Course Catalog 2026-27
Students enrolled as single course students are not eligible to take a Leadership, Homeroom, or Wellness course as their only course. Single course students may add Homeroom or Wellness in addition to their single academic course.
Modes of Writing and Argumentation Writing Lab (OE11WL)
The OHS Writing and Tutoring Center offers supplemental Writing Labs. These labs, which meet once per week, are intended to...
Drafting the Novel (OECW1G)
In Drafting the Novel, a yearlong study of fiction writing, students will explore the craft of fiction writing and the...
Critical Theory and the Historical Imagination (OE020B)
What's the past? What does it do? What's it for? What's it ever done for us? In this course we'll...
Critical Theory of the Anthropocene (OE020C)
In 2000, the atmospheric scientist Paul J. Crutzen coined the term “Anthropocene” to describe the extraordinary impact of a single...
Critical Theory: Canon & Counter-Canon (OE020E)
How do we decide, in an English class, what to read in the first place? That is the question at...
Critical Theory: Language and Culture (OE020Z)
Like the other Critical Theory courses, this class encourages students to ask how we know what we think we know...
Advanced Literature & Criticism: Wonders and Sublimity (OE021A)
In this year-long, advanced-level class, students will explore different critical approaches to canonical literature, considering a breadth of literary theory...
Advanced Literature & Criticism: Russian Literature (OE021B)
In this year-long, advanced-level class, students will explore different critical approaches to canonical literature, considering a breadth of literary theory...
Advanced Topics in Literature I (OE025)
Topic for Fall 2026: Jane Austen and Her World. In the class, we'll explore the work and the world of...
Advanced Topics in Literature II (OE026)
Topic for Spring 2027: Beyond Chaucer: The Middle English Prose Brut. This class will produce for future students a scholarly...
Advanced Topics in Literature I: Writing Option (OE027)
Topic for Fall 2026: Jane Austen and Her World. In the class, we'll explore the work and the world of...
Advanced Topics in Literature II: Writing Option (OE028)
Topic for Spring 2027: Beyond Chaucer: The Middle English Prose Brut. This class will produce for future students a scholarly...
Literature, Technology, and Experiment (UE034)
The typewriter, a machine for writing, produces letters on a page in a manner distinct from that of a pencil...
Imagining Your Art (JDRW1)
In this course, we will explore fundamentals in drawing to help guide our application and enhance our technical skills and...
Leadership Course Series (OL010)
The Leadership Course Series seeks to encourage and nurture future leaders. In this seminar-style course, students attend monthly special presentations...
Legal Studies: Constitutional Law: Writing Option (OLS10)
This course examines U.S. constitutional law, focusing on present-day law. Students will learn some constitutional law as well as how...
Legal Studies: Constitutional Law (OLS11)
This course examines U.S. constitutional law, focusing on present-day law. Students will learn some constitutional law as well as how...
Music Theory (OMT10)
Music Theory is a year-long course that examines the harmony and form of Western European music with a focus on...
Portrait Drawing (OPD10)
A studio drawing course for high-school students of all skill levels with interest in portraiture. Students will learn the elements...
Landscape Drawing (OPD11)
A studio drawing course for high-school students of all skill levels with interest in drawing natural and constructed landscapes. Students...