AP Seminar is a foundational course that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives. Using an inquiry framework, students practice reading and analyzing articles, research studies, and foundational, literary, and philosophical texts; listening to and viewing speeches, broadcasts, and personal accounts; and experiencing artistic works and performances. Students learn to synthesize information from multiple sources, develop their own perspectives in written essays, and design and deliver oral and visual presentations, both individually and as part of a team. Ultimately, the course aims to equip students with the power to analyze and evaluate information with accuracy and precision in order to craft and communicate evidence-based arguments.

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Through this inquiry-based, interdisciplinary course, students will develop skills that allow them to effectively question, explore, understand, analyze, examine, synthesize, team, transmit, and transform. As a traveling school, we have the privilege of immersing ourselves in a variety of contexts, cultures, views, and traditions that allow students to develop all of the above skills through very authentic experiences. Thus, the concept of a tourist becoming a traveler is the focal theme of this course. The aim is to go beyond the surface encounter with the local culture, environment, context and explore and examine particular issues or problems, in both local and global context, through a myriad of perspectives and lenses.

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The course will be build upon the core teacher-designed modules in each country and extend on the topics, issues, problems, resources by focusing on the themes of culture, diversity, education, identity, innovation, representation, and traditions through cultural and social, political and historical, environmental, and ethical lenses.

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Resources will range from teacher to student created research offering a multitude of primary and secondary sources (articles, speeches, art, opinion pieces, etc.).