Critical Thinking
This course emphasizes thinking skills that are highly correlated with those measured on various academic and aptitude tests, such as the ACT and SAT. |
Shakespeare Studies
This course is designed to help students gain a greater appreciation of Shakespeare’s works through an in-depth study of his plays, sonnets and poetry. |
Speech and Debate
This course is designed to teach the general principles of debate and provide experiences in informal and formal debating. Experiences often include training of debaters for competi-tion. |
World History
(Standard, Honors and AP)
This course is a comprehensive study of World History, which includes the broad history of humankind, with a more concentrated focus from the Renaissance to present day. Students are introduced to cultural, economic, political and social develop-ments that played a fundamental role in shaping the world in which they live. |
AP European History
The study of European history since 1450 introduces students to cultural, economic, political, and social developments that played a fundamental role in shaping the world in which they live. The goals of the AP program in European History are to develop (a) an understanding of some of the principal themes in modern European History, (b) an ability to ana-lyze historical evidence and historical interpretation and c) an ability to express historical understanding in writing. |
Ancient & Modern History
Ancient History provides students the opportunity to examine in-depth the de-velopment of humanity’s earliest civiliza-tions. In Modern History students will focus on the world wide chronological events, and significant persons from the Great Depression era to today. Both courses together will fulfill the World His-tory requirement for graduation. |
American Studies
This is a course that combines AP US History and AP English III. You must sign up for both courses in order to take American Studies. The teachers of each course will team together in order to tie themes from American Literature and History together. |
Contemporary Issues
In this elective course, students study various dynamic issues facing today’s society enabling them to discover their values and responsibilities as citizens in that society. Students will utilize different learning methods to re-search, discuss, debate and formulate opinions on those contemporary issues. |
Advanced Composition and Imaginative Writing
Advanced Composition is a one se-mester course. Students must register for both Imaginative Writing and Advanced Composition together. Advanced Compo-sition emphasizes the study of rhetoric and various modes of writing expository, argumentative, and analyti-cal). Imaginative Writing is a one se-mester course and students must enroll for Advanced Composition as well. This course provides students with the oppor-tunity to express themselves creatively and imaginatively in written forms (e.g., short story, poetry, drama, essay, and prose fiction). Although these courses are open to all students, they are strongly recommended for students who plan to take AP English Literature during their senior year. |
Psychology and Sociology
Psychology is a one semester course that is a study of the development of the individual and the personality. Psychol-ogy includes the study of the principles of learning and thinking, behavior develop-ment, and mental health. In Sociology students study dynamics and models of individual and group relationships. Stu-dents will attempt to solve current prob-lems such as population growth, minority concerns and ecology. |
African American Studies
This elective course is designed for students who desire a more in-depth study of Black History than they can ob-tain from other general history classes. Through this course students discover how African Americans have always been an integral part of the American experience from their African roots through slavery and emancipation, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era into contempo-rary America. |
Tennessee History
This elective course is a study of Tennessee history from the earliest days of settlement to the present time. It focuses on Tennessee geogra-phy, the early native peoples of the state, the settlement of each of the Grand Divisions, the creation of the territorial and state governments, the Jacksonian Era, the antebellum pe-riod, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the New South, and Tennessee in the twenti-eth century. |
