The Course Description Book 2010-11 has been released, with a few minor changes to class schedules for next year. All English, religion, science, history, and health-related classes remain the same, but slight alterations are being made to social studies, fine arts, and foreign language courses.

Introduction to Law is no longer being offered as a senior elective. This is because there will be “fewer seniors by about 20 [next year].  There will be less demand for senior social studies electives,” Vice Principal of Academics Gary Scholl said.

In addition, Dance for Fitness will be brought back next year, a class that was a part of the 2008-09 school year. Fine arts will also be offering Acting I and Acting II as separate classes next year, whereas this year, they were combined into one. “Acting I will be a prerequisite for Acting II,” Scholl said. “When the classes were combined, there were both inexperienced and experienced students, and it was tough to meet the demands of both.”

As for foreign language, “Based on course requests from incoming freshmen, first year Latin, Chinese, and Russian courses won’t be offered at the first year level next year,” Scholl said.

“It’s common knowledge that the numbers for Chinese I, Latin I, and Russian I are simply just not there to justify a freshman class,” Russian teacher Ed Miller said. “I would love to have a Russian I class next year because I have no plans at this time to retire from JC, and so obviously I would like anything that can be done to have that class.”

However, Scholl assured that “we are not eliminating those courses.” The first year classes will not be offered for 2010-11, but incoming freshmen will be able to “go back and pick up the course in their sophomore year” if they wish to do so.

Programming, a class currently offered online, will not be offered next year because the school “did not have the interest to justify it,” Scholl said.

AP French, which was not offered this year, is in the Course Description Book. Still, this class is still on the fence, as it needs enough interest from students to be made final.

Charlotte Hagerman can be reached for comment at [email protected].