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AP Courses

High school students have an opportunity to complete college-level courses at the secondary level and may obtain college credit and/or advanced standing. Students should research the college or university they are interested in attending to ensure AP courses will be accepted. To meet this objective, academically challenging courses have been carefully developed in cooperation with The College Board. AP courses are subject to an auditing process by The College Board to ensure that curricular requirements are satisfied. This process has been successfully completed for all Advanced Placement courses. In the spirit of the Equity Policy Statement of The College Board, Susquehanna Township High School is committed to welcoming into AP courses all students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum. Students are advised to discuss Advanced Placement requirements with their counselor or individual faculty members.

Please note that any AP course with enrollment less than 10 students will be moved to an online option via Hanna Cyber Academy powered by CAOLA.

STHS Advanced Placement Programs

STHS Advanced Placement (AP) Courses

  • All Pathways
  • Fulfills Graduation Requirement
  • Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Honors English 10, 11, or AP Composition, Teacher Recommendation

The Advanced Placement Literature course will emphasize critical reading and effective writing. Extensive reading assignments from World, British, and English literature will explore different styles and purpose in writing. Students will examine literary elements as well as produce in-depth analysis compositions that will be comparable to work in a college level English course. The study of literature will help students to gain an understanding of the principles of effective writing. Their writing skills will be developed by both various pre-assigned compositions and frequent in-class writing assignments in the same style as college assessments and AP Exam essays. This course is structured around a discussion based learning environment requiring students to daily offer personal insights and understandings in order to shape their individual analytic skills. Students who successfully pass the Advanced Placement examination may be awarded college credit in English upon entrance to most universities.

  • Credit: 1.0
  • Grade Level: 11
  • Grade Level: 12
  • All Pathways
  • Fulfills Graduation Requirement
  • Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Honors English 10, 11, or AP Literature, Teacher Recommendation

The Advanced Placement Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. This course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers to diverse texts, and becoming flexible, responsive writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students conduct in the course will deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses to particular situations. The course cultivates the rhetorical understanding and use of written language by directing students’ attention to writer/reader interactions in their reading and writing of various formal and informal genres (such as memos, letters, advertisements, political satires, personal narratives, scientific arguments, cultural critiques, and research reports). Reading and writing activities in the course also deepen students’ knowledge and control of formal conventions of written language (such as vocabulary, diction, syntax, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, and genre). Students who successfully pass the Advanced Placement examination may be awarded college credit in English upon entrance to most universities.

  • Credit: 1.0
  • Grade Level: 11
  • Grade Level: 12
  • All Pathways
  • Fulfills Graduation Requirement

This course is designed to provide students with the historical analytical skills and knowledge necessary to deal critically with historical matters and material, as well as the ability to understand connections that exist in World History from 1200 to the present. Students will develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing, developing historical arguments, and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation and continuity and change. Students will foster connections and deeply analyze history through various themes.

  • Credit: 1.0
  • Grade Level: 10
  • Grade Level: 11
  • Grade Level: 12
  • All Pathways
  • Fulfills Graduation Requirement
  • Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Civics and Government or Honors Civics and Government or AP Government and Politics or teacher recommendation.

This Advanced Placement course in United States History is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with problems and material in United States History. Combining a chronological and a thematic approach, students will study U.S. history from early colonization to the present. This course uses in-depth reading of primary and secondary sources to analyze the opposing viewpoints of history. This course requires writing college-level essays that will assess the students’ ability to use historical skills to support an argument. Students who successfully pass the Advanced Placement Examination may be awarded college credit in History upon entrance to most universities. This course may be taken in lieu of or in addition to U.S. History.

This is a college level course and it has a required summer assignment.

  • Credit: 1.0
  • Grade Level: 11
  • Grade Level: 12
  • Arts & Communications
  • Human Services
  • Prerequisites
  • Science & Health

Prerequisite: Teacher recommendation

This Advanced Placement course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. Students also learn about the ethics & methods psychologists use in their science & practice. Students who successfully pass the Advanced Placement Examination may be awarded college credit in Psychology upon entrance to most universities.

This is a college level course and it has a required summer assignment.

  • Credit: 1.0
  • Grade Level: 11
  • Grade Level: 12
  • All Pathways
  • Fulfills Graduation Requirement
  • Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Modern World History, Civics and Government and/or U.S. History; Honors World History, Honors Civics and Government and/or Honors U.S. History or teacher recommendation.

AP United States Government and Politics provides a college level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concept ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other primary and secondary texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions among political institutions, processes, and behavior. They also engage in disciplinary practices that require them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they complete a political science research or applied civics project. Students who successfully pass the Advance Placement examination may be awarded college credit in history upon entrance to most universities. This course may be taken in lieu of or in addition to Civics and Government.

This is a college level course and it has a required summer assignment

  • Credit: 1.0
  • Grade Level: 10
  • Grade Level: 11
  • Grade Level: 12