CBEDS Assignment Codes Definitions

The course definitions below reflect instructional practices and national and state curriculum guidelines for reporting on the California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) as of 2008.

The following assignment codes are current as of October 2008.

Agriculture and Natural Resources Subjects

4040 Agricultural Business

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform tasks related to agribusiness, marketing, sales, agricultural economics, and management of farm and agriculturally related enterprises. It comprises the study of agribusiness-related careers, farm safety management, responsibilities of management, government organizations and regulations, basic microeconomics and macroeconomics, agricultural credit, record keeping and accounting, cash flow, introduction to taxes, marketing, history and current activities of agricultural cooperatives, purchasing, laws of significance to agriculture, and management decision aids. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4030 Agricultural Mechanics

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform tasks related to engineering, welding, surveying, maintenance of agricultural/agribusiness power units and equipment, and participation in technical fields supporting agricultural enterprises. It comprises the study of safety, measurement and computation, hand and power tool use, welding, hot and cold metal work, hand and power woodworking, basic design and construction, plumbing, basic electrification, electrical safety and power, rope work, surveying, basic agricultural equipment maintenance and operation, internal combustion engine theory, and small engine repair. Also included are irrigation equipment planning, installation, maintenance and operations, and hydraulics. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4070 Agriscience

The instructional program introduces individuals to tasks related to preparation for further study in one of the specific subject-matter-related areas such as agricultural plant production or forestry and material resources and eventual entry into an agriculturally related occupation. It comprises the study of animal physiology, animal organ systems, life-sustaining systems and function at the cellular level, genetics and inheritance, animal and plant health management, livestock evaluation, animal and plant nutrition, and irrigation. The program provides an introduction to agribusiness structures, agricultural record keeping, marketing, and computer applications and includes California agriculture and resources, agriculture and society, leadership, and participation in Future Farmers of America. In addition, it presents critical thinking processes and scientific inquiry, communication skills, the supervised occupational experience, employability skills, including resume development and job-seeking/retention skills and attitudes, career alternatives, parliamentary procedure, and human behavior as it relates to leadership development. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4020 Animal Science

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform tasks related to ownership, management and operation of animal production and processing enterprises, or the support of animal production and processing. It comprises the study of livestock facilities, nutritional principles, feeds and feeding, physiology and life processes, function of organ systems, genetics, inheritability and its value to breeding programs, prevention/diagnosis/treatment of common health problems, livestock pest control and prevention, animal behavior, common approved management practices, pasture and range lands management, animal waste management, and carcass processing. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4060 Forestry and Natural Resources

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform tasks related to production, management, and protection of forest crops for multiple use. Conservation and improvement of other natural resources such as land, air, wildlife, and water for economic and recreational purposes are also included. In addition, the program includes the study of careers, historical and current forest policies, interrelationships of forest ecosystems, plant physiological needs, identification (dendrology), soil management and watershed protection, measurement and surveying, Christmas tree production, disease and pest control, forest fire science, timber harvesting techniques and equipment, cruising methods, compass and map use, and communication skills useful to personnel management. Students will also study resource management, multiple-use management applications, renewable and nonrenewable resources, pollution problems and solutions, water resources, fish and game management and identification, and human impact on natural resources. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4050 Ornamental Horticulture

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform tasks related to the production, processing, and marketing of foliage plants, shrubs, and trees; landscape design and installation; nursery operation and management; and floriculture-related occupations. It comprises the study of botanical classification and plant identification, photosynthesis, plant physiology and growth characteristics, sexual and asexual propagation, pest and disease management and control, nutritional needs and soil media preparation, irrigation, purchasing and sales, pruning, maintenance skills, floriculture skills, and landscape design and installation. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4010 Plant and Soil Science

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform tasks related to production of crops and plants of agricultural importance. It comprises the study of botanical classification, photosynthesis and respiration, cellular biology, physiology, growth requirements and fertilizers, sexual and asexual propagation techniques, entomology, pest and pathogen control, including chemical and non-chemical methods, soils and soil chemistry, basic tillage and preparation techniques, soil conservation and irrigation techniques, pruning skills for trees and vines, and an introduction to harvesting techniques in California. Student participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and Supervised Occupational Experiences (SOE) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

4098 Other Agriculture and Natural Resources

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Agriculture and Natural Resources that is not described above.

Art Subjects

2808 Advertising Design

Creative expression and design principles are related to the field of advertising and commercial art. Students apply the art elements and principles of design to the field of commercial art and advertising design. The course offers practical experiences in generating original ideas, executing layouts, and preparing artwork for reproduction. The course stresses original creative expression. Students study from historical and contemporary views artists who practice the art forms and learn to critique their work and the work of others.

2815 Art Appreciation (elementary school standards)

This course provides a historical study and basis for appreciation of art from throughout the world and is instructed to the elementary visual arts standards. The course includes the relationship of art to social, political and historical events in the world, museum studies, as well as contemporary issues and developments in history and art. Included is the analysis of visual images as they have been used and are used to express the needs and ideals of society, as well as those of the individual. The course involves students in the creative process through lecture, discussion, observation, audiovisual materials, media arts, and research.

2816 Art Appreciation (secondary school standards)

This course provides a historical study and basis for appreciation of art from throughout the world and is instructed to the proficient and/or advanced visual arts standards. The course includes the relationship of art to social, political and historical events in the world, museum studies, as well as contemporary issues and developments in history and art. Included is the analysis of visual images as they have been used and are used to express the needs and ideals of society, as well as those of the individual. The course involves students in the creative process through lecture, discussion, observation, audiovisual materials, media arts, and research.

2803 Art History

Art History introduces significant works of art, artists, and artistic movements that have shaped the art world, and have influenced, or reflected periods of history. The course covers the relationship of art to social, political, and historical events in the world/nation or series of artists, women in art, as well as contemporary issues and developments. Included is the analysis of visual images as they have been used and are used to express the needs and ideals of society, as well as those of the individual.

2800 Ceramics (Beginning or Advanced)

This course develops or extends students' knowledge of ceramic techniques with emphasis on creative design and craftsmanship. Activities include clay modeling, hand building, coil building, and throwing on the potter's wheel. Students develop a working knowledge of kiln firing and glazing techniques. The course provides students with practice in critiquing their own work and the work of others, as well as the study of ceramics throughout the history of art in America and in other countries.

2809 Cinematography/Artistic Videos (Beginning or Advanced)

This course covers the history and development of the cinema, television, artistic videos, claymation, contemporary media and video production, documentaries, and other new media and film aspects. Students learn and practice the various aspects of production by applying the elements of art principles of design for effective visual communication of their ideas, feelings, and values. Students communicate visual ideas using basic production techniques, including camera operation, framing and composition, manipulations of space and time, idea development and communication, the mechanics and psychology of editing, script writing or text creation, light and sound, and impact. Students learn the historical and contemporary foundations of these media and participate in critiques.

2802 Crafts

This course emphasizes original creative design and appropriate use of materials such as paper, fabric, fiber, clay, wood, plastics, plaster, and metal. The course stresses understanding the suitability of design to materials, respect for the integrity of materials, and good craftsmanship. Crafts such as wood carving, fiber arts, and jewelry approached from an artistic intent may be included. Students study the history of crafts in art and their use in specific media.

2801 Design

This course covers the organization of art elements and principles and provides study of their application in two- and three-dimensional problems. Students analyze and use design principles in works of art from art history and many world cultures. Students learn to critique their work and the work of others and become more aware of design in their environment.

2820 Digital Art/Computer Art/Artistic Graphics

This course helps students develop aesthetic criteria in order to create graphic art imagery using a microcomputer. The course emphasizes the knowledge and application of the art elements and principles of design as used in visual communication. Students use the computer and digital tools to apply or formulate programs to communicate creative visual ideas, including animation, game production, and artistic aspects of Web site design. This course may also include aspects of the Cinematography/Artistic Videos course. Students study artists who practice these art forms and learn and practice critiques of these art forms.

