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Valley International Academy provides students with a multi-tiered curriculum that rewards them for their efforts. They can take coursework ranging from AP courses to technology electives. After-school and early-morning homework monitoring and assistance are available as needed to give students extra help. Valley International Academy exists to touch and improve the lives of our students.
VIA meets A-G requirements, which both the University of California and Valley International Academy view as the minimal standards necessary for college entrance. The University of California believes that college freshmen who have met these standards can participate in their classes, majors and programs, and that they have gained critical thinking skills, study habits and knowledge adequate to: "provide breadth and perspective to new, more advanced studies". The University of California and the California State University system summarizes its requirements:
- History/Social Science: Two years required, including one year of world history, cultures, and geography and one year of U.S. history (AP or regular) or one-half year of U.S. history and one-half year of American government. (To this, we add AP Economics and AP European or World History)
- English: Four years of college preparatory English that include frequent and regular writing, and reading of classic and modern literature.
- Mathematics: Three years of college preparatory mathematics that include topics covered in elementary and advanced algebra and two- and three-dimensional geometry. Many of our students reach AP Calculus.
- Laboratory Science: Two years of laboratory science providing fundamental knowledge in at least two of these three disciplines: biology, chemistry, and physics.
- Language: Two years of the same language other than English. We currently have courses teaching Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish.
- Visual & Performing Arts: One year, including dance, drama/theater, music, or visual art.
- College Preparatory Electives: In addition to those courses required in "A-F" above, one year (two semesters) of college preparatory electives are required, chosen from advanced visual and performing arts, history, social science, English, advanced mathematics, laboratory science, and language other than English.
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