Course Areas

Insight Colearning Center has six major areas of study: Cultural Studies, Health, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Studies, and Second Language.


 

CULTURAL STUDIES encompasses the study of various cultures’ material productions in the form of a variety of media. This includes but is not limited to

  • cultural media (texts, visual arts, music, film, etc.)

  • philosophy

  • psychology

NATURAL SCIENCES encompass diverse attempts to understand nature using a variety of scientific methods. At Insight, Natural Sciences includes

  • the standard scientific disciplines: 

    • Biology 

    • Chemistry

    • Physics

  • Applied, interdisciplinary courses, such as

    • Plant Science

    • Environmental Chemistry

  • Lab science

SECOND/ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE acquisition is an essential part of a robust education. Students are expected to at least begin the process of learning a language that is new to them. Insight currently offers

  • Spanish 

  • American Sign Language

 

HEALTH is both the study and practice of human thriving. Health education at Insight includes

  • sexual wellness

  • public health and social justice

  • outdoor adventure education

  • lifetime wellness and physical activity

SOCIAL STUDIES at Insight are the studies of human social structures. Courses in this area include traditional “humanities” and/or “social sciences” approaches and cover 

  • history 

  • the contemporary world and its structures (political, religious, economic, etc.) 

  • human social structures as they vary geographically and over time

MATHEMATICS is the study of number, structure, shape and change. At Insight, Mathematics includes the study of 

  • procedures used to solve math problems 

  • cultivation of a student’s capacity to think with numbers and quantities

  • creative approaches to quantitative problems

  • understanding logic and formal proofs

  • Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, and Statistics