Health Seminar II

Health Seminar II is a tenth grade course seeking to support ongoing student awareness of issues related to mental health, healthy relationships, and addiction. Building

Architecture of Deerfield

Would you like to know more about the place where you’re going to school? Old Deerfield, including buildings part of Deerfield Academy, Historic Deerfield, and

Film and Video 2

This course offers an opportunity for students to pursue more ambitious projects in videography. The class will expand upon the study of current films and

Intro to Architecture

Haven’t you always wanted to be an architect? This course introduces students to major movements and themes in architecture, significant architects and buildings throughout history,

Understanding the Holocaust

The Nazi regime relied on long-standing strains of anti-Semitism as well as newer racial ideologies to gather support for their purposeful and highly systematic attempt

Boarding School Books

This course will present opportunities for students to explore, interrogate, and reflect upon the experience of elite, residential learning. In the course of reading fiction

Literature of Passing

Sarah Resnick in The New Yorker frames the idea of racial passing in an article on Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half: “From the antebellum

Ethics of Artificial Intel.

Self-Driving Cars, the Metaverse, Siri and Alexa… Roombas! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seemingly all around us. But what is AI? How does it work now,

Enquete culturelle

Students in this single-term elective will explore a specific topic of French and Francophone culture. Centered around a case-study of a specific literary, cinematic, musical,

History of Opium

Heroin, “Oxy,” fentanyl, carfentanil. These drug names, along with names of pharmaceutical companies set to pay billions in fines and civil liability, punctuate news stories

Health Seminar I

Health Seminar I is a ninth grade course aimed to introduce students to the basics of mental physical health, healthy relationships, and substance use. Students

Mechanical Engineering

In this course, students will study, design, and build mechanical moving systems. The course is organized around increasingly complex hands-on challenges starting with basic Newtonian