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Study and practice of effective, audience-centered public speaking. Includes methodology of written and spoken communication.

Students will gain knowledge in a study of positive guidance and discipline techniques that can be used to encourage children to develop self-discipline and responsibility for their own actions. Students learn the importance of assessing, understanding, and enhancing the development of communication skills of young children to help guide and develop a child's self-image. Students will learn how to translate information presented into related skills and procedures that support children’s social development.

This course stresses the importance of family. Students will learn the specific attitudes, philosophies, and practical techniques that teachers in any setting can find useful in building relationships with families.

Students will be learning how to create a family tree and learn about their family history. This course will also help students know where to search for family historical information, including dates, location, and events that surround their ancestor’s lives.

This course will help students with genealogical and family history research and use it to grow their family tree. Students will have the opportunity to focus on an individual or on a small group of their ancestors. Students will gain a better understanding of events in their family history and explore personal and statistical details surrounding their family tree. Students will develop a secure knowledge of researching methodologies and genealogical proofs according to correct standards to definitively validate their research findings.

Survey and development of western thought, culture, and political history from ancient times to 1650. This course of study includes the rise of the city in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the rise of Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire and the Middle Ages in western Europe, the Renaissance and Reformation, exploration and expansion, and the century of religious warfare.

Colonial America and the United States from pre-Columbian era to 1877. This course of study includes units on discovery, colonization, the formation of the American Union, Constitutional principles, westward expansion, origins of north/south conflict, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Significant economic and social developments are placed in their historical context.

A general survey of the important concepts in psychology with traditional theories and modern developments. It includes, but is not limited to, such topics as the history of psychology, the biological foundations of behavior, learning, memory, problem solving, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, motivation, emotions, personality, intelligence, gender and sexuality, and abnormal behavior.