AP Biology
The Advanced Placement Biology course is designed to
be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course, usually taken by
biology majors during their first year of college. After showing themselves to
be qualified on the AP examination, some students, as college freshmen, are
permitted to undertake upper-level courses in biology or register for courses
for which biology is a prerequisite. Other students may have fulfilled a basic
requirement for a laboratory-science course and will be able to take other
courses to pursue their majors. The AP Biology course is designed to be taken
by students after the successful completion of both a high school biology and a
high school chemistry course. It aims to provide students with the conceptual
framework, factual knowledge, and analytical skills necessary to deal with the
rapidly changing science of biology. The school currently uses an alternating
day block schedule. AP Biology is a 1.5 credit course meeting every day for the
first semester and every other day the second semester. The course is one
letter grade weighted.