2806 Drawing

This course provides a foundation in drawing using a variety of media and techniques in both black and white and color. The course emphasizes observation and interpretation of the visual environment, life drawing, and drawing from the imagination. Included are the application of the elements and principles of design, a study of historical and contemporary art and artists from a worldwide perspective, and instruction and practice in the critique process.

2813 Fashion Design

This course introduces drawing of the fashion figure and develops relationships of design to clothing. Included is application of the elements and principles of the visual arts, a study of historical and contemporary visual arts as they relate to fashion design from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process.

2814 Fiber and Textiles

This course emphasizes original, creative design using fiber and fiber-related techniques such as weaving, appliqué, and batik. Students gain an understanding of suitability of design to material and intent from a fine arts point of view. Students apply the art elements and principles of design as they create works of art, study the history of fiber art from a worldwide perspective, and participate in the critique process.

2822 Fundamentals of Art (elementary school standards)

This is a basic course in the fundamentals of art expression taught to the elementary visual arts standards. For grades kindergarten through three, students' experiences may include painting, drawing, lettering, design, and crafts. For grades four through eight, students learn about aesthetic perception, creative expression, art heritage, and aesthetic valuing and their applications with experiences in drawing, painting, design, crafts, ceramics, printmaking, graphics, sculpture, design, and/or lettering.

2823 Fundamentals of Art (secondary school standards)

This is a basic course in the fundamentals of art expression taught to the proficient and/or advanced visual arts standards. In grades seven through twelve, the course may include experiences in drawing, painting, two-and three-dimensional design, and sculpture. The course emphasizes observations, interpretation of the visual environment, and imagination and symbolic subjects. Included are application of the elements and principles of design, a study of historical and contemporary art and artists from a worldwide perspective, and instruction and practice in the critique process.

2811 Jewelry

This course puts into application previous art training in design to create individual pieces of jewelry. The study ranges from the history of jewelry design from a worldwide perspective to contemporary fine art jewelry. Students participate in the critique process. The course encourages students in the exploration of materials, working processes, and the execution of projects in media, such as ceramic, papier-mache, plastic, copper-enameled, brass, and silver jewelry.

2819 Lettering/Calligraphy

This course teaches various styles of inscribing letters, design developments by means of lettering, the romance of lettering through the ages, and modern use of lettering in advertising and art. The course may focus on calligraphy and stresses original creative expression. Students study from historical and contemporary views and the artists who practice these art forms learn to critique their work and the work of others.

2818 Multicultural Art/Folk Art

This course explores the ways in which objects have provided for the practical, religious, and spiritual needs of cultures with particularly strong craft traditions. These traditions may include African, North and South American Indian, Asian, Islamic, and European cultures and crafts in contemporary America. Instruction is delivered by lecture, discussion, observation, audiovisual materials, research, and experiences that involve the students in the creative process.

2807 Painting

This course provides a foundation in painting in a variety of media and techniques or may concentrate in one media such as watercolor, oil, painting, or acrylics. The course emphasizes observation, interpretation of the visual environment, as well as drawing from the imagination. Included are application of the elements and principles of design, a study of historical and contemporary art and artists from a worldwide perspective, and instruction and practice in the critique process.

2805 Photography (Beginning or Advanced)

This course presents photography as a fine art in which students explore the use of the art elements and principles of design to communicate their ideas, feelings, or values through photographic work. Students learn photographic techniques that may incorporate both traditional and contemporary (digital and multimedia technologies) traditions. They also participate in critiques and study the history of photography as a fine art, as well as the artists who use the medium of photography.

2817 Printmaking

This course provides experience with printmaking techniques with an emphasis on creative visual expression of their thoughts, ideas, and values. Elements and principals of design are applied to their work/creation; students study printmaking throughout art history and in many world cultures; learn and practice the critique process, graphic media direct-print processes, relief, intaglio, planographic, digital, and stencil techniques, block printing, serigraphy, monoprints, etching, and lithography.

2812 Sculpture

This course promotes creative expression through three-dimensional form. Students explore sculpture through subtractive (carving), additive (modeling), and assemblage techniques in a variety of media such as wood, clay, plaster, plastics, metal, glass, glass fusion, wire, and found materials. Included is application of the elements and principles of design, a study of historical and contemporary art and artists from a worldwide perspective, and instruction and practice in the critique process.

2898 Other Art Course (including combinations of above)

This designation for any art course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS (California Basic Educational Data System) assignment code list.

Art (AP) Subjects

2870 AP Art History

Students critically examine architecture, sculpture, painting, and other art forms within their historical and cultural contexts. In covering the art of several centuries, students learn to identify different styles, techniques, and influences and to formulate and articulate their reactions to various kinds of artwork.

2874 AP Studio Art: Drawing

AP Studio Art-Drawing is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of art. The course is not based on a written examination; instead, students submit portfolios for evaluation at the end of the school year. This course requires the student to show a fundamental competence and range of understanding in visual concerns (and methods). The student is to demonstrate a depth of investigation and process of discovery through the concentration section (12 slides; some may be details). In the breadth section (12 works; one slide of each is submitted), the student is asked to demonstrate a serious grounding in visual principles and material techniques. The quality section (five actual drawings; maximum size is 18" x 24") permits the student to select the works that best exhibit a synthesis of form, technique, and content.

2875 AP Studio Art: Two Dimensional

AP Studio Art-Two Dimensional is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of art. The course is not based on a written examination; instead, students submit portfolios for evaluation at the end of the school year. This course requires the student to show a fundamental competence and range of understanding in visual concerns (and methods). The student is to demonstrate a depth of investigation and process of discovery through the concentration section (12 slides; some may be details). In the breadth section (12 works; one slide of each is submitted), the student is asked to demonstrate a serious grounding in visual principles and material techniques. The quality section (five actual works; maximum size is 18" x 24") permits the student to select the works that best exhibit a synthesis of form, technique, and content.

2876 AP Studio Art: Three Dimensional

AP Studio Art-Three Dimensional is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of art. The course is not based on a written examination; instead, students submit portfolios for evaluation at the end of the school year. The course requires the student to show a fundamental competence and range of understanding in visual concerns (and methods). Each of the portfolios asks the student to demonstrate a depth of investigation and process of discovery through the concentration section (12 slides; some may be second views). In the breadth section (eight works; two slides of each are submitted), the student is asked to demonstrate a serious grounding in visual principles and material techniques. The quality section (five works; two slides of each one are submitted) permits the student to select the works that best exhibit a synthesis of form, technique, and content.

Arts, Media, and Entertainment Subjects

5702 Animation

This instructional program prepares students to use artistic and technological foundations to create animated presentations for industry and entertainment. Students will develop basic drawing and design skills, learn the fundamentals and physics movement, the concept of communication to a given audience, and techniques for self-expression through a variety of animated formats. They will explore the careers and requisite skills required by animators in both entertainment and the business world.

5734 Arts Management

This instructional program will prepare students to use discipline specific arts training in combination with business management in the Arts. Students will examine the principles of business and legal issues as they apply to communication in such careers as museum curator, radio or television station management, performance company management (Lincoln Center, Joffrey Ballet, etc.) and currently emerging media entity management. Courses will provide training in marketing, audience relations, budgeting and personnel management as well as discipline specific application of business principles.

5731 Broadcast Production

This instructional program provides students with a foundation in broadcast media including television, radio, web/pod casting, and emerging broadcasting technologies. Students will become familiar with current and emerging technology and practices and the variety of career opportunities that present themselves in the several broadcasting pathways (see Television Production and Radio Presentation for further information).

5770 Broadcasting Technology

This instructional program prepares individuals to support broadcast managers in the production of materials and the production and broadcasting of materials or programs.

