The mastery year, and the bridge into IGCSE Sciences. Statistical thinking and evaluating sources, planetary boundaries and climate systems, organic chemistry and the chemistry of life, evolution and classification at depth, planetary health and tipping points, waves, optics and engineering design — closing with an independent research paper.
Pacing: one lesson per week, 18 weeks. The second half of the year can begin IGCSE preparation.
Course Information
Course Instructor
Unit 1: Evidence & Inquiry
Meta-Science — Philosophy of Science and the Islamic Epistemological Tradition
Advanced Research Methods — Designing a Year-Long Scientific Study
Unit 2: Earth & Space
Geochemistry and Earth’s Interior — Composition, Core, and Mantle Dynamics
Cosmology — The Origin, Structure, and Fate of the Universe
Unit 3: Chemistry
Thermodynamics — Entropy, Order, and the Arrow of Time
Biochemistry — Enzyme Kinetics, Metabolic Pathways, and Drug Design
Materials Science and Nanotechnology — Engineering at the Atomic Scale
Unit 4: Life Science
Molecular Biology — Gene Expression, Epigenetics, and CRISPR Ethics
Neuroscience and Consciousness — The Brain, the Self, and the Ruh
Unit 5: Ecology & Green Tech
Planetary Health — Earth’s Boundaries and Tipping Points
Environmental Justice and Islamic Ethics — Who Bears the Burden?
Unit 6: Physics & Robotics
Special Relativity — Space, Time, and the Universe Allah Created
Quantum Mechanics — Probability, Uncertainty, and What Allah Knows
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics — Technology, Ethics, and the Muslim Inventor
Unit 7: Legacy & Capstone
Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, and the Science-Faith Debate — A 900-Year Conversation
Muslim Scientists of the Modern Era — Abdus Salam, Ahmed Zewail, and Beyond
Year 3 Mastery Investigation — An Original Contribution
Year 3 Portfolio and Graduation — The Muslim Scientist I Will Become
