Bath-Haverling High School

ACE courses offered 2023-2024

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Explores interrelationships between organisms and the environment. The impact of human activities such as pollution, resource use and population growth. Basic ecological concepts provide a foundation for understanding environmental problems and global change. Labs will illustrate the complexity associated with environmental change and emphasize sustainability. Laboratory includes the observation of plants, algae, bacteria, and animals. For Math/Science and Environmental Science students. Lecture/ Laboratory. Cannot receive credit for BIOL 1030 after successfully completing BIOL 1500.

Prerequisites: Eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010, high school biology or one semester of college biology. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.

Credits 4

The modern aspects and techniques of biology will be emphasized. BIOL 1510 will cover scientific methodology, biochemistry, cell structure and physiology, genetic mechanisms, plant structure and physiology, taxonomy, and bacterial, protist, fungal, and plant diversity. For math/science students. Lecture/Laboratory.

Prerequisites: Placement into college-level math; eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010, 75% or higher in high school biology and high school chemistry or 75% or higher in high school biology and concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1010 or 1020. Successful completion of any 3 or 4 credit college biology course may substitute for high school biology. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.

Credits 4

Emphasizes the modern aspects of biology and its techniques. Includes evolution, animal diversity, human and animal anatomy/physiology, animal behavior, reproduction and development, and ecology. Laboratory requires dissection of a preserved fetal pig and various vertebrate organs, as well as the use of living invertebrates and fish. For math/science students. Lecture/Laboratory. Lab fee.

Prerequisites: Placement into college-level math; eligible to take ENGL 1010 and 75% or higher in high school biology and high school chemistry or 75% or higher in high school biology and concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1010 or 1020 or BIOL 1510. Successful completion of any 3 or 4 credit college biology course may substitute for high school biology. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.

Credits 4

U.S. macro-economic goals, the American market system, price determination, distribution of income, government taxation and spending, national income accounting, fiscal policy, and monetary policy. Upper- level course.

Prerequisites: MATH 1110 or higher and eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Social Science.

Credits 3

Elasticity of supply and demand, utility theory, production cost analysis, profit maximization, monopoly and government regulation, labor organization, international trade and finance, economics of growth, resource depletion, and pollution. Upper-level course.

Prerequisites: MATH 1110 or higher and eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010. Meets SUNY Gen Ed requirement in Social Science.

Credits 3

Essay writing designed to sharpen the student's perceptions of the world and to facilitate communications with correctness, clarity, unity, organization, and depth. Assignments include expository writing, argumentation, and research techniques. Writing Process.

Prerequisites: Placement, ENGL 0980, or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 0999. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Written Communication and Required Competency in Information Literacy

Credits 3

Essay writing course designed to advance critical, analytical, and writing abilities begun in ENGL 1010. Literary analysis essays and interpretation on works of fiction, poetry, and drama. Writing Process.

Prerequisites: ENGL 1010. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Humanities

Credits 3

Theories and practices of American Federal Government with emphasis on the national level. Changing relationships between the branches of the national government, policy formulation, political parties, pressure groups, and the growth of presidential powers.

Prerequisites: Eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010.

Credits 3

The characteristics of elementary real functions including algebraic and graphical analysis, inequalities, absolute values, logarithms, trigonometry of real numbers, plane analytic geometry, polar coordinates, complex numbers and Binomial Theorem. Cannot take both MATH 1411-1412 and 1413 for credit. A graphing calculator without a CAS (Computer Algebra System) is required; Texas Instruments TI-83 or TI-84 recommended. Meets SUNY General Education requirements in Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning. 

Prerequisites: MATH 1411

Credits 4

The first semester of differential and integral single variable calculus. Basic theory using algebraic and trigonometric function and applications are covered concurrently. Topics include limits, derivatives, considered algebraically and graphically, differentials and their use as approximations, the indefinite and definite integrals with applications to areas, volumes, surface area, arc length, moments and center of mass.

Prerequisite: MATH 1411-1412 or MATH 1413 or placement. Cannot receive credit for this course and MATH 1510-1520. A graphing calculator without a CAS (Computer Algebra System) is required; Texas Instruments TI-83 or TI-84 recommended. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics. and Quantitative Reasoning.

Credits 4

A continuation of Calculus I. Topics include calculus of conics, logarithmic, exponential, and hyperbolic functions, techniques of integration, infinite series, parametric equations and polar coordinates.

Prerequisite: MATH 1610. A graphing calculator without a CAS (Computer Algebra System) is required; Texas Instruments TI-83 or TI-84 recommended. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning.

Credits 4

Introductory principles of classical and modern physics. Mechanics of solids, periodic motion and sound, and heat and properties of matter. A transfer course for students majoring in biology, chemistry, mathematics, or health sciences. Students wishing to major in physics may take this course but should transfer to PHYS 1820, 2830 and 2840 sequence after one semester. Lecture/Laboratory.

Prerequisite or Corequisite: MATH 1411 or higher. Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.

Credits 4

Development of facility in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding the language through a systematic review of its structure. Representative readings as an introduction to Spanish civilizations. Prerequisite: SPAN 1020 or equivalent or three years of Regents high school Spanish. Lecture/Recitation/Laboratory. Upper-level course. Meets Meets SUNY General Education requirement in World Languages.

Credits 4