AP courses allow students the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and instructors in a more traditional, semester-based format, with the flexibility of all course interaction being online.
AP Calculus AB
AP Comparative Government and Politics (Spring 2023 Start Date)
AP Computer Science
AP English Language and Composition
AP English Literature and Composition
AP European History
AP Psychology
AP Statistics
AP United States Government
AP United States History
All courses are reviewed annually by The College Board’s AP Course Audit and authorized for official AP designation.
Enrollment opens in May for the fall term and in October for the spring term.
Coursework generally begins in late August for the fall term and January for the spring term. See the Calendar for more details.
Any student who has an interest in the subject and has met the prerequisites (if any) may enroll.
AP Course Policies
Course Pacing: AP courses follow a scheduled course format with pre-determined start and end dates. Please work with Mizzou Academy to join our AP courses with a class cohort. While students are expected to stay with the course pacing, if schools or students have extenuating circumstances, we are always available to problem-solve. Our goal is that all AP students with Mizzou Academy are fully prepared for the AP exams in May.
Course Fee:Contact Mizzou Academy for course fee information. Please note there is an additional $75 fee for our AP courses.
Weighted GPA: AP courses follow the same grading scale as other courses offered by Mizzou Academy / University of Missouri High School
Mizzou Academy / University of Missouri does not offer extra weight on a student’s transcript for completion of AP courses. This follows the University’s guidelines for admission requirements.
College Credit for AP Courses
Policies regarding awarding college credit for AP Exam scores vary by AP subject and university. The University of Missouri has developed an AP Credit Policy based upon their own criteria.
AP Exams
Although Mizzou Academy / University of Missouri High School does not administer AP Exams at this time, the College Board has information about AP and assistance with locating AP testing sites.
AP Results
Please utilize the “Add Online/Distance Learning Provider” tool in their AP Course Audit account to properly document the use of our authorized courses. The College Board’s online/distance learning provider three-digit code for the University of Missouri High School is 041.
Across all subject areas tested, Mizzou Academy students who reported their results scored significantly higher on AP exams than the national average. For both 2018 and the 2019 testing cycles we are proud to celebrate that 100% of our AP students earned a 3 or higher on all AP exams.
Mizzou Academy National Honors Society Students at Colégio Magno (São Paulo, SP)
Accelerated Options
Mizzou Academy offers dynamic solutions for high-ability learners and students working at an accelerated pace. Many of our faculty have specialized training and experience working with gifted learners. We are excited to partner with schools and families seeking more in-depth or specialized study from our wide variety of course options.
Mizzou Academy offers a challenging array of subjects for gifted, talented, and advanced learners, including mathematics, science, language arts, fine arts, world languages, and social studies.
When selecting courses for accelerated placement or advanced study:
Choose subjects of high interest
Preview the course description and learning objectives
Consider the recommended grade level and the course prerequisites
Assess student maturity level and academic preparedness
We are proud to support advanced students in differentiating pacing and content access by offering deep content exploration such as learning a new world language, accelerating their math studies, and even pursuing early high school graduation. When considering these options for students, the National Association of Gifted Children offers the following resource on acceleration.
Description: This is a 16-week online course composed of an orientation week and 15 weekly sessions. Expect to invest about 9-15 hours a week on course activities and assignments. The AP English Language and Composition course focuses on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing and the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts. Students will develop evidence-based analytic and argumentative essays that proceed through several stages or drafts. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Throughout the course, students develop a personal style by making appropriate grammatical choices. Additionally, students read and analyze the rhetorical elements and their effects in non-fiction texts, including graphic images as forms of text.
Required Materials (Purchase one (1) of the following):
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (ISBN-10: 0812980026)
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (ISBN-10: 0374531269)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (ISBN-10: 0375714839)
AP English Literature & Composition, First Semester
Description: The fall semester of AP English is a 16-week course that consists of 10 Lessons, each lesson being one complete unit of study. Literature selections within each lesson are designed to showcase the genre, literary kind, or literary elements that are the focus of the learning objectives for that lesson. At its core, literature is simply the stories we tell, but of course literature itself is not simple. It is rich and complex, and as varied and provocative as the humans who write it (and the humans who read it!). And that certainly makes it worthy of our time, exploration, study, and conversation, which is what this course is all about!
Description: This course provides students with a college-level foundation in calculus. Coursework emphasizes the relationship between the various forms of a function: graphs, equations, tables, and verbal expressions. Calculus has two main topics: rate of change and area under a curve. The fall semester focuses on finding rates of change, i.e. differentiation. Students will review familiar functions and explore the concept of limits and differentiation.
Description: This is a 16 week online course composed of an orientation week and 16 weekly sessions. Expect to invest about 9-15 hours a week on course activities and assignments. Students will compare the major concepts and skills for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data and random phenomena. Successful completion of both semesters will help prepare students for the College Board’s exam.
Required Materials
Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis AP Edition (9781337794428)
Fastrack to a 5 Test Prep Workbook (9781337794435)
Description: This course continues first semester’s study of the Java programming language. The use of inheritance, recursion, and linear data structures will be emphasized this semester. Several lab projects will be studied and collaboration will be used to create a final project. The content material and topics follow the current expectations of the College Board; successful completion of both semesters help prepare students for the Advanced Placement Computer Science A Exam.
Description: Students will be introduced to a survey of basic models used by political scientists to analyze and apply what they learn to a set of target countries. The main course objectives are to help students (1) develop fluency in the language political scientists used to discuss comparative government and politics issues, (2) learn about the historical and current political systems of Great Britain, Russia, China, Mexico, Iran, and Nigeria, and (3) analyze and compare these political systems using six comparative themes.
Prerequisites: World History or World Geography recommended, but not required
Description: This is an 18 week online course composed of an orientation week and 17 weekly sessions. Expect to invest about 9-15 hours a week on course activities and assignments. Students will study European History beginning around 1450. The course introduces students to cultural, economic, political, and social developments that played a fundamental role in shaping the modern world in which they live. Without this knowledge, we would lack the context for understanding the development of contemporary institutions, the role of conflict and continuity in present-day society and politics, and the evolution of current forms of artistic expression and intellectual discourse. Another course goal is for students to understand some of the principal themes in modern European history, to analyze historical evidence, and to express historical understanding in writing.
Description: This is a 16 week online course composed of an orientation week and 15 weekly sessions. Expect to invest about 9-15 hours a week on course activities and assignments. This course introduces students to the basic concepts of psychology. The lessons emphasize the empirical examination of behavior and mental processes and apply this knowledge to themselves and others. Lesson topics include the biological basis of behavior, developmental psychology, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, and memory.
Description: In AP U.S. Government and Politics, students will study political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. They will engage in disciplinary practices that require them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they will complete a political science research or applied civics project.
Description: This is a 16-week online course composed of an orientation week and 15 weekly sessions. Expect to invest about 9-15 hours a week on course activities and assignments. In AP US History Semester 1, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in 5 historical periods from 1491 to 1877. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians such as analyzing primary and secondary sources, developing historical arguments, making historical comparisons, and utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for AP US History. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.