5720 Choreography

This course explores the variety of career pathways available in dance. It includes dance technique, choreography, as well as production elements (i.e., staging, lighting, and sound) and dance company organization and management. Students will explore the variety of dance genre (modern, jazz, ballet, tap, and contemporary). Students gain an appreciation of dance as an art form and develop the skills necessary to pursue a variety of careers in dance. The course includes application of the elements and principles of dance, study of historical and contemporary dance, and exploration of the art form from a careers perspective.

5717 Cinematography

This course covers the history and development of the cinema, documentaries, and other new media and film technologies. Students learn skills and practices in various aspects of production by applying the elements of art, principles of design, integration of technology for the effective visual communication of their ideas, feelings, and values. Students develop skills, including camera operation, framing and composition, manipulations of space and time, idea development and communication, the mechanics and psychology of editing, script writing or text creation, light and sound, and impact. Students learn the historical and contemporary foundations of these media and participate in critiques. Students also explore the broad range of career pathways available in the film industry.

5754 Commercial Art

This instructional program prepares individuals to design and execute layouts and make illustrations for advertising displays and instructional manuals. It includes instruction in the preparation of copy; in lettering, poster, package, and product design; in fashion illustration; in silk screening; in airbrushing; and in ink and color dynamics.

5755 Commercial Photography

This instructional program prepares individuals to use cameras and laboratory film-processing techniques. It includes instruction in composition and color dynamics; contact printing; enlarging; developing film; the use of airbrushes, camera meters, and other photographic equipment; portrait, commercial, and industrial photography; processing microfilm; and preparing copy for printing or for graphic-arts processing.

5752 Computer Gaming and Design

This instructional program prepares students for the rapidly developing field of Computer games. They will explore current technologies, media and art applications, and emerging technological advances that impact this ever expanding field. They will combine foundations in design, animation, graphic imaging, and multimedia production to prepare for employment, advanced training, or higher education in project or software design.

5757 Desktop Publishing

This instructional program prepares students to deal with the changing landscape of publishing. Students will develop competencies in computer programs and software, layout design, image editing and formatting, content manipulation, current printing technology, and distribution.

5711 Digital Animation

Integrated graphic technology digital animation courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in digital animation. Representative topics include integrated animation enterprises; composition and imaging; integrated graphic design; digital imaging; communication techniques; and analog and digital audio.

5715 Film-Making

This course trains students to use film as a tool for communication and self-expression in entertainment and industry. Students will study the history and aesthetics of film as a complex, collaborative art form. They will explore the foundational elements of writing, photography, visual perception, and elements of design as they apply to cinematic expression. Students will analyze the use of film and video to share ideas and influence culture. They will also be trained in the multiple technical competencies required to communicate through film and the rich variety of employment opportunities available in the field.

5621 Graphic Arts Technology

Graphic arts courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in graphic arts and printing technology. Representative topics include printing enterprise, art and copy preparation, graphic design, image generation and assembly, reproduction photography, graphic reproduction operations, binding and finishing related to digital imaging, lithography, and screen printing.

5751 Graphic Communications

This instructional program prepares students to design and execute layouts, illustrations, advertising displays, and instructional materials. The programs are sequenced to focus on the fundamentals and the advanced instructional aspects of the graphic communication industry. Instructional experiences include basic and advanced theory and practices in classrooms and laboratories.

5723 Instrumental Tuning and Repair

This instructional program builds on foundation skills to prepare students to perform specific tasks in tuning, repair, management, and maintenance of musical instruments. Students will become familiar with a variety of orchestral instruments, their origin, development, and current construction. They will be trained to recognize issues of wear, breakage, and reduced function and instructed in procedures for repair and restoration. Students will be required to have a working knowledge of music, orchestral composition, and elements of tone and pitch. Students will also explore career opportunities across the musical industry sector.

5622 Integrated Graphics Technology

Integrated Graphics Technology courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in integrated graphics technology. Representative topics include integrated text, graphic, audio, and video enterprises; composition and imaging; on-demand publishing; desktop publishing; integrated graphic design; digital imaging; color separation theory; communication techniques; electronic prepress; electronic image assembly; analog and digital audio; integrated graphic media distribution; and integrated graphic media production and storage.

5712 Internet Publishing

This course covers specific elements of computer literacy used to create internet publications including current software, design elements, graphics, text manipulation, and page layout. Students will review legal and ethical issues surrounding internet communication, as well as the roles and responsibilities of members of a publication team: writer, editor, graphics designer, layout artist, etc. Students will combine foundational competencies with technical knowledge to create a variety of materials including: posters, pamphlets, flyers, and complex text driven material.

5730 Multimedia Production

This instructional program will combine competencies in film, video, computer, and live production, as well as foundational knowledge in design to prepare students for employment in a variety of jobs in the multimedia/communications workforce. Instruction will focus on the interaction between media sources in live, recorded, and web-based productions. Students will develop skills in computer design, film and video production, lighting, sound, and projection design, and print media design. Students will also explore career options within this rapidly expanding industry sector.

5760 Photographic Laboratory and Darkroom

This instructional program prepares individuals to develop and print still or motion picture film; control resultant prints; touch up negatives; and finish, color, restore, and copy prints.

5759 Photo Production and Technology

This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in lithography, lithographic photography, stripping, and related plate making processes.

5724 Professional Music Composition and Arrangement

This instructional program will build on music theory and technical knowledge to prepare students for specific career paths in music creation and arrangement. Students will be trained to explore music as an interpretive form of artistic expression and as a practical communications tool. Students will be trained to compose and appreciate music in a variety of genre. The historical and cultural context of composition will also be examined. The psychological impact on audience and market will be evaluated to maximize the effectiveness of a composition or arrangement. Students will explore the spectrum of career options ranging from artistic communication to entertainment to marketing and identify the effective use of composition in each pathway.

5721 Professional Theater/ Play Production

This course trains students and provides practical experience for careers in the collaborative field of professional theater. Students will study a range of professional models from Broadway to regional to community theatre to identify established practices and basic competencies required to create professional theatre. Students will build on the foundational skills in a variety of technical and performance disciplines to create project based live performances in theatre, dance, and music. Students will also be introduced to the business/managerial careers associated with live theatrical performance.

5725 Radio Production

Students in Radio Presentation Techniques will examine the multiple uses of radio as a broadcast medium in various entertainment and industry sectors. They will receive task oriented training in pre, post, and “on air” production jobs and competencies, current and emerging technologies, and the collaborative nature of the creative process involved in radio production. In addition to “on air” performance techniques, students will examine the technological interface of sound, recording, audio switching, and computer modification involved in radio broadcast production.

5733 Set Design and Construction

Students in this instructional program will build on foundation skills in design and production to create and implement sets for use in a variety of theatrical productions. Students will use analytical skills to interpret literary material to create a design concept. Students will be familiar with design elements, drafting techniques, computer software, and modeling skills necessary to prepare designs and models of theatrical sets. They will be trained to interpret mechanical drawings to safely use appropriate power equipment to construct sets based on artist’s designs. They will also become familiar with the diverse array of construction material and techniques used to build sets for contemporary theatrical productions.

5744 Stage Production

Students in this instructional program will be trained in the use and management of the various elements of technical production during a dance, music, or theatrical performance. These elements include the rigging and movement of sets, scenery, and lighting equipment, the use of computerized switching systems for lighting and sound, the management and distribution of stage properties, etc. Students will also be taught to manage the complex support tasks that are involved in a performance. They will explore apprenticeship, higher education options career training, and professional placement.

5527 Stage Technology

This instructional program emphasizes the techniques and processes involved in stage management, prop construction, lighting, the setup and operation of sound systems, and the operation of projection equipment. The program develops basic construction techniques for stage property and scenery; affords practice in stage crew work, which includes the erection and striking of scenery; and provides an overview of related occupations in radio and television.

5732 Technical Theatre

This instructional program prepares students to perform tasks in a variety of theatrical support disciplines. Students will examine theatrical sound production, lighting design and implementation, construction and management of theatrical properties, design and management of costume, and stage rigging and construction. Students in this program will be trained to operate and manipulate discipline specific technical equipment and software. They will use foundation skills to evaluate the role of each supporting element relative to specific theatrical productions. Students will also explore the broad range of career pathways that support theatrical performance.

