Advanced Placement Biology
GRADUATION CREDIT:
Elective
A—G CATEGORY:
d
OPEN TO GRADES:
11-12
PREREQUISITES:
Required summer assignment; Living Earth; Chemistry I;
AP/Honors Course Contract;
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The AP Biology course is designed to be the equivalent of a
college introductory biology course usually taken by biology
majors during their first year. After showing themselves to be
qualified on the AP Examination, some students, as college
freshmen, are permitted to undertake upper level courses in
biology or register for courses for which biology is a prerequisite.
Other students may have fulfilled a basic requirement for a
laboratory-science course and will be able to undertake other
courses to pursue their majors.
AP Biology includes those topics regularly covered in a college
biology course for majors or in the syllabus from a high-quality
college program in introductory biology. The college course in
biology differs significantly from the usual first high school
course in biology with respect to the kind of textbook and effort
required of students. The textbooks used for AP Biology should
be those also used by college biology majors. The kinds of labs
done by AP students must be the equivalent of those done by
college students.
The AP Biology course is designed to be taken by students after
the successful completion of a first course in high school biology
and one in high school chemistry as well. It aims to provide
students with the conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and
analytical skills necessary to deal critically with the rapidly
changing science of biology.
Elective
A—G CATEGORY:
d
OPEN TO GRADES:
11-12
PREREQUISITES:
Required summer assignment; Living Earth; Chemistry I;
AP/Honors Course Contract;
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The AP Biology course is designed to be the equivalent of a
college introductory biology course usually taken by biology
majors during their first year. After showing themselves to be
qualified on the AP Examination, some students, as college
freshmen, are permitted to undertake upper level courses in
biology or register for courses for which biology is a prerequisite.
Other students may have fulfilled a basic requirement for a
laboratory-science course and will be able to undertake other
courses to pursue their majors.
AP Biology includes those topics regularly covered in a college
biology course for majors or in the syllabus from a high-quality
college program in introductory biology. The college course in
biology differs significantly from the usual first high school
course in biology with respect to the kind of textbook and effort
required of students. The textbooks used for AP Biology should
be those also used by college biology majors. The kinds of labs
done by AP students must be the equivalent of those done by
college students.
The AP Biology course is designed to be taken by students after
the successful completion of a first course in high school biology
and one in high school chemistry as well. It aims to provide
students with the conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and
analytical skills necessary to deal critically with the rapidly
changing science of biology.