Senior Opportunities
INTER-D - 1 YEAR
The Interdisciplinary Course Great Ideas is a team-taught, interdisciplinary course on the ideas that have exerted a major impact on the culture and thought of western civilization: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Christianity, Galileo, Lucretius, Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Darwin, Freud, and Einstein. Sections meet three times a week and students attend one double period lecture at the end of the week. With deliberate overlap with ongoing term courses in art, music, and religion, units of instruction are designed by individual teachers and usually involve reading from original sources plus related literature.
ELECTIVE - 1 YEAR
In 2008, the faculty proposed a Senior Elective program which would give students an opportunity to school options that interested them. This year these courses include History of Western Philosophy, Instructor: Levan Gigineishvili; Creativity: Learn, Challenge, (Re)invent, Instructor: Ketevan Chikovani; Sound Engineering, Instructor: Lika Asatiani; Introduction of Pedagogy - Joy of Teaching, Instructors: Ketevan Topadze, Gvantsa Zhuruli; Mathematics in Business and Economics, Instructor: Goderdzi Pruidze; Philosophy and Freedom, Instructor: Levan Gambashidze.
SENIOR PROJECT
In order to graduate, seniors are required to complete a Senior Project, a student-selected exploration of a topic which culminates in a research paper, project, and a presentation, which assess their skills of research, writing, reasoning, problem solving, communication, and etc. Every senior is assigned an adviser who offers his/her guidance and topic related expertise. Students receive a timeline to complete the project and present to the audience consisting of the school faculty and invited guests. During the presentation, the audience ask question and students need to defend their project.
Failure of a student in Senior Project may jeopardize participation in the graduation ceremony