5745 Television Production

Students in this instructional program will be trained to carryout support tasks involved in the successful production of a live television broadcast. They gain expertise in the use of lighting, sound, camera, and switching equipment and software used in various live broadcasts (news, dramatic, musical, dance, and reality based performance genre). Students will become familiar with the skills and equipment necessary for each production element, as well as the collaborative interaction required for success.

5714 Three-Dimensional Design

This course will emphasize the manipulation of artistic elements, media, and competencies beyond the two-dimensional plane. Students will use a variety of media to create three-dimensional works that are personally expressive and culturally relevant. Students will be trained to use the aesthetic and practical applications of design principles in art, architecture, fashion, and industry.

5713 Two-Dimensional Design

This course will cover the use of design principles to communicate on a two-dimensional plane. Students will create, manipulate, and analyze artistic elements and media used to express feeling and communicate ideas. Students will study the historical and cultural development of two-dimensional arts and its impact as a communications tool. Students will become familiar with current practices and applications including computer design and graphic art.

5716 Video Production

Students in video production will examine the multiple uses of video technology in various entertainment and industry sectors. They will receive task oriented training in pre and post production jobs and competencies, current and emerging technologies, and the collaborative nature of the creative process involved in video production. Students will examine the technological interface of lighting, sound, recording and computer modification involved in digital production.

5769 Other Arts, Media, and Entertainment

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Arts, Media, and Entertainment that is not described above.

Building Trades and Construction Subjects

5503 Apartment and Home Repair/Remodeling

This instructional program provides individuals with the skills needed for making structural repairs to apartments and homes. It comprises hands-on training in carpentry, plumbing, electricity, plastering, painting, and flooring. In addition, individuals are taught how to interpret construction blueprints and estimate the costs of repairs and remodeling. A review of career opportunities in the building trades and necessary business management skills is included as part of the instruction.

5538 Applied Building Trades and Construction Communications

Applied Communications is an instructional program designed for students planning technical careers. Fifteen modules emphasize that the workplace requires various communications skills, which seldom occur in isolation. Each module includes a variety of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem-solving skills involved in the life and work situations presented.

5504 Boat Building

This instructional program introduces individuals to the basics of line tables, offsets, lofting, and the general techniques used in building a boat from design drawings. It provides the basic knowledge required to evaluate boat construction and repair techniques. Individuals use hand and power tools to build or repair boats made of wood, fiberglass, ferrous metals, aluminum, or concrete.

5505 Brick, Block, and Stonemasonry

This instructional program prepares individuals to lay bricks and/or blocks. It includes instruction in laying out and/or spacing bonds; determining vertical and horizontal alignment of courses using gauges, plumb bobs, and levels; and cutting, notching, and shaping blocks, bricks, terra-cotta veneer, glass, and stone to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and fireplaces.

5506 Building, Mechanical

This instructional program prepares individuals to keep a building functioning and to service a variety of structures, including commercial and industrial buildings and mobile homes. It includes instruction in the basic maintenance and repair skills required to maintain air-conditioning, heating, plumbing, electrical, and other mechanical systems.

5532 Cabinetmaking and Wood Products

This pathway prepares students in cabinet construction, millwork, and wood products and covers the construction of both custom and production products.

5507 Carpentry

This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. It includes instruction in common systems of framing, construction materials, estimation, and blueprint reading.

5508 Concrete placing and Finishing

This instructional program prepares individuals to construct forms; cut, erect, and fasten steel reinforcing bars and wire mesh; compact concrete by hand or with pneumatic vibrators; and finish exposed surfaces during hardening and after forms have been removed. It includes instruction in the use of chemical additives and in the operation of hand and power concrete-handling equipment.

5509 Construction Equipment Operation

This instructional program prepares individuals to operate and maintain heavy equipment, such as crawler tractors, motor graders and scrapers, and shovels, including draglines, hoes, and cranes. It includes instruction in digging, ditching, sloping, stripping, grading, backfilling, clearing, and excavating.

5950 Construction Technology (wood shop)

This course is a study of the information and skills involved with construction processes, organizations, and occupations. A variety of the materials, tools, and processes used in the construction industry are studied. The course introduces construction concepts and activities as well as management and production practices in current use in the construction industry and in other technical areas.

5510 Cooling and Refrigeration

This instructional program prepares individuals to install, operate, test, and service cooling and refrigeration systems. It includes instruction in various types of systems, control devices, thermal units, and refrigerators.

5511 Drywall Installation

This instructional program prepares individuals to install wallboard, plasterboard, or other interior surfaces in structures.

5533 Engineering and Heavy Construction

This pathway prepares students for careers in engineering and heavy industrial construction such as roads, highways, subdivisions and includes instruction in the way these structures are built.

5535 Exploring Building Trades and Construction, Level 1

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multi modal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5536 Exploring Building Trades and Construction, Level 2

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multi modal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5513 Floor Covering Installation

This instructional program prepares individuals to test and repair sub-floors and to install resilient tile, sheet goods, or carpeting. It includes instruction in installing underlayments; cutting, fitting, and gluing lining; tacking, stapling, or taping padding; planning, laying out, fitting, and installing resilient flooring by gluing or loose-lay methods; installing cover bases, self coving and carpet fasteners; trimming and seaming carpet; and installing stair treads, risers, and countertops.

5514 Furniture Making

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble and finish wood furniture. It includes instruction in preparing freehand sketches; fastening wooden parts with glue; reinforcing joints with dowels, screws, staples, or nails using power screwdrivers, staple guns, or hammers; and finishing and/or refinishing new, used, damaged, or worn furniture according to specifications.

5515 Glazing

This instructional program prepares individuals to prepare, fit, and install glass in structural openings such as windows, doors, and partitions or in display cases and tabletops.

5516 Heating and Air Conditioning

This instructional program prepares individuals to install, operate, test, repair, and maintain commercial and domestic heating and air-conditioning systems.

5517 Insulation Installation

This instructional program prepares individuals to install batt, blanket, board, loose fill, and other forms of insulation in residential, commercial, and industrial buildings to enhance energy-efficient heating and cooling.

5501 Introduction to Construction

This instructional course deals with the tasks performed in the residential and commercial construction trades and is required for enrollment in advanced vocational and technical education courses. It comprises the study of safety, career opportunities, tools and machines, planning and design, economics, citizenship, management, applicable mathematics, blueprint reading, component nomenclature, trade vocabulary, residential and commercial construction standards, construction manufacturing standards, and specialized skills. Competencies related to each standard in the construction cluster are taught. Students' participation in the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category.

5526 Introduction to Green Construction Technology

The "elements" of green construction is delineated as it pertains to building systems, building processes and building materials. Areas of green construction technology to be addressed include green framing, green plumbing and green landscaping.

5519 Locksmithing

This instructional program prepares individuals to repair and open locks, make keys, change lock and safe combinations, and install and repair safes.

5534 Mechanical Construction

This pathway prepares students for careers in plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC). This pathway also includes instruction in how these systems work in structures.

5520 Millwork and Cabinetmaking

This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in the mass production of such articles as window frames, moldings, trim and panels, and such products as store fixtures, kitchen cabinets, and office equipment. The program includes instruction in cutting, shaping, assembling, and refinishing articles; installing hinges, catches, drawer pulls, and other hardware; and planning and drafting layouts.

5521 Painting and Decorating

This instructional program prepares individuals to finish exterior and interior surfaces by applying protective or decorative coating materials such as paint, lacquer, and wallpaper. It includes instruction in scraping, burning, or sanding surfaces; making, mixing, and matching paint colors; applying coatings with brush, roller, or spray gun; and cutting, pasting, and hanging wallpaper.

