Course of Study Guide

Accounting is the language of business. In this course you will: prepare financial records, develop financial reports and enhance your general knowledge of business.

This course provides an in-depth study of marketing with students being able to complete an individual in-depth study of a marketing topic of their choice.

This course addresses statutes and regulations affecting businesses, families and individuals. 

This course helps students investigate careers as they apply to personal interests and abilities, develop skills and job search documents needed to enter the workforce, explore the rights of workers and traits of effective employees, and address the importance of professionalism and responsibility.

Students in this course run a small business.  In this hands-on course, students will work in teams, generate ideas and build a project using proven entrepreneurial frameworks. 

College level financial accounting is the first step to your business degree.

The world of investing and the operation of the stock market are the key components of this course. 

The Job Shadowing Program provides students with an in-depth career exploration experience. 

Students are introduced to the functions of marketing, in particular market planning, promotion, product/service management and marketing information systems.

Starting with the Class of 2027, this course is a graduation requirement.  Students will become financially literate and fiscally competent to plan for financial success.

This course enables students to integrate their classroom-based learning into a real work environment. 

This course follows an Advanced Placement Computer Science curriculum.  The course uses the object-oriented computer language Java.

This course blends programming with an exploration of computer science fundamentals.

This course is designed to be taken after successful completion of either Introduction to Computer Programming A or Introduction to Computer Programming B.

This course blends programming with an exploration of computer science fundamentals.

This course is intended to extend students’ knowledge of data structures, beyond array and array lists taught in AP Computer Science A.

Students will propose, design and develop original computer applications.

This semester course is designed to introduce the most fundamental browser-based concepts and how to apply them in JavaScript.

This semester course is designed to introduce the most fundamental web design concepts using HTML and CSS.

The goal of the Academic Lab is to assist in the education of students who have been identified as having mild to significant disabilities by providing intense academic support services.

Advanced Spanish Drama Works is centered around a series of units that delve into dramatic literature from Spain and Latin America.

The Advanced Spanish Language and Latin America course is structured around a set of thematic units that focus on significant events, issues, literature, art, music, and film of selected Latin American countries, starting from the early 20th century and extending into the present day.

This is the first course of a three-year sequence which integrates pre-algebra and geometry.

This is the second course in a three-year sequence which integrates algebra and geometry, developing and extending concepts from Course 1.

This is the third course in a three-year sequence which integrates algebra and geometry, developing and extending the concepts from Course 2. 

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of Algebra 2.

This course covers the Reconstruction to present.

Representative novels and plays from 19th and 20th century American literature - the best writing by America's best writers - will show readers the variety of styles and subjects that have become important traditions in American literature. 

This course is designed to strengthen students’ practical biological knowledge.

This course is designed for students to study the inter-relationships between chemistry, the consumer and the environment.

This course addresses the complexities of governing the American people.

College and Career Foundations is an essential course designed for high school juniors and seniors, aimed at preparing students for the exciting journey into higher education and the professional world.

This course is vital in preparing 9th and 10th grade students for a smooth transition into high school, as well as higher education and the professional world.

Building on skills developed in middle school, ninth grade English engages students in a rich, challenging year of growth as thinkers and writers.

English 211 focuses on language instruction, stressing usage, editing skills and vocabulary, as well as building basic and interpretive reading skills.

The 300 level course focuses on developing writing skills and fostering an understanding of texts as a lens through which we examine self and society.

This course will focus upon the scientific principles and the concepts required to understand the relationships that exist in the world.

ESS Life Skills is a therapeutic program that provides an array of therapeutic activities and supports for a small population of the GHS community.

This course in forensic science focuses on the activities of the crime lab.

This course in forensic science builds on the foundation developed during the first forensic science course.

Designed as an introduction to the social studies program at the high school, the Global Studies course examines significant developments in world history using chronological, thematic and regional approaches.

The purpose of this course is to assist students in devising a healthy lifestyle.

Introduction to Psychology is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings.

Introduction to Sociology is an examination of human society and social forces that shape people’s lives in the United States.

This course will focus on the American legal system, with specific emphasis on the criminal and civil justice systems.

This class is designed to teach students the concepts of physical fitness and how to live a healthy and active lifestyle.

This laboratory-oriented course is designed to explore some of the basic principles related to motion, forces, energy, light, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear physics.

In this course, students will study the special characteristics of short stories and novellas.

Through experientially based learning, students are given the opportunity to work on and off campus in a variety of settings to expand their vocational and occupational horizons.

This course explores selections of literature from 19th through 21st century Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.  Readings explore the individual's search for both psychological and social identity.

Students investigate the relationship between form, content, and meaning in prose and poetry and explore how literature illuminates truths of the human experience.

Take control of the message in your writing and become a critical reader in AP English Language and Composition, a full-year, rigorous, college-level course.

