Early College High School

College Success Seminar: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CTC101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 9
This first-year course teaches students the fundamental skills and strategies required to support learning in a University environment. This course is structured to help students analyze values, motivations, and goals while helping connect present University experiences with current and future career goals. Emphasis is placed on academic skills, personal assessment, career exploration, and development of interpersonal soft skills.

English College Writing: POST
Humanities
Course Code:  ENG110
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 9
This introductory writing course is designed to develop and refine critical reading and writing skills. In addition to learning about the writing process, students will practice various writing styles, such as description, critique, and research writing that will contribute to their success in university courses and their chosen careers.

Digital Skills for College and Career: POST
STEM
Course Code: CIS110
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 9
This course strives to meet the digital literacy needs of students and professionals to succeed in the twenty-first century. Special emphasis is placed on the ethical use of digital technology for information analysis and collaboration. Students are introduced to the Internet, digital file management, operating systems, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software.

Language and Composition: POST
Humanities
Course Code:  ENG130
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 10
Students will engage in the active reading and critical analysis of various genres of literature while examining text for the author’s use of literary devices such as imagery, symbolism, and theme. Additionally, students will apply literary response methodologies to interpret, connect, and respond to analytical queries through persuasive and responsive writing. Prerequisite: ENG 110.

Introduction to Communications: POST
Humanities
Course Code: COM107
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 10
This introductory course will focus on the knowledge and skills that students need to become competent communicators. This information and these skills will include speaking, listening, media literacy, computer-mediated communication, cultural sensitivity, workplace communication, group dynamics, and critical thinking. Students will prepare and present speeches and group projects that utilize media and technology. Emphasis will be placed on social and workplace interaction, both individually and in group settings. twenty-first century.

Introduction to Law: POST
Humanities
Course Code:  LAW101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 10
This course is an introduction to the American Federal and State legal systems. Students will learn about the Constitution and the 3 Branches of Government it creates: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Topics include:  jurisdiction, statutes, case law, legal ethics and specific areas of the law.

Concepts in Biology: POST
STEM
Course Code: BIO120
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course surveys the fundamentals of biology. Students will learn to think like a scientist and will better understand advancements in biology and their impact on society. Topics include biochemistry, cell biology, anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution, biodiversity, and ecology.

Biology I: POST
STEM
Course Code: BIO143
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
General Biology I provides the foundations in biology for majors and non-majors, and is the first part of a two-semester series. The course focuses on the nature of science, origin of life, biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthesis, cell biology, genetics, the evidence and history of the theory of evolution, and how organisms are classified. Inquiry-based study in the concurrent laboratory component (BIO143L) provides hands-on application of appropriate lecture material.

Nutrition: POST
STEM
Course Code: BIO150
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course assists students in understanding the basic principles of nutrition. Students focus on a variety of topics, including essential nutrients, factors that influence health, healthy eating habits, and evaluating nutritional information.

Medical and Scientific Terminology: POST
STEM
Course Code: BIO160
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
Medicine and science use clear and precise terminology globally to communicate within the profession. However, this terminology is often hard to understand by nonprofessionals and is a barrier to learning in the biological and medical sciences. This course breaks down the language of medicine into simpler prefixes, roots, and suffixes that are then assembled into various combinations. By the end of the course, students will be able to remember, define, pronounce, spell, and construct thousands of medical terms. This course is a required pre-requisite for many professional programs in human and veterinary medicine, allied health, and related fields. This course would also benefit students of any major who desire to be more fluent in medical and scientific language.

Baldrige Principles and Introduction to Quality: POST
STEM
Course Code: BUS211
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course provides undergraduate students with an introduction to the history of the quality movement in American industry in the 20th and 21st centuries and presents the core principles of the Baldrige Quality assessment process. By direct exposure to these concepts and principles, students will be prepared to recognize and apply these concepts and principles as they enter into their upper division coursework in the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business. Students will also be introduced to contemporary quality assurance systems, measurements, and tools and learn to apply these in business situations.

Essentials of Early Childhood Studies: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CHS101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The course will introduce students to fundamental concepts, ethical conduct, core knowledge, best practices, and the NAEYC accreditation standards and competencies for early childhood educators. The course will address understanding the expectations of the field, including advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. The course will strengthen students' written, verbal and technological communication skills as they explore key concepts in the early childhood field.

Introduction to Criminal Justice: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The student will be introduced to the American Criminal Justice System from the perspective of the criminal justice professional. The course examines the historical development and role of the police, prosecution, corrections, probation, parole, and rehabilitation.

Introduction to Law: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ102
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The student is introduced to law enforcement. This course studies the role of police in society with attention to the history of law enforcement, the organization of police forces, centralized police power, community policing, and the recruitment and training of police officers

Introduction to Corrections: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ103
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course studies the history of corrections, including imprisonment and other acts of punishment, institutional and non-institutional. The philosophy and rationale for various sentencing alternatives are considered.

