The fine arts program is offering many options for students to choose from. Metal Work 2 and Solo and Small Ensembles will be offered for the first time. Solo and Small Ensembles will take place during the second semester of the school year, replacing the second semester of Chamber Music.

Fine arts director Susan Memoli previously taught Chamber Music as a yearlong course but decided it would be easier for students to take the class as a semester course.

“You can do Chamber Music, or you can do Solo and Small Ensembles as the second semester of it,” Memoli said. “You don’t have to take both classes. There are similar things in both, but the idea is that if you have a solo piece that you want to come in and work on, or if you want to come in and do duets, then it would be smaller than normal Chamber Music ensembles.”

The fine arts department is also changing the Digital Photography class to be called Digital Art and Photography.

Memoli said that this change will allow the course to include not only photography but design as well.

The English department has also made changes to its curriculum for the 2013-2014 school year. Next year, the Film and Literature course will not be offered. Instead, a new writing-emphasized senior college English option taught by department head Brian Keaney will be available for students to take.

This new course will focus on a different kind of writing every quarter. The first quarter will consist of writing narratives and memoirs, the second quarter will focus on short non-fiction writing, the third quarter will revolve around digital storytelling and the final quarter will focus on a senior-produced project.

“I’m looking to have this course structured differently than other English courses in that instead of being like, ‘Okay read a chapter, let’s talk about it,’ it’s going to focus very much on what students produce,” Keaney said.

The science department will have the most significant changes next year. The freshman class College Physical Science (CPS) will no longer be offered. Instead, all freshmen will be required to take a biology course. With this change, students in the same grade will no longer be separated into different science courses. All freshmen will be taking biology, all sophomores will take chemistry and all juniors will take physics in whatever level of the class they choose.

“This [sequence of science classes] is something else other schools have done. It’s a lot cleaner when you put it on paper,” science department head Ken Rideout said. “Our current sequence is actually a little bit confusing.”

In addition to the removal of CPS, the science department will also be adding an honors level option for the Astronomy class as well as a Forensics Science class next year. Both of these classes are science electives for seniors only.