Message-Id: <v01510103b0ad0f9ac726@[205.134.240.112]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:05:05 -0800
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
From: bcomet@sirius.com (Burt C. Kessler)
Subject: Re: AP Science courses
We also have decided to not offer AP courses in the science dept. We offer
an Advanced Biology course which is essentially molecular biology. The
first semester lays the ground work with biochemistry and cell biology.
The second semester is devoted to genetics, DNA, and biotechnology. Topics
such as reproduction and development, evolution, and the immune system are
addressed at the molecular level. I believe we actually go into more depth
than an AP course permits because we limit the scope of the course.
Other departments at the school offer AP courses and the students want the
"credit" for college applications. The students who sign up for Adv.Bio
are the same ones who take AP English or AP Govt.
We also offer Physiology. This is not an advanced or even honors level
course. It is a human bilogy course which holds inherent interest for the
students. More students qualify for and take this course than the Advanced
Bio which is an honors course.
"THINGS ARE MORE LIKE THEY ARE NOW THAN THEY EVER WERE BEFORE."
Dwight D. Eisenhower