With FC initiating new school courses, students have been given a list of classes to choose from for the following year. Many of the courses being offered next year include Zoology, AP Biology, Chinese III and AP European history. Each student is asked to turn in their forms as soon as possible in order to set up next year’s available courses.
Principal Todd Bennett feels that the lists are a great way to prepare the courses for next year.
“We want to give our students every opportunity to take the courses that they want in order to get into the colleges and fields of study that they are interested in,” Bennett said. “We put these things on the request list to see if there are any interests, because it all depends on whether or not there are enough kids to justify forming the class.”
By adding Zoology as another science class, Bennett feels that it will help build FC’s science department.
“We really want to build our science department,” Bennett said. “Since so many students are interested in Zoology, we are offering it in next year’s course.”
Since Zoology is a lab course, science teacher Jennifer Oren feels that students should take a course of Zoology if they are interested in any life science course.
“Zoology is a very hands-on science class,” Oren said. “Students who are interested in life science, Biology, and maybe going into any kind of medical profession, or anything that would have to do with the human body, should take this course; a course in Zoology would really help them be successful in their college classes.”
Oren recommends that students interested in Zoology should already have completed a course in Biology.
“It’s recommended that students already have taken Biology,” Oren said. “That gives them a chance to take Biology as a freshman, Zoology as a sophomore, junior or senior, and they can push back chemistry if they are not as strong in abstract thinking.”
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