Academics
Course Description
This course serves as an introduction to the Latin Language with an emphasis on how this language is used in the Catholic Church. The textbook we will be using draws its vocabulary from Caesar’s Gallic Wars which is a classical Latin text. Students will be given an online flashcard system as a resource to memorization. Topics covered in the first semester include: first through fifth declension nouns, adjectives, and preposition.
Grade Level Offerings
Course Length
Credits
This course is intended to give future educators an understanding of the physical, cognitive, social and emotional changes that occur from conception through adolescence.
The first semester will be Introduction to Academic Prose which introduces students to college-level reading, writing, and discourse analysis: it engages students in the analysis and creation of texts that reveal multiple perspectives about specific rhetorical situations and cultural issues. In addition to learning how to revise by analyzing their own writing, students will learn to edit their own work and use proper academic documentation. The second semester will be Introduction to Popular Literature which is designed to help students develop a fuller understanding of the human condition by exploring a range of accessible, bestselling fiction and non-fiction from a variety of periods and places, historic and contemporary. The course may include popular stories, songs and ballads, the scripts of blockbuster plays and films, best-selling novels, and widely distributed nonfictional prose.
Designed for students to acquire basic knowledge of the structure and an understanding of functions of the cells, tissues, organs, and systems of the human body. Scientific methodology is incorporated in the classroom activities along with substantial anatomical names and terminology. These skills are intended to introduce students to general terms and concepts needed as young adults and future parents. These terms and concepts may also serve as an introduction to students interested in biological and health related careers. Units of study include introductory terminology, cytology, histology, and each of the systems (skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, integumentary, and reproductive).
