Advanced Placement®

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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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    Electives
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® 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 AP® Art History, students explore the interconnectedness of art, culture, and historical context, using critical analysis through the critical lenses of artistic expression, cultura…

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    Science
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® Biology

    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: explaining concepts, using visu…

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    Mathematics
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® 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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    Electives
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® Computer Science A

    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 specific problems. T…

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    Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

    AP® Computer Science Principles

    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 find important. They w…

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    English Language Arts
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® English Language and Composition

    In 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 learn to filter what they…

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    English Language Arts
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® 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 Studies
    Grades: 10, 11, 12

    AP® Human Geography

    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, and even the ways we w…

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    Social Studies
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® 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 Studies
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® 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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    Science
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® Physics 1

    The 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 universe’s physical prope…

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    Mathematics
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® 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 Studies
    Grades: 11, 12

    AP® US Government and Politics

    In 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 Constitution, its Judeo-Chris…

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    Social Studies
    Grades: 10, 11, 12

    AP® US History*

    The study of history provides us with an opportunity to see God’s hand in our story. 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 the past but a dynami…

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    Social Studies
    Grades: 10, 11, 12

    AP® World History: Modern

    In 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 specific theme and ti…

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FAQs

Do students have to take the AP® exam?

Students must take the AP® exam to be eligible for AP® credit.

When do students need to register for the AP® exam?

Students are responsible for registering by the November 15 deadline.

What is the purpose of these AP® courses?

This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and prepare students for the AP® exam.