Every year, Moeller aims to provide the best possible education for its students. With that comes constant change and innovation to both improve on the current curriculum to match our ever-changing world and add new classes. For the 2024-2025 school year, a number of new classes will be available to students.

With the completion of the new innovation hub, there will be a multitude of new opportunities especially in the business media and technology fields.

A list of the new classes and a brief description from the Moeller Curriculum guide are provided below:

Negotiations and Advanced Rhetoric Honors (10,11,12; semester course) Prerequisite: Oral Communications
- Students will learn how to conduct successful negotiations and foster professional relationships in a variety of contexts, from business and law to local government and international diplomacy.
Offbeat American Literature (12; semester course)
- Students read and respond to an eclectic collection of lesser taught but notable pieces of American literature. These will include novels, short stories, plays, and poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Design + Build Lab I (11,12; semester course) Prerequisite: Design Thinking
- Leveraging industry-standard CAD software, students will DESIGN then BUILD 3D models, bringing their ideas to life. The course goes beyond virtual realms as students craft physical prototypes.
AP Physics C (12) Prerequisite: AP Physics 1 Corequisite: AP Calculus AB, BC or Multivariable Calculus AP
- Physics C is a calculus-based, college-level physics course, especially appropriate for students planning to specialize or major in one of the physical sciences or engineering.
Intro to 3D Art, Design and Sculpture CP1 (10,11,12; semester course)
- This course is a beginning-level ceramics course. Guest speakers, slides and videos are used to create a further understanding of how artisans create with clay.
Art & Pop Culture: Design/Branding in the 21st Century CP1 (10,11,12; semester)
- Students will learn about how design and branding decisions affect movies, television, and games, ranging from set design and cinematography to level design and narrative. Students will also explore how branding and marketing play a part in the production and sales of these products.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship CP1 (10,11,12; semester course)
- Students will explore the skills and resources needed to launch a new business or product – or become more purposeful and successful in an existing small business ultimately developing a business plan and presenting an investor pitch.
Investment Research Honors (11,12; semester course) Prerequisite: 90%+ in Financial Literacy + teacher recommendation; Honors Math or 90%+ in CP1 Math
- Students will be introduced to security analysis, the evaluation and assessment of stocks to determine their investment potential, including the examination of financial data in online public sources such as the income statement, balance sheet, SEC 10K and 10Q reports, earnings releases, etc.
Portfolio Management Honors (11,12; semester course) Prerequisite: Investment Research + teacher recommendation
- Students will act as portfolio managers of the largest high school student-run endowment in the country, designed to generate growth that will support financial aid for future Moeller students. Students will focus on sectors and utilize Morningstar Direct 10 Software to research and create compelling stock/fund buy-hold-sell recommendations and followed by formal pitches to an advisory panel of industry experts.
Human-Computer Interaction (10. 11, 12; semester course) Recommended prerequisite: Design Thinking or Fundamentals of IT
- Students will design and develop a software prototype, identify needs, analyze tasks, and develop profiles of users, practice user-centered design development, and communicate effectively.
Introduction to Moeller Media Production CP1 (10,11,12; semester course) Recommended prerequisite: Oral Communication, and Design Thinking
- Students will be introduced to the core elements of multi-media creation: Research, scriptwriting, and interviewing Television production fundamentals, such as videography, camera operation, gripping, stage management, lighting, audio, Digital editing technology and practice, including digital images, audio and sound, and video.
Advanced Media Production CP 1 (11,12; semester course) Prerequisites: Interview process (including faculty recommendation)
- This class will include producing a regular news program and production of various live events/sports, seasonal recap videos, as well as training small groups to produce different events for online streaming. Through this process they will learn interviewing and investigative skills, along with expanding their production skills, which are necessary to film, edit, and broadcast a consistently high-quality production.

Reach out to your counselor if you are interested in any of the new course offerings.

New Classes for the 2024-2025 School Year