5522 Pipefitting and Steamfitting

This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, fabricate, assemble, install, and maintain piping and piping systems, fixtures, and equipment for steam, hot water, heating, cooling, lubricating, sprinkling, and industrial processing systems. These skills are applied on the basis of a knowledge of systems operations and the study of building plans or working drawings.

5523 Plastering

This instructional program prepares individuals to apply plaster, stucco, and similar materials to interior and exterior surfaces. It includes instruction in lathing and in surface preparation, smoothing, and finishing.

5524 Plumbing

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, and repair pipes, fittings, and fixtures of heating, water, and drainage systems according to specifications and plumbing codes.

5537 Principles of Building Trades and Construction Technology

Principles of Technology is a course designed for students planning technical careers. It includes 14 units presented over two years. Each of the 14 units deals with one principle as it applies in the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices and equipment. The units also cover the mathematics needed to understand and apply the principles. This course is a study of the information and skills involved with construction processes, organizations, and occupations. A variety of the materials, tools, and processes used in the construction industry are studied. The course introduces construction concepts and activates as well as management and production practices in current use in the construction industry and in other technical areas.

5502 Residential and Commercial Construction

This instructional program provides individuals with the competencies and information needed in residential and commercial construction. It comprises the study of fasteners and hardware, finishes and coatings, materials, installation techniques, laminating and bending methods, new and emerging technologies, mapping and surveying, levels and transits, foundations and floors, walls and partitions, roof systems, electrical wiring, interior and exterior finishes, floor coverings, metal construction, heating and cooling, plumbing, concrete and brick masonry, insulation, glazing, maintenance, and landscaping. Also included is the study of hoisting cranes, earth-moving equipment, ditching and trenching equipment, pump and compressor operation, plaster and trim operations, and the related mathematics, vocabulary, physical science, and management skills. Students' participation in VICA is a planned and graded component in all courses in this category. Courses in the following or similar areas of instruction should be reported under this CBEDS code: Building Maintenance; Construction; Construction Inspection; Construction Math; Ceiling Acoustics; and Landscape Construction.

5525 Roofing

This instructional program prepares individuals to cover roofs and exterior walls of structures with waterproofing or insulating materials such as asphalt, aluminum, slate, wood, and related composition materials.

5528 Structural and Reinforcement Metalwork

This instructional program introduces individuals to reinforcing steel used in footings, foundations, walls, columns, poured beams, bridges, and other structures that are used in the infrastructures of private and commercial buildings. This program acquaints individuals with the use of steel in high-rise buildings. It includes instruction in the use of hand and power tools and in the processes and procedures used in the construction industry.

5529 Tile Setting

This instructional program prepares individuals to apply tile to walls, floors, ceilings, and roof decks. It includes instruction in fastening lath to walls; spreading plaster and/or concrete; leveling to the desired depth; spreading mastic or adhesive base; and cutting, shaping, and positioning tile.

5530 Upholstering

This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in all aspects of upholstering furniture, automobile seats, caskets, mattresses, and bedsprings. It includes instruction in installing, repairing, arranging, and securing springs, filler, padding, and covering material of mattresses and bedsprings; cutting, sewing, and trimming; cushion filling, tufting, and buttoning; and wood refinishing.

5531 Woodworking

This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out and shape stock; assemble wooden articles or subassemblies; mark, bind, saw, carve, and sand wooden products; repair wooden articles; and use a variety of hand and power tools.

5549 Other Building Trades and Construction

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Building Trades and Construction that is not described above.

Computer Education Subjects

2454 Computer Lab

This course introduces the student, through hands-on operation, to the use of microcomputers. The class may include basic word processing operations, such as terminology and screen formats, text editing, saving and retrieving, and printing text.

2450 Computer Literacy

This introductory course in computers is designed to acquaint the students with techniques for using computers. Students learn key entry skills in order to use simple word processors, mathematical or database applications, and simple graphics programming. When school resources allow, teachers may introduce students to the Internet, where they learn about different search engines, e-mail, and the variety of educational resources on the Internet.

2451 Computer Programming

This course covers the principles and programming styles used in the design and implementation of contemporary programming languages. Students are introduced to the history of programming languages, language syntax and formal grammars, language processors such as compilers and interpreters, and generalized parsing strategies. The course focuses on particular language constructs and their realization in a variety of programming languages. A particular language such as C, BASIC, or Pascal is used to provide students with practical illustrations of various programming principles.

2453 Computer Science

A generalized computer course that acquaints students with problem-solving methods, algorithm development, structured programming, and modular system design. Students are taught about abstract data structures, techniques for data manipulation and other fundamental concepts, such as recursion. Computer coding and program structure are often introduced using BASIC or another computer language such as C or Pascal. The course may provide opportunities to apply the learned skills to relevant applications, such as modeling, data management, graphics, and text processing. Students learn about computer organization, from digital logic and microprogramming through machine and assembly language.

2455 Web Design

This course introduces students to the Internet and World Wide Web. Students will study the history of the Internet, search engines, Web design process, navigation strategies, creation and editing of graphics, Web hosting services, and Web publishing.

2458 Other Computer Education Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any computer education course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Computer Education (IB) Subjects

2465 IB Computer Science

Offered at two levels, Computer Science explores the operation of computer systems and the principle underlying problem solving by using computers. In addition to problem solving and programming, students study the structure and design of computer architecture; data representation and logic; and the connecting processes involving operating systems, interfacing, and networking. At both levels, the course demands both logical discipline and imaginative creativity in the selection and design of algorithms and in the writing, testing, and debugging of programs using a high-level, block-structured language.

2466 IB Information Technology in a Global Society

Offered at the subsidiary/standard level only, Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS) examines the interaction between information, technology, and society. The course is designed to help students develop a systematic, problem-solving approach to processing and analyzing information using a range of information tools. The impact of modern information technology on individuals, on relationships between people, and on institutions and societies is also discussed and evaluated. The course focuses on six themes: individuals and machines (comparisons and interactions); information systems in today's society; the system life cycle (problem solving); responsible use of information tools; the social impacts of information technology; and evolution from the past and insight into the future.

Computer Science (AP) Subjects

2470 AP Computer Science A

Computer Science A emphasizes object-oriented programming methodology with a concentration on problem solving and algorithm development and is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester college-level course in Computer Science. It also includes the study of data structures, design, and abstraction, but these topics are not covered to the extent that they are in Computer Science AB.

2471 AP Computer Science AB

Computer Science AB includes all the topics of Computer Science A, as well as a more formal and in-depth study of algorithms, data structures, design, and abstraction.

Consumer and Family Studies Subjects

4333 Apparel Design and Construction

This concentration course provides an in-depth study of advanced apparel design. Instruction includes personal and family clothing selection and purchase; design and construction of clothing, utilizing advanced construction techniques; couture design elements; and modification of clothing to meet the special needs of individuals. Emphasis is given to fashion design techniques. This course is highly recommended for students interested in pursuing a career in the fashion industry.

4321 Child Development and Guidance

A concentration content area course that expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand children’s physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development as well as provide for their care and guidance. Instruction includes prenatal developments; inherited characteristics, health and safety, guidance and discipline, cultural diversity, and child abuse and neglect. This course provides a solid foundation for any career that involves working with children, including child care and education.

4311 Consumer and Family Studies Comprehensive Core 1

The first course in a sequence of courses provides instruction in the seven content areas and leadership. The focus is on preparing students for personal and life management and providing a strong foundation for home economics careers and technology related careers. Instruction in the content areas of child development and guidance; consumer education; family and human development; fashion, textiles, and apparel; food and nutrition; housing and furnishings; individual and family health; and leadership is designed to prepare students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to function effectively as family members, leaders, workers, and citizens.

