Subjects offered at Lillestrøm:
Group 1 – Studies in language and literature:
- Norwegian A Literature, HL/SL
- English A Language and Literature HL/SL
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Group 2 – Language acquisition
- Norwegian B HL
- English B HL
- German B SL
- French B SL
- Spanish B SL
Group 3 – Individuals and society
- History HL/SL
- Economics HL/SL
Group 4 – Sciences
- Biology SL
- Chemistry HL/SL
- Physics HL/SL
Group 5 – Mathematics
- Mathematics AA (Analysis and approaches) HL/SL
- Mathematics AI (Applications and interpretations) SL
Description of the different subjects:
Group 2
Norwegian B
- Norwegian B Higher Level is a language course for students who already know basic Norwegian.
- The main focus of the course is on language acquisition and cultural understanding. While acquiring the language, students will explore the Norwegian culture. Students are also required to study two literary works. Students will develop advanced Norwegian communicational and interactive skills as well as strengthen their academic Norwegian reading and writing skills. Our aim is that this language course will prepare them for future university studies using Norwegian.
English B
- English B Higher Level course strongly emphasises the importance of intercultural awareness and understanding, and the need to create cultural prototypes rather than accentuate cultural stereotypes. Students will develop advanced English communicational and interactive skills as well as strengthen their academic English reading and writing skills.
- The main focus of the course is on language acquisition and intercultural understanding. While acquiring the language, students will explore the culture(s) connected to it. Students are also required to study two literary works at higher level. Students will develop advanced reading and writing skills that they may apply in other subjects and their future university studies.
French B, Spanish B, German B
- Language acquisition consists of a modern language course offered in French, German, and Spanish. Language B is a language acquisition course designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where the language studied is spoken.
- Language B is a language acquisition course designed for students with some previous experience of the target language. In the language B course, students further develop their ability to communicate in the target language through the study of language, themes, and texts. In doing so, they also develop conceptual understandings of how language works, as appropriate to the level of the course.
- There are five prescribed themes in the language B SL syllabuses;
• identities • experiences • human ingenuity • social organization • sharing the planet.
- The students of Language B SL will be in the same classroom as students from the Norwegian System which also study the target language (level II)
Group 3
Economics:
The world’s population has unlimited needs and wants, but there are limited resources to satisfy these needs and wants. The scope of this course is to find the best use of scarce and limited resources at the market level, the national level, and the international level:
- at the level of producers and consumers in individual markets (microeconomics)
- at the level of the government and the national economy (macroeconomics)
- at an international level where countries are becoming increasingly interdependent through international trade and the movement of labour and capital (the global economy).
Through inquiry, students in the economics course will be challenged to:
- obtain evidence related to economic theories in different contexts
- explain how the evidence that they have collected is supported by economic theory
- understand the limitations of economic theory in explaining real-world behaviour.
History:
History is not the study of the past itself, but the study of the sources of the past. It is very hard to understand the world we live in today if you don’t know what have happened in the past. How did we get here? History is important to understand ourselves. It also shows what human beings are capable of, and in that way History can also help us understand what a human being really is? In the History course there is a focus on modern Western History after 1850, most relevant to us. But we also look into some connected topics from American and Asian History. Our focus is on the causes and effects of main historical events. In short, we do the two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish and Chinese civil wars and Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Mao as authoritarian leaders.
Group 4
Biology:
Biology is the study of life and living things, both those invisible to the unaided eye (microorganisms) and those easily seen without a microscope (organisms). Biologists attempt to uncover the laws or patterns in nature that control the processes of life. Human physiology, climate change, biotechnology, and the emergence of infectious diseases are all topics covered in IB Biology.
Chemistry:
Chemistry is an experimental science that combines academic study with the acquisition of practical and investigational skills. Chemical principles underpin both the physical environment in which we live and all biological systems. It is a prerequisite for many other courses in higher education, such as medicine, biological science and environmental science.
Physics:
- Physics is a natural science explaining the nature of the universe such as gravitation, waves,
electricity, magnetism, and particle physics. Students will learn the laws of physics,
use its mathematics, and apply the laws experimentally.
- Physics has many applications in engineering, environmental technologies,
energy sources, astronomy, communication technology, electricity, and medicine.
Group 5
Mathematics AA (Analysis and approaches)
Mathematics AI (Applications and interpretations)
- You will learn a variety of mathematics in both courses, and some topics overlap.
- In Applications and interpretations (AI) the problems you solve will always be in the context of a real-world problem. You will learn new mathematical theory and skills, but it is developing an understanding of how this can be applied to practical problems that is in focus. Technology plays a big role in this course (primarily a graphical display calculator).
- In Analysis and approaches (AA) the problems you solve will usually be more theoretical and abstract, and the context might be mathematics itself. Thus, the focus is on understanding the mathematics and applying the theory to mathematical problems (as well as some more applied problems). Technology is also used in this course, but to a lesser degree than in AI.
DP curriculum - International Baccalaureate® (ibo.org)