Advanced Placement Program

Westmount High School is the first and only public school in Quebec to offer the Advanced Placement Program. Take the challenge here!

What is the program?

The Advanced Placement Program is a cooperative educational endeavor between secondary schools and colleges and universities.

What does it offer?

The Program has provided motivated high school students with the opportunity to take college-level courses in a high school setting. Students who participate in the Program not only gain college-level skills, but in many cases they also earn college credit while they are still in high school. AP courses are taught by dedicated and enthusiastic high school teachers who follow course guidelines developed and published by the College Board.

For more information: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com

AP Psychology

The AP Psychology course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. They also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice.

AP English

When students read, they should be aware of how stylistic effects are achieved by writers’ linguistic choices. Since imaginative literature often highlights such stylistic decisions, fiction and poetry clearly can have a place in the AP English course. The main purpose of including such literature is to aid students in understanding rhetorical and linguistic choices, rather than to study literary conventions.

AP French

Students learn the use of language for an active communication and develop the ability to understand French in various contexts; newspaper, magazines, and literary texts. Students will be able to express themselves coherently, resourcefully, and with fluency in both written and spoken French.

AP Studio Art

AP Studio Art is for highly creative students who are interested in the study of art. Students will gain a practical experience to making art as an ongoing process that involves informed and critical decision making, develop technical skills, and be familiar with the functions of visual elements.

AP Calculus

A P Calculus is a challenging course that emphasizes both the concepts of calculus and its applicable methods; using an approach that is graphical, numerical, and algebraic. The students are provided with the resources and technology to explore the cohesively related topics of limits, derivatives, integrals, approximation, and applications.