down by academic subject. Each semester-long class counts for 0.5 credits, unless it meets with greater-than-normal frequency.
In addition to the academic program, IMSA also offers over 50 clubs ranging from political groups and religious clubs to volunteer organizations . All these clubs are chartered by the Student Council, colloquially referred to as StudCo.
IMSA bills itself as an “educational laboratory”, and as such is frequently trying out new and experimental pedagogical techniques. These range from how classes are laid out to what is taught and even to who takes them; in the early 1990s IMSA received national attention for an exploratory study on whether girls learned physics better in single-sex or co-ed environments, as conducted by charter physics faculty, Dr. David Workman. IMSA’s main math sequence, entitled “Mathematical Investigations” and in