But it is a very different way to take a science course.
"To comply with the higher Regents standards, every high school student has to take a science course with a lab," Mr. Thurnau said.
Why Take a Science Course?
Freshmen in Arts & Sciences at Cornell in the 1960s were required to take a science course.
"We have the art major who needs to take a science course or a history student who discovers this is actually kind of cool," she said.
Bettencourt-Dias made room for her interest in science communication during her postdoc, taking a science communication course at Birkbeck, University of London.
She finished her Ph.D. but also took a science journalism course and began writing articles for the campus newspaper.
This requirement is satisfied by taking a Political Science course designated as a Writing in the Major (WIM) course and may be in any subfield of the major.
What you'll learn Taking a computer science course will mean you will be studying a subject at the very forefront of technology and innovation.
In 2014, The Washington Post found that fewer than 1 in 10 high school students in the Washington region were taking a computer science course.