Introduction to Forensics: POST
STEM
Course Code: CRJ180
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course begins with a basic overview of crime scene processing and discusses the different disciplines within forensic science from the “science” viewpoint. Scientific principles and practices will be applied to specific examples within the following: forensic biology, DNA analysis, toxicology and drug analysis, trace evidence, arson and explosives, fingerprints, firearms, footwear and tire track impressions, questioned documents, and multimedia and computer evidence.

Race, Ethnicity, and Crime: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ200
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The student is introduced to the intersection between race, ethnicity, and crime in America. The myths and realities of how race and ethnicity relate to, and impact various aspects of crime will be addressed. Emphasis will be placed on the criminal justice response from arrest to pre-trial discussion, sentencing, and through incarceration of an individual. Additional emphasis will be made on case law, and how it impacts minority youth.

Juvenile Justice: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ201
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The student is introduced to the juvenile justice process. While the focus is on the criminal court system’s handling of the juvenile offender, additional areas of study include the forces that contribute to juvenile delinquency, as well as prevention rehabilitation.

Criminal Investigations : POST
STEM
Course Code: CRJ211
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The student is introduced to the principles of criminal investigation. These include techniques and methods used in searching the crime scene, locating and interviewing witnesses, interrogating witnesses, and developing suspects. Attention is given to the basics of forensic science, including photography.

Cybercrime: POST
STEM
Course Code: CRJ222
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course provides theoretical bases and practical strategies for lifelong learning. Students will become aware of university resources, as well as the policies and procedures critical to success. Through this course, students are introduced to the many types of cybercrimes. Students will learn principles of cybercrime, including techniques, methods of investigation, identifying, and seizing electronic evidence.

Estate Administration and Probate Practice: POST
Humanities
Course Code: LAW105
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
Students learn the role that wills, trusts and powers of attorney play in the management of personal assets. Further, students become thoroughly familiar with the procedures employed to open, manage, and close Decedents’ Estates, Conservatorship, Guardianships, Small Estates, and Refusal of Letters.

Alternative Dispute Resolution POST
Humanities
Course Code: LAW334
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
Students will be introduced to types of dispute resolution processes that do not involve adjudication. These processes are referred to collectively as Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Students will gain an understanding of ADR through an overview of conflict, communication, and dispute resolution. The theories, methods, and terminology of ADR will be introduced with emphasis on the importance of different communication techniques and their significant role in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.

Business Law I : POST
Humanities
Course Code: LAW204
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course examines various areas of the law including Constitutional Law and the rights and duties that apply to business entities and individuals. This course covers Tort Law in the business context as well as ways in which Criminal Law may involve business stakeholders. Additional topics include an in-depth examination of contracts, including sales contracts, the application of the Uniform Commercial Code, and shipping contracts.

Principles of Finance: POST
STEM
Course Code: FIN201
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course examines the role of finance in relation to other business operations and within the financial community. It covers the development and use of the basic tools and operational/quality measures for financial administration, financial analysis, planning and control, investment decisions, and management of sources of funds.

Legal Research: POST
Humanities
Course Code: LAW205
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
Students are introduced to the process of finding the law and will become familiar with legal resource materials. Materials surveyed include sources of Constitutional, Statutory and Case Law as well as Administrative Regulations. In addition to locating sources both through manual and Computer Assisted Legal Research methods, students will learn strategies for ensuring research results reflect current information as changes in the law occurs. Research assignments acclimate students to the legal research process.

World Civilizations: POST
Humanities
Course Code: HIS101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course provides a survey of significant developments relating to the rise of early civilization throughout the world. We will focus on the rise and fall of subsequent civilizations and empires, comparing the economic, political, social, military, and cultural components that impact the success and/or failure of these civilizations and empires. 

Principles of Management: POST
Humanities
Course Code: MGT105
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course serves as an introduction to the discipline of management. It is designed to integrate the accepted theories in the area with real world applications to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills needed for managing others. This course begins with a discussion of the current issues in management and then proceeds to cover the traditional functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Lecture and class assignments given in the course are intended to help students understand the needs of modern public and private organizations, including emerging national and international trends.

Entrepreneurship POST
Humanities
Course Code: MGT221
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course focuses on exploring and creating new venture ideas. Students will study characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and will learn how to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities. The course will also provide students an understanding of the business skills needed to implement new ventures and the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion and action as it relates to entrepreneurial ventures. The emphasis will be on creativity and innovation in new venture creation and selling the idea to a hypothetical group of investors/lenders.

