Classification of IB courses

IBDP consists of six subjects: language, foreign languages, personal and social science, experimental science, mathematics, arts as optional courses. The students should choose courses from these six subjects to study, and among the courses they choose, there should be at least THREE and at most FOUR HL. The classification of IB courses is as follows:

The first group: Language A1 and world literature as optional courses;

The second group:
1> Language ab initio, standard language lessons starting from ground zero;
2> Language B is designed for the students who has preliminary learning experiences of one certain language. The courses consist of SL and HL;
3> Language A2 is designed for the students who has high-level ability of the chosen language. The courses consist of SL and HL;

The third group: Personal and Social Science, including Enterprise Management, Economics, Geography, History, Information Technology in Global Society, Islamic History, philosophy, Mental Philosophy, Social and Cultural Anthropology. All these courses consist of SL and HL;

The fourth group: Experimental Science， including Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Design, Environmental System. Among them, the Environmental System only has SL, and the other four courses have both SL and HL;

The fifth group: Mathematics (High Grade Math, Advanced Mathematics SL, Mathematical Study, Mathematical Method) and Computer Science. Choose anyone from the courses just mentioned;

The sixth group: Arts, including Film, Music, Opera, Visual Arts. These four courses consist of SL and HL. And these four courses are optional, not compulsory.

Among the six groups of courses above, the first group to the fourth group courses are compulsory. As for the fifth group, you can choose any one course from Mathematics and Information Computer Science. And the four courses of the sixth group are optional.

Meantime, all the students who attend the IBDP should take part in these three activities: EE (Extend Essay), TOK (Theory of Knowledge) and the CAS (Creativity, Action and Service).

EE: A research paper of about 4,000 words should be completed by the students independently to provide practical preparation for their researches in undergraduate stage. And this will provide the students with further learning opportunities in one specific field that the students are interested in.

TOK: TOK is the core of the education thought of IBDP. It provides the students and the teachers with different recognition methods and knowledge fields of critical introspection.

CAS: CAS is the basic part of the IBDP, which pays attention to the external world except for the scholarism.