IB Diploma Programme students study six courses at higher level or standard level. Students must choose one subject from each of groups 1 to 5, thus ensuring breadth of experience in languages, social studies, the experimental sciences and mathematics. The sixth subject may – at LG – be French or Spanish, or the student may choose another subject from groups 1 to 5 (elective).

This hexagon model demonstrates the choice of subjects offered at LG:                          IB subjects taught at LG are:     

German A: literature HL
English A: language & literature HL
English B HL
French B SL
German B SL
Spanish ab initio SL
History SL or History HL
Geography SL or Geography HL
Biology SL or Biology HL
Physics SL
Mathematics: analysis & approaches SL or HL

In addition the programme has three core requirements that are included to broaden the educational experience and challenge students to apply their knowledge and understanding.

Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) requires that students actively learn from the experience of doing real tasks beyond the classroom. Students can combine all three components or do activities related to each one of them separately.

Theory of Knowledge (ToK) is a course designed to encourage each student to reflect on the nature of knowledge by critically examining different ways of knowing (perception, emotion, language and reason) and different kinds of knowledge (scientific, artistic, mathematical and historical).

The extended essay (EE) is a requirement for students to engage in independent research through an in-depth study of a question relating to one of the subjects they are studying.