Course variety at your high school?

mike

I was just looking through all the available courses at my high school and it's really amazing to take a look at the variety..
For grade 12, there's 14 Arts courses to choose from, including fashion design, interior design, photography and theatre development. There's politics, philosophy, economics, international business, exercise science, law, modern plays, and many many more.

What kind of "special" courses do you have at your school?
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electricpearls · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject:

My school is okay variety-wise, but we don't have anything interested like Politics or what not, unfortunately.

Courses I know of are Financial Management, Legal Studies (financial and legal are taught by the slackest teacher, I am in legal and pulling 90s and I haven't learnt a thing), Dance, Art, Advanced Art, Fashion Studies, Foods, Marketing and Management (another worthless one from what I've heard), Sports Medicine, French (slack slack slack slack SLACK), German, Mandarin, Spanish, Cabinetmaking, Metal Tech, Auto.

There isn't really much more than that. And alot of them aren't really worth it because half of them are taught by slack krappy teachers.

I pulled a 92 in Grade 11 French in Grade 10 and I don't even know French.

I've considered switching because it's so bad but I'm lazy Neutral

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boarderlinefrenzy · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:04 am Post subject:

oh man, I wish we had that. *Stupid small town*
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t3hmimo · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

T_T I go to school in vancity, but our school doesn't have that much variety. At least, not in what I have interest in... we don't even have that many AP courses, and the ones we do have, I'm just not interested in that path. It really ticks me off sometimes because I'm afraid that means the other schools who have enough students to provide that course will have an advantage over me.

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DeadDisco · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

At my highschool we really didn't have much variety. It was all the basics, plus a few fun-ish classes, but none that seem out of the ordinary. They have photography, home-ec, interior design, woods, Japanese, musical theater and I think they might have added a dance class, but I'm not too sure about that one.
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Nothing Better · Supermodel Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 830 Smiles: +16 428

My school sucks for variety. For our last year we get to choose three of the following:
Theatre
Visual arts
Biology
Physics
Chemistry
Music
Business(Everyone already has to take Economy)

And either
Math 536 or (what you need for certain university programs)
Math 526 (normal math, not the lowest level)

chlodoll · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject:

We had a good deal of variety but nothing really fun, all very academic. My favourite elective class was World Politics. And drama!

ohmyghosh · Fashionista Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 76 Smiles: +1 75

BIOTECHNOLOGY! <3
i think we're the only school in the TDSB to offer it.

this course was hands down my FAVOURITE course in high school. it was mainly microbiology so we got to work with actual bacteria including species like E Coli and Salmonella. and we wore lab coats and used slides and made smears and had innoculating loops. it was REALLY cool. made me really want to go into biotech.

Noir · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

We have pretty good variety. Some sample classes:
-Sociology
-Psychology
-Musical Theatre
-Dance
-Some law classes
-Web design
-Sports Medecine
-A class (forget what its called) about entrepreneurship -- you get to make your own business, it sounds pretty cool
-advanced French (we are a partly french school so you can take any classes in french language), Spanish, and Italian
-Forensics
-Technical theatre (behind the scenes)
-Art History

mike · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject:

^ forensics!!!
even though i dont like science, id take it for the csi factor haha..
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Shanti · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:27 am Post subject:

Basically: sucks.

st3ph · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

My school sucks...they're taking out musical theatre cause we don't have a pit band...basically arts at my school are dying. we're pretty big on tech and shop classes so bonus for people who are interested in welding, construction, wood, auto, horticulture, and computers, but there's not a lot of variety for most girls (not saying girls can't take those, just at my school most don't want to). Physics is also getting less and less interest. We do offer AP, and some interesting courses, but they're not really anything special or unique. Classes keep getting cancelled or the schedules don't fit properly..it's annoying. I really wanted to take outdoor education but it clashed with my AP English and Leadership, which are only offered in period 2. Leadership is a cool class, the student council one that plans things. I think they are lazy this year so I'm hoping my class is better next semester! Uhmm..we have fitness/weight training, exercise science, phys ed, bio chem, food and nutrition, graphic design, drama, parenting (which i think sounds kinda neat), business, marketing, co-op, environmental science, physics, functions, math, accounting, and that's about it for different senior classes. nothing too special.
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melodramatica · Fashionista Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 55 Smiles: 0 119

My school has absolutely no variety to offer the university-bound senior students. These are the courses I'm taking:

U English
U French
U Biology
M Art
M Sociology
U Environment & Resource Management (ONLINE)

And these are the other choices left: Functions, Calculus, Chemistry.

Physics is offered every second year, as well as chemistry and most french immersion classes. We don't even have World Issues! It's unbelievably ridiculous. Most of the elective classes I wanted for grades 10-11 had to be sacrificed because they were at the same time as my mandatory courses.
My school has nothing to offer except for the college/workplace students because there's only 20 people going to university out of the almost 200 kids in grade 12 this year. Sad, huh?

mike · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject:

^That's just absurd about the physics and chem being offered every second year. Most science programs have both of those as pre-reqs! :o
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amyamy8 · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

my school has quite a few "special courses" they include:
- psychology
- business management
- economics
- accounting
- theatre production
- graphics
- woodwork
- ict
- auto
- fabric & fibre
- french, spanish, japanese
- bio, chem, physics, geology
- math, calc
- law
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