Adult Living

Adult Living is a course designed to empower students to take action for their own well being and the well being of others while effectively managing the roles and responsibilities created by families, careers and community interactions. Focusing on the young adults, the course content includes skills and knowledge to enable students to maintain optimal living environment by making responsible young adult decisions. Students learn to plan and set goals for careers, manage multiple roles, maintain respectful and caring relationships with improved communication skills, understand the responsibilities of parenting, cope with stress and crisis situations, provide for health and well-being, and function as informed consumers.

Contemporary Issues

Students study various dynamic issues facing today’s society enabling them to discover their values and responsibilities as citizens in that society. The course will utilize six social studies standards of essential content knowledge and four process skills are integrated for instructional purposes. Students will utilize different learning methods to research, discuss, debate and formulate opinions on those contemporary issues.

Critical Thinking 

This course emphasizes thinking skills that are highly correlated with those measured on various academic and aptitude test.

Introduction to Cinema Studies 

This course is designed to study the history of cinema as well as compare and contrast yesterday's media with the technology used today.