High School Program

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REGISTRATION

Welcome to our High School Program!
Registration for Fall 2026 will open soon and students at participating High Schools will receive the registration information from their Instructors.

Questions? Contact Lorraine Derwin in Admissions at 845-398-4149 or lderwin@stac.edu. Thank you for participating in our high school program!

The following is a list of all schools participating in the St. Thomas Aquinas College High School Program. Please select a school from the list to see available course offerings.

Instructors, please use this link to log into Banner to check your rosters and input your grades.

Writing 101: Academic Writing
Emphasizes the development of critical and analytical skills and the ability to write clear and effective college-level essays.

Writing 102: Academic Writing II
Emphasizes the forms of writing required of students during their college careers and in their professional lives, with an emphasis on research skills. Prerequisite: Writing 101.

MATH 185: Statistics

BIO 140 Marine Biology
Characteristics and natural history of major groups of marine organisms, factors that affect life in the ocean including nutrient and light levels, ecology of selected marine ecosystems.

ED 213: Issues in Education

PSYC 103: General Psychology

BUSA 207: Personal Financial Management 
This course provides an overview of the consumer and his/her need for informed personal financial decisions & judgments. Topics include: money management and planning, budgeting, tax planning credit and borrowing, saving and investment, housing, taxes, and retirement and estate planning. Recommended for non-business majors.

POLS 201: Political Science

BUSA 205: Business Law I 
An introduction to the American legal system, with emphasis on the law of contracts, agency and real property. The Uniform Commercial Code. Specific study of areas of particular importance to business, including contracts, torts, constitutional law, ethics, agency and other aspects of the law related to business. This course is intended to serve as a basis for your understanding of the legal system and legal processes as well as legal reasoning. Recommended as an elective for non-business majors.

BUSA 207 Personal Financial Management
This course provides an overview of the consumer and his/her need for informed personal financial decisions & judgments. Topics include: money management and planning, budgeting, tax planning credit and borrowing, saving and investment, housing, taxes, and retirement and estate planning. Recommended for non-business majors.

MGT 121: Management & Organization
A study of current management theory and practice. An introduction to the management functions of planning, decision-making, organizing, leadership and controlling. An understanding of the basic tasks of a manager in establishing the work environment, setting strategy, allocating resources in all types, sizes and levels of organization. The course will provide students with an understanding of the changing environment of managers and management practice in a dynamic global environment.

MKT 102: Principles of Marketing
This course provides a decision‑oriented overview of marketing management in modern organizations. We will study the process of creating and distributing goods and services, in response to consumer wants and needs. Forecasting, target markets, consumer behavior, product mix, pricing, channels of distribution, selling, and market control will be focused on. The total marketing function will be reviewed including internal and external influencers and how they affect the achievement of organizational goals.

BUS 101: Intro to Business Administration

FS 101: Intro to Forensic Science

CJ 101: Intro to Criminal Justice

BIO 104: Marine Biology

CA 221: TV Studio Production

CA 115: Intro to Acting & Stage Direction

KIN 101: Intro to Exercise Science

KIN 110: Personal Wellness

MGT 210: Entrepreneurship: Managing the Small Business (Full Year)
The fundamental approaches and techniques necessary to successful small business ownership. Sound principles of planning, structuring, financing, and promoting the small firm. Management controls and sound management practices. A study of the theory and practice of entrepreneurship including entrepreneurial opportunities, developing the business plan, small business marketing, managing small business operations, and financial management.

