Shirin S's List: Center for Talented Youth

• AP English Language and Composition

  Open to: Grades 9 - 12
  Prerequisites: Qualifying verbal/reading score and one course below:
       CTYOnline Writing Analysis and Persuasion or 
       CTY Summer Programs The Critical Essay
  Formats: Web-based with CD-ROM
  Recommended School Credit: 1.0
  Textbook Purchase Required: Visit our textbook web page
  Challenge Level: college undergraduate
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines
  
  While preparing students to take the Advanced Placement Test in English Language and Composition, this course provides training in literary analysis as well as analytical and persuasive writing. In addition to practicing essay test-taking techniques, organization and time management, students study the interactions among subject, authorial purpose, audience needs, generic conventions, and the resources of the English language. Assignments include a directed narrative, analyses of test questions, analyses of rhetorical strategies, and persuasive essays. Students will also practice taking multiple choice tests which mirror those found in the exam. This course has been reviewed and approved by the College Board to use the "AP" designation.

• Open to: Grades 9 - 12
  Prerequisites: Qualifying reading/verbal score and completion of high school US History or equivalent
  Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines

  US Government and Politics is the study of the United States national government's policies, institutions, and foundations. These include constitutional theories forming the basis of government; political beliefs and behaviors; political parties, interest groups, and the mass media; the Congress, presidency, bureaucracy, and Federal court system; public policy; and civil rights and civil liberties. This course provides students with an analytical perspective on American government and politics and prepares students to take the AP US Government and Politics exam. It has been reviewed and approved by the College Board to use the "AP" designation.

  Time Required:
  Intensive spring and summer sessions require 10-14 hours per week for 12 weeks.
  Academic year session requires 4-7 hours per week for 30 weeks, with breaks for holidays.

• Open to: Grades 9 - 12
  Prerequisites: Qualifying reading/verbal score and completion of high school biology
  Textbook Purchases Required: Visit our textbook web page.
  Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines

  AP Psychology covers the material typically covered in a one semester college-level introductory psychology course. It prepares students to take the AP Psychology exam. Through textbook readings, projects, and directed online activities that emphasize critical thinking and applications, students explore psychology as the science of behavior and of mental processes. Topics include historical perspectives in psychology, scientific method, biological bases of behavior, sensation & perception, consciousness, learning, cognition, motivation & emotion, development, personality, psychological testing, individual differences, abnormal psychology, psychological disorders, and social psychology. This course has been reviewed and approved by the College Board to use the "AP" designation.

  Time Required:
  Intensive spring and summer sessions require 10-14 hours per week for 12 weeks.
  Academic year session requires 3-5 hours per week for 30 weeks, with breaks for holidays.

• Open to: Grades 8 - 12
  Formats: Email
  Challenge Level: college undergraduate
  Prerequisite: one course below:

  CTYOnline	Writing Analysis & Persuasion
  CTY Summer Programs	Critical Essay
  CAA Summer Programs	Critical Essay

  Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines
  Length: 20 weeks (Fall and Early Spring), 12 weeks (Early Summer), or 6 weeks (Intensive Midsummer)

• Open to: Grades 8 - 12
  Formats: Web-based
  Challenge Level: college undergraduate
  Prerequisite: one course below:
  

  CTYOnline	Writing Analysis & Persuasion
  CTY Summer Programs	Critical Essay,
  CAA Summer Programs	Critical Essay

  Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines
  Length: 20 weeks, 12 weeks Early Summer, or 6 weeks Intensive Midsummer

• Open to: Grades 8 - 12
  Formats: Email or Web-based
  Challenge Level: college sophomore
  Prerequisite: qualifying verbal/reading score and

  EITHER
  completion of grade 9 English and submission of a satisfactory writing sample (more information)
  OR completion of one course below:
  CTYOnline	Crafting the Essay
  CTY Summer Programs	Crafting the Essay
  CAA Summer Programs	Writing the Expository Essay
  	Writing by the Bay
  	Introduction to Creative Writing

  Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines
  Length: 20 weeks (Fall and Early Spring), 12 weeks (Early Summer), or 6 weeks (Intensive Mid summer)

• Open to: Grades 9 - 12
  Prerequisites: Qualifying math score and completion of high school chemistry or equivalent
  Recommended School Credit: 1.0 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines

• Open to: Grades 9 - 12
  Prerequisites: Qualifying math score and completion of high school biology or the equivalent
  Recommended School Credit: 1.0 credit
  Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines

• Prerequisites: Qualifying math score and completion of Calculus BC and Linear Algebra or equivalents
  Recommended School Credit: 1.0 credit
  Materials Purchase Required: Graphing calculator required; For recommendations, visit our textbook web page
  Textbook Purchase Required: Visit our textbook and materials web page
  Individually Paced

• Prerequisites: Qualifying math score and completion of Calculus BC or equivalent
  Recommended School Credit: 1.0 credit
  Materials Purchase Required: Graphing calculator required; For recommendations, visit our textbook web page
  Textbook Purchase Required: Visit our textbook web page
  Individually Paced

• Open to: Grades 9 - 12
  Prerequisites: Qualifying math score and completion of Precalculus with Trigonometry or the equivalent
  Recommended School Credit: 2.0 credit
  Materials Purchase Required: Graphing calculator required, For recommendations, visit our textbook web page
  Optional: Any Single Variable Calculus text. For recommendations, visit our textbook web page
  Individually Paced

• 3 months tuition $ 655
  6 months tuition $1220
  9 months tuition $1865
• AP Biology$1220AP Chemistry$1220AP Physics B$1220
• AP Language and Composition$1220
• AP Psychology$1220
• AP US Government & Politics$1220
• AP Calculus AB and BC (individually paced, see above for tuition)
• Writing Analysis & Persuasion (Web-based)$800Crafting Poetry$800Crafting Fiction$800

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• Writing Analysis and PersuasionGr. 8-12Crafting PoetryGr. 8-12Crafting FictionGr. 8-12
• AP Calculus-BC
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  Linear Algebra

  Multivariable Calculus
• AP Psychology            Gr. 9-12
  AP US Gov't & Politics Gr. 9-12
• AP Eng Lang & Comp  Gr. 9-12
• AP Biology (session-based)
  AP Chemistry (session-based)
  AP Physics B (session-based)

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