Take it to the Next Level
Advanced courses allow students to select a program of study that meets their loftiest ambitions and goes beyond the typical limits of high school curricula. Episcopal’s Advanced courses are far more dynamic and in-depth than traditional AP courses — while still preparing students to excel on AP exams.
“Each day the students arrive in class with enthusiasm and a sense of purpose — and a sense of humor! I work with teachers who recognize that we teach students more than we teach math, and we work closely together to best serve our students. It is the joy of working with young people with this kind of spirit that keeps me looking forward to the start of the school year each September.”Rick Stubbs Retired Math Teacher |
Over 40 offerings to choose from, including:
| Advanced Calculus BC |
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| This course mirrors a college-level Calculus course that covers limit, differential, integral polar, parametric, and vector calculus, as well as sequences and series. |
| Advanced Digital Drawing, Collage, and Mixed Media |
| This advanced studio class is designed for students who have the option of developing a portfolio for submission to the Advanced Placement Exam. This course requires two previous studio arts classes and is designed to offer students the opportunity to further explore projects in digital drawing, collage and mixed media. |
| Advanced English Seminar: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance |
| This course examines the American literary era known as the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the 1920s and 1930s when urban centers of the United States experienced a vibrant outpouring of music, art, and literature. |
| Advanced Spanish Language |
| This is an advanced level course which uses the AP framework, based on the six curricular units of study: Families and Communities, Personal and Public Identities, Beauty & Aesthetics, Science and Technology, Contemporary Life, and Global Challenges. |
| Advanced Energy, Climate, and Sustainable Actions |
| This course will examine the topics surrounding energy production, climate change and sustainability. It will explore both the science of climate change, and the human-related causes of climate change with a focus on how the need for energy drives greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Advanced Macroeconomics |
| During this course students learn how governments use fiscal, monetary, and supply-side policy measures to stabilize economies. The course also analyzes the role of banking and finance in a capitalist free-market system and looks at how countries engage in trade with attention to foreign exchange markets. |
| Independent Study |
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For those students who would like to pursue academic work in unusual depth, Episcopal offers the opportunity for independent study. Students, along with a faculty mentor and the assistant head for academics, can develop a course that covers any topic that the student would like to further explore. This will supplement regular course work and is usually a semester-long endeavor which is graded and for which the student earns credit. A few recent examples of independent studies:
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Global Online Academy
Episcopal High School partners with Global Online Academy (GOA), a not-for-profit consortium of leading independent schools from around the world. GOA offers EHS students the opportunity to learn alongside peers from around the world and to test their passions in ways typically unavailable on a single campus.
Episcopal juniors and seniors may take GOA courses as electives for course credits. GOA course workload and course intensity is equivalent to courses taken on our campus. Unlike many online courses, students are not passive receptors of prerecorded lectures from their teachers. Instead, students collaborate on challenging and interesting projects with students from around the world. They are also expected to manage their workload and time effectively to support the asynchronous nature of the courses.
For more information, please visit the Global Online Academy website. For a full listing of GOA offerings view our Course Catalog.
