School subjects

In order for students to receive Associate Degrees, as well as meet state high school requirements, the Missouri Academy curriculum is less Math, Science and Computer oriented as you might have originally expected.

Requirements

The curriculum requires

• Four semesters of English
• Math through Calculus II
• Chemistry through Chemistry II
• Physics through Physics II
• One humanities
• American Government
• One semester of Biology
• One semester of Computer Science
• A second semester of either Biology or Computer Science

English

Academy students are required to complete four semesters of English classes.

• English 111 (Composition)
• English 112 (More Composition)
• Oral Communication
• Any one of the following literature classes:
  • Multiethnic
  • Early American
  • American: 1865 to Present
  • Early British
  • British: Romantics to Present
  • Women's

Math

Required Courses
These are courses that you either must take or test out of:

• Precalulus
• Calculus I
• Calculus II

Other Available Courses

• Multivariate Calculus
• Differential Equations
• Discrete Math

Biology

You must take at least one biology course; two if you intend to take only one Computer Science course.

• General Biology
• General Zoology
• General Botany
• General Microbiology

The proposed curriculum changes for the class of 2007 requires that students take General Biology and General Microbiology.

Editorial Note: We're terribly sorry about the Micro requirement. Really, it wasn't always this dumb.

Chemistry

• General Chemistry I (3 hours) and lab (1 hour)
• General Chemistry II (4 hours) and lab (1 hour)

Physics

Physics essentially deriving and using equations describing the real world. Students typically take two semesters of Fundamentals of Classical Physics during their senior year. Both of these are include four hours of lecture and one hour of lab.

Computer Science

Computer Science at Northwest is of variety that produces assembly line programmers (not to be confused with the computer language assembler] ). Sure, they're the factory workers of the day, but where's the fun?

Classes:

• Programming I
• Visual Basic for Applications
• Fortran
• Programming II
• Data and File Structures

History/Humanities

America - A Historical Survey is required, plus a humanities course. Often the humanities course is taken during May Session.

Others

In addition to the above, students are expected to take Introduction to American Government and Politics, Academy Seminar and Colloquium.

See also

• List of professors