Curriculum and Activities
Centerville High School's curriculum offers 25 Advanced Placement tests in 18 courses in science, mathematics, history, government, language, economics, and psychology. The high school also offers more esoteric courses such as Creative Foods, Needle Arts, and Chaos and Fractal Geometry (dealing with such topics as fractals, chaos theory, Julia and Mandelbrot sets, strange attractors and non-Euclidean geometry). In the foreign language department, CHS offers traditional courses such as Spanish, French, and German, as well as Latin, American Sign Language, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese. Latin is also offered online.
Some courses are also offered online for students. These courses give the same credit as its normal counterpart. The school requires at least 15 hours of face-to-face meetings between the students and the instructors. The 2010-2011 web courses offer 2 English courses, Digital Art and Design (formerly Multimedia Design), Latin I/II/III, Geometry and Algebra, 2 types of biology, and 4 social studies classes.
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