Academics
Course Description
Prepares students for diesel technician positions working on heavy construction equipment, trucks, industrial plant vehicles, and agricultural equipment. Students will work with: basic diesel engines, fundamental driveline, hydraulic and electrical systems and preventative maintenance.
This course introduces students to philosophy as the disciplined pursuit of truth through reason. The Catholic intellectual tradition provides the course’s central framework. Students will also learn about: Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Materialism, Atheism, Liberalism, Socialism, and Social-Contract
This course is designed to examine major news and issues of the day. The course will focus on local, national, and international events making headlines, and will utilize a variety of media to obtain different perspectives on those topics. The course is intended to teach students awareness of how news stories may directly or indirectly affect their lives, and to encourage them to become more informed young citizens as they prepare to take on the responsibilities of adulthood.
The course gives an introduction to zoology, with particular emphasis on the morphology and systematics of both vertebrates and invertebrates. In addition, the students should acquire basic knowledge in ethology, evolution, and human ecology (including an introduction to the biosphere and biodiversity). Zoology is a course that will survey the nine major phyla of the kingdom Animalia. Zoology is the study of animal life. Zoologists research everything they think to ask about animals, including their anatomy and interrelationships, their physiology and genetics, and their distributions and habitats. Human beings have been zoologists for as long as there have been human beings. As humans, we are intricately tied to animal life.
