Minnetonka offers AP courses in English, world languages, social sciences,history, sciences, mathematics, computer science and the arts. MHS also offers a variety of AP courses through Tonka Online and VANTAGE. Depending on your AP exam scores and college credit policies, you may earn college credit or advanced standing at most of the nation’s colleges and universities.
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Course: #T4104*, Tonka Online**
*Select term S=summer, F=fall
Grade(s) offered: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: Successful completion (B- or better) of Math Studies, Functions, Stats & Trig, Pre-Calculus or teacher recommendation
This course teaches the 10 topics of statistics in a one semester accelerated fashion. It is designed to be in addition to the normal 4 year math sequence and is only offered as a 0.5 credit class.
Course: #T6094F, part 1, Tonka Online
Course: #T6096W, part 2, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 1.0 (year-long course)
This course completes .5 towards the Arts credit
*Online, complete part 1 before part 2.
Prerequisites: None
AP Art History allows students to examine major forms of artistic expression relevant to a variety of cultures in a wide variety of times periods.
Course: #AP320, S1
Course: #AP322, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Chemistry
Advanced Placement Biology is designed to provide learning experiences equivalent to a first-year college biology course.
Course: #AP404, S1
Course: #AP406, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: B+ or better in Precalculus, B or Better in Precalculus Honors, or Successful completion Calculus
This course is equivalent to a first semester of college calculus. It is focused on single variable differential and integral calculus and applications.
Course: #AP408, S1
Course: #AP410, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: .5 (per semester)
Prerequisites: C or better in AP Calculus AB or A- or better in Calculus
This course is equivalent to a second semester college calculus course. It includes review of AP Calculus AB along with advanced integration and differentiation techniques.
Course: #AP304, S1
Course: #AP306, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: A or B in Physical Science Honors and Higher Algebra
AP Chemistry teaches the concepts and applications of first-year college Chemistry. A process of problem solving is continually modeled and It is expected that students electing this course will take the AP Exam.
Course: #IM104, S1
Course: #IM106, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 9, Grade 10
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: K-8/9 enrollment in Chinese Immersion
This Chinese Immersion language arts course further develops students' confidence in speaking, reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Course: #AP216
Online Option: T2108, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
This college-level course analyzes the political systems of the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Mexico, Nigeria and Iran. By examining these six countries, students will develop an understanding of political concepts and themes.
Course: #AP650, S1
Course: #AP652, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: AP Computer Science Principles strongly recommended, or prior coding experience; B or better in Higher Algebra, Higher Algebra Honors, or Instructor’s permission
AP Computer Science A is equivalent to a first-semester, college-level course in computer science. The course introduces students to computer science fundamentals, focusing on object-oriented programming languages.
Course: #AP654, S1
Course: #AP656, S2
Online Option: #T6500F, part 1, Tonka Online
Online Option: #T6502W, part 2, Tonka Online
Online, complete part 1 before part 2
This course can also be taken through VANTAGE #V500 (choose one)
Grades Offered: grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: C or better in Algebra; Introduction to Computer Science is recommended but not required
Computer Science Principles introduces students to the foundational concepts of computer science and challenges them to explore how computing and technology can impact the world.
Course: #V500
Grade(s) offered: Grade 10, Grade 11, or Grade 12
Credits: 1.0 computer science elective credit
This course is offered as part of the VANTAGE Computer track. For details about taking AP Computer Science Principles through VANTAGE, visit the VANTAGE page of the Skipper Log.
Course: #T3100*, part 1, Tonka Online
*Select term F=fall
Course: #T3102*, part 2, Tonka Online
*Select term W=winter
*Online, complete part 1 before part 2.
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Chemistry
This is a multidisciplinary course for students interested in the world’s natural environment and related issues.
Course: #V300
Grades Offered: Grade 11 or Grade 12
Credits: .5 (per semester, full-year course) science elective credit
This course is offered as part of the VANTAGE Global Sustainability track. For details about taking AP Environmental Science through VANTAGE, visit the VANTAGE page of the Skipper Log.
Course: #AP208, S1
Course: #AP210, S2
Online Option: #T2112F, Tonka Online
Online Option: #T2114W, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
*Online, complete part 1 before part 2.
Prerequisites: Contemporary U.S. History; AP U.S. History; American Studies 10 Honors (B or better)
This class will survey the major trends and events in European history from the Renaissance (1350) to present day.
Course: #AP500, S1
Course: #AP502, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: French IV and permission from the instructor or IB French SL
The course provides students with opportunities to connect with Francophone culture using the three modes of communication (interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational) in a variety of tasks.
Course: #AP200, S1
Course: #AP202, S2
Grade: Grade 9
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: B+ or better in 8th grade English and Social Studies
Human Geography is the study of humans and their interaction with their surroundings. An emphasis on spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences are the guiding ideas behind this course.
