Courses

Art 1 (1 credit - Fine Arts) 

Explore your artistic side as you go hands-on with the basics of traditional art. Try a little of everything, including drawing, painting, clay sculpture, fibers, photography, and digital art. Share and discuss art with other students, and create a digital portfolio of your best work. Preview the course activities here.

Requirements: camera to photograph your work, $15 for art supplies.

Art 1 A Only (1/2 credit - Fine Arts) 

Explore your artistic side as you go hands-on with the basics of traditional art. Try a little of everything, including drawing, painting, clay sculpture, fibers, photography, and digital art. Share and discuss art with other students, and create a digital portfolio of your best work..

Requirements: camera to photograph your work, $15 for art supplies.

Art 1 B Only (1/2 credit - Fine Arts) 

Requirement: Completed and Passed Art 1 A 

Explore your artistic side as you go hands-on with the basics of traditional art. Try a little of everything, including drawing, painting, clay sculpture, fibers, photography, and digital art. Share and discuss art with other students, and create a digital portfolio of your best work. 

Requirements: camera to photograph your work, $15 for art supplies.

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits (1 PE credit) 

Exploring fitness topics such as safe exercise and injury prevention, nutrition and weight management, consumer product evaluation, and stress management, this course equips high school students with the skills they need to achieve lifetime fitness. This year-long course encourages students to assess individual fitness levels according to the five components of physical fitness: cardiovascular health, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Personal fitness assessments encourage students to design a fitness program to meet their individual fitness goals.

Requirements: Maintain a fitness log with an average of four to five 30 minute workouts per week.

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits A Only (1/2 PE credit) 

Exploring fitness topics such as safe exercise and injury prevention, nutrition and weight management, consumer product evaluation, and stress management, this course equips high school students with the skills they need to achieve lifetime fitness. Personal fitness assessments encourage students to design a fitness program to meet their individual fitness goals.

Requirements: Maintain a fitness log with an average of four to five 30 minute workouts per week.

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits B Only (1/2 PE credit) 

Requirement:s Completed and Passed Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits A

Exploring fitness topics such as safe exercise and injury prevention, nutrition and weight management, consumer product evaluation, and stress management, this course equips high school students with the skills they need to achieve lifetime fitness. Personal fitness assessments encourage students to design a fitness program to meet their individual fitness goals.

Requirements: Maintain a fitness log with an average of four to five 30 minute workouts per week.

Government (1/2 credit)

Requirements: Completed and Passed U.S. History

How does our nation's government work? How does it affect you, and how can you be an active participant in the process? Learn about different types of government and how ours came to be. As a citizen, it's important to know your legal rights, how laws are created and enforced, and the ways different branches of government are working together all around you.

English 4 (Juniors only) (1 credit) 

Requirements: Must be a Junior (11th grade)

Explore classic and modern literature spanning 1500 years, including drama, poetry, comedy, tragedy, satire, and famous speeches. Discover how recurring themes like social justice and good vs. evil are still relevant to society today. Increase your ability to read and understand the written word, to draw conclusions, and express yourself in writing.

Health (1/2 credit) 

Learn to make good decisions that support your physical, mental, and social health. Understand health issues that face our society and strategies to deal with them - from stress and depression to problems like drug abuse and suicide. Explore the role of good nutrition and exercise in preventing disease. Analyze what you eat, conduct interviews, raise awareness of issues, and discuss topics with your peers.

Communication Applications (1/2 credit)

Requirements: Video/audio recording capability.

How well you can communicate affects your academic, professional, and social life. Practice key skills like starting a conversation, listening, persuading, interviewing, and giving presentations. Work solo and in a group. Select business idea from Kickstarter.com and create different types of communication to support it, from print ads to podcasts and more.

Psychology (1/2 credit - elective)

Psychology is a science dedicated to improving people's lives by asking questions like: Why are some people happier than others? Do people ever change, or do they basically stay the same? You'll study consciousness, memory, sleep, dreaming, human development, attitudes, relationships, and anxiety.  By the end, you'll better understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do!

Sociology (1/2 credit - elective)

Sociology is the study of human society -- groups of people who share a culture. How does the social world around you affect your personal choices?  How do people become part of (or deviate from) the culture of their society? Consider issues of social inequality, learn about social institutions (like government, family, religion, and education), and think about how society has changed -- even during your own lifetime.

Economics (1/2 credit)  

Requirement: Completed and Passed U.S. History

Money, money!  Many actions in your life will involve finances, like purchasing goods and services, getting a job, paying taxes, renting an apartment, taking a loan, or making an investment.  Economics helps you understand how money works and about the free market system, where supply and demand and the choices of producers and consumers influence prices.