Current List of AP Courses
AP NIGHT 2024
Learn about our AP Programs and hear from the classes that we offer from our AP teachers on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM.
Zoom Link for General Session (5:00 - 5:30) : https://bit.ly/apnight2024
Zoom Link for General Session (5:00 - 5:30) : https://bit.ly/apnight2024
Explore our AP by the Numbers Handout to review sample course syllabi and see what our Venice students have to say.
Decided on which course(s) you want to take? Don't forget to review and sign the AP Agreement and submit it to your academic counselor.
AP COURSEWORK AVAILABLE AT VENICE HIGH
The AP program is a fantastic way to stimulate young minds. Our desire is to involve more students in college level coursework so that students can determine which fields they like, and what careers they might pursue as they move on to college.
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Below are course descriptions for AP Classes.
ARTS
Art History
Explore works of art in person and virtually, through observation, discussion, reading, and research. Learn to evaluate a work of art through critical analysis instead of rushing to opinion or judgment.
Explore works of art in person and virtually, through observation, discussion, reading, and research. Learn to evaluate a work of art through critical analysis instead of rushing to opinion or judgment.
AP Studio Art 2D
Students develop the skills that artists and designers use
create a portfolio of work that is assessed to produce their AP score.
Students develop the skills that artists and designers use
create a portfolio of work that is assessed to produce their AP score.
Music Theory
Practice and develop musical skills that will help you build your understanding of music composition and music theory. Develop your music vocabulary through class discussion and written analysis of listening selections
Practice and develop musical skills that will help you build your understanding of music composition and music theory. Develop your music vocabulary through class discussion and written analysis of listening selections
ENGLISH
English Language (11th Grade English)
Strengthen the effectiveness of your writing through close reading and frequent practice at applying rhetorical strategies, analyzing information from source texts, and writing arguments.
Become a critical reader of predominantly nonfiction works, including expository, argumentative, analytical, and personal texts from various authors and time periods.
Strengthen the effectiveness of your writing through close reading and frequent practice at applying rhetorical strategies, analyzing information from source texts, and writing arguments.
Become a critical reader of predominantly nonfiction works, including expository, argumentative, analytical, and personal texts from various authors and time periods.
English Literature (12th Grade English)
AP English Literature and Composition is an introductory college-level literary analysis course. Students cultivate their understanding of literature through reading and analyzing texts as they explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, and literary analysis in the context of literary works.
AP English Literature and Composition is an introductory college-level literary analysis course. Students cultivate their understanding of literature through reading and analyzing texts as they explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, and literary analysis in the context of literary works.
HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Human Geography
Introductory college-level human geography course. Students cultivate their understanding of human geography through data and geographic analyses as they explore topics like patterns and spatial organization, human impacts and interactions with their environment, and spatial processes and societal changes.
Introductory college-level human geography course. Students cultivate their understanding of human geography through data and geographic analyses as they explore topics like patterns and spatial organization, human impacts and interactions with their environment, and spatial processes and societal changes.
U.S. Government
Study how the conflicting interests and powers of the president and Congress help explain repeated struggles to adopt a national budget. Evaluate the impact of the media on voter perceptions, campaign strategies, electoral outcomes and policy agenda development.
Study how the conflicting interests and powers of the president and Congress help explain repeated struggles to adopt a national budget. Evaluate the impact of the media on voter perceptions, campaign strategies, electoral outcomes and policy agenda development.
U.S. History
Explore events of U.S. history through the use and analysis of documents, images, cartoons, quantitative data, and other primary sources. Develop an understanding of major themes in U.S. history, including American identity, economic and social life, political change and continuity, and the U.S. role in the world.
Explore events of U.S. history through the use and analysis of documents, images, cartoons, quantitative data, and other primary sources. Develop an understanding of major themes in U.S. history, including American identity, economic and social life, political change and continuity, and the U.S. role in the world.
World History
Focus on the development of historical thinking skills, not just the collection and memorization of information and events. Learn how to analyze a point of view and to interpret historical evidence you can use to build and support an argument
Focus on the development of historical thinking skills, not just the collection and memorization of information and events. Learn how to analyze a point of view and to interpret historical evidence you can use to build and support an argument
MATH AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Calculus AB
Learn problem solving methods that you can apply across real-world problems involving theorems, definitions, and functions represented in different ways. Use technology to explore, experiment, interpret results, and support your conclusions.
