Below are the current PSU Syllabi for the courses offered through the Challenge Program. For teacher specific syllabi please email cplink@pdx.edu. All courses are 100-200 catalog-listed general requirements that earn four credits (except for The Global City, which earns 5 credits) and exceed regular high school curriculum. Syllabi from various PSU classes serve as a guide for our high school instructors.
Because PSU is on the quarter system and high schools are generally on the semester system, course length will depend both on the school's needs and what the Department feels best serves students. Regardless of how long the course is, registration always occurs at the start of the course. Typically 2-sequenced courses map to high school semesters (registering for PSU fall and winter quarters); 3-sequenced courses follow the PSU quarter registration (registering for PSU fall, winter, spring) and some courses map to the entire academic year (registering for PSU fall quarter).
COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Intro to Programming and Problem Solving
- Intro to Computer Science
- CS 162 Syllabus (syllabus forthcoming)
- Data Structures
- CS 163 Syllabus (syllabus forthcoming)
ENGLISH
- Survey of English Literature
- Survey of American Literature
- College Writing
- Writing Research Papers
- Media Writing
HISTORY
- History of Western Civilization
- World History
- HST 104 Syllabus
- HST 105 syllabus (currently unavailable)
- HST 106 syllabus (currently unavailable)
- History of the United States
MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
- Intro to Probability and Statistics
- Calculus I and II
WORLD LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
- 2nd Year College Spanish
- 2nd Year College French
- 2nd Year College Chinese