Where does drawing actually go?
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Every brand, product, poster and app you use was designed by someone. Here is how you get there from here.
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Art
Where the eye and the hand get built.
Intro to the Visual Arts
Art · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · Opens every other art course
Learn to see like an artist and draw what you actually see.
Drawing and Painting
Art · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Visual Foundations
Build real skill in a medium, across many kinds of subject.
Design & Composition
Art · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Drawing & Painting
How artists arrange a page so it works. This is the bridge course.
What pairs with it
Design & Media
Where that work reaches an audience.
Graphic Design I: Foundations
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Photoshop and Illustrator on real projects. No experience needed.
Television I: Intro to Studio Production
Tech Ed · Grades 9-10, 11 if space permits · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Plan, shoot and cut a real production with a crew.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Why people choose one thing over another. It is what clients pay for.
Someone who can draw it and ship it
Studios and agencies hire people who can carry an idea all the way through: draw it, build the file, and explain the thinking behind it. Each course on this page adds one of those parts, and they are worth more together than separately.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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A garment nobody sees does not become a business. Here is how you get there from here.
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Fashion Design
Where the garment gets designed and made.
Fashion Design I: Principles
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Line, fit and fabric, and how clothing is actually designed.
Fashion Design II: Illustration
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Principles
Drawing the garment before it exists.
Fashion Design III: Construction
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Principles and Illustration
Pattern, cut and sew. Make the thing.
What pairs with it
Image & Market
Where it gets photographed, branded and sold.
Graphic Design I: Foundations
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
The tools every clothing label runs on.
Photo I: Fundamentals
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Shoot the lookbook yourself instead of paying for it.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How a label finds the people who want it.
A designer who can
also market the label
Labels are built by people who make the thing and photograph it, brand it and put it in front of the right audience. Fashion Design IV covers marketing from inside the department. These three come at it from the other direction.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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You already write every year you are here. Almost nobody adds the half that puts it on a screen.
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English
Where the story gets built.
English 9
English · Grade 9 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · No prereq
Required of everyone. Structure, argument and voice.
English 11
English · Grade 11 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires English 10
Also required. By now you are building real arguments.
AP Language & Composition
English · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · AP
Rhetoric and non-fiction, which is what most writing jobs actually are.
What pairs with it
Production & Publication
Where it gets made and put in front of people.
Television I: Intro to Studio Production
Tech Ed · Grades 9-10, 11 if space permits · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Plan, shoot and cut a real production with a crew.
Television II: Field and Narrative Production
Tech Ed · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires TV I
Narrative work on location. A story becomes a shot list.
Yearbook / Graphic Design / Publications
Tech Ed · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Write, edit and lay out a real publication on a real deadline.
A writer who can also produce it
Newsrooms, studios and agencies hire people who can write the thing and then carry it to air or to print. The writing is taught in one department and the production in another, and hardly anyone takes both.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Performance is the part everyone sees. Most of the paid work in music happens behind the board.
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Music
Where the ear and the theory get trained.
Materials of Music I
Music · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
How music is actually built. The theory everything else needs.
Materials of Music II
Music · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Materials of Music I
Composition and arrangement, which is the writing half of the job.
AP Music Theory
Music · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · AP · Requires Materials of Music I or instructor permission
College credit, and the level a music program expects.
What pairs with it
Production & Business
Where a recording reaches an audience.
Television I: Intro to Studio Production
Tech Ed · Grades 9-10, 11 if space permits · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Signal, microphones, mixing and post. The board, in other words.
Graphic Design I: Foundations
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Cover art, show posters, and everything a release has to look like.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester. Almost everyone in music works for themselves.
Somebody who can play it
and also record and mix it
Studios, live venues, post houses and game audio all hire people who can read music and run the gear. The theory is taught in Music and the gear in Tech Ed, and taking one without the other is how people end up stuck on either side.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Somebody owns every shop you have ever been in. They learned the trade first, then they learned the rest.
