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\n","requirement_bucket":"art","is_required":false},{"id":"urban-design","title":"Urban Design & Engineering (Future City)","category":"art","level":"cp","credits":1,"description":"Project-based STEM course designing sustainable future cities using Engineering Design Process and Revit digital modeling tools.","anchors":"","prerequisites":"Teacher recommendation","fullDescription":"Urban Design & Engineering is a project-based STEM course that challenges students to imagine, research, and design a sustainable city of the future. Using the Engineering Design Process (EDP) and professional project management steps, students work as a team to solve complex, real-world problems. Course size is limited to 3-5 students.
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\n","requirement_bucket":"art","is_required":false},{"id":"art-drawing-ap","title":"AP Drawing","category":"art","level":"ap","credits":1,"description":"College-level focus on mastery of drawing and painting through surface manipulation, light and shade, line quality, and form rendering.","anchors":"","prerequisites":"Art I or Digital Design I and teacher recommendation","fullDescription":"AP Drawing is a college-level course that focuses on the mastery of drawing and painting through surface manipulation, light and shade, line quality, and the rendering of form. Students explore a wide range of mark-making techniques and media, such as charcoal, pencil, ink, and oil or acrylic paint.
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\n","requirement_bucket":"ela","is_required":true},{"id":"litcomp1-cp","title":"Literature & Composition I","category":"ela","level":"cp","credits":1,"description":"Focuses on reading, writing, and language skills essential for future high school and college coursework. Students engage in close, critical reading of complex texts, analytical writing, and careful considerations of authorial choices.","anchors":"Fahrenheit 451, Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the Flies","prerequisites":"None","fullDescription":"Literature and Composition I (LitComp I) CP focuses on reading, writing, and language skills that are essential for students’ future high school and college coursework. Students engage in close, critical reading of complex texts, analytical writing, and careful considerations of authorial choices to become better readers, writers, speakers, and listeners. Particular emphasis is placed on evaluating textual evidence and incorporating it effectively in writing and speaking and in noticing language choices: how writers and speakers use specific words and sentences to move the thoughts, emotions, and actions of readers and listeners.
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