Competency: Communicate and empathize with people who have perspectives and experiences different from your own

9/11 in a Global Context

In this course, students explore the causes of the 9/11 attacks, the events of the day itself, and its aftermath locally, nationally, and around the world.

Abnormal Psychology

This Abnormal Psychology Course focuses on a variety of atypical psychiatric disorders, helping students understand symptoms, diagnoses & treatments.

Arabic Lang. Through Culture II

Students will communicate in spontaneous spoken conversations on familiar topics, including food, weather, and hobbies, using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions.

Arabic Lang. Through Culture III

Students in Arabic III have demonstrated Intermediate interpersonal proficiency in Arabic (MSA or a dialect) through two years in Arabic Language Through Culture or other coursework.

Arts Entrepreneurship

Build the networking and personal branding skills necessary to succeed in creative careers

Bioethics

Ethics is the study of what one should do as an individual and as a member of society. In this course students will evaluate ethical issues related to medicine and the life sciences.

Cybersecurity

This course explores the fundamentals of and vulnerabilities in the design of computers, networks, and the internet.

Digital Photography

Photography can be a powerful and persuasive tool. This course is designed for students to learn how to give an emotional context to social, political, environmental, and global issues through photography.

Fiction Writing

This Online Fiction Writing Course connects students interested in creative writing & provides a space for supportive & constructive feedback.

Filmmaking

This filmmaking course is designed around students developing their basic filmmaking skills across three key areas: camerawork, editing, and sound. Each of these areas is explored in detail through filmmaking practices.

Genocide & Human Rights

Students in this course study several of the major genocides of the 20th century (Armenian, the Holocaust, Cambodian, and Rwandan), analyze the role of the international community in responding to and preventing further genocides (with particular attention to the Nuremberg tribunals), and examine current human rights crises around the world.

Global Health

What makes people sick? What social and political factors lead to the health disparities we see both within our own community and on a global scale? What are the biggest challenges in global health and how might they be met? Using an interdisciplinary approach to address these questions, this course hopes to improve students' health literacy through an examination of the most significant public-health challenges facing today's global population.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This course will explore the history of research into artificial general intelligence and the subsequent focus on the subfields of narrow AI: Neural networks, Machine Learning and Expert Systems, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Vision and Facial Recognition.

Introduction to Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

This course explores how we arrived at the place we are now, and what the current and possible applications of crypto are. We’ll explore how markets in crypto operate, where they’ve received practical application, and where the space may head in the future through the lenses of creators, consumers, and governments.

Introduction to Branding & Marketing

In this course, students learn what it takes to build an effective brand that can authentically connect with consumers and create long-term brand equity.

Introduction to Investments

Simulate the work of investors & employ the tools, theories & decision-making that define smart investment in this Online High School Investments Class.

Introduction to Legal Thinking

Inspired by GOA’s popular Medical Problem Solving series, this course uses a case-based approach to give students a practical look into the professional lives of lawyers and legal thinking.

Japanese Language Through Culture I

This full-year course is a unique combination of Japanese culture and language, weaving cultural comparison with the study of basic Japanese language and grammar.