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Automotive
Where the trade gets built.
Intro to Automotive Systems
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How the whole vehicle actually works.
Auto Occupations: Suspension & Brakes
Tech Ed · Grades 10-12 · 10 cr · Enriched · Requires Intro to Auto
A double period of real diagnostic work on real vehicles.
Advanced Auto: Work Based Learning
Tech Ed · Grade 12 · 10 cr · Enriched · Requires Intro to Auto and a B average in Auto
You work in an actual shop and get credit for it.
What pairs with it
Running It
Where a trade turns into a business.
Principles of Business
Business · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Ownership, ethics and how a business is put together.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester on starting the thing yourself.
College Accounting I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Where the money in a shop actually goes.
The person who owns the
shop, not just works there
An independent shop is run by somebody who learned the trade and then learned the business. The trade is taught in one department here and the business in another. The people who take both are the ones whose name ends up on the sign.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Restaurants close because of margins, not because of the food. Here is how you get there from here.
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Culinary
Where the cooking gets serious.
Foods I: Introduction to Foods and Nutrition
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Safety, knife skills and real technique.
Foods II: International Foods
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Intro to Foods
Range, which is what separates a cook from a line cook.
Foods IV: Culinary Arts
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grade 12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Intro, International and Regional
The capstone of the culinary program.
What pairs with it
The Business Of It
Where a kitchen turns into a business.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester on starting your own.
College Accounting I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Food cost is the whole game and this is where you learn it.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Filling the seats, which is the other half of staying open.
A cook who can
run the whole place
The cooking is taught in one department and the numbers in another. The people who take both are the ones still open in year three. Foods I is open in grade 9 and Entrepreneurship runs a single semester.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Somebody built the cabinets in your kitchen and the table you eat at. They run a business doing it.
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Manufacturing
Where material becomes a finished object.
Manufacturing and Woodworking I
Tech Ed · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Machines, materials and tolerances. Build the thing.
Fabrication Technology
Tech Ed · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Cut, form and join. The other half of making.
Manufacturing and Woodworking II
Tech Ed · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Manufacturing I, CAD I or Robotics I
Where the work gets precise enough to sell.
What pairs with it
Running It
Where a workshop turns into a business.
Principles of Business
Business · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Ownership, pricing and how a business is put together.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester on starting the thing yourself.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How a custom shop finds the people who want the work.
Somebody who builds it
and then sells it themselves
A custom shop is one person who can make the thing and also price it, quote it and find the customer. The making is taught in Tech Ed and the rest in Business, and that second half is what turns a skill into an income.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Almost every working photographer runs a small business. Nobody teaches the second half.
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Photography
Where the eye and the camera get trained.
Photo I: Fundamentals
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Exposure, light and composition, on your own camera.
Photo II: Advanced
Tech Ed · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Photo I
Control instead of luck. Studio and editing work.
Photo III: Commercial
Tech Ed · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Photo I and II
The course is named Commercial for a reason. This is client work.
What pairs with it
Running It
Where a camera turns into an income.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester on the freelance side of the job.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How anyone finds you, which is most of a photography business.
Graphic Design I: Foundations
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Photoshop properly, plus the design work clients ask for anyway.
A photographer who can
also run the whole business
Shooting well is the part everybody focuses on. Booking, pricing, invoicing and marketing decide whether it pays. Photo III is already called Commercial, and these courses cover what that word actually means.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Biology is already in your schedule. The half nobody tells you about is the other one.
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Science
Where how a body works gets learned.
Biology
Science · Grade 9 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires Science 8
Everyone takes it, and it is the door to every health elective here.
Biology for Allied Health
Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Biology
Anatomy and physiology aimed squarely at clinical work.
Biotechnology
Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Biology
Lab technique and the science behind modern medicine.
What pairs with it
People & Practice
Where the science meets an actual patient.
Sports Medicine I
Physical Education / Health · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · Requires Biology
One semester of assessing a real injury with your hands.
Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How people actually behave, which is half of every patient visit.
Foods I: Introduction to Foods and Nutrition
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Nutrition from the ground up. Dietetics starts right here.
Someone who treats a person, not a chart
Every health career sits on two things: the science of the body, and the ability to work with the person attached to it. That second half is taught almost entirely outside the Science department, which is why most students never find it. All three of these open before you have to choose a major.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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A case is science, but it is also law and the person who did it. Those are taught in different departments.
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Science
Where the physical evidence gets read.
Biology
Science · Grade 9 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires Science 8
Required of everyone, and the first half of what forensics asks for.
Chemistry
Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires Biology and Algebra I or Geometry
The second half. Together these two open Forensic Science.
Forensic Science: Crime Evidence
Science · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · General · Requires Biology and Chemistry
How physical evidence is collected, preserved and read.
What pairs with it
Law & Behavior
Where evidence turns into an actual case.
Legal Studies
World Studies · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · No prereq
What evidence is allowed to prove, and what it is not.
Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Why people do it. The Forensic Science course leans on this directly.
Sociology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Crime as group behavior. This is where criminology actually lives.
Someone who reads the
evidence and the people
A case is chemistry, but it is also law and behavior. The lab half is taught in Science and the rest of it sits in World Studies, so hardly anybody leaves here with both. Biology and Chemistry are required anyway, which means your science side is already underway.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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You already train. Almost nobody mentions that the training itself is a career.
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Athletics & Health
Where the body under load gets understood.
Strength and Conditioning
Physical Education / Health · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Programming the training instead of just doing it.
Sports Medicine I
Physical Education / Health · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · Requires Biology
One semester of assessing a real injury with your hands.
Sports Medicine II
Physical Education / Health · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · Requires Sports Medicine I
The second half, where it gets specific.
What pairs with it
The Science Under It
Where the reason it works gets explained.
Biology
Science · Grade 9 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires Science 8
Required anyway, and the prerequisite for Sports Medicine.
Anatomy & Physiology
Science · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · Honors · Requires Biology and Chemistry at Enriched or Honors level
The whole system, at the level clinical programs expect.
Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Performance is mental. Sports psychology is a real job.
Someone who can train it
and explain why it works
Coaching hires on results, but the licensed work behind it, athletic training and physical therapy and exercise science, is a science degree. The gym half and the science half sit in different departments here. Taking both is what separates a trainer from a clinician.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Every ad, price and store layout you have walked past was built around how people actually decide.
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Psychology & Society
Where how people decide gets studied.
Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How people behave, as opposed to how they say they behave.
Sociology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Groups, status, and why a thing catches on.
AP Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · AP · Teacher recommendation
College credit in the same material.
What pairs with it
The Market
Where that understanding turns into a decision.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Why people choose one thing over another.
College Marketing II
Business · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Marketing I
The second year, where it gets applied to real work.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester on building something people actually want.
Someone who knows why
people actually choose it
Marketing that works is applied psychology, and the research jobs behind it, consumer insight and user research and behavioral science, hire people who have both. One half is taught in World Studies and the other in Business, and they rarely turn up on the same schedule.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Somebody drew the room you are sitting in, and the chair, and the building. Here is how you get there from here.
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Art
Where proportion, light and structure get learned.
Intro to the Visual Arts
Art · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · Opens every other art course
See accurately and draw what is actually in front of you.
Drawing and Painting
Art · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Visual Foundations
Control of line, value and form, which is what an object drawing needs.
Design & Composition
Art · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Drawing & Painting
Arranging elements so a design reads. True of a room as much as a page.
What pairs with it
Drafting & Making
Where a drawing becomes a real object.
Interior Design
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Plan real spaces for real people. It also unlocks CAD II.
Computer Aided Design
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Draw precisely enough that the thing can actually be made.
Manufacturing and Woodworking I
Tech Ed · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Machines, materials and tolerances. Build the thing.
Someone who can design it and build it
A drawing is only worth what somebody can make from it. These cover the three parts a designer needs: how it should look, how it gets specified, and how it actually gets built. Interior Design also satisfies the prerequisite for CAD II, so the two sides already connect on paper.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Almost every machine built now is half mechanical and half software. Most people only ever learn one half.
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Robotics & Making
Where systems get made to move.
Robot Inventors I
Tech Ed · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
The lowest barrier way in. Build something that moves.
Robotics I
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Mechanisms, sensors and control.
Computer Aided Design
Tech Ed · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Draw a part precisely enough to manufacture it.
What pairs with it
Code & Control
Where the machine is told what to do.
Foundations of Computer Programming
Computer Science · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Write your first real programs. Nothing is assumed.
AP Computer Science Principles
Computer Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · AP · No prereq
College credit, and no prerequisite to get in.
Honors Computer Programming
Computer Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Honors · Requires Algebra I with a B or higher
Where the programming gets serious enough to control hardware.
Someone who can build the machine and write what runs it
A robot is a mechanical problem and a software problem wearing one shell. Employers keep hiring two people because almost nobody arrives with both. Every course on this page is open without experience except the last one.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Modern lab work produces more data than anyone can read by hand. Here is how you get there from here.
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Science
Where the questions come from.
Biology
Science · Grade 9 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires Science 8
Required of everyone, and the source of most of the data below.
Chemistry
Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · Requires Biology and Algebra I or Geometry
Measurement, error and precision. Data with consequences.
Biotechnology
Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires Biology
Modern lab work, which is now largely a data problem.
What pairs with it
Code & Data
Where the data gets handled.
Foundations of Computer Programming
Computer Science · Grades 9-11 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Write your first real programs. Nothing is assumed.
AP Computer Science Principles
Computer Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · AP · No prereq
College credit with no prerequisite, which is unusual for an AP.
Web Development
Computer Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Build the tools and dashboards that research actually runs on.
A scientist who can
answer their own question
The people who move fastest in a lab are the ones who can ask the question and write the thing that answers it. Right now those are usually two different people. Both starting courses assume you have never programmed.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Every business, hospital and school now pays somebody to keep people out. Here is how you get there from here.
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Computing
Where you learn how the machine actually works.
Cybersecurity
Tech Ed · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How systems get broken into, and how that gets traced.
Intro to Computer Programming
Computer Science · Grades 9-11 · 2.5 cr · General · No prereq
One semester. Enough to read what a script actually did.
AP Computer Science Principles
Computer Science · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · AP · No prereq
College credit, and no prerequisite to get in.
What pairs with it
The Human Side
Where most breaches actually start.
Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
People get talked into things. That is the most common way in.
Legal Studies
World Studies · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · No prereq
What you are allowed to do about it once it happens.
Principles of Business
Business · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Security is a business risk decision before it is a technical one.
Most breaches start
with a person, not code
Systems get broken through the person using them far more often than through the code. Security work is psychology, law and business risk as much as it is technical, and the two halves are taught four departments apart.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Finance does not hire mathematicians, and it does not hire people who only know the vocabulary. It hires the overlap.
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Mathematics
Where the reasoning gets built.
Algebra I
Mathematics · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General or Enriched · No prereq
Required, and the base for everything else on this page.
Algebra II
Mathematics · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General or Enriched · Requires Algebra I and Geometry
The level AP Economics asks for on the other side.
AP Statistics
Mathematics · Grades 11-12, or 10 for accelerated students · 5 cr · AP · Requires Algebra II
The branch of math that finance, insurance and analysis actually run on.
What pairs with it
Money & Markets
Where the numbers turn into decisions.
Financial Literacy
Business · Grade 9 · 2.5 cr · General · No prereq
One semester in grade 9. The cheapest first step on this page.
