| Approved Site(s): |
| | Site adopted course for Mission Bay High School. Other schools may not offer this course without prior approval from the Interdivisional Curriculum Committee.
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| Grade Range: |
| | 12 |
| Prerequisites: |
| | AVID 11/Theory of Knowledge 1,2 or Theory of Knowledge IB 1,2 |
| Course duration: |
| | Two semesters |
| Subject area in which graduation credit will be given: |
| | Elective |
| UC subject area satisfied: |
| | g - College Preparatory Elective |
| Notes: |
| | Co-requisites: Additional IB courses chosen from IB Groups 1-6 |
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| Course Description: |
| | The AVID TOK Seminar is a two-year interdisciplinary course for seniors. The course is designed for those who want to prepare for the rigor required for college work. Students will engaged in higher levels of WICOR (writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading) strategies through the Theory of Knowledge curriculum. These higher-level thinking, reading, writing, and oral language skills are needed to prepare students for the level of work required to produce a culminating research project at the end of the senior year. Students will demonstrate the ability to read, write, and think critically while participating in challenging collaborative group and individual projects. Students will learn to draw correlations between diverse ideas and philosophies and their own beliefs and values. Specifically, the TOK course identifies eight ways of knowing (WOKs.) They are language, sense perception, emotion, reason, imagination, faith, intuition, and memory. Student will explore a range of ways of knowing and will study four of these eight in depth. The WOKs have two roles in TOK: (1) they underlie the methodology of the areas of knowledge and (2) they provide a basis for personal knowledge. |
| State Course Code(s): |
| | 9228 - Non-Core Academic Elective |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: |
| | The AVID High School Libraries and site selected IB materials. |