4312 Consumer and Family Studies Comprehensive Core II

The second course in a sequence of courses, this course provides advanced instruction in the seven content areas and leadership. The course expands upon previously mastered competencies and provides the depth and breadth required to establish a strong foundation for home economics and careers and technology career paths. Instruction in the content areas – child development and guidance; consumer education; family and human development; fashion, textiles, and apparel; food and nutrition; housing and furnishings; and individual and family health and leadership – is designed to prepare students with knowledge, skills and attitudes to effectively manage work and family responsibilities and to transition to jobs and careers related to home economics careers and technology.

4341 Consumer Education

This concentration content area course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand and analyze values, needs, wants, goals and resources in order to make decisions that contribute to personal and family economic stability. Instruction includes the steps in decision making, earning an income, taxes, money management, financial planning, understanding the marketplace, selling methods, retail information, consumer rights and responsibilities, managing credit, housing decisions, and the consumer as part of the national and global economy. This course provides the background needed in a variety of careers that involve consumer information and purchasing as well as financial planning.

4342 Economics for Living

This is a concentration course that provides an in depth study of how consumer decisions impact the economy. Instruction includes the study of making individual and family decisions, the type of economic systems, the role of government, supply and demand , market equilibrium, type of business organizations, monopoly, competition, the labor market, unemployment, inflation, income taxes, monetary policy, fiscal policy; measuring economics activity , money and banking, consumer credit, economic growth, and the global marketplace. This course provides the background needed in a variety of careers that involve consumer services as well as financial planning.

4382 Environmental Design

This concentration course that expands on the housing and furnishing content area to include an in depth study of environmental concerns that impact housing such as conservation of resources, materials, and construction technology as well as the analysis of cultural, psychological, functional and aesthetic design concepts. Topics include the historical periods of architecture and the conditions that influenced them, population trends and the ways the elements and principles of design relate to housing, furnishings, and the environment. This course provides a background for a variety of careers in residential and commercial design and maintenance.

4310 Exploratory Home Economics and Technology I and II (Grades 6-8)

These courses emphasize the exploration of the home economics careers and technology content areas and related career opportunities. Instruction in grades six and seven targets self-development and management, relationships with others, and preparing for family, work, and community living. In grade eight, students study parenting and child development, personal and family relationships, making consumer decisions, personal image and clothing, healthy food choices, designing living environments and development of community, leadership, citizenship and career roles.

4351 Family and Human Development

This is a concentration content area course that expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the basis, function, and significance of the interpersonal and family relations; human development; and individual needs throughout the life cycle. Instruction includes the meaning of family, quality relationships, love and commitment, marriage, major life adjustments, and parenting. This course provides the needed background for a variety of careers involved with assisting in the care of children and family, as well as the elderly.

4331 Fashion Textiles and Apparel

This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the social, psychological, physiological aspects of fashion, textiles, and apparel. Instruction includes apparel and behavior; elements and principles of design; color theory, wardrobe planning, history of apparel, specialized clothing, wardrobe budgets, retail options, textiles, garment care, alterations, and construction. This course provides a strong foundation for entry into the fashion career pathway.

4361 Food and Nutrition

This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the scientific principles of nutrition, the relationship of nutrition to health and well-being, and careers related to food and nutrition. Instruction includes nutrition and health, safety and emergencies, food safety and sanitation, meal management, food preparation, food purchasing, food in culture, the science of food and nutrition, food costs and production, and food technology. This course provides a solid background for a wide range of careers food science, dietetics and nutrition, as well as food service and hospitality.

4381 Housing and Furnishings

This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the physical, psychological, and social influences on complex housing decisions. Instruction includes design principles and elements; housing decisions; materials, furnishings, accessories, and equipment; color theory; space planning; textiles and finishes; landscaping; housing and furniture styles. This course provides a solid background for a variety of careers in residential and commercial furnishings, interior design, and interior maintenance.

4352 Human Growth and Development

This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand physical, mental, emotional, social growth and development in all stages of human life cycle. Instruction includes optimal physical and emotional health; maintaining a positive healthy environment; and developing and maintaining quality personal relationships. This course provides the background needed for a variety of careers in family and human services.

4391 Individual and Family Health

A specialize content area course that expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the principles of personal and family health care and the importance of responsible behavior. Instruction includes good health habits, positive mental attitudes, management of stress, good nutrition, body systems, substance use and abuse, family life, managing manipulation, relationships, pregnancy, diseases and infections, safety and emergency care and maintaining a healthy environment. This course may meet a local health requirement and provides a solid background for home economics-related careers.

4362 Nutritional Science

This is an advanced-level concentration course that includes instruction in researching information to evaluate an individual’s diet and adequacy of essential nutrients supplied in the diet, physiology and utilization of nutrients by the body, contribution of nutrients to general health, dietary needs during the life cycle, food regulations by the government agencies, impact of additives, environmental contaminants, food-borne illnesses, food faddism and quackery, cultural factors in food choices, and new food technology. This course provides a strong background for nutritional science, dietetics as well as careers related to the food industry.

4323 Psychological Development of Children

This concentration course provides an in depth study of research theories in human growth and development from prenatal stages of development to puberty and beyond. This course includes instruction in optimal physical and emotional health, positive learning environments, social interaction and communication skills. Topics to be explored include guiding children’s behavior, changes and crises, and children with special needs. This course is highly recommended for students interested in careers in preschool, elementary or high school education.

4371 Resource Management

This concentration course prepares students to manage and maintain a satisfying family and work life. Instruction includes decision making; the societal and economic influences on individual and family management; values, goals, and standards; family economics; equipment selection; energy saving techniques; and the organization of activities in the home as a means of successfully combining work and family roles. Students in each career pathway would benefit from this resource management course.

4398 Other Consumer and Family Studies

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Consumer and Family Studies that is not described above.

Dance Subjects

2357 Ballet, Modern, Jazz, World Dance

This advanced dance course provides experience in one dance form or several (e.g., ballet, modern, jazz, tap, world). The course concentrates on improving techniques and may offer or require choreographic and evaluation experiences.

2352 Dance Choreography and Production

This course studies dance as a communicative art. It includes dance technique, choreography, and production. Students may experience more than one dance form (modern, jazz, ballet, tap, or others). They gain an appreciation of dance as an art form and develop self-expression. Students gain an appreciation of dance as an art form and develop self-expression through direct experience. The course includes application of the elements and principles of dance, study of historical and contemporary dance from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process.

2353 Dance, Movement, and Rhythmic Fundamentals (elementary level standards)

This course focuses on dance and rhythmic expression through body movement. The course emphasizes expressive movement with multiple dance styles (ballet, jazz, modern, tap, etc.) and is instructed to elementary visual arts standards. Students may explore movement through various forms of dance from many cultures that use dance in work and leisure activities.

2355 Dance, Movement, and Rhythmic Fundamentals (secondary level standards)

This course focuses on dance and rhythmic expressions through body movement. The course emphasizes expressive movement with multiple dance styles (ballet, jazz, modern, tap, etc.) and is instructed to proficient and/or advanced visual arts standards. Students may explore movement through various forms of dance from many cultures that use dance in work and leisure activities.

2356 Advanced Dance Study (independent or studio)

This course is for the highly motivated student interested in the serious study of dance technique and history. It may develop dance technique in a small-group situation for students with prior dance experience. Participation requires audition and emphasizes performance. The course includes application of the elements and principles of dance, philosophy and techniques of dance, a study of historical and contemporary dance from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process.

2354 Folk/Traditional Dance

In this course, students learn basic steps and different combinations of steps and patterns to a variety of folk, square, world, and social dances from traditions such as African, Asian, Filipino, folklorico, Israeli, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Scandinavian. The emphasis of the course is to develop students' appreciation of the cultural, historical, and recreational background, purposes, and value of dance. The course may specialize in one tradition, such as folklorico.

2358 Other Dance Course

This course may specialize in one or more specific dance forms, such as tap, jazz, world dance, ballet, or modern or improvisational dance. Emphasis is on acquisition of technique or on choreography, expression, appreciation of dance as an art form, ability to work in a group, or performance experience. The course includes application of the elements and principles of dance, a study of historical and contemporary dance from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process.