The 19th and 20th century witnessed the development of distinct American voices with groundbreaking novels, plays, short stories, and poems that established important traditions in American literature.

Explore the ideas and the stylistic innovations reflected in American literature written after 1945.

Human creativity and passion broke loose in the Romantic age, manifesting in novels with a madwoman in the attic, Frankenstein’s monster, and unsettling visions from the supernatural world.  

The early 20th century brought many changes and two world wars, which resulted in groundbreaking novels, plays, short stories, and poems.

Creative Writing offers students a flexible and supportive environment in which to develop their imaginative writing skills.

Writers in this genre imagine worlds in which our greatest hopes and fears might be realized.

Essay Writing allows the student already proficient in basic writing skills to develop an effective style via structured writing workshops that build confidence and community.

Film is not only entertainment but also an art form. Students in this course will explore film as a literary medium by examining the techniques that filmmakers use to persuade, inform, and entertain.

Building on skills developed in middle school, ninth grade English engages students in a rich, challenging year of growth as thinkers and writers.

Shapers is a full-year interdisciplinary humanities course in which students explore how human beings have shaped society.

Students will sharpen writing skills needed for print, broadcast, and digital journalism as they learn precise and accurate writing, effective questioning, collaborative planning, and research techniques.

Students will study the world's earliest known literary texts, which capture ancient humans' search for meaning.

Learn about the Renaissance era, an explosion of art, literature, and ideas.

Filled with exciting battles between heroic warriors and monsters, chivalric knights, damned souls, leading ladies and courtly lovers, this course leads students through a legendary literary experience.

This course explores the individual's search for both psychological and social identity from the late 19th through the 21st century in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

This course explores the individual's search for both psychological and social identity from the late 19th through the 21st century in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Whether standing in front of a formal audience or engaging in an informal interaction, effective public speaking requires us to adjust for various audiences and purposes.

Short stories illuminate the depth and range of the human experience; given the genre’s nature, these aspects of human nature are delivered to the reader like a swift, hard punch.

Tenth grade English class focuses on strengthening expository and imaginative writing skills; developing skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation; and studying the writing of selected American authors.

Students will become familiar with the traditions and philosophy of a democracy as well as develop an understanding of American government, institutions, and policies.

The course will emphasize the critical analysis and interpretation of various American authors of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This college preparatory course for English Language Learners is designed to build on core biological concepts and provide hands-on laboratory experience.

This college preparatory course is designed for English Language Learners to develop analytical skills in chemistry.

The course will emphasize developing academic skills in all four language areas: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This course for English Language Learners emphasizes strengthening and developing academic language with an attention to communication skills.

English ESL 3 is designed for English Language Learners to develop and strengthen academic language skills necessary to prepare them for entrance into a four-year university.

This course is designed for English Language Learners in grades 10-12 to master the academic language skills necessary to prepare them for entrance into a four-year university.

This course is designed to strengthen and develop the English literacy and written expression skills of our Intermediate and Advanced ESL students through an independent reading component.

Mathematics ESL 1 & 2 are transitional mathematics courses designed for students in grades 9-11 who are enrolled in English ESL 1 or English ESL 2.

The content of this beginning level social studies course focuses on local, national and world geography and cultures.

This course for English Language Learners is an analytical approach to the study of geographic, historical, political, socioeconomic and cultural factors which have shaped the world.

This course prepares students to successfully live on their own.

Advanced Cardinal Cooks’ emphasis will be on the production of breakfasts, salads, vegetables, soups, stocks, sauces, preparation of meats, poultry, and baked goods.

Students advance from simple fabrics and designs to more complicated construction techniques.

This course will provide students with the knowledge of the principles of baking and pastry-making.

As a Cardinal Cook, students will learn about and prepare foods for classroom experience.

This course covers child development from the prenatal period through the preschool years.

This is a hands-on course preparing foods from various cultures while comparing the inter-relationship between food habits and culture.

This course has two major objectives: to expose students to opportunities for careers in the fashion industry and to teach them to make well-designed, well-fitting clothes for themselves and others.

Honors Culinary Skills is a food preparation course with laboratory experiences designed to develop basic cooking methods and culinary techniques in food production.

Individual and Family Development will provide you with an understanding of human development of the lifespan.

Interior design is the study of color and design as it applies to the use of textiles, fabrics, materials, lighting, floor plans and furnishings.

This course is designed to examine the dynamics of personal interaction and to increase students’ understanding of individual maturity.

This course is the equivalent to a one semester college course in Calculus.

Topics include limits, differentiation, integration, and analysis of infinite series and applications of these topics.

This accelerated course is a comprehensive study of mathematics in preparation for AP Calculus which focuses heavily on the development of high order problem-solving skills.

This full year Advanced Placement Statistics course will offer a more in-depth study of the field of statistics.