Learn problem solving methods that you can apply across real-world problems involving theorems, definitions, and functions represented in different ways. Use technology to explore, experiment, interpret results, and support your conclusions.
Calculus BC
An introductory college-level calculus course.
Students cultivate their understanding of differential and integral calculus through engaging with real-world problems represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally and using definitions and theorems to build arguments and justify conclusions as they explore concepts like change, limits, and the analysis of functions.
An introductory college-level calculus course.
Students cultivate their understanding of differential and integral calculus through engaging with real-world problems represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally and using definitions and theorems to build arguments and justify conclusions as they explore concepts like change, limits, and the analysis of functions.
Computer Science Principles
Introduce students to the creative aspects of programming, abstractions, algorithms, large data sets, the Internet, cybersecurity concerns, and computing impacts.
Gives students the opportunity to use current technologies to create computational artifacts for both self-expression and problem solving.
Introduce students to the creative aspects of programming, abstractions, algorithms, large data sets, the Internet, cybersecurity concerns, and computing impacts.
Gives students the opportunity to use current technologies to create computational artifacts for both self-expression and problem solving.
Statistics
Explore concepts such as methodology and inferences through small group discussion and activities. Design surveys and experiments, gather and analyze data numerically and graphically, and apply inferential statistics to draw conclusions for a population.
Explore concepts such as methodology and inferences through small group discussion and activities. Design surveys and experiments, gather and analyze data numerically and graphically, and apply inferential statistics to draw conclusions for a population.
SCIENCES
Biology
AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students cultivate their understanding of biology through inquiry-based investigations as they explore topics like evolution, energetics, information storage and transfer, and system interactions.
AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students cultivate their understanding of biology through inquiry-based investigations as they explore topics like evolution, energetics, information storage and transfer, and system interactions.
Chemistry
Work in groups to think analytically about problems, identify experimental questions, and design experiments to answer those questions.
Engage in hands-on laboratory investigation to learn chemical concepts through direct experience and observations.
Physics
AP Physics 1 is an algebra-based, introductory college-level physics course. Students cultivate their understanding of physics through classroom study, in-class activity, and hands-on, inquiry-based laboratory work as they explore concepts like systems, fields, force interactions, change, conservation, and waves.
Work in groups to think analytically about problems, identify experimental questions, and design experiments to answer those questions.
Engage in hands-on laboratory investigation to learn chemical concepts through direct experience and observations.
Physics
AP Physics 1 is an algebra-based, introductory college-level physics course. Students cultivate their understanding of physics through classroom study, in-class activity, and hands-on, inquiry-based laboratory work as they explore concepts like systems, fields, force interactions, change, conservation, and waves.
WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Chinese Language and Culture
Equivalent to an intermediate-level college course in Chinese. Students cultivate their understanding of Chinese language and culture by applying the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication in real-life situations as they explore concepts related to family and community, personal and public identity, beauty and aesthetics, science and technology, contemporary life, and global challenges.
Equivalent to an intermediate-level college course in Chinese. Students cultivate their understanding of Chinese language and culture by applying the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication in real-life situations as they explore concepts related to family and community, personal and public identity, beauty and aesthetics, science and technology, contemporary life, and global challenges.
Spanish Language
Equivalent to an intermediate level college course in Spanish.
Students cultivate their understanding of Spanish language and culture by applying interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication in real-life situations as they explore concepts related to family and communities, personal and public identities, beauty and aesthetics, science and technology, contemporary life, and global challenges.
Spanish Literature
AP Spanish Literature is equivalent to a college level introductory survey course of literature written in Spanish. Students continue to develop their interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational skills in Spanish language as well as critical reading and analytical writing as they explore short stories, novels, plays, essays, and poetry from Spain, Latin America, and U.S. Hispanic authors along with other non-required texts.
AP Spanish Literature is equivalent to a college level introductory survey course of literature written in Spanish. Students continue to develop their interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational skills in Spanish language as well as critical reading and analytical writing as they explore short stories, novels, plays, essays, and poetry from Spain, Latin America, and U.S. Hispanic authors along with other non-required texts.