Sales & Techniques of Selling: POST
Humanities
Course Code: MKT203
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The course examines basic principles, methods and techniques of selling. Students study sales psychology process, strategies and practical skill application. This course examines basic principles, methods, and techniques of selling. Students learn current sales operations and techniques and practice these skills using hypothetical business scenarios and individual sales presentations. Also covered are verbal and non-verbal sales cues, the psychology of selling, sales strategies, and specialized sales situations.

Social Media Marketing : POST
Humanities
Course Code: MKT235
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The course examines social media in general to focus on its integration with a marketing strategy. Students will learn to build social media marketing plans and do the necessary analysis to customize plans for organizations. The theoretical underpinnings of social media will be explored so that students will better understand social media's explosive popularity. Various social media marketing tools will be touched upon as will the evolving nature of social media communication.

Fundamentals of Psychology I: POST
Humanities
Course Code: PSY101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course emphasizes the nature of psychology as a social and behavioral science. It surveys fundamental areas in psychology, including research methodologies, the brain and behavior, learning, human development, intelligence, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology.

Fundamentals of Psychology II: POST
Humanities
Course Code: PSY102
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course is intended for students who want to continue the exploration of psychology introduced in Fundamentals of Psychology I (PSY101). It surveys such areas as psychological research, discipline-specific ethics, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, memory, motivation and emotion, thinking and language, health psychology, and sociocultural diversity.

Principles of Sociology: POST
Humanities
Course Code: SOC101
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts in Sociology and an analysis of culture, socialization, stratification, social organization, class, social interaction, social change, and conflict.

Internet and Interactive Media Marketing: POST
Humanities
Course Code: MKT303
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course examines the impact of the Internet on business and how it has expanded a firm's ability to customize its product and service offerings to levels not attainable in the past. Students will explore ethics in marketing on the internet, customer engagement, best practices, analysis of data, and measuring results. This course will also define the different capabilities that social media has enabled marketers to utilize. Students will revisit the basic tenets of marketing and assess the impact of Interactive media on these basic principles. The course will also address the benefits as well as the limitations of Internet marketing and elements of social media platforms in marketing campaigns.

Business to Business Marketing: POST
Humanities
Course Code: MKT301
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course offers an overview of marketing as it applies to raw material suppliers, manufacturers, and middlemen. This includes industrial demand, marketing intelligence systems and analysis, product and service best practices, ethics, and ad agency support. Individual research, readings, videos, communities of practice, group conversations, written assignments will provide the foundation for a highly interactive and multimedia learning experience.

Police Administration and Management: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ309
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The student is introduced to the basics of administering and managing law enforcement professionals. The focus is on particular issues faced in managing police officers: federal, state, or local. The course addresses relations with non-governmental community leaders. Budgeting and planning are also covered.

Human Trafficking: A Hidden Crime: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ322
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The course examines issues related to human trafficking and immigration from a local, national and global perspective. Students in this course will identify issues related to commercial human exploitation and trafficking for the purpose of prostitution and other slave-like practices including forced labor, the exploitation of immigrants for domestic service, the sale of children for irregular inter-country adoption, and the sale of young girls for transnational marriages. This course will examine the subject matter from the perspectives of the victims, offenders and law enforcement.

Effective Communications for Criminal Justice Professions: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ311
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course is designed to impart communication skills specifically geared toward the criminal justice professional. This course provides both a theoretical and practical study of the role of communication as it relates to law enforcement. Subjects include: thinking before speaking, oral and written communications, use of presentation and visual aids, purposes of speech, public speaking including extemporaneous style speaking, non-verbal communication, grammar, making reports on the job, departmental records and record keeping, proper communication in the courtroom, interviewing and interrogating witnesses and suspects, communication technology, communicating with ethnic groups, and much more.

Criminal Procedure: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ302
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course is a survey and analysis of the due process rights of individuals in the criminal process. Emphasis is on the impact of the Bill of Rights on the practices of police, prosecutors, and judges, and the remedies available for the violation of those rights.

Criminal Law: POST
Humanities
Course Code: CRJ209
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
This course examines substantive and procedural criminal law including the common-law and statutory offenses. The law of evidence, burden of proof, the jury system and pretrial dispositions are also studied.

Financial Accounting: POST
STEM
Course Code: ACC111
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
The objective for this course is for the student to learn about accounting as an information development and communications function that supports economic decision making. The course should help students perform financial analysis; derive information for personal or organizational decisions; and understand business, governmental, and other organizational entities.

Managerial Accounting: POST
STEM
Course Code: ACC211
Credits: 1.0
Weight: AP/Post Secondary
Grade(s): 11-12
Prerequisite: ACC111
This course provides a practical understanding of the use of accounting by management in planning and controlling operations in all functions of the enterprise and in choosing among alternative courses of action.