AP Programs
The Advanced Placement or AP Programs offer college-level courses and exams that students can take in high school. Nearly all colleges and universities in the United States grant credit and placement for qualifying AP scores.
Taking AP courses and exams in high school could give students an advantage in college by letting them:
- Earn College Credit and Placement
- Save Money and Time
- Stand Out to Colleges
- Keep Their Options Open
AP courses are open to all our 11th to 12th grade students who have done well in the prerequisite courses and have obtained a recommendation from the teacher of the AP course in which he/she wishes to enroll. As with all courses, CEIA teachers and the Director will advise on course selections based on previous academic performance and future goals.
CEIA offers:
- AP English Language and Composition – Students will read nonfiction texts through the eyes of a writer, exploring the choices writers and speakers make to persuade their audience. By analyzing how writing is composed, you’ll be able to construct your own persuasive pieces.
- AP Precalculus – Students will explore concepts such as polynomial and exponential functions that can help you calculate your rise to influencer status, and many more concepts related to functions, logarithms, and trigonometry that can be applied beyond the classroom.
- AP Chemistry – Students will learn to examine the atomic and molecular interactions that result in all the varied materials and changes that they observe daily, as well as how to properly test and analyze errors in an experiment.
- AP Comparative Government and Politics – This course explores the government and politics in China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Throughout the course, you’ll learn how different governments solve similar problems and will gain a clear understanding of the comparative method by analyzing data and text-based sources, making comparisons and applications, and developing evidence-based arguments.
- AP Spanish Literature and Culture – Students will discover the origins of literature written in Spanish, from New World chronicles to the publication of the first modern novel, El ingenioso hidalgo, don Quijote de la Mancha, to the poetry and magic realism of Nobel laureates, Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda. They’ll also read poetry, prose, drama, and essays that capture voices from Latin America, the United States, and Spain while exploring their rich cultural heritage.
- AP Computer Science – Students will explore how to use, build, and work with the technologies of tomorrow to help answer some of the biggest questions of today. In this course, they’ll design and implement computer programs using a subset of the Java programming language that can be used to develop algorithms, data structures, and solve problems.