This course lays the foundation for all subsequent courses in mathematics. Topics include linear equations and inequalities, linear functions, linear modeling and data analysis, systems of linear equations, function notation, quadratic functions, and exponential functions. Piecewise functions are also introduced.

This is the first course of a three-year sequence which integrates algebra and geometry.

This is the second course in a three-year sequence which integrates algebra and geometry, developing and extending concepts from Course 1.

This is the third course in a three-year sequence which integrates algebra and geometry, developing and extending the concepts from Course 2.

This course covers quadratic functions, probability and the counting principle, complex numbers, polynomial functions, series and sequences, exponential and logarithmic functions, rational functions and measures of central tendency.

This course covers the core topics of Algebra 2, including linear, quadratic, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions, sequences and series, and an introduction to statistics, data analysis, probability and counting principles

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of differential and integral calculus and their applications.

This year-long course is designed to strengthen a student’s Algebra 2 skills while introducing them to several precalculus topics.

This course is designed to emphasize the use of algebraic and geometric concepts, as well as data analysis in exploring and applying math concepts.

This course is designed to emphasize the use of algebraic and geometric concepts, as well as data analysis in exploring and applying math concepts.

This course includes properties of real numbers, simplifying algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities and their applications, identifying relations and functions, graphing and writing linear functions and its applications, graphing scatter plots and lines of best fit, linear modeling and data analysis, and solving systems of linear equations and its applications.

This course is an axiomatic study of plane figures in Euclidean Geometry. It examines their properties, measurement, and mutual relations in space.

This course covers the core topics of geometry and has time built into the course to benefit those who are challenged by the traditional pace of the Geometry A curriculum.

The topics covered in this course include applications of integration, vectors in space and their applications, equations of surfaces, differentiation/integration and applications of vector-valued functions, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, and multiple integration.

This course continues in an accelerated and comprehensive manner covering the study of linear, quadratic, rational, polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions.

This accelerated course includes a rigorous axiomatic study of plane and solid figures in Euclidean Geometry. It examines their properties, measurement and mutual relations in space.

This course covers matrix theory and linear algebra, emphasizing topics useful in other disciplines.

This year-long course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of advanced mathematical concepts, preparing them for calculus and other STEM fields

This year-long course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of statistics, covering both foundational concepts and advanced applications.

This course is a comprehensive investigation of the 18th century harmonic practices which have come to form the basis of our Western system of music.

This course is designed for beginning students in all grades who are interested in learning how to play a band instrument.

The band performs at school, community and out-of-town events.

Concert Choir is the main choral performing ensemble at GHS, and is comprised of 9th -12th graders.

Concert Orchestra is the freshman orchestra at Greenwich High School.

This course explores more advanced music composition techniques, the piano keyboard, and music theory.

This course explores more advanced music composition techniques, the piano keyboard and music theory.

This course is designed as an advanced level of electronic music where students study advanced composition and audio engineering techniques.

This course is designed for the curious and beginning guitar student.  Includes basic instruction using proper playing technique, chords, strumming patterns, and fingerpicking.

Students will develop advanced skills including more complex chords, strumming, and fingerpicking.

An auditioned mixed chorus of 16 female voices and 12 male voices, Chamber Singers is comprised of the most advanced vocal musicians at GHS.

Students study advanced composition, studio production, and recording techniques through assignments that reflect real-life projects they may encounter as professionals.

Honors Jazz Ensemble is the premiere auditioned jazz group and is comprised of the most advanced jazz musicians at GHS.

An auditioned chorus of female voices, members are chosen on the basis of advanced singing, listening and sight-reading abilities.

Honors String Ensemble is the premier auditioned string orchestra group and is comprised of the most advanced string students at GHS.

Honors Wind Ensemble is the premiere auditioned instrumental group and is comprised of the most advanced grades 10-12 instrumental musicians at GHS.

An auditioned chorus of male voices, members are chosen on the basis of advanced singing, listening and sight-reading abilities.

Do you love music?  Are you interested in a career in the music industry?

This course is designed to help beginning music students develop the skills necessary to read, write and understand written musical notation.

Do you love music? Are you interested in a career in the contemporary and popular music industry?

Designed for the novice jazz musician who is working toward joining the Jazz Ensemble.

Designed for the percussionists of the band program, students will explore literature written for this medium as well as traditional band music.

This course is for students who have already completed Introduction to Electronic Music Composition & Production, have a basic understanding of the mechanics of music (basic music theory), may already compose their own music, sing or may play an instrument.

Duos, trios, and other small groups are formed.

Open to advanced grades 10-12 band students who have completed at least one year of Concert Band.

Symphony Orchestra is the main orchestral performing ensemble at Greenwich High School and is comprised of all interested 10th -12th graders.

