This course may be completed for dual credit through the University of Montana Western. Students will gain a basic developmental foundation through examining research, theories, issues, developmental stages and the application of these in relationship to the child from conception through adolescence. Students will use a variety of instruments to observe and interact with individual children as a way of integrating theory and practice.
Learn how to think and act as an entrepreneur! The class will focus on student centered project based learning to develop creative talents into entrepreneurial opportunities using an interdisciplinary approach through the Empowered Curriculum. Empowered teaches free enterprise fundamentals through hands-on experiences. It encourages students like yourselves to start their own business and enhance their business skills for future career opportunities. Students engage critical thinking skills as they iterate business models to launch a one-day pop-up business, and explore how freedom, individual responsibility, property rights, entrepreneurial thinking, and free markets contribute to moral, intellectual, and economic development.
Take this opportunity to learn about the elements and principles of design as it relates to fashion, clothing and textiles and how our clothing choices impact behavior, mood, society, the environment, and more. Discover and analyze textile fibers and fabrics while expressing your creativity through design and textile construction projects and experiments. In the second semester students will experience more in-depth hands-on projects in the textile and design industries including outdoor product design and development, technology, local manufacturing, repurposing, career exploration and more.
Culinary Arts I: Gain foundational cooking skills to help you be confident in the home kitchen or help you start your journey into the culinary profession! This course focuses on essential food preparation, kitchen and food safety, and nutrition and healthy eating. Topics to be covered include: kitchen safety, food safety & sanitation, knife skills, kitchen math, kitchen equipment, nutrition, careers, consumerism, meal preparation, creativity and more.
Culinary Arts II: A continuation of Culinary Arts I, this course continues to build specialized skills and knowledge of foods and related careers for entering the culinary profession. CA II allows students to take a more sophisticated look at foods by learning skills through project based learning, lab situations, individual and cooperative group work, technology based simulations and research. Students may study ServSafe Food Handlers, the basic building blocks to sophisticated cooking, explore baking with yeast doughs, and perform labs dealing with different types of breads, pasta, mother sauces, kitchen conversions, and food budgets.
Advanced Culinary Arts: This course is a continuation for students who have completed Culinary Arts I & II, and it is run using the National Restaurant Association’s ProStart Program. Advanced Culinary Arts will focus on application towards real-life experience opportunities and building practical skills by bringing together the industry and the classroom. Students are given a platform to discover new interests and talents for fulfilling careers in Hospitality and Tourism Career Pathways. Students will be invited to compete in State Culinary Competitions. This course may be repeated for a second year of ProStart.
Be introduced to Montana's second largest industry, Hospitality & Tourism. The course will include an overview of the structure and scope of the travel/tourism and hospitality industries encompassing the management, marketing, and operations of restaurants and other food services, lodging, attractions, recreational events and travel related services as well as an overview of the historic perspectives of globalization, tourism, and the hospitality sectors. A section of the course is devoted to Montana’s tourism environment.
Learn how humans develop socially, emotionally, intellectually, and physically across the lifespan through hands-on applications such as teaching lessons to children, and working with the elderly. This class will focus on the development from pregnancy to aging adults. Fields related to elder care and early childhood are forecasted to grow rapidly during the next ten years and knowledge of these age groups will be beneficial for any student entering the profession or university program.