Course of Study - Andover

1 201 Return to Table of ContentsOFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDIESC ourse of Study2022 2023180 Main StreetAndover, Massachusetts Return to Table of ContentsCONTENTSPLEASE NOTE: The information that follows is accurate as of this 5/11/22 update. Phillips Academy reserves the right to make subsequent of Purpose ..2 Statement of Values ..2A Vision of the Academic Program ..3 Essential Elements of Student Life ..4An Academic Community ..5 Office of the Dean of Studies ..5 Department & Division Chairs ..5 Point Person ..6 Advisors (for day students) ..6 Advisors (for boarding students) ..6 Advising and College Counseling ..6 Academic Expectations and Policies ..6 Academic Integrity.

2 6 Workload and assignments ..7 Adding, Dropping, and Changing Courses ..7 Student Requests for a Change in Teacher ..7 Auditing Courses ..8 Classroom Visitors ..8 Textbooks ..8 Completing Academic Work ..8 At the End of the Term ..8 Mid-term and End-of-Term Academic Reports ..9 Attendance and Absences ..9 How to Request an Excused Absence if Missing Classes and Academy Commitments 10 Academic Support Processes ..10 Core Team ..10 Full Team ..10 Student Program Review Committee (SPRC) ..11 End-of-Term Review Committee ..11 End-of-Term Review Process ..11 Required Leave of Absence ..11 Required to Withdraw ..11 Student Response Team (SRT).

3 11 Leave of Absence ..11 Academic Skills Center (ASC) ..12 Peer Tutoring ..12 Study , Organizational, and Time Management Skills ..12 Student Accessibility Reasonable Accommodations ..12 Standardize Testing Accommodations ..13 Planning an Academic Program ..13 The Educational Program ..13 General Description ..13 The Curriculum ..13 Placement of Newly Admitted Students ..13 Course Requests ..13 Course Load ..13 Six- Course Load Policy ..13 Four- Course Load Policy ..14 Course Enrollments and Cancellations ..14 Independent Projects ..14 Participation in Off-Campus Programs ..14 General Information ..15 The Educational Program ..15 Diploma Requirements.

4 15 Planning a Program of Study ..17 Junior Year ..17 Lower Year ..17 Upper Year ..17 Senior Year ..18 Course Enrollments & Cancellations ..18 Course Numbers ..18 Key to Course Designations ..19 Courses OfferedArt ..20 Classical Studies (see World Languages) ..91 Dance (see Theatre & Dance) ..78 English ..25 History & Social Science ..38 Interdisciplinary Studies ..46 Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science ..56 Music ..64 Natural Sciences ..69 Biology ..69 Chemistry ..71 Interdisciplinary Science ..73 Physics ..74 Philosophy & Religious Studies ..78 Physical Education ..82 Tang Institute ..83 Workshop 10 ..83 The Workshop ..83 Theatre & Dance.

5 84 World Languages ..88 Chinese ..88 Classics ..91 Greek ..91 Latin ..93 French ..94 German ..97 Japanese ..99 Russian ..100 Spanish ..1022 Return to Table of ContentsSTATEMENT OF PURPOSEP hillips Academy s Constitution charges the faculty to teach youth from every quarter to aspire equally to knowledge and goodness. This obligation challenges students to develop what is finest in themselves and others, for others and themselves. Phillips Academy is committed to nurturing an intentionally diverse, inclusive community that encourages students and adults to respect, inspire, and learn from one another. Guided by the ideal of non sibi, leading lives not for self, the Phillips Academy community promotes a balance of intellectual curiosity, engagement, leadership, and service in the pursuit of excellence: academic, civic, and OF VALUESNon Sibi We strive to embody the ideal of non sibi with intentional teaching, learning, and engagement guided by a sense of responsibility toward the global community and natural world.

6 Youth from Every Quarter We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive school in which students from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and ability learn and grow together. Knowledge and Goodness We challenge students in mind, body, and spirit such that they may pursue the knowledge, develop the skills, and sustain the integrity needed to lead a responsible, fulfilling life. 3 Return to Table of ContentsA VISION OF THE ACADEMIC PROGRAMIn its 1778 constitution, Phillips Academy is charged with ensuring its students learn the great end and real business of living.

7 Inspired by this charge, we seek to cultivate in our students the capacities among them analytical rigor, imaginative thought, and nuanced skepticism neces-sary to identify and attain a great and worthy end: human flourishing. Our founders knew that adolescence is formative. By introducing our students to the diversity of human experience and to the complexities of the natural world, we push them to understand the world as it is. By fostering their abilities to question beliefs, systems, and the ways things are done, we press them to envision the world they seek to prepare its students for life in the world, Phillips Academy offers a liberal education. Oriented to all aspects of human experience, lib-eral education affirms that knowledge is intrinsically good and denies that education terminates with technical skill or professional success.

8 Resisting specialization in favor of breadth, it initiates students into connected fields of understanding and prepares them to lead lives charac-terized by learning and understanding, responsibility and practice of responsibility and freedom demands that citizens have dispositions of the critical mind to recognize fact and valid argument and to comprehend the implications of the knowledge they produce and the things they create. It requires that citizens act against intoler-ance and injustice and build communities conducive to human flourishing. To help students become such citizens, Phillips Academy seeks to prepare graduates who are educated broadly, discerning of ideologies, and committed to the public good.

9 Adopted by the Faculty in February 20224 Return to Table of ContentsESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF STUDENT LIFEIn addition to abiding by the school rules in The Blue Book, an essential part of student life is the ability of each student to meet the school s stated responsibilities and expectations as listed below:* Live cooperatively and respectfully in a dormitory and school community, sharing the responsibilities inherent in living together, without adversely affecting others. Behave responsibly, respectfully, and honestly to all as a member and representative of the Phillips Academy community, whether on or off campus. Function independently and safely with respect to basic living and self-care tasks ( , nutrition, sleep, personal hygiene).

10 Make use of academic, psychological, and health resources as deemed necessary by adults responsible for students. Attend and participate in all required classes, education programs, events, or obligations, some of which may be unique to Phillips Academy ( , Empathy, Balance, and Inclusion programming; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; work duty; and required week-end events). The total of excused and unexcused absences from classes and all other required events should not exceed 20 percent of the total number of required meetings at any point in a term. Be able to return to full participation in required class activities and complete required assignments and assessments following approved extensions of up to a maximum of 20 percent of the essential elements of student life were updated and approved by the Senior Administrative Council on August 14, Return to Table of ContentsAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITYO ffice of the Dean of StudiesDean of Studies Raj MundraThe dean of studies is primarily responsible for leading and coordinating the academic departments, divisions.