This is the path we would suggest through the curriculum. Nothing on it is a schedule and nothing on it is a requirement. You decide what your student takes and when they take it, and the chart is here to help you make that call rather than to make it for you.
Each bar is a book, running from the stage it opens to the stage it closes. Where a subject has several books they run end to end, so Latin's three books cover Stages 3 through 7 between them.
A stage marks readiness, not age. There are no grade levels here, no timeframes, and no ahead or behind. A book is ready for a student when what it depends on is in place, and you decide when that is, student by student.
Reading a column downward shows what could be open at the same time. Few students carry all of it at once and none has to. A subject can be paused, stretched out, or picked up later, and a book that suits one student at Stage 5 may suit another at Stage 7. What the chart shows is where each book fits, not how much anyone should be doing.
Some of it is dependency. Reading opens everything, so it comes first and alone. Mathematics starts immediately after, because its precision is what the sciences will later stand on. Logic is taught years before Rhetoric, because a student should be able to think before being taught to persuade. Statistics and Trigonometry both branch off Algebra II and run in parallel, and neither gates the other.
The rest of it is not dependency but weight and maturity. A subject arrives when a student has the stamina for it and the turn of mind it asks for, not merely when its prerequisites are met. This chart is offered as our general recommendation. You set the pace, student by student.
Advanced Studies is graduate-level work in the Scriptures, and it is included in Academy membership at no additional cost.
Your student may be ready to begin as early as Stage 7, but there is no requirement. They can take it alongside the core coursework, or after the rest has been completed. The order below is the one we would suggest, and it follows a logic rather than a rule. Hermeneutics comes first because everything else rests on it, and the two Survey courses and then Church History simply run in chronological order.