课程

Intellectual development is the 焦点 of 保利预科’s Upper School curriculum. In every 纪律, 我们制定了学术卓越的标准，旨在培养学生终身受益的思维习惯. Our expectation is that students learn to read, 写, 分析, quantify with purpose, 焦点, 和清晰.

Our curriculum sequence is expressly designed to enable our students to be agents of positive change. 为此目的, anti-racism is an essential component of our curriculum; in addition to empowering our students to promote social and racial justice, anti-racism fosters their abilities to discern systems and structures from varied perspectives and with a critical lens, equipping them to imagine their world as it might be.

From the beginning of their high school career until its conclusion, students meet with Upper School 迪安s to craft courses of study uniquely suited to their individual academic goals and interests.

为 more information about 聚’s Upper School curriculum including, core requirements, course descriptions, elective offerings, more, please see our detailed curriculum guide.

为 incoming Grade 9 families and students, please see addendum for the 2024-25 课程 Guide.

Upper School 课程 Guide for the 2024-25 Academic Year

我们鼓励学生充分利用我们提供的机会，通过拥抱学习带来的挑战来拓展他们的思想和心灵.

Upper School 课程 概述

• Computer and Information 科学

  In our Computer and Information 科学 classes and state-of-the-art Maker Space, students apply their creativity, problem-solving skills, communication tools to explore new languages; engineer and design 3-D solutions; develop multi-level understanding of the internet and social media; work with hands-on technologies such as robotics and microcontrollers; and discover the expanding universe of artificial intelligence. 计算机语言是保利发展最快、最令人兴奋的研究领域之一，我们精通数字的学生是它的天然对话者.

  Among the elective courses students can choose are Cybersecurity; Data 科学; Disinformation and Democracy; App Development; Game Design, 先进的人工智能, Advanced Computational Astrophysics; Advanced Rocket Engineering in Simulation.

• 英语

  英语课让学生在与文学对人类经历的不同表现搏斗的同时，发现自己作为作家的声音. Core classes and electives introduce students to prose fiction, 诗歌, 戏剧, literary non-fiction from around the world and help them develop both analytical and writing skills. 我们写作指导的核心是理解写作需要灵活性和广泛的技能，而不仅仅是传统的论文. 聚’s 英语 program therefore actively prepares students to 写 effectively across 纪律s and genres. Just as important, 我们学习文学的方法是基于这样一种理解，即文学文本可以帮助学生培养对那些既不熟悉又非常熟悉的人物的同理心. Our classes therefore join classic texts with new and emerging narrative voices, 教师 delight in seeing our students draw inspiration from both.

  Among the compelling 英语 electives offered are Author Study: Toni Morrison; The Bible as Literature; British Literature; Creative Writing Workshop; Critical Theory; Fiction Writing; Futures: 科学 Fiction; Gender Studies through Literature; Japanese Literature; Law and Literature; Linguistics; Literature of New York; Literature of Prep Schools; Memoir and Autofiction; Mexican Literature; Modern Literature; Nuclear Texts; Performing New York; Poetry and Poetics; Postcolonial Literature; The Postmodern and Literature; Pulp Fiction and Noir; Shakespeare; and The Writer’s Craft.

• 历史

  At the core of the 历史 Department’s mission is the belief that the study of history has the potential to, in the words of historian Carl Degler, “expand our conception and understanding of what it means to be human.” The study of history is integral to 聚’s mission of preparing students to be global citizens, our history curriculum is designed to help students become comfortable navigating, both in the past and in the present, the tension between the familiar and the strange. 为此目的, students develop a deep knowledge of their own country’s history, global history, area-specific histories. We also empower students to seek an understanding of their world that goes beyond their present moment, to develop the empathy and humility that are integral to the thoughtful exercise of global citizenship.

  Among the electives we offer our 历史 students are Constitutional Conflict: American Government; China, 越南, Communism; Gotham’s Challenges; European 历史; Feminisms of the Modern Middle East; Latin American 历史; Left, 正确的, Center; New York City 历史; Postcolonial Southeast Asia; Revolutions; The World’s Wisdom Traditions: Abrahamic Religions; The World’s Wisdom Traditions: Asian Religions; US 历史 Seminars in: African American Women’s 历史; Black Power, Black 艺术; Settlement-1865; 1865-Present; Immigration and Migration; 新闻, 网络, American Democracy; Our Republic in Nature; Queer Histories; and Slavery and Resistance.

• 数学

  Our mathematics curriculum encourages students to become logical and imaginative thinkers. We help students recognize patterns and structures, explore multiple routes to solving problems, develop and apply critical thinking and abstract reasoning skills, organize and explain their reasoning. As we model real world situations and promote both deductive and inductive reasoning, our students develop the intellectual tools to become independent problem solvers, develop the confidence to persevere through complex and challenging non-routine problems, enjoy the challenge of attempting to find the unknown and delight in its discovery. In the Upper School, students study Geometry, 代数, Pre-calculus, Calculus, in their junior and senior years may choose from compelling electives such as Economics; Financial Literacy; 历史 of 数学; Linear 代数; Advanced Statistics; and Introduction to 代数ic Structures.

• 科学

  Our 科学 department recognizes that, now more than ever before, the natural world demands innovative solutions to the most vexing environmental, 医疗, resource dilemmas humankind has confronted. 因此，我们的学生参与实验和可观察数据的分析，挑战他们理解科学如何塑造所有现象, from the manufacture of sunblock to understanding of epidemic disease. Required courses are offered in biology, chemistry, physics.

  Electives include courses in those 纪律s along with classes such as Earth Systems and Structures; 为ensic 科学; Modern Physics; Environmental Chemistry; Advanced electives in: Applied Mechanics; Electronics; Climate Change; Conservation Biology; and Organic Chemistry. 所有课程都要求学生运用科学和工程实践来理解现象和设计问题的解决方案, preparing them to become tomorrow’s engineers, 医生, 研究人员, space explorers, scientifically literate citizens.

• World Languages/Classics

  World Languages courses — Spanish, 法国, 普通话和拉丁语——让学生沉浸在他们选择的目标语言中，培养他们对学校以外的民族和文化的好奇心. Our modern language classes (including a senior elective in Italian) place a premium on speaking, 分享, celebrating the world language, not least as a means of nurturing cultural competence and personal courage. In addition to local excursions to restaurants, 展品, NYC neighborhoods, curricular trips to Martinique, 西班牙, 意大利, Argentina encourage students to become intrepid and considerate citizens of the world.

• Learning Support and 浓缩

  在保利, we appreciate the wide diversity of learning styles and are dedicated to meeting each child’s learning needs. Our learning specialists help all students meet the demands of our curriculum, become proficient self-advocates who are resilient, meta-cognitive, strategic learners. Learning specialists work closely with students, 教师, 迪安s to address individual learning needs and oversee the Learning Center, a space for students to practice their skills and utilize a range of academic supports. 我们的学习专家也支持教师和开发教学工具，旨在帮助丰富所有学生的课堂学习经验.

In addition to our rigorous academic course sequence, students may elect to enroll in the following: