Senior and Post-Graduate Guidelines

English

Rank preferentially your top 6 choices from among eleven senior English options. If you wish to take two English courses, please so indicate on your Course Request Sheet.

Math

At this point you do not sign up for a mathematics course. Based on information in your admission folder, the Mathematics Department will send you a placement test in the near future. They will decide your placement based on the results of both the placement test and your previous performance in math.

Science

Virtually the entire Science curriculum is available to you. Where necessary, the chair of the Science Department will review your record to determine the appropriate level.

Language

Indicate the language, if any, you intend to study at Deerfield. If you have not studied this language previously, you will be enrolled in level 1. If you have already taken at least a full year of this language, teachers in the Language Department will review your record and determine your placement. For students interested in taking Arabic, Chinese, and Latin, the decision is based on your transcript. Placement for French and Spanish is determined by the results of an online placement test.

History

Five courses are available: Honors Economics; Honors European History; Modern Times; Ordinary People/Extraordinary Times; and AP Art History. Be sure to include an alternate (which does not have to be a history course).

Visual and Performing Arts

The entire Arts curriculum, including five AP courses and other term-long, two-term, and year-long courses, is available to you. Two-term courses can be complemented either by a spring-term elective (for which the catalog is distributed, and sign-ups are gathered, in January) or by one-term courses published in the Course Catalog. Some Visual and Performing Arts courses–Chorus, Bands: Wind/Rock/Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Music/Orchestra, and Dance–can be taken either as a fifth graded course, or as a sixth course pass-fail.

Philosophy/Religion

Two, two-term courses–Political Philosophy and Religions of the World--and one, one-term course–Eastern Philosophy–are available. Two-term courses can be complemented either by a spring-term elective (for which the catalog is distributed, and sign-ups are gathered, in January) or by one-term courses published in the Course Catalog.

Computer Science

AP Computer Science will be offered pending sufficient enrollments.

General Advice

1. One-year seniors and post-graduates have only one Deerfield diploma requirement: THEY MUST TAKE A FULL YEAR OF ENGLISH.
2. Remember to sign up for exactly five credit courses each term. (You may choose a 6th pass-fail performing arts course.)
3. Many senior courses run for two terms and finish at the end of the winter. In January a spring elective catalog will come out. You will stay in your year-long courses and sign up for spring term electives to fill the slots vacated by two-term courses.
4. Be sure to choose alternates for Science, History, Visual and Performing Arts, and Philosophy/Religion courses. (Note: Alternate choices do not have to be in the same discipline). PLEASE DO NOT USE A FIRST CHOICE AS AN ALTERNATE