Advanced Placement®
Experience college-level rigor through a biblical worldview, equipping students to excel academically and approach learning with purpose.
Advanced Placement® (AP) Credits
Advanced Placement® Program
Many nontraditional students seek opportunities to participate in Advanced Placement® courses and testing. Sevenstar Academy offers a wide variety of AP® courses approved by College Board® to ensure that students receive all of the academic training necessary to sit for corresponding AP® examinations.
Although Sevenstar does not administer AP® examinations, students who complete AP® courses through Sevenstar Academy will be eligible to take the AP® examinations and can coordinate with local school districts and systems to register for the corresponding exams.
AP® Courses
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ElectivesGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Art History
Our God is the master artist and has instilled in us the ability to respond to Him and His world in artistic ways. In Advanced Placement (AP)® Art History, students explore the interconnectedness of art, culture, and historical context, using critical analysis through the critical lenses of artisti…
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ScienceGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Biology
Advanced Placement (AP)® Biology will explore major concepts that connect different areas of biology, helping students thoroughly understand essential biological concepts through a structured curriculum and laboratory investigations. The course is designed around six key science practices: explaini…
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MathematicsGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Calculus AB
Students in this course walk in the footsteps of Newton and Leibnitz as they discover the wonders of calculus, the mathematical study of change. Students also study how key concepts in calculus (infinity, limits, continuity, derivatives, integrals, etc.) relate to core doctrines about God, the Chris…
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ElectivesGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Computer Science A
Advanced Placement (AP)® Computer Science A is equivalent to the first segment of a college-level computer science course. As man was created in the image of God to be creative, categorical builders, and designers, students develop the skills to write programs or part of programs to correctly solve…
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12Advanced Placement® Computer Science Principles
Advanced Placement (AP)® Computer Science Principles is a college-level course that sets the foundation for learning the concepts and challenges of computer science and its impacts on society. Students will stretch their creativity and problem-solving skills to build solutions for the issues they f…
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English Language ArtsGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® English Language and Composition
In Advanced Placement (AP)® English Language and Composition, students learn to be better students of English as well as better communicators who can be used by God both locally and worldwide. Students read prose written throughout a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and lear…
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English Language ArtsGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® English Literature and Composition
Read and analyze imaginative literature from various periods and disciplines while sharpening your understanding of how a work’s style, figurative language, theme, and other literary elements contribute to its meaning and cultural significance. Students sample a variety of literary genres from a w…
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Social StudiesGrades: 10, 11, 12Advanced Placement® Human Geography
Advanced Placement (AP)® Human Geography gives high school students a college-level introductory to human (cultural) geography, as they live in God’s creation and respond to it. Students examine how changes in population have affected cultures, language, gender roles, rural and urban societies, a…
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Social StudiesGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Macroeconomics
In this course, students establish the fundamentals of economics with a survey of scarcity, opportunity cost, supply, demand, and market equilibrium. They then zoom out to the largest scale of economic analysis, learning the indicators of whole countries’ economic health, specifically gross domest…
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Social StudiesGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Microeconomics
In this course, students explore the power of the effects of incremental changes from a biblical perspective and apply it to common decisions that individuals and business firms encounter each day. Students examine, interpret, analyze, and model key microeconomics concepts and processes, from the sh…
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ScienceGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Physics 1
The Advanced Placement (AP)® Physics 1 course is conducted using inquiry-based instructional strategies that focus on experimentation to develop students’ conceptual understanding of physics principles within a Christian worldview. Throughout the course, biblical teaching is related to the univer…
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MathematicsGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® Statistics
AP® Statistics introduces students to exploring data, sampling and experimentation, anticipating patterns, and determining statistical inference. It also integrates key statistical concepts with biblical teaching and Christian theology. Students learn that many of the “greats” throughout the hi…
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Social StudiesGrades: 11, 12Advanced Placement® US Government and Politics
In Advanced Placement (AP)® US Government and Politics, students investigate key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students study the structure of the Constitu…
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Social StudiesGrades: 10, 11, 12Advanced Placement® US History
The study of history provides us with an opportunity to see God’s hand in our story. Advanced Placement (AP)® US History guides students through exploration, investigation, and evaluation of the story of the United States. They discover that history isn’t a mere collection of information about …
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Social StudiesGrades: 10, 11, 12Advanced Placement® World History: Modern
In Advanced Placement (AP)® World History: Modern, students participate in critical analysis using a Christian worldview that encompasses the beginning of human interaction and the separation of nations after the tower of Babel to present-day political and social issues. Each module investigates a …
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FAQs
Students must take the AP® exam to be eligible for AP® credit.
Students are responsible for registering by the November 15 deadline.
This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and prepare students for the AP® exam.