AP English Seminar helps students build a powerful foundation for critical and transferable research skills: investigation, collaboration, writing, and presentation. Students will expand vocabulary, build knowledge of real-world issues and perspectives, and develop critical thinking, analytic writing, collaboration, and academic research skills. Students master skills in analyzing a variety of texts, writing explanatory and argumentative essays, conducting research, working in teams, and presenting. The course aims to equip students with the skills to analyze and evaluate information with accuracy and precision to craft and communicate evidence-based arguments. Using an inquiry framework, students will learn to engage and analyze a variety of sources, including: articles and research studies, literary, foundational, and philosophical texts, speeches, broadcasts, and personal accounts. Students will synthesize information from multiple sources, develop their own perspectives in written essays, and design and deliver oral and visual presentations, both individually and as part of a team

Prerequisite(s): None

Grade Scale: AP/ECE

Credit Hours: 1

Credit Type: EN