Academic Calendar 2025/26

Course Name: Physics 12 (8) Course Number: PH 12 Prerequisite: PH 11 Corequisite: PREC 12 A course in mechanics, electricity and magnetism and special relativity. Vector methods are used extensively.

Course Name: Pre-calculus 11 (8) Course Number: PREC 11 Prerequisite: FMP 10 This course includes the study of real number system, powers with rational exponents, radical operations and equations, polynomial factoring, rational expressions and equations, quadratic functions and equations, linear and quadratic inequalities, trigonometry, and financial literacy including compound interest, investments, and loans.

Course Name: Pre-calculus 12 (8) Course Number: PREC 12 Prerequisite: PREC 11 This course includes the study of transformations of functions and relations, exponential functions and equations, geometric sequences and series, logarithms (operations, functions, and equations), polynomial functions and equations, rational functions, and trigonometry (functions, equations, and identities).

Course Name: Science 10 (8) Course Number: SC 10 Prerequisite: SC 9 This course encourages students to develop skills of scientific reasoning as they practice observing, classifying, predicting, inferring and hypothesizing as they explore various topics that span life sciences, physical sciences and the study of the universe.

Course Name: Social Justice 12 (8) Course Number: SJ 12 Prerequisite: SS 10 or EPSS 11 Social Justice 12 takes a critical approach to social justice, examining how society is stratified in significant and farreaching ways along social group lines that include race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Students will learn to identify and understand the unequal nature of society by learning about prejudice, discrimination, oppression, power, and privilege. Critical social justice recognizes inequality as deeply embedded in the structure of society, and actively works towards greater equality.

Course Name: Social Studies 10 (8) Course Number: SS 10 An exploration of Canadian history and its relation to the world, focusing on the growth of Canadian nationhood and the development of Canadian identities with an emphasis on the years 1914 to the present. Topics include the evolution of responsible government, international conflict and diplomacy, global citizenship, environmental activism and Canada’s involvement in indigenous relations and reconciliation.

Course Name: Explorations in Social Studies 11 (8) Course Number: EPSS 11 Prerequisites: SS 10 or equivalent The aim of Social Studies 11 is to develop thoughtful, responsible, active citizens who are able to acquire the requisite information to consider multiple perspectives and to make reasoned judgments. Social Studies 11 provides students with opportunities to reflect critically upon events and issues in order to examine the present, make connections with the past, and consider the future. Some of the topics explored in this course are how to be informed and engaged citizens, how the rapid development of technology has changed us, and how Canada’s Indigenous peoples are reclaiming their cultures despite the effects of colonialism.

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