The purpose of this course is to help students explore prayer: its origins, its function, and manifestations. The study aims to help students become more aware of self, others, and God. Students will have an opportunity to experience various schools of prayer culminating in Centering Prayer (apophatic prayer) and The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius (kataphatic prayer).

Social Justice is a required one-semester course in religious studies for juniors. It should be seen in direct relation to the previous semester's required religious studies course for juniors, Christian Ethics. The fundamental perspective of this course in social justice is the recognition that the human person is made in the image of God and endowed with dignity, which is manifest in community with others. The foundation of the course is informed by faith in Jesus Christ, biblical ideals of justice and righteousness, and the Catholic moral tradition. Catholic Social Teaching - the moral teaching of the Catholic Church on social, economic, political, cultural, and religious issues - is given special consideration throughout the semester. The following contemporary issues are among those examined during the semester: ideals of justice rooted in human dignity and human rights, economic justice, racial justice, gender equity, nonviolence, and environmental and climate justice.

Christian Ethics is a required one-semester course in Religious Studies for Juniors. This course examines the human experience of the moral life. The focus of this class is the Roman Catholic moral theological tradition even while examining ethical insights from a variety of philosophical, religious, and cultural traditions. The fundamental perspective of this course is that Christian Ethics is an invitation to follow the way of Christ; that all persons fulfill their human destiny in response to the gratuitous love of God characterized by our loving one another as our neighbor. The class explores themes of truth and goodness, development of moral character, formation of personal conscience, spiritual discernment in the Ignatian tradition, criteria for judgment and action, and counter-cultural exemplars of servant and moral leadership. This course should be seen in direct relation to next semester's required Religious Studies course, Social Justice.

This course explores the human quest for purpose, transcendence and community within the context of the Catholic Christian tradition. The course explores the human movement beyond oneself toward connection with each other, God, and the global community. Students will study diverse communities and assess issues of justice and injustice from the standpoint of personal ethics and responsibility to the community. Ultimately, the course is an opportunity for students to inspect and articulate their own beliefs, then to apply those beliefs to real-world issues, locally and globally. Students will utilize philosophical inquiry, reflection on narrative, and study of the history and tradition of the Catholic Church in approaching these questions.

The Christian Scriptures course is a required one-semester course for Freshmen. It should be seen indirect relation to Hebrew Scriptures offered in the Fall. Christian Scriptures employs Historical-Contextual methods of Biblical study to introduce the students to the Gospels. The students use these modern tools of Biblical criticism to analyze each Gospel’s unique audience, themes, and understandings of Jesus. Besides paying special attention to material that is specific to each Gospel, the students will identify and assess the themes common to all the Gospels: the ways Jesus interacted with, and was impacted by, the dominant groups and sociological realities of first century Palestine; Jesus’ preeminent concern for the Kingdom of God; Jesus’ teachings and acts of mercy; the Passion of Jesus Christ; the Resurrection and call to discipleship. Building off the theme of discipleship, the students will assess how Catholic Social Teaching connects to modern instances of injustice.

The religious studies course during the fall semester of freshman year introduces students to the central stories, characters, and themes of the Hebrew Scriptures. Students will study the development of the Bible, literary forms in Scripture, and critical reading and contextual interpretation of biblical texts. The fundamental perspective of the course is that the Bible is the revealed Word of God written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit—God’s living word which speaks to us today of God’s faithful love in our lives. In accord with Ignatian spirituality, this course will incorporate prayer and reflection on Scripture so that students may grow in spiritual maturity and better praise and serve God and others in their lives.

This course will apply and extend what students have learned in previous courses by focusing on finding connections between multiple representations of functions, transformations of different function families, finding zeros of polynomials and connecting them to graphs and equations of polynomials, and modeling periodic phenomena with trigonometry. The course is well-balanced between procedural fluency (algorithms and basic skills), deep conceptual understanding, strategic competence (problem-solving), and adaptive reasoning (extension and transference). On a daily basis, students use problem-solving strategies, questioning, investigating, analyzing critically, gathering and constructing evidence, and communicating rigorous arguments justifying their thinking. Under teacher guidance, students learn in collaboration with others while sharing information, expertise, and ideas.

Note: this is not an honors course; this is a hybrid course which combines both Algebra 2 and PreCalc concepts - covering each in less depth - to allow entrance into high-school Calculus as a Senior with qualifying grades

The purpose of the AP course in statistics is to introduce students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data. Students are exposed to four broad conceptual themes – exploring data; sampling and experimentation; anticipating patterns and statistical inference. In this course, students will describe patterns and departures from patterns; plan and conduct a study or experiment; use statistical tools to calculate probabilities of random phenomena and use that data to estimate population parameters. The course also focuses on preparing students for the AP examination.

This course will introduce students to the main ideas in data science through tools such as Google Sheets, Python, Data Commons and Tableau. Students will learn to be data explorers in project-based units, through which they will develop their understanding of data analysis, sampling, correlation/causation, bias and uncertainty, probability, modeling with data, making and evaluating data-based arguments, the power of data in society, and more! At the end of the course students will have a portfolio of their data science work to showcase their newly developed abilities.

This is an introductory course to the basic concepts of probability and statistics using real world examples/data. Statistics topics include graphical and numerical representations of distribution, sampling techniques, experimental design, confidence intervals, and linear regression. Probability topics include counting techniques, simple probability, and conditional probability.