A Spotlight on New Classes at CRLS

For students interested in exploring new ways of thinking about art, science, and the meanings of their lives, Becoming Da Vinci: The Integration of Arts and Science, a class taught and created by Mr. SebellShavit, combines all three. For students interested in exploring new ways of thinking about art, science, and the meanings of their lives, Becoming Da Vinci: The Integration of Arts and Science...

For students who are interested in conspiracies theories, a new class at CRLS will likely catch their eye. The English elective Conspiracy Theories in Literature is being taught for the first time by Ms. Trayer, who also teaches English 11 and has taught Gender Theory for the past three years. A conspiracy theory is an alternative explanation of a typically famous event that results when people notice...

After a long hiatus, the science elective, Zoology, is back at CRLS. Taught by introductory and AP Biology teacher Ms. Borrelli, Zoology is centered around the study of the animal kingdom. This school year, the class is offered one block during second semester to CRLS juniors and seniors who have taken physics, chemistry, and have or are taking biology. Ms. Borrelli explains the difference between...

Through the Looking Glass: An Introduction to the Social Sciences is a new history elective this year. The course focuses on “combining history, philosophy, sociology, economics, anthropology, and civics in a broad-spectrum introduction to the social sciences,” according to the CRLS Course Catalog. “This is a non-traditional class. So it is not packets and videos and lectures. It is all about e...