ASTR 101: Modern Mysteries of Astronomy 

MKT 102: Principles of Marketing

POLS 205: Introduction to Public Policy

ENG 207: Introduction to Mythology

ENG 209: Introduction to Creative Writing

ASTR 101: Modern Mysteries of Astronomy 

BUS 205: Business Law I

BUS 206: Business Law II

ACCT 101: Principles of Accounting

BUS 101: Intro to Business Administration

CJ 101: Introduction to Criminal Justice

FS 101: Intro to Forensic Science

ITAL 211: Communication in Italian

SPAN 202: Conversational Spanish

HIS 101: History of United States
HIS 102: History of United States II

PSYC 103: General Psychology

MATH 109: Applied Calculus

MATH 120: Statistics

WRT 101: Academic Writing I

BIO 171: General Biology I

BIO 173: Biology Lab

POLS 201: Contemporary American Politics

PHYS 201: Physics

PHYS 211: Physics Lab

MATH 201: Calculus and  Analytic Geometry I

MATH 202: Calculus and Analytic Geometry II

BUSA 205: Business Law I

MATH 155: Pre-Calculus

MATH 195: Applied Calculus

CJ 101: Intro to Criminal Justice

CJ 200: Special Problems

BUSA 101: Intro to Business Administration
Business functions, the aspects of management, organization, production, labor, accounting, data processing, marketing, finance and ethics. Recommended as an elective for non-business majors.

BUSA 207: Personal Financial Management
This course provides an overview of the consumer and his/her need for informed personal financial decisions & judgments. Topics include: money management and planning, budgeting, tax planning credit and borrowing, saving and investment, housing, taxes, and retirement and estate planning. Recommended for non-business majors.

MATH 101: College Algebra
Exponents and radicals, quadratic equations, logarithms, and graphing.

MGT 121: Management and Organization 

MKT 102: Principles of Marketing 
This course provides a decision-oriented overview of marketing management in modern organizations. We will study the process of creating and distributing goods and services, in response to consumer wants and needs. Forecasting, target markets, consumer behavior, product mix, pricing, channels of distribution, selling, and market control will be focused on. The total marketing function will be reviewed including internal and external influencers and how they affect the achievement of organizational goals.

SCI 100: Science Research in the High School I

SCI 200: Science Research in the High School II

MGT 210: Entrepreneurship

WRT 101: Creative Writing

SCI 102: Chemistry in Our World

Psych 103: General Psychology

CA 102: Intro to Production

ACCT 101: Principles of Accounting I

BIO 101: Human Biology

MKTG 102: Principles of Marketing 

BIO 140: Marine Biology

POLS 201: Contemporary American Politics

HIS 101A: History of the United States I

PHY 101: General Physics I 

PHY 211: General Physics I Lab

ECON 103: Principles of Macroeconomics

ART 240: Visual Literacy and the Digital Image

BUS 205: Business Law I

WRI 101: Academic Writing I

SOC 101: Sociology

BIO 130: Environmental Biology

BIO 150: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology I

ENG 209: Creative Writing

CA 210: Introduction to Journalism

PSYC 103: Psychology

BIO 150: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology I

BIO 151: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology II

BIO 251: Anatomy & Physiology I

BIO 252: Anatomy & Physiology II

BIO 150: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology I

ACCT 102: Principles of Accounting II

PSYC 103: General Psychology

BUSA 207: Personal Finance

ECON 103: Macroeconomics

SOC 101: Intro to Sociology

ACCT 101: Principles of Accounting I

ART 101: Intro to Art

BIO 150: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology I

BUSA 205: Business Law I (Full Year)
An introduction to the American legal system, with emphasis on the law of contracts, agency and real property. The Uniform Commercial Code. Specific study of areas of particular importance to business, including contracts, torts, constitutional law, ethics, agency and other aspects of the law related to business. This course is intended to serve as a basis for your understanding of the legal system and legal processes as well as legal reasoning. Recommended as an elective for non-business majors.

BUSA 207: Personal Financial Management (Full Year)
This course provides an overview of the consumer and his/her need for informed personal financial decisions & judgments. Topics include: money management and planning, budgeting, tax planning credit and borrowing, saving and investment, housing, taxes, and retirement and estate planning. Recommended for non-business majors.

