Develop your voice and strengthen your writing through creative, analytical, and non-fiction work. Students explore different forms, styles, audiences, and purposes while planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing original pieces and building the communication skills needed for university, careers, and creative pursuits.
Investigate major global issues through a geographic perspective, including population change, migration, inequality, resource use, environmental sustainability, globalization, and climate challenges. Students analyze maps, data, trends, and competing perspectives while developing informed responses to an increasingly interconnected world.
Explore the beliefs, identities, traditions, values, and social practices that shape cultures around the world. Students examine cultural diversity, communication, migration, globalization, stereotypes, cultural change, and intercultural relationships while developing respectful research, inquiry, and critical-thinking skills.
Strengthen the reading and writing skills needed for graduation, further education, employment, and everyday life. Students work with informational, narrative, graphic, and practical texts while developing strategies for comprehension, organization, written communication, revision, editing, and independent literacy development.
Strengthen the literacy, communication, media, research, and critical-thinking skills required for university and beyond. Students analyze literary, informational, and media texts, develop evidence-based interpretations, and produce polished written, oral, and media work for different audiences and purposes.
Investigate the molecular, cellular, genetic, physiological, and population processes that support life. Students explore biochemistry, metabolic processes, molecular genetics, homeostasis, and population dynamics while analyzing scientific evidence and developing the inquiry and communication skills needed for postsecondary life sciences.