The AP Environmental Science course is a college level course designed to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world,to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. Environmental science is interdisciplinary; it embraces a wide variety of topics from different areas of study.A major emphasis of this laboratory course is field investigation. This course emphasizes skills and content required to perform successfully on the AP exam for this course given in May. The student may receive college credit, advanced college placement, or both depending on the exam score. This course fulfills the science graduation requirement.

Prerequisite:

• Any biology and chemistry course with the additional prerequisite or corequisite of any physics course or recommendation of the Instructional Supervisor for Science