Dual Enrollment

Through a series of partnerships with higher education institutions, students at Fordham High School for the Arts are provided opportunities to enroll in college coursework while simultaneously earning high school credit. Called dual-enrollment, students at Arts are challenged to expand their horizons, engage in innovative and challenging coursework that ultimately increases college and career readiness. These partnerships support the ongoing development of rigorous curriculum that is present at FHSA, and support teachers in their personal and professional growth and development to design their classrooms to prepare students for their transition to postsecondary success. Dual enrollment partnerships include Syracuse University Project Advance, University of Pennsylvania’s Grit Lab, and others.

WRT 105 Studio I: Practices of Academic Writing

Each section of WRT 105 is a community of writers who meet together with the specific purpose of developing as critical readers, writers, and thinkers. Students learn strategies of critical academic writing in various genres, including analysis, argument, and researched writing. Students learn to develop ideas through the choices they make as writers—from invention to making and supporting claims to sentence level editing to designing finished print and digital texts. The course is organized into three units, in which students engage in various activities that culminate in a formal paper for each unit and a writing portfolio.

Open to qualified high school seniors only. Part of a linked course with ENG 181.

ENG 181: Class and Literary Texts

Class & Literary Texts is a regularly-offered 3-credit course on the Syracuse University campus. ENG 181 explores the construction and representation of social class, especially as it affects the production and reception of literary and other cultural texts. Concepts such as social stratification, inequality, and the relationship between wealth, privilege and power provide critical lenses through which to read texts. There are two kinds of writing assignments in this class: shorter, prompt-driven reading responses and four major writing assignments.

Open to qualified high school seniors only. Part of a linked course with WRT 105.