Drama and Theater Subjects

2910 History/Appreciation of Theatre/Film/Video/Media

This course is for students who desire knowledge in the history of drama, plays, theater, and writers. The course may include the study of outstanding examples in the fields of motion pictures, radio, and television. The course includes instruction in reading, writing, critique processes, and research.

2908 Media/Film/Video/Television Production

This course emphasizes study in the techniques of television, film, and/or video production. Instruction includes history of the media, its technology, and its art. Students write, act, announce, direct, and produce to tell stories or narratives, create movies or videos (documentaries, shorts, or music) in one or various media. Concepts include camera operation, framing and composition, use of time and space, sound and lighting, editing and emotional impact. The course includes application of the elements and principles of the arts, a study of historical and contemporary media arts from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process. Course may be individual or combined genres.

2905 Technical Theatre/Stagecraft

In this course, students learn the theory and practice of skills in set production, stage design, lighting and sound, costuming, theater management, and makeup with emphasis on procedures and techniques in all these areas. Students study these elements from a historical and contemporary perspective and learn the critique process. Students act as technical artists involved in staging and presentation of school productions and drama class performances.

2901 Theatre/Creative Dramatics (elementary school standards)

Students create plays or scenes and perform them from original scripts or with improvised dialogue and action. Students may take part in pantomime, dialogue, monologue, improvisation, and role-playing. The course includes application of the elements and principles of drama/theater, a study of historical and contemporary theater from a worldwide perspective, and instruction in the critique process.

2900 Theatre/Play Production (secondary school standards)

This course provides a balanced theater arts program that emphasizes dramatic literature and/or musical theater activities that lead to the formal presentation of a scripted play. The class emphasizes awareness and practice in theater production, performance, direction, stage technique, voice, stage design, costuming, properties, and theater history. Students develop language skills and appreciation through reading dramatic literature from a worldwide perspective and writing critiques, character analyses, and play reports.

2904 Advanced Theatre

This course is designed to enable the student to explore a particular theatrical form in more detail and in depth. The class emphasizes production, performance, stage technique, voice, stage design, costuming, properties, and theater history. The course emphasizes polishing talent, building confidence for professional or apprenticeship auditions, and gaining experience in public performance. Course prerequisites are 2900, 2901, or 2905.

2998 Other Drama/Theatre Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any drama/theater course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Education, Child Development, and Family Services Subjects

4400 Careers in Child Development

A program that prepares students for employment in the care and guidance of young children under the supervision of professional personnel. Instruction includes child and growth and development; nutrition; program planning and management; health and safety; guidance; recreational and play activities; child abuse and neglect; developmentally appropriate practices; interpersonal relationships; regulations; policies, standards, and licensing; supervision and maintenance of children’s environment; professionalism; and classroom management.

4461 Consumer, Personal, and Financial Services

A program that prepares students for employment in occupations in personal and financial services; product development, test and demonstration; energy; environment; and consumer communications. Instruction includes comparison shopping; consumer laws and regulations; selection and use of products and equipment; demonstration of new products, energy conservation methods; preparation of materials for publication, broadcast or telecast; interpretation of consumer needs to manufacturers and methods of responding to customer inquiries. Students develop skills to process mail and phone orders; prepare reports; use industry technology; set up and arrange displays; determine customer needs and wants; select merchandise and products; and assist clients in the selection of services.

4452 Elder Care/Intergenerational Services

A program that prepares students with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in elder care and intergenerational services occupations. Instruction includes such topics as standards; laws and regulations; health and safety; interaction with families and communities; positive guidance and discipline; the importance of social involvement and sensitivity to common problems experienced by individuals and families with special needs. Students develop skills to assist elderly, handicapped, or convalescent persons with personal, social, and business affairs utilizing community resources.

4451 Family and Human Services

A program that prepares students for employment in occupations in family and social services. Instruction includes locating and accessing community resources and housing appropriate for low-income and other clients; and assisting professional staff with interviewing and compiling information. Instruction may include, but not be limited to, organizing and facilitating groups; scheduling activities that meet the needs and interests of individual members; personal health habits and nutrition; social involvement; supervision and safety of clients; common problems of families; professional standards, laws and regulations; and compiling information on social, educational or institutional history.

4401 Teaching Careers or Careers in Education

The program prepares students to assist with instructional activities and introduces a variety of careers in education. Students study such topics as standards and licensing regulations; operational procedures; emergency and disaster procedures; child growth and development; positive interaction, guidance and discipline; developmentally appropriate practices; nutrition; health and safety; instructional assistance; supervision; recreational activities; clerical work; use of computers and educational technology; and professionalism.

4469 Other Education, Child Development, and Family Services

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Education, Child Development, and Family Services that is not described above.

Energy and Utilities Subjects

5581 Applied Energy and Utilities Communications

5553 Avionics

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair electronic equipment used in the aviation industry. It includes instruction in the use of various types of equipment, such as power supplies, receivers, radar systems, amplifiers, and digitally controlled and computer-controlled circuits.

5554 Biomedical Equipment Technology

This instructional program prepares individuals to manufacture, install, calibrate, operate, and maintain the sophisticated life-support equipment found in hospitals, medical centers, and research laboratories. It includes instruction in the use of testing and diagnostic instruments; in calibrating techniques; in potential hazards and safety precautions; and in the methods of installation, repair maintenance, and operation of the equipment.

5555 Business Machine Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to maintain and repair a variety of office machines, such as typewriters, dictation machines, calculators, data-processing equipment, duplicating machines, and mailing machines. It includes instruction in diagnostic techniques; the use of testing equipment; and the principles of mechanics, electricity, and electronics as they relate to the repair of business machines.

5556 Communications Electronics

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair one- and two-way communications equipment and systems, including AM and FM radio, television, hearing aids, and other electronic communication devices or systems. It includes instruction in the use of actual equipment or in educational trainers; in various types of equipment, motors, mechanical devices, power suppliers, amplifiers, and digital circuitry; and in the use of testing equipment. Instruction also includes the licensing requirements of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

5557 Computer Electronics

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair computers and digitally controlled instruments. It includes instruction in power supplies, number systems, gating logic, A-to-D and D-to-A counters, displays, timing circuitry, memory structure, address modes, buffers and registers, microprocessor design, peripheral equipment, programming, and interfacing. Included is instruction in the use of testing equipment and various computer electronic applications.

5558 Computer Service Technology

An instructional program that prepares individuals to install, pro gram, operate, maintain, and service computers; and diagnose operational problems in computer units of systems. Includes instruction in the underlying physical sciences and supporting mathematics of computer design, installation, construction, programming, operation, and maintenance. Includes instruction in the functional diagnosis, detection, isolation, and correction of malfunctions. The program describes the electrical and electronic circuits and mechanical devices used in computer construction and their combination into systems in individual computers or computing installations. Instruments used to detect weaknesses or failures in electrical systems in computers are also described.

5679 Electrical Systems

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as electrical systems specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in general electrical system diagnosis; battery diagnosis and service; starting system diagnosis and repair; charging system diagnosis and repair; lighting systems diagnosis and repair; gauges, warning devices, and driver information systems diagnosis and repair; horn and wiper/washer diagnosis and repair; and accessories diagnosis and repair.

5512 Electrician

This instructional program prepares individuals to install, operate, maintain, and repair electrically energized systems such as residential, commercial, and industrial electric-power wiring; and D.C. and A.C. motors, controls, and electrical distribution panels. It includes instruction in the use of test equipment.

5559 Electromechanical

This instructional program prepares individuals to assist mechanical and electrical engineers and other managers in the design, development, and testing of electromechanical devices and systems such as plant automation, automated control systems, servomechanisms, vending machines, elevator controls, tape-control machines, and auxiliary computer equipment. It includes instruction in assisting with feasibility testing of engineering concepts; systems analysis (including design, selection, testing, and application of engineering data); and the preparation of written reports and test results.