Course: #AP100, S1
Course: #AP101, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 10
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Any English 9 Course
Students will analyze a broad and challenging range of fiction and nonfiction prose and trace the use of rhetoric in making arguments and appeals. Students will read and examine essays, letters, speeches, images, media messages, memoirs, and autobiographies from a variety of authors and historical contexts.
Course: #AP104
Online Option: #T1100*, Tonka Online
*Select term F=fall, W=winter
Grade(s) offered: Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: Any English 11 Course
In this course, students read and examine a broad range of nonfiction prose including essays, letters, speeches, images, media messages, memoirs, and autobiographies from a variety of authors and historical contexts.
Course: #AP102, S1
Course: #AP103, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Any English 10 or 11 Course
This course emphasizes perceptive readings of major British and American Literature representing all literary genres—poetry, drama, novel, short story—covering the 17th to the 21st Century.
Course: #AP218
Online Option: #T2106W, Tonka Online
*Select term S=Summer, W=winter
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
Students will study economic growth, inflation, unemployment, foreign trade, monetary, and fiscal policies at a college freshman level.
Course: #V102
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11 or Grade 12
Credits: 1.0 social studies credit
This course is offered as part of the VANTAGE Global Business track. For details about taking AP Microeconomics through VANTAGE, visit the VANTAGE page of the Skipper Log.
Course: #AP660
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
This course completes .5 towards the Arts credit
Prerequisites: A or B in Theory 1 or pretest/application prior to registration
Music Theory 2 is a one-term class designed for students who have some experience in music but want to further develop and increase skills in reading, writing, listening, and analyzing music. It is also designed to prepare students interested in studying music at the post-secondary level.
Course: #AP300, S1
Course: #AP302, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 9
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in English 9 Honors Communications
AP Physics I is an algebra-based physics course designed to develop deep understanding of the content and apply knowledge through inquiry-based labs. The English course focuses on preparing students for future research opportunities and for learning how to communicate in a technical and professional manner.
Course: #AP324, S1
Course: #AP326, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
This course completes 1.0 of a Science credit.
Prerequisites: Calculus course and AP Physics 1 (or another physics course with teacher recommendation).
AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism is equivalent to a second semester calculus-based college physics course.
Course #AP328, S1
Course #AP330, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Calculus (completed or concurrent)
This is a year-long course offered at MHS.
AP Physics C: Mechanics is the equivalent of a first-semester college course in calculus-based physics. The course covers Kinematics, Newton’s Laws, Work/Energy/Power, Momentum, Rotation, Oscillations.
Course: #T3104W, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (Spring semester only)
Prerequisites: Have completed or be concurrently enrolled in both AP Physics 1 AND a calculus course.
This semester-long Tonka Online course is for students who have already taken AP Physics 1 and wish to take the AP Physics C: Mechanics test.
This course covers mechanics topics with a calculus lens in a self-paced/teacher-guided online format. These topics are Kinematics, Newton’s Laws, Work/Energy/Power, Momentum, Rotation, and Oscillations.
Course: #AP412, S1
Course: #AP414, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: A in Higher Algebra or B+ or better in Higher Algebra Honors
The skills learned in this course are foundational not only for success in required college math courses, but also to careers in math, physics, biology, health science, data science and social science.
Course: #V200
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11 or Grade 12
Credits 1.0 social studies credit
This course is offered as part of the VANTAGE Health Sciences track. For details about taking AP Psychology through VANTAGE, visit the VANTAGE page of the Skipper Log.
Course: #AP220
Online Option: #T2100, Tonka Online
This course may also be taken as part of VANTAGE #V200
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
Psychology is the study of behavior and mental process. This AP class is an introduction to college-level Psychology using a college text, “collegiate-style” pace and classroom climate, and college-level exams.
Course: #AP107, S1
Course: #AP108, S2
Grade(s) offered: grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: AP Seminar during junior year
AP Research allows students to deeply explore an academic topic, problem, or issue of individual interest. Through this exploration, students design, plan, and conduct a year-long research based investigation to address a research question.
Course: #AP105, S1
Course: #AP106, S2
This course may also be taken through VANTAGE #V102, Global Business or VANTAGE #V700, Public Policy (choose only one)
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Any English 10 or 11 Course
AP Seminar is a foundational course that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives.
Course: #V102, #V700
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11 or Grade 12
Credits: 1.0 English credit
This course is offered as part of the VANTAGE Global Business and VANTAGE Public Policy track. For details about taking AP Seminar through VANTAGE, visit the VANTAGE page of the Skipper Log.
Course: #IM204, S1
Course: #IM206, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 9, Grade 10
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: K-8 enrollment in Spanish Immersion
This Spanish Immersion language arts course further develops students' confidence in speaking, reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Course: #AP504, S1
Course: #AP506, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: IB Spanish SL or Spanish IV
The AP Spanish Language and Culture course allows students to use their developing language skills in new and authentic ways. Students encounter and analyze a variety of texts on a weekly basis.