Students will learn basic swimming skills, survival skills, and water safety knowledge to become safer around the water.

The Basic Life Support Emergency Provider class will challenge students to critically interpret, evaluate and synthesize information to respond to emergency situations while conducting themselves in an ethical and responsible manner.

This class is designed to teach students the concepts of physical fitness and how to live a healthy and active lifestyle.

This course concentrates on mental health, anger management, and media literacy with a focus on current social media trends, advertising, body image, and eating disorders.

This marking period course focuses on responsibility, college campus safety, drug testing, healthy vs unhealthy relationships, sexual health and disease prevention, and includes a required senior research project.

This course concentrates on substance abuse prevention, nutrition, and communicable disease prevention (including STIs, HIV/AIDS).

This marking period course focuses on stress management, depression, youth suicide prevention, discrimination and diversity, violence prevention, teenage brain development, and drug addiction and enabling.

This course concentrates on mental health, self-esteem, and effective communication.

This course concentrates on the topics of disease prevention, substance abuse prevention, and sexual health education.

Students will be introduced to the basic structure of dance and dance fitness.

Students will acquire the necessary skills to become a certified Lifeguard.

Life sports activities include badminton, tennis and volleyball. This class will include an emphasis on rules and regulations, performance, and sportsmanship.

Students will have the opportunity to experience a variety of lifetime sports, which are physical activities that people can enjoy throughout their lives.

Students will have the opportunity to experience a variety of lifetime sports, which are physical activities that people can enjoy throughout their lives. 

Through practical application and lecture, this course focuses on all of the components of physical fitness including: anatomy, physiology, kinesiology and exercise science.

This course is designed to teach students 21st century skills such as critical thinking and analysis, communication, problem solving, leadership, creativity, imagination and awareness for self and others, and conflict resolution.

Self-defense will provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to anticipate and avoid dangerous situations.

This marking period course is designed to strengthen the student’s knowledge and understanding about the prevention and care of common athletic injuries.

This class is designed to teach students the many physical, mental, and social health benefits of yoga.

A personalized and strategic remedial course where students learn and apply reading strategies related to comprehension, structural analysis, and vocabulary and language development.

In this personalized course students will develop reading strategies including comprehension, structural analysis, and vocabulary skills through direct instruction leading to independent practice.

Students in Literacy Workshop will become skilled, passionate, and critical readers by reading self-selected texts in an atmosphere conducive to the development of reading strategies and skills.

Students in Literacy Workshop will become skilled, passionate and critical readers by reading self-selected texts in an atmosphere conducive to the development of reading strategies and skills.

This is a lab-based college-level course designed to conform to the College Board’s Advanced Placement Biology program.

This is a college-level lab-based course. Appropriate lab experiments are used which emphasize qualitative, quantitative and instrumental methods of analysis.

The goal of AP Environmental Science is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them.

The course is fully aligned to the AP Physics curricula, and is the equivalent of a first semester college course in algebra-based (non-calculus) physics.

This full-year, college level physics course is fully aligned to the AP Physics 2 curricula, and is the equivalent of a second semester college course in algebra-based (non-calculus) physics.

This is a calculus-based, college level physics course designed to conform to the C-level Advanced Placement Physics Program.

The focus of the Anatomy and Physiology course is to examine the major systems of the human body and understand the relationships between structure and function in living organisms.

This course takes a classical approach to the study of animal behavior, or ethology.

This course provides a basic introduction to topics in astronomy.

This college preparatory lab-based biology course is designed to build on core biological concepts and provide hands-on laboratory experience.

This college preparatory lab-based course for English language learners is designed to build on core biological concepts and provide hands-on laboratory experience.

This college preparatory, laboratory-oriented course is designed to develop understanding and skills in fundamental topics and laboratory techniques.

This college preparatory lab-oriented course is designed for English language Learners to develop analytical skills in chemistry.

Students will be engaged in learning about the environment through the use of laboratory and field experiences.

Forensic science focuses on the activities of the crime lab and uncovers the methods to link suspect, victim, and crime scene.

This advanced course in forensic science builds on the foundation developed during the first forensic science course.

Honors Human Anatomy and Physiology has students take a deep dive into major systems of the human body and understand the relationships between structure and function in living organisms.

This course provides a basic introduction to topics in astronomy. Course topics include Earth and its place in the universe, history of the universe, forces and motion, life and death of stars, nuclear processes, and the electromagnetic spectrum.

This lab-based innovative course offers students rigorous learning opportunities in biochemistry by exploring four core units of the course: Metabolism and Nutrition, Cancer, Drugs and Poisons, and Toxins of the Brain.

This is a lab-based honors level, in-depth study of biology.

This college preparatory lab-oriented course is designed to give students a rigorous challenging study of fundamental chemical concepts and laboratory techniques.

In this field and lab-based course students make observations and collect data through the use of laboratory and field investigations in order to support their understanding of concepts in environmental science.

Students study the biological, physical, and chemical factors that exist in various intertidal communities including: mud flats, estuaries, salt marshes, docks, sand dunes, beaches and open ocean.

This college preparatory course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the meaning and structure of physics.

This course is intended for students who have demonstrated an interest in pursuing a self-driven, independent research project in any area of science, including but not limited to biological, physical, medical, engineering, math and/or technology studies.

During the fall semester students will study bulbs, soils, indoor gardening, wild flowers, native plants, composting, mulching, and dividing perennials, houseplants and pruning.

Students will study seeds, annuals, perennials, vegetable gardening, propagation, diseases, and landscaping.

This lab-based course will investigate intertidal marine organisms and factors that affect their lives; open ocean communities and habitats; ocean resources and environmental issues.

This college preparatory course is designed to acquaint students with the methods and ideas used by physicists to describe the physical world.

This college preparatory course is designed to strengthen a student’s core biological knowledge and provide hands-on laboratory experience.

This laboratory-oriented course is designed for students to study the inter-relationships between chemistry, the consumer and the environment.

This laboratory-oriented course is designed to explore some of the basic principles related to motion, forces, energy, light, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear physics.

This course is concerned with the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the present.

The AP economics course at Greenwich High School is divided into two distinct parts: microeconomics (scarcity, price determination, the theory of the firm, externalities) in the first semester and macroeconomics (public finance, fiscal and monetary policy, inflation, unemployment, economic growth, international trade) in the second semester.

With psychology being one of the most popular courses and majors for college freshmen, this course will introduce high school students to all of the key topics that they will encounter at the post-secondary level. Students should exhibit the ability to work independently and manage a demanding college level workload, possess strong inductive and deductive reasoning skills combined with the ability to organize information and to synthesize and evaluate contrasting points of view, and possess superior reading and writing skills.

This is a course for the student particularly interested in political science and how governments work.

This challenging course gives sophomores the opportunity to delve deeply into the entire span of United States history from the settlement of indigenous peoples to the present. Students should exhibit the ability to work independently and manage a demanding college level workload, possess strong inductive and deductive reasoning skills combined with the ability to organize information and to synthesize and evaluate contrasting points of view, and possess superior reading and writing skills.

The rich history of the United States can only be appreciated by an understanding of the history of all people involved. This course is an opportunity for students to explore the accomplishments, struggles, intersections, perspectives, and collaborations of African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino people in the United States.

As the core of our 9-12 program, Greenwich High School’s American History course uses a chronological thematic approach to examine the events of 1870s America to the present.

This American History course uses a chronological thematic approach to examine the events of 1870s America to World War II.

This American History course uses a chronological thematic approach to examine the events of post-World War II to the present.

The Ancient Civilizations course examines critical turning points in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome that shaped early humans.

This course addresses the complexities of governing the American people and prepares students to become active and engaged citizens.

Civil War and Reconstruction is arguably the most defining and pivotal era in American history and we are still debating its legacy today.

This course will evaluate and examine China, Japan and the Koreas as critical components of the modern global economy and sustained international peace.

What is the right thing to do and why? This is the essential question of this course in which students will study the philosophical foundations and practical applications of ethical decision-making and conduct that are vital to a pluralistic and democratic society.

Designed as an introduction to the social studies program at the high school, the Global Studies course examines significant developments in world history using chronological, thematic and regional approaches.

This course addresses the complexities of governing the American people and prepares students to become active, engaged citizens.

This course focuses on international relations, comparative politics, and area studies of various regions of the world.

This course examines individual and institutional decision-making in a world of scarcity. Course topics will center on contemporary economic debates, including the allocation of resources, the role of government, world trade, financial policy, and consumer psychology.

Introduction to Psychology is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings.

Introduction to Sociology is an examination of human society and the social forces that shape people’s lives in the United States.

This course focuses on the American legal system, with specific emphasis on the criminal and civil justice systems.

This course highlights major changes which have occurred in Europe since 1989, providing students with the necessary background to focus on current events throughout the semester.

Research skills are an essential part of any comprehensive education. This course offers students the opportunity to pursue a long-term project of personal interest or community need.

This course is designed for students who are in leadership positions, aspire to be leaders and/or have an abiding interest in making our school, our community or the society in which we live even better.

This course is designed for students who are in leadership positions, aspire to be leaders and/or have an abiding interest in making our school, our community or the society in which we live, even better.

The goal of the house-based Academic Lab is to assist in addressing skill deficits as outlined by the IEP.

These courses are designed to develop life skills necessary to enhance and increase students’ independence in a real-world setting.

This language-based remedial course uses systematic phonics to teach the alphabetic principle and sound-symbol correspondence to students who need instruction in decoding, encoding, and reading fluency.

