Human Relations
This course studies how human relations works and the part individuals play. Students will learn vertical and horizontal working relationships, understanding leadership and followership, and individual productivity in the workplace. Included in this course is a review of frustration and aggression, the most common human relations mistakes, dealing with injured relationships, and analyzing attitudes.
Reading Skills
Previewing; scanning; dictionary usage; context clues; words with multiple meanings; paragraph structure; making inferences; separating fact from opinion; detecting bias; drawing conclusions; imagery; similes and metaphors; the elements of fiction.
General Math 1
Beginning with whole numbers, this course examines fractions, mixed numbers, as well as subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals. Included in this course is metric measurement and converting between English and Metric systems. Students will also learn ratios, proportion, and percent.
Canadian History
This course studies the settling the prairies, the growth of Canadian industries and cities, the social picture, major events of World Wars I and II, the great depression, the United Nations, and how the latter half of the 20th century set the stage for a new Canada
Biology
Students learn the nature of life, cells, biochemistry, monera and protists, plants, animals, plant digestion and circulation, nutrition and maintenance, homeostasis, stimulus and response, cellular reproduction and animal development. Course includes a study of plant development, biochemical genetics, infection and immunity, and the human environment.
English
Your coursework is comprised of the guide to pronunciation, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. Students learn synonyms and antonyms, the parts of a sentence, noun plurals and possessives, using modifiers effectively, and punctuation. Sentence skills are an important component of proper grammar. Students are instructed in phrases and clauses, sentence structures, punctuation and sentence structure. Assignments include development of writing skills through prewriting, planning, revising and editing, proofreading, presenting, and paragraph structure. The course ends with development of compositions, creative writing, personal writing, workplace writing, letter styles, and factual writing.
World History
Students learn how civilization began, the development of classical civilization, the worlds of Christendom and Islam, the worlds of Africa and the Americans, the world of Asia, the rise of the Western World, the world in upheaval and the contemporary world.
General Math 2
This course reviews factors and multiples, powers and roots, and equations. Student learn signed numbers, basic operations with signed numbers, and monomials and polynomials. Geometry is the study of angles, lines, polygons, circles and circumference. Also included is the study of area and volume.
Written Communication
Society requires students capable of expressing ideas through written communication. This courses examines the parts of speech, sentence structure, sentence sense, common grammatical problems, punctuation, and capitalization. Also included is a study of effective correspondence, writing with style, shaping paragraphs, conveying an impression, kinds of business correspondence, parts of a letter, letter styles, common business letters, and reports.
Geometry
Students learn about angles and lines, polygons, triangles, drawings and constructions, quadrilaterals and parallelograms, circles, tangents and secants, arc, radians, and areas of circular figures. The course ends with a review of unusual figures: prisms and cylinders, pyramids, cones, and frustums, spheres and cylindrical rings.
Physical Science
This course studies all forms of matter: minerals, and rocks, natural resources and internal phenomena, weathering, erosion and water, glaciers, oceans and time, the atmosphere and climate, and astronomy. |
