Course Catalog


Holston Academy offers 300+ online courses, including: Middle School, college prep, Honors, Advanced Placement®, electives, world languages, and Specialty Partner courses.

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American Sign Language (ASL) 6+ (Live)

Course Overview: In the American Sign Language 6+ live online course, students will be able to build on the technical skills learned in previous courses, advance their usage of ASL when communicating with Deaf people, incorporate more vocabulary and grammar, understand the deaf culture and deaf community, and be exposed to the works of Deaf/ASL […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • Middle School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Language Arts 11 Honors

Course Overview: The Language Arts 11 Honors online course is an American Literature course, with units organized chronologically according to periods in literary history. As students read foundational works of literature and other historical documents written between 1600 and 1900, they’ll review and extend skills in five domains: analyzing literature, analyzing informational text, writing, speaking […]

  • Subject:
  • English
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • Honors
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Calculus

Course Overview: This Calculus online course is designed with the intent for students to incorporate the concepts of all previous math courses and expand upon these concepts with the implementation of limits. Emphasis is placed upon the multi-representational approach to calculus where problems and their solutions are explored and interpreted graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. […]

  • Subject:
  • Mathematics
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

AP® Microeconomics

Course Overview: In this online AP® Microeconomics, students will learn why the same product costs different amounts at different stores, in different cities, at different times. They’ll also learn to spot patterns in economic behavior and how to use those patterns to explain buyer and seller behavior under various conditions. Microeconomics studies the economic way […]

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  • Course Type:
  • Advanced Placement® Courses
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • Semester Course
  • University of California a-g courses

AP® Seminar (English 10 or Elective)

Course Overview: AP® Seminar is a year-long foundational online course that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing multiple perspectives. Using an inquiry framework, students practice reading and analyzing articles, research studies, and foundational and literary texts. Students learn to synthesize information from multiple […]

  • Subject:
  • Electives
  • English
  • Course Type:
  • Advanced Placement® Courses
  • High School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 6+ (Live)

Course Overview: In the Mandarin 6+ live online course, students aim to develop their critical thinking, learn how to offer different viewpoints on a variety of topics and arguments to back up their positions, and analyze and write about complex text. Students will use complex texts, videos, songs, articles, plays, movies, podcasts, TV shows, and […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • Middle School Courses
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 6 (Live)

Course Overview: This Mandarin 6 live online course is designed for students to continue to build on and strengthen their knowledge of and ability to express themselves in Mandarin using polysyllabic words and traditional idioms. Students will examine authentic language materials, including novels (modern fiction), newsletters, websites, documentaries, TV shows, and movies; write multi-paragraph texts; […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 5 (Live)

Course Overview: This Mandarin 5 live online course is designed to help students understand language materials that are rich in subject matter and involve various aspects of work, study, and social life. Students will be able to communicate effectively and accurately with others on specific or abstract topics in various contexts and discuss or participate […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 4 (Live)

Course Overview: This Mandarin 4 live online course is designed to help students continue to enlarge their Mandarin vocabulary to about 1,200 words, build their Mandarin grammar structures, understand Mandarin texts with a variety of topics and themes, and have decent knowledge of some Chinese culture and history.  After this course, students should be able […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 3 (Live)

Course Overview: This Mandarin 3 live online course is designed to help students continue to enlarge their Mandarin vocabulary to about 600 words, and to be familiar with Mandarin sentence structure, use of tenses, and some Chinese culture. After this course, students should be able to communicate confidently in familiar topics and handle everyday social […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 2 (Live)

Course Overview: This Mandarin 2 live online course is designed to help students continue building their Mandarin vocabulary, and be familiar with Mandarin tones, characters, and simple sentence structure. After this course, students should be able to use simple sentences to communicate familiar topics and accomplish short social interactions. Students will learn from simple videos, […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course

Mandarin 1 (Live)

Course Overview: This Mandarin 1 live online course is an introductory course aimed at students with no previous knowledge of the language. The goal of this course is for students to become familiar with Mandarin sounds, tones, pinyin, and Chinese characters. Upon completing this course, students should be able to use basic vocabulary or sentences […]

  • Subject:
  • Languages
  • Course Type:
  • High School Courses
  • LanguageBird
  • NCAA Core Courses
  • University of California a-g courses
  • Yearlong Course
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