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Course Descriptions for IB Diploma Programme
Language A1 English Higher Level (HL) IB Language A1-HL is a two-year, junior and senior English course emphasizing the study of written language and literary analysis. The literature studied in this course and the assessments will satisfy IB syllabus requirements for Language A1 Higher Level program. Students will perform written and oral assessments which will be internally graded by the teacher and externally graded by an IB examiner. Students will analyze, synthesize, and evaluate drama poetry, novels, and other prose in British, American, and World literature. The course will emphasize thematic and philosophical connections as will as differences in literary periods, styles, and contexts.
French Language Ab Initio French is a language learning course for beginners designed to be followed over two years. The main focus of the course is on the acquisition of the language required for everyday social interaction. The course aims to develop a variety of linguistic skills and a basic awareness of the culture(s) using the language. The course will follow the IB core syllabus and language-specific (French) syllabuses in order to prepare students for IB examinations.
IB Spanish III The first part of a two-year IB course. The course involves intense language acquisition through listening, reading, speaking, writing, and culture. Student are encouraged to communicate in Spanish using vocabulary and grammar from previous levels of study. Students will perform individual and group work to build upon and improve communication skills in the Spanish language.
IB Spanish IV The second part of the 2-year IB Spanish course. This intense, accelerated course involves listening, reading, speaking, writing and culture components in Spanish. Students work individually and in groups to analyze, debate, and discuss a variety of issues and texts in Spanish to prepare for the IB Spanish exams.
IB Biology HL I Grade 11 Prerequisites: Sophomore Biology IB biology HL I represents the first year of a two-year course that is lab intensive and is designed to prepare students to take the Higher Level International Baccalaureate Exam of the Advanced Placement Exam. The first year will provide an in-depth view of the biological world. After completing this course students will be able to understand the complexity of life on earth. Course topics include cells, biochemistry, genetics, evolution, nucleic acids and proteins, cell respiration and photosynthesis. Laboratories, experimental design, lecture/discussion and cooperative learning strategies will help the students understand various topics.
IB Biology HL II Grade 12 Prerequisites: Biology HL, Grade 11
IB Biology HL II is the second year of a two-year course designed to prepare students of the Higher Level International Baccalaureate Exam or the Advanced Placement Exam. This advanced biology course will give students an in-depth view of the living world. After completing this course, the learner will appreciate the complexity of life on earth. Course topics include human health and physiology, human reproduction, defense against infectious disease, nerves, muscles, and movement, excretion, plant physiology and ecology. This IB curriculum dominates this two year course with additional topics to fulfill AP requirements.
IB History HL-1: Twentieth Century World History Topics IB History HL-1 is the first year of study of a two-year course preparing students for the Higher Level Baccalaureate Exam. Students will obtain a solid foundation in content as well as sills in researching, note-taking, analyzing primary and secondary sources, making inferences, generalizing, drawing conclusions, and presenting knowledge.
IB History HL-2: History of the Americas IB History HL-2: History of the Americas is the second year of a two-year study preparing students for the Higher Level International Baccalaureate Exam. This course focuses on select periods of American, Canadian, and Latin American history for an in-depth study. Rather than providing a survey, the course allows the student to investigate certain sections of history through classroom, instruction, independent reading, and research. Students will learn skills that apply to the study of history in any context, but with a particular focus towards those needed for a research project and for Twentieth Century World History.
IB Theory of Knowledge Theory of Knowledge, capstone of the IB curriculum, provides a connection for the learner to synthesize the approaches to understanding gained over the course of the IB study . The course raises questions about how the nature and origins of knowledge, and in so doing seeks a cross-curricular understanding of how a learner learns and, ultimately, know. Students will pursue a wide range of readings to be examined in a Socratic Seminar setting combining literature, history, science, mathematics, fine arts, psychology, and philosophy, among others. Enrollment is limited to students in the IB diploma programme.
IB Math Studies (SL) This is a two year course that teaches the following eight topics: 1) introduction to the graphic display calculator, 2) number and algebra, 3) functions, 4) financial mathematics, 5) statistics, 6) sets, logic, and probability, 7) geometry and trigonometry, 8) introductory differential calculus. These topics will prepare students for the International Baccalaureate Math Studies Standard Level Exam. In studying these topics, students will utilize the SI (Systeme International) units of length, mass and time, and their derived units. Additionally, each student will create a research project that includes the collection of information or the generation of measurements, and the analysis and evaluation that information and measurements. The length of the research project is 2000 words or less, excluding diagrams, graphs, appendices and bibliography.
IB Social and Cultural Anthropology (SL) IB Social and Cultural Anthropology SL is a one-year course that prepares students for the Standard Level International Baccalaureate Exam. The aims and objectives of the course are to introduce students to the basic vocabulary, methods and principles involved in understanding cultural differences and similarities around the world. Students will learn how anthropologists gather data on human culture and society and will try their hand at participant observation study. In addition to studying the underlying principles of the discipline, students will focus on the themes of social structure, economy, power, meaning and symbolism, and the institutions which form around these themes. There will also be a look at contemporary issues in social and cultural anthropology. Students will read at least three ethnographies and other readings in anthropology and will design and carry out a field observation for their required Internal Assessment Project. |