Course: #AP400, S1
Course: #AP402, S2
Online Option: #T4100* part 1, Tonka Online
*Select term S=summer, F=fall, W=winter
Online Option: #T4102* part 2, Tonka Online
*Select term S=summer, F=fall, W=winter
Must complete part 1 before part 2.This course can also be taken as part of VANTAGE #V100 (choose one).
Grade(s) offered: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: None
This course is a college level study of the statistical topics of experimental design, data analysis, and methods of inference.
Course: #V100
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11 or Grade12
Credits: 1.0 math credit
This course is offered as part of the VANTAGE Business Analytics track. For details about taking AP Statistics through VANTAGE, visit the VANTAGE page of the Skipper Log.
Course: #AP602, S1
Course: #AP603, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 1.0 (year-long course)
This course fulfills the Arts requirement.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of two or more semesters of art; Drawing highly recommended
In AP Studio Art you create a portfolio to turn in for the AP Studio Art Exam. The portfolio will be Drawing, 2D or 3D.
Course: #AP204, S1
Course: #AP206, S2
Grade(s) offered: Grade 10
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Civics and Human Geography; AP Human Geography
Students complete advanced level reading, writing, and analysis on topics in the history of the U.S. Reading assignments come from a college-level text, and students work with others to become more skilled at writing historical essays.
Course: #AP214
Online Option: #T2110, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (single semester course)
Prerequisites: None
Through readings, research, discussions, field experiences, and media presentations, students will study political ideologies, parties, campaigns, elections, interest groups, bureaucracy, civil liberties, role of the media, the judicial, legislative and executive processes, and the creation of public policy.
Course: #AP224, S1
Course: #AP225, S2
Online Option:#T2102F, part 1, Tonka Online
Online Option:#T2104W, part 2, Tonka Online
Grades Offered: grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (per semester, full-year course)
Prerequisites: Contemporary U.S. History; AP U.S. History; American Studies 10 Honors (grade B or better)
Students complete advanced level reading, writing, and analysis on topics in World History.
Course: #V100
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 2.0
Prerequisites: Interest in global business and statistics. Students who have taken VANTAGE Business Analytics or IB Business SL at MHS are not eligible for Global Business.
This course teaches students to analyze big data to support decision-making in the business world.
Course: #V102
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: Interest in business. Students who have taken VANTAGE Business Analytics or IB Business SL at MHS are not eligible for Global Business.
VANTAGE Global Business allows students to explore diverse global business concepts through a global lens. Students utilized critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve complex business problems while tackling challenging coursework in economics, English, and business.
Course: #V300
Grades Offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 2.0
Prerequisites: Interest in the environment and sustainability. Students must have completed a biology credit or concurrently enrolled in Biology (Biology G, AP Biology, or IB Biology).
This experiential course meets students at the intersection of science, food, sustainability, and economics. Students work on real projects as they go deep into sustainable practices.
Course: #V200
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 2.25
Prerequisites: Physical science and algebra; interest in health sciences; chemistry strongly recommended. Students who have already completed Human Anatomy and Physiology I at MHS are NOT eligible for this strand.
Explore a variety of healthcare fields through coursework, site visits, guest instruction and projects. Become certified as a Nursing Assistant Registered or Emergency Medical Responder.
Course: #T7204S, summer only
Grade(s) offered: grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (summer course)
This course completes .5 toward an elective credit.
Prerequisites: Students should be registered for AP Biology in the fall; optional course for preceding summer.
This course does not count toward the state graduation requirement of 3.0 credits of science.
Students in this summer course will complete online study and engage in learning activities to prepare for the rigor and pace of Advanced Placement (AP) Biology.
Course: #T7206S, summer only, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (summer course)
Prerequisites: Completion of Precalculus
This course does not count toward the state graduation requirement of 3.0 credits of math.
A half-credit summer online course focused on learning essential introductory calculus skills and concepts.
Course: #T7202S, summer only, Tonka Online
Grade(s) offered: grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
Credits: 0.5 (summer course)
This course completes .5 toward an elective credit.
Prerequisites: Students should be registered for AP Chemistry in the fall; optional course for preceding summer.
This course does not count toward the state graduation requirement of 3.0 credits of science.
This course includes essential chemistry skills and includes support for the AP Chemistry summer assignment. The overall goal is to provide a pathway for prospective AP Chemistry students to solidify a strong chemistry foundation as they transition to college level coursework.
Course: #V700
Grade(s) offered: Grade 11, Grade 12
MHS Credits: 2.0
College credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: Interest in how public policy is formulated.
This VANTAGE strand creates an opportunity for students to explore the world of public policy formulation through coursework, projects, mentoring, guest instruction, and site visits. Students utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to evaluate complex public policy questions while tackling challenging coursework in English and social studies.
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Course: #V500
Grade(s) offered: Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Credits: 2.0
Prerequisites: Interest in how applications and websites are designed and developed.
Develop skills in creative problem-solving, innovation, and human-centered design. Design and develop mobile apps and websites through the VANTAGE experience.
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