Freshman Year

  • Required Classes:

    • Global Biology*
    • English 9 - AIS*
    • World History: Transformations* or AP World History
    • Healthful Living

    *Courses can be taken as standard or honors credit

     

    Activities:

    First Quarter

    • Getting to Know AIS

    Second Quarter

    Third Quarter

    Fourth Quarter

Sophomore Year

  • Required Classes:

    • English 10 - AIS*
    • Civic Literacy - AIS*

    ​*Courses can be taken as standard or honors credit

     

    Activities:

    First Quarter

    Second Quarter

    • Attend CultureFest

    • Position Papers for NAIMUN Trip

    Third Quarter

    Fourth Quarter

    • Community change project

Junior Year

Senior Year

  • Required Classes:

    • 4 mandatory leadership & ethics workshops -- students will complete 1 Leadership Book Study, 2 Ethics Workshops, and the culminating AIS Leadership Retreat at Triangle Training Center (Pittsboro, NC)
    • AIS Senior Statement of Purpose

     

    Activities:

    First Quarter

    Second Quarter

    Third Quarter

    Fourth Quarter

    • Verify final AIS standing based on completed courseload

    • AIS International Trip

    • AIS Senior Celebration

  • Other Requirements:

     

    World Languages Requirement

    • AIS requires that students must complete two courses in a single World Language (while enrolled in high school)

     

    AIS-Approved Honors Elective Requirement (choose one)

    • Honors Creative Writing 2  
    • Honors Global Cinema and Filmmaking
    • Honors Global Cultures and Minority Studies
    • Honors Global Systems and Issues ​

     

    AIS-Approved AP Elective Requirement (choose one)  

    • AP Comparative Government and Politics
    • AP Environmental Science
    • AP Human Geography
    • AP Statistics

  • AIS International Trip

    In the Spring of 2020, a group of CHS students were set to go on a trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland and the surrounding area to dive deeper into the geopolitical and socioeconomic consequences of “The Troubles” from the 20th century and most recently, “Brexit.”

    This year, AIS has a plan to revive that trip and expand the journey overseas to “The Two Irelands.”  Our goal is to offer a small group of students the opportunity to apply their studies via a visit to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland in a post-Brexit world. Their objective will be to better understand the nuances and reality of the European Union, international relations and trade as well as national governance.