Flagler Palm Coast High School

Course Description

AP Macroeconomics is an introductory college-level macroeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to an economic system as a whole by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like economic measurements, markets, macroeconomic models, and macroeconomic policies.​​​​​​

AP U.S. Government and Politics is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis.
 

Additional Information

Students must take BOTH AP exams at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits. These courses are each 0.5 credits and are paired together for the year.

Course Description

AP 2-D Art and Design is an introductory college-level two-dimensional design course. Students refine and apply 2-D skills to ideas they develop throughout the course.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP 2-D Art and Design is an introductory college-level two-dimensional design course. Students refine and apply 2-D skills to ideas they develop throughout the course.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

We discuss the concepts of limits and how they apply to major calculus concepts such as derivative, integrals, and infinite series. We will apply these concepts to various situations, such as the movement of an object and finding volume of 3D figures. We will explore how parametric equations can better explain the movement of an object through vectors as well as the derivative and area in the polar coordinate system.

Additional Information

It is strongly recommended that students have a graphing calculator to use at home. Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

We discuss the concepts of limits and how they apply to major calculus concepts such as derivative, integrals, and infinite series. We will apply these concepts to various situations, such as the movement of an object and finding volume of 3D figures. We will explore how parametric equations can better explain the movement of an object through vectors as well as the derivative and area in the polar coordinate system.

Additional Information

It is strongly recommended that students have a graphing calculator to use at home. Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP Computer Science Principles is an introductory college-level computing course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. They incorporate abstraction into programs and use data to discover new knowledge. Students also explain how computing innovations and computing systems—including the internet—work, explore their potential impacts, and contribute to a computing culture that is collaborative and ethical.

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students cultivate their understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics like rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

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.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP Human Geography is an 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.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP Macroeconomics is an introductory college-level macroeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to an economic system as a whole by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like economic measurements, markets, macroeconomic models, and macroeconomic policies.​​​​​​

AP U.S. Government and Politics is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis.
 

Additional Information

Students must take BOTH AP exams at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits. These courses are each 0.5 credits and are paired together for the year.

Course Description

AP Music Theory is an introductory college-level music theory course. Students cultivate their understanding of music theory through analyzing performed and notated music as they explore concepts like pitch, rhythm, form, and musical design.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP Precalculus, instructional time will emphasize six areas:

1. extending right triangle trigonometry to unit circle trigonometry and trigonometric functions; 
2. extending understanding of functions to trigonometric; 
3. developing understanding of conic sections; 
4. representing and performing operations with complex numbers and vectors in the coordinate plane; 
5. extending understanding of relations in the plane using parametric representations, including polar coordinates and 
6. analyzing arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Algebra 2 or Algebra 2 Honors.
Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP Psychology is an introductory college-level psychology course. Students cultivate their understanding of the systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes through inquiry-based investigations as they explore concepts like the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning and cognition, motivation, developmental psychology, testing and individual differences, treatment of abnormal behavior, and social psychology.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Psychology 1/Psychology 2
Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP Statistics teaches the methods for analyzing categorical and quantitative data through descriptive and inferential methods. Students learn how to present data graphically and describe what it might be trying to tell us. In the second semester, students apply the inferential methods used to determine data being statistically significant and what that may mean. This course ends with the AP Exam in early May and students may be able to earn up to 3 college credits.

Additional Information

It is strongly recommended that students have a graphing calculator to use at home. Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP U.S. History is an introductory college-level U.S. history course. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. history from c. 1491 CE to the present through analyzing historical sources and learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.​​​​​​

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.

Course Description

AP World History: Modern is an introductory college-level modern world history course. Students cultivate their understanding of world history from c. 1200 CE to the present through analyzing historical sources and learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.

Additional Information

Students must take the AP exam at the end of the school year. Scoring a level 3, 4, or 5 may earn students college credits.