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College-level courses are taught at Cardinal Gibbons School to earn college credit while attending high school and demonstrate the student’s commitment to his own educational goals during the admissions process for higher education.

 

For information about AP courses and exams, visit the College Board at: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/about.html

 

The following is a sampling of courses offered.

Semester/ Year: Full Year

Required/ Elective: Elective

This course prepares the student to take the nationally administered AP exam in May of the senior year. The foundation of the course is based on a detailed survey of British Literature. Analysis and identification of the principles and dimensions of literature are explored using the Norton Anthology, Perrine’s Literature –Structure, Sound, and Sense and A Handbook to Literature (Thrall, et. al.)   Writing assignments focus on analysis of a work, to include explication of the author’s purpose and style, and the critical opinion of the student regarding the work. Enrollment requires permission of the instructor.

Semester/Year Course: Full Year

Required/Elective: Required

Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus

This course includes a review of functions and the study of limits and continuity, the derivative, analysis of functions and their graphs, applications of the derivative, integration, and applications of the definite integral to area between curves and volumes.

Semester/Year Course: Full Year

Required/Elective: Elective

In conjunction with the College Board, the US Government Course is offered as an Advanced Placement course leading to the awarding of college credit upon successful completion of a nation-wide qualifying exam with a minimum score. The six major course themes are provided by the College Board and the subsequent units of instruction and activities are created by the teacher. The entire curriculum must be submitted to the College Board for approval. The course begins with an examination of the Constitutional Underpinnings of the US Government including a study of the Constitution and its creation. Next political beliefs and behaviors are studied including public opinion. Political parties, interest groups, and the mass media are next as areas of study including their effects on the political process. A major theme regarding the Institutions of National Government is next. In this theme the three branches of government are examined in detail as well as interrelationships among the three. Public Policy and its development and application are studied next with a focus on the bureaucracy and formation of policy agendas. Finally civil rights and civil liberties are examined in great detail especially in relationship to the 14th Amendment and the Constitution.

Semester/Year Course: Full Year

Required/Elective: Elective

Course Description: AP U.S. History is for qualified applicants who wish to complete studies in high school equivalent to an introductory college course in U.S. history.   This course is a two semester survey from the age of discovery and exploration to the present. Students will use various sources to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the events, issues, and people that have created our history.

Semester/Year Course: Full Year

Required/Elective: Elective

Prerequisite: Introduction to Computer Science, Introduction to Web Design, Web Development, Introduction to Java Programming

In this course, students will take a multilevel approach to learning Java. Students will begin the class learning about how to get started with Java, which involves the background of Java, first Java programs, syntax, errors, and debugging and an introduction to the control statements. Students will move on to the next step with Java which includes an introduction to defining classes, control statements continued, improving the User Interface, and an introduction to HTML and Applets. The class then moves on to Arrays, Recursion and Complexity, which involves an introduction to arrays, classes continued, arrays continued; recursion, complexity, and searching and sorting. The last section the Students will learn is on implementing abstract data types, including lists, sets and maps, and trees and queues. This course will be used in preparation for the AP Computer Science Exam A, which will allow Students to earn college credits. The primary text for this course is Fundamentals of Java: AP Computer Science Essentials for the A & AB Exams, 3rd Edition.