Students wishing to take this course must apply. Students may choose to take the Advanced Placement Biology Examination. Topics include microbiology, molecular biology, and molecular genetics, anatomy and physiology, and human diseases. Students are expected to take active roles in class discussions as well as demonstrate creative thinking in conducting their own investigations. This is a year long college preparatory course.
Chemistry is a sequential course investigating matter.
Students will learn mathematical tools for solving chemical problems, write chemical formulas, balance equations, learn the mole concept, develop Periodic table relationships, gas laws, and discuss quantum mechanics of the atom. Laboratory experiments will be an integral part of this class. This course is a continuation of Chemistry B. Topics studied in the second half of chemistry are acid base relationships, redox reactions, chemical bonding, solutions, and nuclear chemistry. This course is a continuation of Chemistry C and will include a quantitative laboratory exercise. The approach is math intensive, and the topics are similar to those in chemistry but are studied in more depth.