Seacrest Country Day School:
High School Seminar

This innovative program was conceived as an adjunct to the high school curriculum giving our students the opportunity to explore a breath of opportunities beyond the core curriculum. Each year, a choice of several seminars will be available each semester-providing students with the opportunity to "try on" ideas and interests and passions in a setting without the intense academic demands of a traditional high school level course. Experts in each field will be invited to lead the seminars and engage the students in exploring topics in a manner beyond what is traditionally available in the secondary school classroom. Although the students' participation in these Seminars will be evaluated regularly, formal grades will not be assigned in the Seminars.

During the four year program, students select one seminar each semester. The selection process itself is intended as a learning experience. By providing a choice, students must consider the various options, select a particular topic, and then live with the consequences of that selection.

The Seacrest Seminar program does more than familiarize students with a particular topic. It is an opportunity to explore, to create, and to fulfill. Students have the opportunity to suggest topics and presenters for seminars which meet their interests or which offer solutions to or viewpoints on current political and social issues. Of the eight seminars during a student's high school career, four are of the student's choosing while four others are required of each graduating student.

The four required core seminar topics are: 

Ethics and Attributes of a Leader
Opposition and Solution
Leadership in a Global Context
Effective Communication

Seacrest Seminar Topics may include

American Political Institutions
Constitutional Law
Crisis of Cultures in the Middle East
Culture and Society
Earth Systems
Environmental Impacts upon the
     Gulf of Mexico
Florida, My Home
Intellectual Property and the
     Challenge of the Technology Age
Marketing Mathematical Systems
Music: The Symphony Dissected
Oceanography
Painting
Politics in the Media
Psychology
Selected Histories: The Africans,
      The Chinese, Latin American Cultures
Stock Market Analysis and Prediction
Yoga and Eastern Philosophy
World Religions