Middle School Course Guide

 TEEN LEADERSHIP (Subject to campus staffing availability)

TX ID:  EL 6947     GRADE LEVEL:  6-7 CREDIT:  1-2  semesters

PREREQUISITE: None

Course Description:  Students in this course will learn leadership, professional and business skills, a healthy self-concept, healthy relationships, and skills in public speaking and communication. They will also develop an understanding of personal responsibility, emotional intelligence, personal image, effects of peer pressure as well as personal and professional goal setting.

HEALTH

TX ID:                         GRADE LEVEL   6-7       CREDIT: .5   *This course is offered for High School credit* 

PREREQUISITE: None

Course Description:  Students will gain an understanding of health information and skills through six strands: physical health and hygiene, mental health

and wellness, healthy eating and physical activity, injury, violence prevention and safety, negative impacts of risky behaviors (drugs & alcohol use)

TOUCH SYSTEMS DATA ENTRY

TX ID: 13011300      GRADE LEVEL:   7-8 CREDIT: .5   *This course is offered for High School credit* 

PREREQUISITE: None

Course Description:  Students implement personal and interpersonal skills to strengthen individual performance in the workplace and in society and make a successful transition to the workforce and postsecondary education. Students apply technical skills to address business applications of emerging technologies, create word-processing documents, develop a spreadsheet, formulate a database, and make an electronic presentation using appropriate software. 

BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT  MGMT (BIM)   (DMS and MMS only)

TX ID:  TA  7225.       GRADE LEVEL  8       CREDIT: 1    *This course is offered for High School credit*

PREREQUISITE(S): None

Course Description: This course will allow students to develop personal and business technology related skills using databases, desktop publishing, presentation management, networking, operating systems, spreadsheets, word processing and telecommunications..  (Manor MS only)

INVESTIGATING CAREERS IN ARTS, AUDIO/VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, AND COMMUNICATIONS

TX ID: 12700400      GRADE LEVEL: 7-8        CREDIT: .5    

PREREQUISITE(S): None

Course Description: Students will be expected to develop an understanding of the various and multifaceted career opportunities in this cluster and the knowledge, skills, and educational requirements for those opportunities.

DIGITAL ART and ANIMATION (DMS only)    

TX ID:  03580500      GRADE LEVEL: 8          CREDIT: .1                      **This course is offered for High School credit*

PREREQUISITE(S): None

Course Description: Scholars will learn art through technological mediums. Scholars will learn about different career pathways associated with digital art.

INVESTIGATING CAREERS: CAREERS IN DIGITAL MEDIA (MNTMS New Course)

TX ID:  12700400                  GRADE LEVEL: 8                 CREDIT: .5

PREREQUISITE(S): None

Course Description: Students will analyze and assess current and emerging technologies, while designing and creating multimedia projects that address customer needs and resolve a problem. Students will implement personal and interpersonal skills to prepare for a rapidly evolving workplace environment. The knowledge and skills acquired and practiced will enable students to successfully perform and interact in a technology-driven society. Students will enhance reading, writing, computing, communication, and critical thinking and apply them to the IT environment. 

PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED ENGINEERING  (MNTM only)

TX ID: 13036200      GRADE LEVEL: 8                CREDIT: 1.0             **This course is offered for High School credit*

PREREQUISITE(S): None

Course Description: This course provides an overview of the various fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and their interrelationships. Students use a variety of computer hardware and software applications to complete assignments and projects. Students will have an understanding of the various fields and will be able to make informed decisions regarding a coherent sequence of subsequent course and will have worked on a design team to develop a product or system.

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE  (MMS only)

TX ID:   TA 2100     GRADE LEVEL:   8 CREDIT:  1.0              **This course is offered for High School credit*

PREREQUISITE: None

Course Description:  Students will learn design, implement and present solutions to real-world problems using computer science concepts. 

Coursework will include creative interactive games, animation stories, debugging and designing algorithms using Python programming language .

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TX ID:      GRADE LEVEL: CREDIT: .5

PREREQUISITE: None

Course Description: