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Work Based Learning High School Course Titles and Descriptions 2022-2023 152 

Work-based learning (WBL) is a strategy to reinforce academic, technical, and social skills learned in the classroom through collaborative activities with employer partners. Work-based learning experiences allow students to apply classroom theories to practical problems, to explore career options, and pursue personal and professional goals. WBL includes activities that can occur in workplaces or school-based enterprises and involve an employer assigning a student meaningful job tasks to develop his or her skills, knowledge, and readiness for work. It supports entry or advancement in a career field and can serve as the culminating course or event in a student’s chosen career pathway. Through WBL, students have the opportunity to apply the concepts, skills, and dispositions learned in previous coursework in real world settings. This course code should be used to denote completion of the Graduation Pathways Employability Skills experience. 

• Recommended Grade: 9-12 

• Required Prerequisites: None 

• Recommended Prerequisites: Preparing for College & Careers 

• Credits: 0 credits, the experience may stretch over multiple semesters & should not be marked as passing until the designated person responsible for approving the work-based learning experience validates the WBL work product.

• Qualifies as the employability skills requirement for all diplomas. 

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1532 (PSYCH)

Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. The course is divided into six content areas

and uses the scientific methods to explore research methods and ethical consideration. Developmental

psychology takes a life span approach to physical, cognitive, language, emotional, social, and moral development.

Cognitive aspects of the course focus on learning, memory, information processing, and language. Personality,

Assessment, and Mental Health topics include psychological disorders, treatment, personality, and assessment.

Socio-cultural dimensions of behavior deal with topics such as conformity, obedience, perceptions, attitudes, and

influence of the group on the individual. The Biological Basis focuses on the way the brain and nervous system

function, including sensation, perception, motivation, and emotion.

Recommended Grade Level: 11-12

Recommended Prerequisites: None

Credits: 1 semester course. 1 credit. This course and corresponding exam are intended to be comparable to the

corresponding one-semester college level course.

Counts as an Elective for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical

Honors diplomas

1534 (SOCIOLOGY)

Sociology allows students to study human social behavior from a group perspective. The sociological perspective

is a method of studying recurring patterns in people’s attitudes and actions and how these patterns vary across

time, cultures, and in social settings and groups. Students will describe the development of sociology as a social

science and identify methods of research. Through research methods such as scientific inquiry students will

examine society, group behavior, and social structures. The influence of culture on group behavior is addressed

through institutions such as the family, religion, education, economics, community organizations, government, and

political and social groups. The impact of social groups and institutions on group and individual behavior and the

changing nature of society will be examined. Influences on group behavior and social problems are included in the

course. Students will also analyze the role of individuals in the community and social problems in today’s world.

Recommended Grade Level: Grades 11 or 12

Recommended Prerequisites: None

Credits: 1 semester, 1 credit

Counts as an Elective for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical

Honors diplomas

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