Albanian College offers the Diploma Programme courses English Language and Literature and Albanian Literature. These courses use a broad range of texts, and students grow to appreciate a language’s complexity, wealth and subtleties in a variety of contexts. Students take their studies in a language in which they are academically competent.

Language A: Literature SL/HL (first exams 2021)
Language A: Language and Literature SL/HL (first exams 2021)

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Albanian College Durres will be offering a French B and English B courses in Language Acquisition. The main emphasis of these courses is on the acquisition and use of language in a range of contexts and for different purposes while, at the same time, promoting an understanding of another culture through the study of its language. These courses are organized into themes. Three core themes are required: communication and media, global issues, and social relationships. In addition, at both HL and SL, teachers select two more themes from five options provided. Finally, two works of literature are studied at HL only.

French B Standard Level
French B Higher Level
English B Standard Level
English B Higher Level

Albanian College Durres offers Diploma Programme courses in History and Geography. Studying any one of these subjects provides for the development of a critical appreciation of:

History SL

History HL

Economics SL

Economics HL

Environment systems and societies SL

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Albanian College Durres offers three courses in Mathematics, Math Studies, Math Standard Level, and Math Higher Level. The aims of these courses are to enable students to:
•develop mathematical knowledge, concepts and principles
•develop logical, critical and creative thinking
•employ and refine their powers of abstraction and generalization.
•Analysis and Approaches SL/HL
•Applications and Interpretation SL/HL

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Albanian College Durres offers Diploma Programme courses in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. These courses are taught practically. Students have opportunities to design investigations, collect data, develop manipulative skills, analyse results, collaborate with peers and evaluate and communicate their findings. While the scientific method may take on a wide variety of forms, the emphasis on a practical approach. The investigations may be laboratory based or they may make use of simulations and data bases. Students develop the skills to work independently on their own design, but also collegiately, including collaboration with schools in different regions, to mirror the way in which scientific research is conducted in the wider community.

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Albanian College Durres offers the Diploma Programme Visual Arts course. This course is designed to foster critical, reflective, and informed practice. It will help students understand the dynamic and changing nature of the arts and explore the diversity of arts across time, place and cultures. Students will be able to express themselves with confidence and competence. The course encourages students to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries. It is a thought-provoking course in which students develop analytical skills in problem-solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art-makers. In addition to exploring and comparing visual arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students are expected to engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media. The course is designed for students who want to go on to study visual arts in higher education as well as for those who are seeking lifelong enrichment through visual arts.

Visual Arts Standard Level
Visual Arts Higher Level