课程

Intellectual development is the 焦点 of 保利预科’s 上学校 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.

我们的课程顺序是明确设计，使我们的学生是积极的变化的推动者. 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, 反种族主义培养了他们从不同的角度和批判性的视角来辨别系统和结构的能力, equipping them to imagine their world as it might be.

从他们高中生涯的开始到结束，学生们会遇到 上学校 迪安s 精心设计适合他们个人学术目标和兴趣的学习课程.

为 more information about 聚’s 上学校 curriculum 包括，核心要求，课程描述，选修课程，以及更多，请参阅我们的 detailed curriculum guide.

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

上学校 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.

上学校 课程 概述

• Computer and Information 科学

  在我们的计算机和信息科学课程和最先进的创客空间, 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. 核心课程和选修课向学生介绍散文小说, 诗歌, 戏剧, 以及来自世界各地的非虚构文学作品，帮助他们培养分析和写作技能. 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. 因此，保利的英语课程积极培养学生跨学科和体裁的有效写作能力. 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. 因此，我们的课程将经典文本与新兴的叙事声音结合起来, 教师们很高兴看到我们的学生从两者中汲取灵感.

  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

  在历史系的使命的核心是，历史的研究有潜力的信念, in the words of historian Carl Degler, “扩展了我们对人类意义的概念和理解.“历史研究是保利培养学生成为世界公民的使命中不可或缺的一部分, 我们的历史课程旨在帮助学生适应导航, both in the past and in the present, the tension between the familiar and the strange. 为此目的, 学生们对自己国家的历史有了深入的了解, global history, area-specific histories. 我们也使学生能够超越他们的当下，寻求对世界的理解, 培养同理心和谦逊，这是深思熟虑的全球公民行为不可或缺的一部分.

  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

  我们的数学课程鼓励学生成为逻辑和想象力丰富的思想家. We help students recognize patterns and structures, explore multiple routes to solving problems, 培养和运用批判性思维和抽象推理能力, organize and explain their reasoning. 因为我们模拟现实世界的情况，并促进演绎和归纳推理, 我们的学生发展智力工具，成为独立的问题解决者, 培养坚持解决复杂和具有挑战性的非常规问题的信心, 享受探索未知的挑战，享受发现未知的喜悦. In the 上学校, students study Geometry, 代数, 有关微积分的知识, 和微积分, 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, 自然界需要创新的解决方案来解决最棘手的环境问题, 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, 从防晒霜的制造到对流行病的认识. 必修课程包括生物、化学和物理.

  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. 我们的现代语言课程(包括意大利语高级选修课)非常重视口语, 分享, celebrating the world language, 尤其是作为培养文化能力和个人勇气的一种手段. In addition to local excursions to restaurants, 展品, NYC neighborhoods, curricular trips to Martinique, 西班牙, 意大利, 阿根廷鼓励学生成为勇敢和体贴的世界公民.

• Learning Support and 浓缩

  在保利, 我们欣赏学习风格的多样性，并致力于满足每个孩子的学习需求. 我们的学习专家帮助所有学生满足我们课程的要求, become proficient self-advocates who are resilient, meta-cognitive, strategic learners. Learning specialists work closely with students, 教师, 和院长解决个人的学习需求，并监督学习中心, 为学生提供练习技能和利用一系列学术支持的空间. 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.

除了我们严格的学术课程顺序外，学生还可以选择参加以下课程: