Senior Opportunities
INTER-D - 1 YEAR
The Interdisciplinary Course Great Ideas is a team-taught, interdisciplinary course on the ideas that have exerted a major impact on the culture and thought of Western civilization: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Christianity, Galileo, Lucretius, Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Darwin, Freud, and Einstein. Sections meet three times a week, and students attend one double-period lecture at the end of the week. With deliberate overlap with ongoing term courses in art, music, and religion, units of instruction are designed by individual teachers and usually involve reading from original sources plus related literature.
ELECTIVE - 1 YEAR
In 2008, the faculty proposed a Senior Elective program that would give students the opportunity to explore school options that interested them. This year, these courses include History of Western Philosophy, Filmmaking, Computer Science Principles, Introduction to Organic Chemistry, How to Think About Investing, Fundamentals of Sociology, The Language of Storytelling, and Utopias and Dystopias.
SENIOR PROJECT
In order to graduate, seniors are required to complete a Senior Project, a student-selected exploration of a topic which culminates in a research paper, project, and a presentation, which assesses their skills of research, writing, reasoning, problem solving, communication, etc. Every senior is assigned an adviser who offers his/her guidance and topic-related expertise. Students receive a timeline to complete the project and present to the audience, consisting of the school faculty and invited guests. During the presentation, the audience asks questions, and students need to defend their project.
Failure of a student in the Senior Project may jeopardize participation in the graduation ceremony