KIN 110: Fundamentals of Personal Wellness

Film 217: History

BUSA 101: Introduction to Business Management

BUSA 205: Business Law I
An introduction to the American legal system, with emphasis on the law of contracts, agency and real property. The Uniform Commercial Code. Specific study of areas of particular importance to business, including contracts, torts, constitutional law, ethics, agency and other aspects of the law related to business. This course is intended to serve as a basis for your understanding of the legal system and legal processes as well as legal reasoning. Recommended as an elective for non-business majors.

MGT 121: Management & Organization

MGT 210: Entrepreneurship

English 208: The Craft of Writing

English 205: Writing about World Literature

CS 150: Computer Science I

Bio 130: Environmental Science

WRI 101: Academic Writing I

GEOL 101: Intro to Geology

PHIL 101: Intro to Philosophy

POLS 201: Contemporary American Politics

BIO 130: Environmental Biology

CS 211: Software Topics

ECON 103: Principles of Macroeconomics

ENG 102: Intermediate Composition

MATH 101: College Algebra

BIO 140: Marine Biology

BIO 150: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology I

ACCT 101: Principles of Accounting I (Full Year)
The fundamentals of accounting theory and practice, the accounting cycle and periodic reporting, analysis of transactions for receivables, merchandise inventory, plant assets and intangible assets.

BUSA 101: Intro to Business Administration
Business functions, the aspects of management, organization, production, labor, accounting, data processing, marketing, finance and ethics. Recommended as an elective for non-business majors.

BUSA 205: Business Law I
An introduction to the American legal system, with emphasis on the law of contracts, agency and real property. The Uniform Commercial Code. Specific study of areas of particular importance to business, including contracts, torts, constitutional law, ethics, agency and other aspects of the law related to business. This course is intended to serve as a basis for your understanding of the legal system and legal processes as well as legal reasoning. Recommended as an elective for non-business majors.

BUSA 207: Personal Financial Management
This course provides an overview of the consumer and his/her need for informed personal financial decisions & judgments. Topics include: money management and planning, budgeting, tax planning credit and borrowing, saving and investment, housing, taxes, and retirement and estate planning. Recommended for non-business majors.

MKT 102: Principles of Marketing
This course provides a decision‑oriented overview of marketing management in modern organizations. We will study the process of creating and distributing goods and services, in response to consumer wants and needs. Forecasting, target markets, consumer behavior, product mix, pricing, channels of distribution, selling, and market control will be focused on. The total marketing function will be reviewed including internal and external influencers and how they affect the achievement of organizational goals.

CS 101: Introduction to Computational Thinking
The primary goals of this course are to introduce the building blocks of Computer Science, the fundamentals of computers, and to present the idea of computational thinking. Topics include an overview of the discipline of Computer Science, computer hardware, models of computation, and the process of algorithm design. Robot and C++ programming projects are used to explore the topics discussed in the class.

CJ 101: Introduction to Criminal Justice
The interrelated criminal justice components: police, courts, corrections, history, definitions, and important issues and concepts.

WRI 101: Academic Writing I

RELG 101: Intro to Religion

CJ 101: Criminal Justice

PSYCH 103: General Psychology

KIN 110: Personal Wellness

MATH 101: College Algebra

WRI 102: Academic Writing II

RELG 102: Religion and Society

CJ 103 Intro to Courts

BIO 102: Nutritional Biology

ECON 103: Principles of Macroeconomics

HIST 101: History of the United States I

POLS 201: Contemporary American Politics

BUSA 207: Personal Finance

ENG 209: Introduction to Creative Writing

HIST 102: History of the United States II

MATH 101: College Algebra

MATH 101: College Algebra II

MATH 201: Calculus with Analytic Geometry

MATH 120: Statistics

MATH 155: Pre-Calculus 

MATH 185

CS 201: Python for Data Science

BIO 171: Biology

BIO 173: Biology Lab

BIO 150: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology I