High School Electives

Career Planning .05 Credit Students explore career opportunities based on personal assessments, interviews with community members, guest speakers and research of occupational outlooks.

Life Skills .05 Credit This course gives students practice in the skills needed for such tasks as budgeting, banking, income and credit management, taxes, insurance and investments.

Marketing 1.0 Credit This course is designed to prepare students for employment in various sales, customer service, advertising and promotion, and first line supervisory positions in wholesale, retail and service areas.

Business Law  .05 Credit This course involves the study of how our nation's laws were formed, the ethics behind our laws, our kinds of law, how laws are enforced, and the difference between crimes and torts.

Windows / NT*  .05 Credit This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop technical abilities in planning, implementing, and maintaining a fully functional and efficient computer operating system. 

PC101 .05 Credit This course will prepare students to use the computer as a tool to assist in personal, business and educational use at an accelerated pace.

Internet and Web Design .05 Credit This course is designed to help students create personal, business, or school web pages for the Internet. 

Business Law .05 Credit.  This course is highly recommended as an elective for students who wish to become familiar with the law as it affects them as a consumer.

Criminal Justice .05 Credit. This course explores many aspects of the criminal justice system including the chain of events and the legal procedures involved in handling a case from the time an act is committed to the courtroom trial and beyond.

Forensics 1.0 Credit.  Get in on crime scene investigation and learn the art and the science of forensics.

Marketing 1.0 Credit.  This course is designed for students interested in studying a variety of marketing concepts.

Entrepreneurship 1.0 Credit.  This course provides students with economical, cultural, political, sociological, and psychological perspectives on the creation and evolution of entrepreneurial ventures.

Introduction to Game Production 1.0 Credit.  Introduction to Game Production teaches the fundamental concepts for managing a game project.

Introduction to Gaming 1.0 Credit.  This course provides students with economical, cultural, political, sociological, and psychological perspectives on the creation and evolution of entrepreneurial ventures.

Introduction to Web Design 1.0 Credit.  In this course, students will learn the basics of designing and developing a web site.

Psychology 1.0 Credit.  Surveys the major principles of psychology. Introduces the history of psychology, human development, personality, abnormal behavior, social psychology, feelings and emotions, research methodologies, experimental psychology, psychophysiology, learning and memory, altered states of awareness, sleep and dreams, and industrial and organizational psychology.

Sociology 1.0 Credit.  This course offers a study of human relationships in society.

Elements of Mass Communication .05 Credit.  Covers film, radio, TV, magazines, newspapers and the Internet.

Senior Projects 1.0 Credit.  During their Senior year, our students are given the opportunity to show personal initiative and independence in a study or project of their choice. 

Community Service Program 1.0 Credit.  The Community Service Program starts in Grade 9 and encourages students to develop a concern and willingness to help those with special needs in our society. 

Research Paper .05 Credit. Prepare students for the research and writing challenges of collegiate professors.

Creative Writing 05 Credit.  Are you looking for a productive, enjoyable, mind-stimulating opportunity for self-expression? Then study the poem, short story, and essay. The opportunities for expressing yourself will be numerous.

Speech .05 Credit.  Practical introduction to verbal communication. The course works on a learn-by-doing basis and thus attempts to build poise and confidence through a series of speech experiences which require the use of various methods of gathering and organizing information.

Business Communications .05 Credit.  Using a computer, the student will reinforce grammatical and punctuation skills while writing business letters and employment letters.

Accounting 1 Credit.  Student will learn the fundamentals of recording and interpreting basic financial business records based upon accepted accounting principles.

Personal Finance .05 Credit.  This course is available as an elective for junior and senior students desiring a background in mathematical principles involving personal money management in computing earnings, preparing federal and state income taxes, car insurance, life insurance, and medical insurance, buying at discounts and using charge accounts, and transportation systems.

Information Processing I  .05 Credit.  This available as an elective for students who are interested in developing basic word processing skills using the computer.

Information Process II .05 Credit.  This course is available as an elective for students who are interested in expanding their word processing skills.

Office Technology  .05 Credit.  This course is available as an elective to those students who have successfully completed Information Processing I.

Communications and Mass Media .05 Credit.  This course requires the implementation of the following skills: news, feature, sports, column, editorial, commentary, and creative writing; headline and caption writing; photography and photojournalism skills; layout, design, and concept development for all five publications; budget development and management; sales of ads and publications; advertising design, proofreading, public speaking, cooperative learning, leadership, desktop publishing utilizing Adobe PageMaker, ClarisWorks, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.