College Accounting I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
How a business actually keeps score.
AP Economics
Business · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · AP · Requires Algebra II and a teacher recommendation
Why markets do what they do, for college credit.
Someone who can run the numbers and say what they mean
Being good at math is the entry ticket, not the job. The work is turning a number into a decision somebody can act on. Financial Literacy runs one semester and opens in grade 9, so this pathway costs almost nothing to try.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Every rule you live under was argued by somebody. Here is how you get there from here.
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History & Government
Where the systems and the precedent get learned.
World History
World Studies · Grade 9 · 5 cr · General, Enriched or Honors · No prereq
Required of everyone, and where the arguing starts.
Legal Studies
World Studies · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · No prereq
How law actually works, in one semester.
AP American Government & Politics
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · AP · Teacher recommendation
College credit in the system itself.
What pairs with it
Argument & Enterprise
Where a position gets built and paid for.
AP Language & Composition
English · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · AP
Rhetoric and evidence. This is the skill law school tests for.
Principles of Business
Business · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Most legal work is contracts, ownership and advising businesses.
Entrepreneurship
Business · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
One semester on the kind of client a lawyer usually has.
Someone who can build
an argument that holds
Most legal work is not a courtroom. It is contracts, compliance and advising people who run things, which makes argument plus commerce the strongest preparation. The argument is taught in English and the commerce in Business, and neither is where a student looking at law would think to go.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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Somebody taught you every subject in this building. Project Teach is where you find out whether you want to be that person.
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Child Development
Where how people learn gets studied.
Child Development I
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 10-11 · 5 cr · General · Application required
How people grow and learn, from infancy up.
Child Development II
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · General · Requires Child Development I
The second year, and the step before the capstone.
Child Development III: Project Teach
Family & Consumer Sciences · Grade 12 · 5 cr · Enriched · Requires the earlier Child Development courses and a teacher recommendation
You actually teach. This is the closest thing to the job itself.
What pairs with it
Subject & Mind
Where you get something worth teaching.
Psychology
World Studies · Grades 11-12 · 2.5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Motivation, memory and attention. All of teaching runs on these.
AP Language & Composition
English · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · AP
Explaining a hard thing clearly is most of the job.
The elective you would want to teach
Art, Music, Science, Tech Ed, World Language and the rest
Teachers need a subject. Pick the one you would happily do all day.
Somebody who knows it
and can actually teach it
Knowing a subject and being able to teach it are two different skills, and schools hire for both. Project Teach puts you in front of actual students before you commit to the degree, which is the cheapest way there is to find out whether this is your job.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.
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You are taking a language because it is required. It is also a qualification, and almost nobody uses it that way.
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World Language
Where the second language gets real.
Spanish I, French I or Italian I
World Languages · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General or Enriched · No prereq
Start in grade 9 and there is room to reach level IV or V.
Level II and Level III
World Languages · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr each · Each requires the level before it
Where it stops being vocabulary and starts being conversation.
Level IV Honors and above
World Languages · Grades 11-12 · 5 cr · Honors · Requires levels I through III
The level at which an employer counts it as a real skill.
What pairs with it
Where It Gets Used
Where a language turns into work.
Principles of Business
Business · Grades 9-12 · 5 cr · General · No prereq
Trade, ownership and how companies operate across borders.
International Relations
World Studies · Grades 10-12 · 2.5 cr · General · No prereq
One semester on how countries and organizations actually deal.
College Marketing I
Business · Grades 10-12 · 5 cr · Enriched · No prereq
Selling to people who do not share your first language.
Somebody the room
cannot manage without
Hospitals, courts, schools and companies in this state all pay more for people who can work in two languages. The language is required of you anyway. Carrying it to level IV instead of stopping at level II is what turns a requirement into a qualification.
You are not choosing between them. These sit in different departments, so taking one does not cost you the other.