This course is designed to develop the math skills necessary to develop students’ independence in the real world. Some of the topics addressed in this course include: money,  counting change, time, calendar, graphs, budgeting, comparison shopping, coupons, tax,  banking, checks, and paychecks.

This course is designed to be a bridge between 8th grade math skills courses and Algebra 1/Geometry Course 1. It will focus on basic problem solving, an introduction to pre-algebra and pre-geometry skills, with an emphasis on consumer math applications.

This course explores the fundamental techniques to create content in a 3D environment on a computer. Specific animation features and functions of the given software will be discussed and applied to the creation of short 3D animation compositions. Emphasis will be placed on transferring basic animation techniques into a computer-generated 3D animation composition.

Students will develop a philosophy regarding our living environments.  Design your dream house and develop a philosophy regarding our living environments.

Students in this class will first study the building of structures. Full size and model buildings will be reviewed.  Students will learn how to build a house while studying the building of structures.

This advanced design class with larger, more in depth projects is open to all grades.  This course is an introduction to the process of manipulating the natural world to provide for human needs and wants.

This is a beginning course designed to introduce students to basic engineering principles and technology systems.

This course explores the fundamental techniques used to create animation in a 3D environment on a computer.

This course is for students who are interested in and well-versed in 3D imaging and animation.

This course is intended for sophomore, junior, or senior students interested in the application of scientific principles to solve technological problems.

An introduction to and overview of architecture, engineering drawing, and graphics.

This course focuses on humans' most widely used construction and manufacturing materials.

The emphasis is on designing and building a solution to a technical problem. Build B can be taken independent of Intro to Design Build A.

This course is designed to introduce students to the principles of power and energy as they relate to technology through hands-on designing and the building of projects.

This is a computer aided design/drafting course designed to lead students from the basics using Solid Works to more advanced features such as customizing, and 3D rendering.

This course is designed to introduce students to transportation systems through hands-on projects.

This course is for the beginning actor or one who wishes to develop a sense of self-confidence, awareness and self-presentation.

This is a scene and monologue study course for students wishing to develop their acting skills and their ability to work with challenging and literary texts.

This is a basic acting training course which has a focus on work in front of a camera, such as television, commercial and movie acting.

This is both an analytical and practical course, with students reading and discussing modern plays, performing monologues and directing each other.

The elements of improvisation in comedy and dramatic theater are the focus of the course.

This course focuses on the elements of improvisation in comedy and dramatic theater with a goal of moving the student toward public performance and to transfer improvisational work to other acting work, including play performance and writing and creating original scripted theater.

This course will study the development of theater through performance opportunities. Students will read, view, and analyze representative works in selected genres and apply concepts in performance.

This is both an analytical and practical course, with students reading and discussing modern plays, performing monologues and directing each other.

This team-taught course offers instruction and hands-on experience in all aspects of theater production, including set design and construction, house management, publicity, program design, stage management, and lighting design, as well as special and independent projects including public performance.

This course will study the development of theater through performance opportunities.

This course will study the development of theater through performance opportunities.

Stagecraft offers an intensive study of set and lighting design.

This team-taught course offers instruction and hands-on experience in all aspects of theater production, including set design and construction, house management, publicity, program design, stage management, and lighting design, as well as special and independent projects including public performance.

The Broadcast Journalism course will provide students with hands-on experiences using professional caliber equipment to produce programming of Greenwich High School activities, current events, student-initiated works, and Cardinal News.

This course is designed to be a total immersion into the filmmaking experience, through which students produce complete films by engaging in the pre- and post-production process.

Building on the skills established in Intro to Video Production, students use digital video cameras, equipment and high-end digital editing software to gain more experience in becoming filmmakers.

Through many hands-on experiences using digital video cameras and digital editing software, students will have the opportunity to explore the creative art of filmmaking.

Advanced Ceramics builds upon the techniques learned in Intermediate Ceramics.

Students enrolled in Advanced Digital Arts will continue to develop complex ideas and use multiple ways to construct their thoughts and express their artistic vision.

This class will cover many aspects of digital photography, including the use of digital cameras, iPhone cameras and Adobe Photoshop.

This class offers students an advanced level drawing class with an emphasis on expressing ideas and finding their own style using a variety of mediums such as pencil, marker, ink, pastel, collage, colored pencil, and multimedia.

This class provides students with an opportunity to advance in their use of watercolor, tempera, acrylics and mixed mediums.

The AP 2D Art and Design and AP Drawing course at Greenwich High School is designed as a full-year course for students who have reached the highest level of 2D practices, are capable of considerable initiative, and would like to have a college level foundation art experience.

AP 2D Art and Design (Concentration in Digital Arts) is designed for students who are interested in a college level course that merges visual techniques and ideas within digital arts.

