HSAGT 10: American Government

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course introduces students to the institutions of the government of the United States of America. Topics include the principles and moral values of the government, the rights and obligations of democratic citizens, the fundamental values and principles of civil society, the roles of the three branches of government, landmark Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution, elective offices, powers and procedures of government, and comparison of American government to other systems of government in the world today.

HSECN 10: Economics

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

Economics introduces students to the basic economic principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Topics include international economics, comparative economic systems, measurement, and methods.

HSENG 15: Everyday Grammar (Career Preparation)

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students review grammar with a focus on the skills and tools that can be used to enhance real-world and workplace writing. Grammar principles focus on revision opportunities in personal and professional writing and the grammar mechanics of emails, letters, and other real-world documents. This course is ideal for students who want to review or practice personal and professional writing skills that can be used in everyday life. (May be repeated one time.)

HSENG 16: Academic Grammar (College Preparation)

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students review grammar with a focus on the skills and tools that can be used to enhance formal academic writing. Grammar principles focus on opportunities for essay revision and grammar mechanics for MLA and APA citation as well as common essay writing and revision tools. This course is ideal for students who want to review or practice the academic writing skills that will prepare them for college. (May be repeated time.)

HSENG 17: Basic Skills: Reading and Study Strategies

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: ALTERNATING TERMS

This course helps students improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary in various academic and career-related subjects. It emphasizes fundamental reading comprehension skills, real-world, workplace, and academic vocabulary enhancement, and effective study habits. (May be repeated one time.)

HSENG 21: Everyday Writing: The Single Paragraph (Career Preparation)

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students review different types of simple real-world and workplace documents. Reading assignments include texts such as manuals, directions, short letters, and emails. Writing assignments focus on short written responses, such as personal and professional emails and workplace documents like cover letters. This course is ideal for students who want to review or practice personal and professional writing skills that will prepare them for everyday life as well as current and future jobs. (May be repeated one time.)

HSENG 22: Academic Writing: The Five Paragraph Essay (College Preparation)

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students review standard paragraphs and essays and the tools that can be used to enhance formal academic writing. Reading assignments include fiction and non-fiction texts from diverse authors. Writing assignments focus on writing and revision opportunities in crafting a standard five-paragraph essay. This course is ideal for students who want to review or practice the academic writing skills that will prepare them for college. (May be repeated one time.)

HSENG 23: Everyday Writing: Reports and Projects (Career Preparation)

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students review different types of advanced real-world and workplace documents. Reading assignments include texts such as Pew research, home repair estimates, and academic or medical reports and evaluations. Writing assignments focus on longer written responses, such as personal and professional project proposals and career/vocation-specific writing. This course is ideal for students who already have some personal and professional writing experience or knowledge, but who desire more review and practice to enhance those skills for everyday life as well as for current and future jobs. (May be repeated one time.)

HSENG 25: Academic Writing: The Research Paper (College Preparation)

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students review different academic essay formats and the tools that can be used to enhance formal academic writing. Reading assignments include college-level texts from diverse authors. Writing assignments focus on writing and revising opportunities in crafting an academic research essay. This course is ideal for students who want to review or practice the academic writing skills that will prepare them for college. (May be repeated one time.)

HSETHN 10: Introduction to Ethnic Studies

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course introduces students to ethnic studies as an academic discipline. Reading and writing assignments center on an interdisciplinary study of indigeneity, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on the experiences of people of color and other historically marginalized groups in the United States. The course provides an overview of the effects of historical and institutional racism and discrimination against African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Latinx/Chicanx, and others through their perspectives. The course helps students explore their own ethnic identity/identities, and those of their peers, in an effort to center community cultural wealth, identity, and agency in both learning and social spaces.

HSIFA 11: Introduction to Fine Arts 1 - The History and Development of Theatre

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students will explore the diverse cultural traditions that have shaped theatre throughout history. Students' review of global perspectives and practices will emphasize inclusive, respectful, and critically engaged understandings of the role of theater and its elements from its prehistoric beginnings to the present.

HSIFA 12: Introduction to Fine Arts 2 - Art and Music

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students will explore the history and development of art and music with a commitment to cultural sensitivity and responsiveness, emphasizing diverse perspectives and representation. Topics include a review of the prehistoric origins of art, architecture, and music, through the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and up to contemporary art and music.

HSIFA 13: Beginning Film and Digital Media Production

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Spring

This course offers a basic introduction to the video production environment. Students work with a team on a project through the pre-production, shooting, and post-production phases of narrative storytelling for the screen. Students critique professional and peer work while using appropriate film and video vocabulary. Students also learn basic operational skills for the video camera and editing system so that they can demonstrate their understanding of film techniques while creating video projects. Instruction covers film production, script writing, editing, and critical thinking. (May be repeated once.)

HSIFA 14: Introduction to Fine Arts 3: The History of Film

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

In this history of film class, students view, study, discuss, and write about films from various genres and different time periods. They develop and demonstrate technological, cultural, and media literacy skills as well as critical thinking and problem-solving skills that will serve them well in the real world. This course presents students to the basics of film analysis, cinematic elements, genre, and narrative structure. Students obtain the skills to identify, analyze, and appreciate film as an art and entertainment form, and they learn and become aware of films from a diverse group of writers and directors.

