Advanced Placement Seminar
Course Code 099900
Grade(s): 10-12
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Elective This foundational course provides students with opportunities to think critically and creatively, research, explore, pose solutions, develop arguments, collaborate, and communicate using various media. Students explore real-world issues through a variety of lenses and consider multiple points of view to develop deep understanding of complex issues as they make connections between these issues and their own lives. This elective course is available to students in grades 10-12 and could be taught in a variety of disciplines. This course is the prerequisite to AP Research.
Advanced Placement Research
Course Code 099901
Grade(s): 11-12
1 Credit
Prerequisite: AP Seminar
Elective Students design, plan, and conduct a yearlong research-based investigation on a topic of individual interest. Through this inquiry and investigation, students demonstrate the ability to apply scholarly understanding to real-world problems and issues.
AVID 4 H
Course Code 097004
Grade(s): 12
1 Credit
Prerequisite: AVID 3
Elective This course prepares students for entrance into colleges and universities. The course emphasizes critical reading strategies, analytical writing, collaborative discussion strategies, tutorial inquiry study groups, preparation for college entrance and placement exams, college study skills and test taking strategies, note taking and research. Students also finalize college application requirements, with a particular emphasis on investigating options for financial aid.
Available at DHS, PVHS, and THS only
Basic Skills
Course Code 080040
Grade(s): 9-12
1 Credit
Basic Skills
Course Code 080045
Grade(s): 9-12
0.5 Credits per semester; may be taken two semesters per year
Prerequisite: None
Graded as a Pass or Fail, not used in Cumulative Grade Point Average
Elective Basic Skills is an elective course for special education students receiving resource or self-contained services for a full period and who require more intensive work on identified needs as noted in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
Students are introduced to a variety of strategies and techniques to enable them to better achieve in school. Strategies and techniques may include time management, study skills, note taking, and self-advocacy, based on the student’s needs. The teacher may use one or more content areas (e.g., language arts, mathematics, science) to teach students how to adapt these strategies and techniques to different situations. Because this is a developmental course, Basic Skills may be retaken for credit each semester for up to four years.
Education for Employment I
Course Code 813001
Grade(s): 9-11
1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Elective This course teaches students to make informed career and continuing education choices as they transition from school, gain technical skills, and adapt to the workplace. Students are taught ethical behaviors and career research, job acquisition, workplace communication, self-awareness, self-advocacy, customer service, and life skills. This course offers students integrated labor market needs through an applied employment education format.
This course counts as an elective, career and technical education credit.
The option for the next course is Education for Employment II.
Education for Employment II
Course Code 813002
Grade(s): 10-12
1 Credit
Prerequisite: Education for Employment I
Elective This course continues to teach students to make informed career and continuing education choices as they transition from school, gain technical skills, and adapt to the workplace. Students are taught to apply ethical behaviors and career research, job-acquisition, workplace communication, self-awareness, self-advocacy, customer service, and life skills. This course offers practical learning opportunities for students to enter the workforce with acquired workplace readiness skills and knowledge and to create economic opportunities.
This course counts as an elective, career and technical education credit.
The industry credential associated with the course is: Workplace Readiness Skills.