the internet.

This one-semester course introduces students to key microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts, basic business principles, and the workings of financial markets and institutions.

Latino foods reflect enormous geographical and social diversity resulting from Latin America's turbulent history of settlement, intermarriage, and migration. Where does Latin American food come from?

This course presents the essential forms, grammar, and vocabulary needed to begin reading Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in the original. Students will spend the first semester studying the forms of Greek’s three noun declensions and the most common conjugated verb forms found in Homer, and will practice these forms nightly by translating simplified passages from Homer.

Inspired by Global Online Academy’s popular Medical Problem Solving series, this course uses a case-based approach to give students a practical look into the professional lives of lawyers and legal thinking.

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience. We will learn the fundamentals of brain anatomy, the chemical processes that underlie its physiology, and common pathologies that affect the brain.

In this course, students learn financial responsibility and social consciousness.

Through simulations, experiments, and collaborative and independent projects, students explore the roles of data and randomness in daily life, and develop tools to make sense of uncertainty.

This course deeply examines the Holocaust through the lens of human behavior and psychology. Inspired and guided by Facing History and Ourselves’ Holocaust education program.

Modern World History examines global events from 1760 to the present under the umbrella of the essential question: What is “modernity”? Students will analyze from multiple perspectives the various revolutions that shook the Atlantic Basin at the end of the 18th century, industrialization, the growth and contraction of political and colonial empires, the experience of indigenous peoples, and war in the age of global interdependence.

Students in this class will compose several short stories and work closely with classmates during college-style workshops. They practice techniques for constructing character, dialogue, place, and plot. Students imagine and write a lot, but they also read a lot, examining literature from the perspective of the writer.