AP 2D Art and Design (Concentration in Photography) is designed for students with a high level of commitment who are interested in a college level course that explores the practical experience and application of photographic imagery.

The AP 3D Art and Design (concentration in ceramics and sculpture) course at Greenwich High School is designed as a full year course for students who have reached the highest level of 3D practices, are capable of considerable initiative, and would like to have a college level foundation 3D arts experience, culminating their art studies at the high school level with the possibility of receiving three credits upon entering college.

This course explores such topics as the nature of art, its uses, its meanings, artmaking, and responses to art. The study of art history teaches students the different ways in which civilizations express themselves artistically.

What do you think when you look at a work of art? How does it make you feel? By looking at various interesting works of art, students will interpret their own thoughts and ideas, visit museums, and create their own art.

Art Experience engages students with a variety of two and three dimensional activities. It challenges and nurtures students in their art-making abilities by providing opportunities for them to encounter the world through the materials, processes, and techniques of art.

This course, weather permitting, takes students outdoors to create site-specific art.

Students will create fashion, accessories, sculptures and jewelry using their “designer’s eye.”

Students study the history of art and its links to other disciplines such as philosophy, literature, music, science and history. This is an interdisciplinary course that examines society’s influence on art and architecture. This course also examines significant artists who have in turn greatly influenced culture and society. 

This course is an intermediate level clay course which will further the learning achieved in Introduction to Ceramics and prepare students for Advanced Ceramics.

This is an intermediate level course with an emphasis on print quality, composition, and the exploration of darkroom photography processes.

Intermediate Digital Arts will focus on the further development of students’ ideas and skills through digital manipulation.

This course is designed for students who want to further develop their ideas through drawing and painting.

Intermediate Printmaking is for those students who have taken Introduction to Printmaking and would like to experiment with more advanced techniques such as solar printing, etching, and digital printmaking.

Introduction to Ceramics is designed to explore a variety of ceramic pottery and sculpture techniques, combining expression of personal ideas with an understanding of history and aesthetics.

This course covers the basics of black and white photography including an understanding of camera functions, film development, and darkroom printing techniques.

Students enrolled in Introduction to Digital Arts are introduced to the use of technology as a means of expressing thoughts and visualizing ideas.

This is a course designed for students of all levels who like to draw.

This is a course for students who want to learn how to use the medium of paint to express their ideas.

Printmaking is a fun way of carving images on a variety of surfaces, such as linoleum, wood, and plastic, then rolling ink on them, putting them through the press, and making prints. 

This course offers an innovative approach to learning how to combine words and pictures to express ideas.

Ideas will be expressed in realistic and abstract sculptures using a variety of tools to shape wood, stone and plaster.

This Chinese course is designed for students who have chosen to develop their proficiency in Mandarin Chinese at the college level.

​​​​​​This course is designed for students who have chosen to develop their proficiency in French at the college level.

​​​​This course is designed for students who have chosen to develop their proficiency in German at the college level.

This course is designed for students who have chosen to develop their proficiency in Italian at the college level.

This course is designed for students who have chosen to develop their proficiency in Spanish at the college level, with an emphasis on developing highly sophisticated communication skills.  

This college level course uses a thematic approach to introduce students to texts (short stories, novels, poetry, and essays) from Peninsular Spanish, Latin American and United States Hispanic writers.

This advanced Spanish language course is an offering designed around a series of units that focus on pieces of dramatic literature from Spain and Latin America.

This advanced Spanish language course is designed around a series of thematic units that focus on the important events, issues, literature, art, music and film of selected Latin American countries, beginning with the early 20th century and leading into the present day.

The course provides an in-depth introduction to American Sign Language.

This course is a continuation of ASL 1 and students will continue to develop their sign vocabulary and their ability to converse more in-depth on an expanded variety of topics.

This course is a continuation of ASL 2 and students will increase their ability to converse on an expanded variety of topics including personalities, opinions, education, future life goals, travel and weather. 

This course is a continuation of ASL 3 and students will increase their ability to converse on an expanded variety of topics including life events, nationalities, immigration, food/recipes, rules and games.

This is a beginning French course which stresses listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural awareness.

This second-year French course continues to develop the language skills begun in French 1.

This accelerated French course continues to develop more advanced listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in cultural contexts.

This French course begins with an in-depth review of previously taught structures and vocabulary.

This French course continues to develop the linguistic skills the student began in earlier years.

In this course students will expand their abilities to communicate in French.

This is a language-based French course which is designed around a series of high-interest thematic units.

This beginning course stresses basic conversational skills in German as well as simple reading and writing.

This course develops the language skills begun in German 1 and the continuing emphasis is on oral expression with reading and writing skills developed more fully. 

This course continues the study of the basic structure of German with emphasis on the development of free expression in speaking and writing.

