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This course compares the Classical and Romantic temperaments found in Western art music while surveying some of the masterpieces composed between 1750 and 1900.
Stagecraft introduces the beginning theater artist to theories and practices of theater technology.
This course invites students to learn and apply design principles and the user experience to a variety of digital formats, including graphic, video, and web.
This Global Online Academy course focuses on psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and depression.
Through selected authentic videos, films and news articles, students will be able to have in-depth conversations about various topics. Assignments in the course include research papers, debates, and in-class skits.
This course introduces students to the different ways in which French-speaking communities around the world are impacted by, and respond to global challenges. Topics range from climate change to food insecurity, global health, economic inequality, social justice, human rights, and war.
While traditional high school chemistry courses focus on predicting products and studying the properties of chemical reactions, organic chemistry focuses on the specific mechanisms by which bonds are broken and formed.
“Big History Project” (BHP) is a course that invites us to think and to imagine on a really BIG scale, both in terms of time and space: it is designed to be a comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present (and even the future).
This Global Online Academy course explores the fundamentals of and vulnerabilities in the design of computers, networks, and the internet.
Through simulations, experiments, and collaborative and independent projects, students explore the roles of data and randomness in daily life, and develop tools to make sense of uncertainty.
This one-semester course introduces students to key microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts, basic business principles, and the workings of financial markets and institutions.
For students with a strong foundation in Algebra 1 and Geometry, this course emphasizes multiple representations of functions and fluency between them, through guided collaborative exploration and class discussion.
A preparation for studies in calculus, Extended Precalculus explores numerical, graphical and analytical approaches to real valued functions.
Latino foods reflect enormous geographical and social diversity resulting from Latin America's turbulent history of settlement, intermarriage, and migration. Where does Latin American food come from?
This course presents the essential forms, grammar, and vocabulary needed to begin reading Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in the original. Students will spend the first semester studying the forms of Greek’s three noun declensions and the most common conjugated verb forms found in Homer, and will practice these forms nightly by translating simplified passages from Homer.
Inspired by Global Online Academy’s popular Medical Problem Solving series, this course uses a case-based approach to give students a practical look into the professional lives of lawyers and legal thinking.
The United States incarcerates a larger percentage of its population than any other country in the world. The design of this course is two-fold: for students to analyze and understand the origins and rise of the modern-day mass incarceration phenomenon through the lens of United States history while simultaneously paying particular attention to the distinct experiences that various population groups have been subjected to throughout this rise.
In this course, students learn financial responsibility and social consciousness.
Through laboratory investigations and case studies, students will investigate the nature of the scientific method behind the research, generate experimental models for these technologies, and develop their own conclusions regarding these discoveries.
Modern World History examines global events from 1760 to the present under the umbrella of the essential question: What is “modernity”? Students will analyze from multiple perspectives the various revolutions that shook the Atlantic Basin at the end of the 18th century, industrialization, the growth and contraction of political and colonial empires, the experience of indigenous peoples, and war in the age of global interdependence.
The primary commonality between all living things is a simple molecule that we call DNA. As scientific research advances, geneticists enrich our understanding of the dynamics, nuances and importance of this molecule and how it can be manipulated.