The IB Diploma Program occurs during the junior and senior year of high school. Walden’s 9th and 10th grade classes aim to prepare all students for participation in IB classes during their junior and senior year. Students may choose any level of participation in IB, ranging from a single class to the full diploma program. All students, regardless of their participation in IB, are required to complete a CAS project, an integral part of the IBDP core, in order to graduate from high school.

 

Diploma Program

Students take classes in six subject groups over two years

1. Studies in language and literature

2. Language acquisition

3. Individuals and societies

4. Sciences

5. Mathematics

6. The arts

 

The classes that Walden offers are as follows:

1. English A Language and Literature HL

2. Ab initio Spanish SL

3. History of the Americas HL (Junior Year) and 20th Century Issues HL (Senior Year)

4. Environmental Systems and Societies SL or Physics HL

5. Mathematics SL/HL

6. Visual Art HL or Film HL

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In addition to these six classes, IBDP students must also complete the IBDP core

• Theory of Knowledge (TOK): An additional 2 semester class taken during second semester of junior year and first semester of senior year.

• Extended Essay (EE): A 4000-word paper written in students’ own time.

• Creativity, Action, Service (CAS): A project done outside of school over an 18 month period

 

All of Walden’s IB classes are open to all junior and senior students, regardless of their enrollment in the IBDP.