In this German course, the student will complete the study of the formal structure of the language.

This is a course taught entirely in French and students will complete the study of the formal structure of the language with emphasis on free expression, both oral and written, through discussion and composition. 

This course traces French history, art, and literature through the centuries.

This is a language-based French course which further develops communication skills, and is based upon topics such as 20th century France, the French university system, cinema, music, art and the role of women in today’s society.

In this German course, students will complete the study of the formal structure of the language and emphasis is on free expression both oral and written, through discussion and composition.

This is a course taught entirely in Italian, with emphasis on free expression, both oral and written, through discussion and composition.

Honors Latin Seminar is a seminar in reading authentic Latin texts as literature. Students may study selections from Vergil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Ovid’s Amores, Catullus’s Carmina, Horace’s Carmina, Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, and Cicero’s Oratio in L. Catilinam.

In this Chinese course students will continue to expand the grammar and vocabulary of the previous levels of study.

In this course the student will complete the study of the formal structure of the Spanish language, and students will begin reading and analyzing authentic literature and nonfiction texts in the target language.

This is a language-based Spanish course which is designed around a series of high-interest thematic units including: love and money, childhood, cultural identity, immortality, social class, dreams and reality.

In this Spanish course, students will master their native language skills through speaking, writing and reading age-appropriate literature and non-fiction that includes articles, short stories, plays, poems and novels from Spain and Latin America.

This Spanish course continues the humanities approach introduced in Honors Spanish 5, and expands the student’s knowledge and comprehension of advanced language and literature.

This course is designed for heritage and native speakers of Spanish who want to master their Spanish literacy skills.

This beginning course stresses basic conversational skills in Italian as well as simple reading and writing.

This course continues to develop the skills begun in Italian 1, and is focused on listening and speaking at the novice ACTFL proficiency level and on a greater development of reading and writing skills.

The curriculum of this Italian course focuses on listening and speaking at the novice/intermediate ACTFL proficiency level.

The student will review and expand the grammar and vocabulary of the previous levels of Italian study, with readings including short stories, plays, poetry, newspaper and magazine articles.

This is a beginning course with a curriculum focused on the development of proficiency in reading and writing classical Latin.

Instruction in this course begins with a review of forms, structures, and vocabulary of Latin 1, and throughout the course there is an emphasis on acquiring the vocabulary, grammar, syntax and skills necessary for reading increasingly complex Latin texts.

This course is a continuation of Latin 2, and includes a thorough review of grammar and syntax, especially the subjunctive, participles, infinitives, and subordinate clauses and also covers advanced topics in Latin grammar as well as reinforcing the fundamentals.

This is a beginning Chinese course which stresses listening, speaking, reading, and writing at the novice ACTFL proficiency level.

This is a second year course which continues to develop the language skills begun in Mandarin Chinese 1, with continued emphasis on oral expression and greater development of basic reading and writing skills.

This Chinese course continues the study of Mandarin Chinese with emphasis on development of free expression in the skill areas of speaking and writing as students move up to intermediate proficiency.

In this Chinese course, students will review and expand the grammar and vocabulary of the previous levels of study; readings will include authentic short stories, notes, messages, newspaper and magazine articles, which will serve to reinforce basic concepts and knowledge about Chinese culture.

This is a beginning Spanish course which stresses listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural awareness.

This Spanish course continues to develop the skills begun in Spanish 1, and the curriculum is focused on listening, speaking, reading and writing at the novice ACTFL proficiency level.

This accelerated Spanish course continues to develop more advanced listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in cultural contexts.

This Spanish course begins with an in-depth review of previous structures and vocabulary.

This course is designed for those students who have grown up speaking Spanish at home, but have had little or no formal education in the Spanish language and need to develop strong literacy skills in their first language in order to become truly bi-lingual.

In this Spanish course, students continue the study of the formal structure of the language in a course emphasizing oral proficiency through daily activities such as guided conversations, and role-playing.

In this course students will concentrate on mastering the more sophisticated and complex structures, spelling, grammar and literary forms of the Spanish language in an effort to become truly literate in their native/heritage language.

This Spanish course continues to develop the linguistic skills the student began in earlier years, and topics of high student interest are studied, such as film, media, music and art and authentic reading.

This course is designed for native or heritage speakers of Spanish who want to improve their literacy skills in Spanish; it is organized around the content area of important issues and concepts, past and present, relating to the history, culture, and current events of the Spanish-speaking world.

This course focuses on a body of high-interest current events articles, audios, and textbook-based tasks that bring to life some of the major 20th and 21st century issues for young people and their families in both the Spanish-speaking world and in the United States.

This Spanish course is designed for heritage and native speakers of Spanish who want to master their Spanish literacy skills. This course continues to expand the students’ knowledge and comprehension of language and literature.