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Students learn tangible skills for social interactions through interactive lesson plans, projects and integrations of skills and concepts in the Homework Cafe®. Students develop knowledge of social cues, how to navigate gray areas with various people, how to build and maintain friendships, and how to recognize the impact their behavior has on others around them. This course is graded as pass/fail.
566
2 Terms
One Level
Prerequisite: Computer Science Recommended
Have you ever wondered how your favorite software is created? Explore the software development life cycle from start to finish while developing your own programming skills with Python. Explore the power of data and algorithms along with their influence on the world. Launch yourself into the endless possibilities a career as a programmer can bring you!
621
2 Terms
UC Approved
Essential
College Prep
Prerequisite: Computer Programming 1 or Teacher Approval
Congratulations; you’re speaking a different language! A programming language that is. But do you want to learn more? Discover the most popular programming languages and what they have to offer the software world. Explore data, algorithms, and objectives and how they are essential to language ‘speak’. Learn the software development life cycle and how it can be implemented so you can create projects, such as a prototype for an app you’ll code and a working to-do list website.
622
2 Terms
UC Approved
Essential
College Prep
In this course, you are going to pull back the veil on what goes into some of the technology we use every day. You will investigate computer hardware and software and learn what goes into building a computer while exploring programs and applications, you’ll study the history of the internet and how to use its capabilities even more effectively, and you’ll also dive deep into email and some of today’s most powerful processing tools. Get ready to really know the technology you have at your fingertips so you can continue to make it work for you!
611
2 Terms
UC Approved
Essential
College Prep
Learn how the momentum of science is continually propelling engineers in new directions towards a future full of insight and opportunity. Explore the different branches of engineering and how problem-solving, sketching, collaboration, and experimentation can change the very fiber of our human lives. By examining astounding engineering feats and complex ongoing issues, you’ll begin to question whether the word impossible really exists.
1223
1 Term | 18 Weeks
College Prep
Prerequisite: Algebra 1, 1 Year Lab Science
This course covers all of the same concepts as Chemistry, including measurement, lab technique, atomic theory, kinetics, forces and reactions, and nuclear chemistry; it simplifies the more challenging mathematics. Students investigate the same topics and complete identical or comparable labs to meet the same learning outcomes through a more qualitative and accessible learning experience. This course emphasizes chemistry applications such as food science, health, and medicine.
243
2 Terms
UC Approved
NCAA Approved
Essential
College Prep
Prerequisite: Algebra 1, 1 Year Lab Science
This course covers all of the same concepts as Physics, including motion, energy, forces, thermodynamics, electricity, and quantum physics; it simplifies the more challenging mathematics. Students investigate the same topics and complete identical or comparable labs to meet the same learning outcomes through a more qualitative and accessible learning experience.
215
2 Terms
NCAA Approved
UC Approved
Essential
College Prep
Students continue to develop math skills and explore how mathematics is used in their daily lives. Themes of the course include budgeting, banking, spending, income and taxation. The course focuses on building numeracy through applications and activities that focus on modeling real world scenarios with mathematics, such as: analyzing a paystub, calculating tax liability, researching fin-tech, and building budgets.
162
2 Terms
UC Approved
Essential
College Prep
Prerequisite: United States History Recommended
Controversies in American Politics provides an overview of historical and contemporary political, social, and economic issues within the United States. Students learn the background of the issue, as well as multiple perspectives to formulate their own opinions. Students are expected to write extensively using primary and secondary sources in independently-guided research.
433
2 Terms
UC Approved
Essential
College Prep
Prerequisite: English 10 or Teacher Approval
Students tap into their own creativity and experience the joys of writing original text. Participants explore various forms of writing, such as short story, poetry, drama, narrative and biography, while delving into the common themes of humanity and various truths of human nature. Students experience the recursive nature of writing and painlessly build skills in the conventions and tools of traditional English grammar and sentence structure that will strengthen them in all their future writing tasks.
324
2 Terms
UC Approved
NCAA Approved
Essential
College Prep