HSMTH 11: Number Sense & Arithmetic

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

Number Sense and Arithmetic supports adult learners in developing essential mathematical skills and confidence. This course is intended for students seeking to fulfill pre-collegiate requirements, meet the mathematics unit requirement for an adult high school diploma, or prepare for exams such as the GED. Topics include whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, with an emphasis on understanding, application, and numeracy. (May be repeated once.)

HSMTH 12: Data & Probability

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

Develops skills in data literacy, probability, and quantitative reasoning for real-world contexts. Students interpret and construct graphs, calculate percents, analyze measures of central tendency, apply basic counting principles, and solve simple probability problems. Applies math credit toward the Adult High School diploma and supports readiness for higher education, workplace applications, and preparation for the GED exam. (May be repeated once.)

HSMTH 13: Geometry & Measurement

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

Develops skills in geometric measurement and problem solving for real-world contexts. Students calculate perimeter, area, surface area, volume, and apply the Pythagorean Theorem while working with polygons, circles, and three-dimensional solids. Applies math credit toward the Adult High School diploma and supports readiness for higher education, workplace applications, and preparation for the GED exam. (May be repeated once.)

HSMTH 20: Algebra 1A

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

An introduction to foundational algebra concepts, designed for adult learners with little or no prior experience. Topics include the real number system, algebraic expressions, linear equations and inequalities, graphing in the coordinate plane (including slope, intercepts, and parallel/perpendicular lines), functions, and systems of linear equations. This course supports learners from diverse educational backgrounds, promotes equitable access to college and career pathways, and is aligned with GED algebra standards and ICAS college-prep competencies. (May be repeated one time.)

HSMTH 21: Algebra 1B

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

A continuation of introductory algebra concepts, designed for adult learners preparing for GED success, diploma enrichment, or transition to college and career pathways. Topics include exponents, operations with polynomials, factoring, and quadratic functions. Students will graph parabolas, interpret vertices and intercepts, and solve quadratic equations by factoring and using the quadratic formula. Instruction emphasizes inclusive and accessible approaches that support learners from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds, and the course is aligned with GED algebra standards and ICAS college-prep competencies. (May be repeated one time.)

HSSCI 11: Physical Science 1 - Chemistry

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This introductory chemistry class introduces students to the study of matter and changes in matter. Topics include states of matter, chemical and physical changes, the development of the atomic theory, the periodic table and its use, writing chemical formulas, balancing chemical equations, types of chemical reactions, and an introduction to organic chemistry.

HSSCI 12: Physical Science 2 - Physics

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This introductory physics course is non-algebra based and introduces students to the basic concepts of physics. Students learn to solve basic physics problems using metric measurements. Topics include motion, forces, forces in fluids, work, machines, energy, thermal energy, and heat.

HSSCI 21: Life Science 1A - Cell Biology

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This introductory biology course covers the basics of cell biology, including cellular organization, cellular transport systems, cellular metabolism, and the requirements for life. The course also introduces genetics, including the structure and functions of DNA, Mendelian genetics, probability, and cellular reproduction.

HSSCI 22: Life Science 2 - Human Anatomy and Physiology

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This course in human anatomy and physiology covers each of the eleven organ systems of the human body. It emphasizes learning the structures of each system along with their functions. The course also provides a more in-depth study of the physiology of cellular respiration, homeostasis, immunology, reproduction, and growth and development.

HSSCI 23: Life Science 1B - Animal Biology

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This introductory biology course covers the basics of animal biology. Topics include the scientific method, the characteristics of living things, evolution and evolutionary relationships among species, and fossils.

HSSCI 41: Physical Science 3 - Environmental Science

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This introductory environmental science course covers the basics on human population growth, natural resources, and ecosystem dynamics. Through the study of these topics, students develop an understanding of how interdependent life on Earth is and the cross-cutting relationships of the fields of science, such as chemistry, physics, and biology.

HSSCI 51: Life Science 3 - Introduction to Biotechnology

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This biotechnology science course introduces the use of living organisms in industrial, agricultural, medical, and other technological applications. Through the study of these topics, students obtain a comprehensive introduction to the scientific concepts and laboratory research techniques currently used in the field of biotechnology.

HSUSH 11: United States History 1

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course explores the major turning points in United States history from the nations beginnings through the early 20th Century.

HSUSH 12: United States History 2

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course introduces students to the major turning points in United States history from World War II to the present day with an emphasis on the twentieth century.

HSWFP 11: Applied Computer Skills

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

In this course, students develop essential computer and information technology skills for workplace and educational success. Students develop skills in using word processing software and in integrating several Microsoft applications. Students access, evaluate, and utilize information resources using the Internet and web browsers, and they get experience with a learning management system. Previous experience using computers, or completion of NCVOC 38 Computer Basics/Keyboarding class, is recommended.

HSWHG 11: World History and Geography 1

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Students are advised to have completed HSENG 22 and a basic computer literacy course prior to taking World History 1.
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course introduces students to world history, culture, and geography from the late eighteenth century to the conclusion of World War I.

HSWHG 12: World History and Geography 2

High School Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course introduces students to world history, culture, and geography from the conclusion of World War I through the present.