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AP Seminar 25-26
WARNING: NOT AT WORK!
When you're asked "how are you"--do you find yourself answering "so busy!" more often than not? What happens to people when they forget to have fun? Is that even allowed these days? Once upon a time it wasn't all just work work work, and more working at home: humans once frequented "third places" like malls, theme parks, bowling alleys, and bars. We weren't designed to spend every waking hour just to survive... but even though smartphones and streaming have moved our "third places" to the digital realm, our so-called 'hobbies' can't be "just for fun"--does everything we do and make have to be monetized on Etsy as part of the "hustle culture?" How do we get our time back just to live? How do we stop being so busy and tired all the time? Are we doomed to be only "idiots and machines?" This year, AP Seminar will practice secondary research skills while investigating the concept of hobby and leisure, and we'll take a trip of nostalgia (real or imagined) for a time when teenagers had time and space to get into trouble, when people made art just 'because,' and when childhood sports were to give you something to do and not a potential path to free college or a professional career. |
AP Capstone
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An Innovative Approach to Cross-Curricular Education and College-Level Critical Thinking/Writing
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AP Capstone is an innovative program developed and offered through College Board in conjunction with other Advanced Placement accelerated coursework, with the intended purpose of giving students the chance to further develop and cultivate a love for academic discourse. The two-year program combines research and analytic skills, critical thinking, and an interdisciplinary approach meant to enhance the learning already happening in and between the various AP courses. Students who choose to complete the Capstone program will spend two years delving deeply into special topics focused on industry and career problems and innovations; students engage in cross-curricular discussions relevant to today’s world, their local communities, and/or their career and academic interests.
Students who complete the program will have significant bodies of work in major areas of research, which may provide them with internship, research, and academic opportunities at the next. Students will be given opportunities to use this work to further advance their scholarship, career, and personal educational goals. There will be opportunities to apply for scholarship contests, professional publication, and conference-presentation (all great for college resumes!) embedded in the coursework of the program. For more information, see the Academic Conference page, and the Publication--Ursa Minor--page.
Students who complete both years of the Capstone Program with passing AP scores for AP Seminar (year 1) and AP Research (year 2) will receive an AP Seminar and Research Certificate, signifying success in the program; students who do so, and successfully pass four other AP exams (in any subjects) qualify for the AP Capstone diploma, signifying exemplary academic achievement and college-skill readiness. Students applying to colleges are strongly encouraged by College Board to use their research projects and individual interests as spring boards for college admissions, which may serve as a way for colleges to place students in special programs and internships as a result of their already-completed research.
Students who complete the program will have significant bodies of work in major areas of research, which may provide them with internship, research, and academic opportunities at the next. Students will be given opportunities to use this work to further advance their scholarship, career, and personal educational goals. There will be opportunities to apply for scholarship contests, professional publication, and conference-presentation (all great for college resumes!) embedded in the coursework of the program. For more information, see the Academic Conference page, and the Publication--Ursa Minor--page.
Students who complete both years of the Capstone Program with passing AP scores for AP Seminar (year 1) and AP Research (year 2) will receive an AP Seminar and Research Certificate, signifying success in the program; students who do so, and successfully pass four other AP exams (in any subjects) qualify for the AP Capstone diploma, signifying exemplary academic achievement and college-skill readiness. Students applying to colleges are strongly encouraged by College Board to use their research projects and individual interests as spring boards for college admissions, which may serve as a way for colleges to place students in special programs and internships as a result of their already-completed research.
Warren’s First
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Year 1: AP Seminar/CTEAP Seminar is a year-long preparatory course, serving as the prerequisite to AP Research. The content of the course is flexible, which makes it a fantastic pairing for a variety of students' college and career interests. Here at Warren, AP Seminar is specifically designed to complement students' work in CTE programs. AP Seminar often taking a multidisciplinary, cross-curricular approach, designed to showcase for students the overlapping and interdependent nature of their educations, while introducing skills for analysis, interpretation and evaluation of information and preliminary research practices.
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Year 2: AP Research/CTE
AP Research is a year-long culminating study based on individual student inquiry in a specific, narrow area of interest through personal, peer, advisor, and expert mentorship. Students may choose their own topics, synthesizing areas of study from a variety of their own coursework, conduct research, studies, surveys, interviews, etc. in order to contribute in some way to the academic discourse surrounding their area of inquiry.
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Meet the Program Advisor
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Stacy Cabrera--Warren high c/o 2004--returns to Warren from a decade long hiatus in the South Bay, where she taught English, Philosophy, and Research. She is brought back to Warren through her work with with AP4CTE, a non-profit organization working to bring College credit opportunities to students involved in Career-technical education pathways and programs like Engineering, Biotechnology, Audio-visual technology programs, and so on.
Her other professional goal is to expand philosophy to the public-school setting, which has granted her opportunities to collaborate with philosophy educators through the American Philosophical Association Committee for Instruction in Pre-college Philosophy. She currently is an active collaborator with the Pacific Partnership for Critical Thinking with colleagues at UCLA, Pepperdine, and The University of Queensland. |
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Prospective students--UPCOMING SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS, and SENIORS for 2025-2026--come find out more! Visit Mrs. Cabrera in Room L105.
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