Northland Pines High School offers Honors Courses and Advanced Placement Courses for only Junior/Senior students who wish to be challenged by sophisticated and enriched subject matter. Primarily for the above average student, Honors Courses and Advanced Placement Courses are more demanding. These accelerated programs of study seek to challenge the student at a high intellectual level.

The following courses are designated as Honors Courses on your transcript; however, they will not have honor or weighted value for GPA.

Advanced Placement Art
Adv. Placement English Language & Composition
Adv. Placement English Literature & Composition
Advanced Placement Chemistry
Advanced Placement Economics
Advanced Placement Government and Politics
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Advanced Placement Psychology
Advanced Placement German Language and Culture
Adv. Placement Calculus AB and BC
Advanced Placement Probability/Statistics
Advanced Placement Biology

Trigonometry
Pre- Calculus
German IV
Spanish IV and V
Anatomy
Advanced Chemistry
Physics
Medical Terminology
Vocational Building Trades
Automotive Tech I & II
Jazz Ensemble/Combo
Accounting I and II
Studio Art

IED – Introduction to Engineering Design
POE - Principals of Engineering
CEA – Civil Engineering and Architecture

Advanced Placement is a program of college-level coursework and exams that gives high school students the opportunity to receive advanced placement and/or credit in college.

Due to the heavy work load of these classes, it is recommended students take no more than three (3) AP courses in a school year.

You need to be willing and you need to be able. “Willing” means motivated to study and learn on the college level. If you are committed to participating actively in an AP class and doing the out-of- class assignments, you have met a major prerequisite for success. “Keeping up” is a basic practice for any college-level course. These courses move rapidly and cover a lot of ground. Successful students are those who keep up or, stay a little ahead of the required reading. You must also be able to do the work. Your record in earlier courses is the most obvious indicator of that ability.

Your AP teacher will tell you when in May the AP Exam will be offered at your school, and how to register for the test. The student is responsible for the required testing fee for each of the AP tests that the student takes.