Requirements:
Health Education in grades nine and ten
Quest in grade eleven

Health Education – Grade 9 (728)
The Health Education curriculum provides an interactive forum with students, teachers, and upper school peer educators to understand their own as well as others’ attitudes concerning health issues. As students acquire knowledge and obtain skills, they gain the self-confidence and sense of responsibility necessary for making decisions that affect their quality of life. The curriculum builds on basic life-skills training in self-image development and independent thinking, coping with anxiety, and effective communication. It includes research, role-playing, guest lectures, written and oral reports, movies, and interactive group discussions. The skills students learn form a basis for exploration in grade nine into areas such as human growth and development, emotional health – including stress and anxiety and coping mechanisms – alcohol, tobacco and substance abuse, nutrition, and preventive medicine.

Health Education - Grade 10 (730)
Health Education classes address physical, psychological, and social well-being in an interactive forum with student, teacher, and upper school peer educators to explore relationships involving family, school, and community issues. The curriculum builds on basic life-skills training and includes sexuality, emotional health, substance use and abuse, diseases and disorders, cancer, heart disease, nutrition, and eating disorders. Selected Juniors and Seniors serve as student assistants.

Quest (740)
Grade eleven
This course is a required weekly seminar for juniors. The junior year brings with it unique responsibilities and decisions. The students identify and examine a variety of topics, concerns, and issues, such as identity, relationships, and dependence and independence. The course is facilitated by faculty members of various departments.

Introduction to Psychology (750)
Grades eleven and twelve
This course provides a broad coverage of the field of psychology, the study of the mind and behavior. It introduces the theories, research, and applications that constitute the discipline. The year-long course serves as an impetus for students to think critically about psychological phenomena, particularly those that have an impact on their everyday lives. The areas of psychology that will be covered include the biological foundation of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, human development, personality, abnormal behavior, and social psychology. The issues and topics will be explored through text books, supplementary readings and case studies, lectures, discussions, films, and guest speakers.

AP Psychology (751)
Grade twelve
Requires Departmental Approval
Prerequisite: B+ or better in Introduction to Psychology; average of B+ or better in major courses
This course is designed to represent college-level psychology studies. Students will study various approaches to psychology, types of research in psychology, facets of human behavior and cognition, and the treatment of various disorders. In addition, this course will examine topics in greater depth than the introductory course and will present topics not covered in the introductory course. Independent projects will be required.

Materials to prepare for the AP Psychology exam will be provided and practice exams will be offered.