5690 Electromechanical Installation and Maintenance

The Electromechanical Installation and Maintenance Pathway prepares students for employment or advanced training in a variety of electromechanical installation and maintenance industries.

5560 Electronic Consumer Products Service

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair electronic equipment used in homes and in businesses. It includes instruction in power supplies, amplifiers, home entertainment systems, video cameras, home computers, security systems, radio and television receivers, cable TV systems, and other electronic applications.

5570 Electronics Assembly Occupations

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, test, and repair electronic assemblies and subassemblies. It includes instruction in manufacturing processes, specialized equipment, and the hands-on use of equipment, hand tools, and other equipment used in the manufacture of electronic assemblies. Additional instruction may include the testing and quality control functions that are employed in the manufacturing process.

5561 Electronics Technology

This instructional program prepares individuals to support the electronic engineer and other professionals in the design, development, modification, and testing of electronic circuits, devices, and systems. It includes instruction in practical circuit feasibility; prototype development and testing; systems analysis, including design, selection, installation, calibration, and testing; solid-state and micro-miniature circuits; and the application of engineering data to specific problems in the electronics field.

5691 Energy and Environmental Technology

The Energy and Environmental Technology Pathway prepares students for employment or advanced training in a variety of energy and environmental industries.

5578 Exploring Energy and Utilities, Level 1

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5579 Exploring Energy and Utilities, Level 2

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5586 Heating and Air Conditioning

This instructional program prepares individuals to install, operate, test, repair, and maintain commercial and domestic heating and air-conditioning systems.

5562 Hybrid Microelectronics

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, test, and repair hybrid microelectronic assemblies and subassemblies. It includes instruction in bonding processes; the use of specialized equipment; and the use of special bench tools, hand tools, and other related equipment.

5563 Industrial Electronics

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair electrical/electronic equipment used in industry and manufacturing. It includes instruction in the use of various types of equipment and systems such as power supplies, amplifiers, motors, controls, digital and computer circuitry, synchromechanisms and servomechanisms, mechanical-power-transfer systems, hydraulic systems, and in three-phase A.C., electronic wave-shaping, and control circuitry.

5564 Instrument Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to maintain and repair various types of meters, measuring devices, and control devices such as heating and air-conditioning controls; dial pressure gauges; scales and balances; electrical controlling, measuring, and recording devices; and optical, aeronautical, and navigational instruments. It includes instruction in diagnosing malfunctions; disassembling, repairing, and/or replacing faulty parts; and cleaning, assembling, and adjusting instruments, using special bench tools, hand tools, and other meters and standards.

5565 Instrumentation Technology

This instructional program prepares individuals to design and develop prototypes for testing and evaluate control or measurement devices used in systems; prepare graphs, written reports, and test results in support of the professional personnel working in the field of instrumentation. It includes instruction in the calibration of instrumentation units or systems and in the principles of electricity, electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, and hydraulics as they are applied to control systems, recording systems, and automated devices

5551 Introduction to Electronics Technology

This instructional program prepares individuals for enrollment in advanced vocational and technical education programs and includes occupational and basic technical information and laboratory experiences directly related to electricity and electronics. The purpose of the program is to assist individuals in making meaningful occupational and educational choices. Individuals are provided with the fundamentals of the theory, measurement, control, and application of electrical energy. Instructional activities include reading instructions, interpreting schematics, adjusting experimental apparatus, taking measurements, testing circuits, and recording results.

5576 Introduction to Energy and Utilities

This introductory course enables an individual to sample the many courses and programs included in the energy, and utilities cluster. The purpose of the course is to assist an individual in understanding the basic skills and knowledge needed to pursue further study in the cluster and to aid in making intelligent and meaningful career and educational choices. Instructional activities focus on the theory, maintenance, and servicing of machines and devices especially on energy sources, small gasoline engines, basic electricity, and methods of transmitting power.

5518 Lineworker

This instructional program prepares individuals to repair, operate, and maintain local, long-distance, and rural lines; erect and construct pole and tower lines; and install underground lines.

5566 Major Appliance Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to repair, install, and service major gas, electrical, and microwave consumer appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, dryers, water heaters, washers, and dishwashers.

5567 Motor Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, install, test, maintain, and repair electric motors, generators, transformers, and related equipment.

5577 Power and Energy

This broad-based exploratory program gives middle school students an exploratory experience in power and energy technology. As a result of participation, students who are entering high school will be able to make informed career and occupational (educational) decisions. These decisions will be based on the knowledge and skills acquired and will relate to personal interests and aptitudes. Students will research current and future trends in this technology system and will study its environmental effects.

5580 Principles of Energy and Utilities Technology

Principles of Technology is a course designed for students planning technical careers. It includes 14 units presented over two years. Each of the 14 units deals with one principle as it applies in the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices and equipment. The units also cover the mathematics needed to understand and apply the principles. They focus on work, rate, resistance, energy, power, and force transformers. The second year of instruction covers momentum, waves and vibrations, energy converters, transducers, radiation, optical systems, and time constraints. These studies complete the program.

5692 Public Utilities Pathway

The Public Utilities Pathway prepares students for employment or advanced training in a variety of opportunities in the public utilities industry.

5693 Residential and Commercial Energy and Utilities

The Residential and Commercial Energy and Utilities Pathway prepares students for employment or advanced training in a variety of residential and commercial energy and utility industries.

5568 Small Appliance Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to repair, maintain, and service small appliances such as irons, toasters, waste disposal units, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, and dehumidifiers.

5598 Other Energy and Utilities

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Energy and Utilities that is not described above.

Engineering and Design Subjects

5784 Applied Engineering and Design Communications

5571 Architectural and Structural Engineering

The Architectural and Structural Engineering Pathway provides learning opportunities for students interested in preparing for careers in such areas as architecture, industrial design and civil engineering.

5710 Blueprint Reading

This instructional program prepares individuals to "read" the many lines, symbols, conventions, and notes by means of which every detail of construction and materials is clearly indicated.

5704 Civil/Structural Drafting

This instructional program prepares individuals to develop detailed construction drawings, topographical profiles, and related maps and specification sheets for use in the planning and construction of highways, river and harbor improvements, flood-control structures, drainage structures, sanitation plants, and other structures. It includes instruction in computing the volume of excavation and fill tonnage and in preparing graphs and hauling diagrams for use in earth-moving operations.

5705 Computer-Aided Drafting/Design

This instructional program prepares individuals to use a computer, computer software, and peripheral devices to create an image or drawing in the design and documentation of an object.

5572 Computer Hardware, Electrical, and Networking Engineering

The Computer Hardware, Electrical, and Networking Engineering pathway provides learning opportunities for students interested in preparing for careers in the assembly, manufacturing, programming, design, production, and maintenance of information technology, computers telecommunications, and networking systems.

5701 Drafting Occupations

This instructional program prepares individuals for enrollment in advanced vocational and technical education programs or entry-level employment and includes occupational and basic technical information and laboratory experiences that are directly related to drafting in industry. The educational program may include two or more of the curriculum areas of mechanical/machine, architectural, civil/structural, piping, technical illustration, electrical/electronic, and topographical drawing.

5706 Electrical/Electronic Drafting

This instructional program prepares individuals to develop the working drawings and wiring diagrams used by construction and repair crews to install and repair the electrical equipment used in power plants, industrial establishments, and commercial or domestic buildings. It includes instruction in drafting the wiring and schematic diagrams and layout drawings that are used to manufacture, assemble, install, and repair electrical/electronic equipment such as television cameras, radio transmitters, receivers, audio amplifiers, computers, and related equipment.

5573 Engineering Design

The Engineering Design Pathway provides learning opportunities for students interested in preparing for careers in the design and production of visual communications. The students plan, prepare, and interpret drawings and models through traditional drafting or computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) techniques.

5780 Engineering and Design Drafting

This instructional program prepares individuals to assist engineers in the development of detailed working drawings and related specifications for mechanical devices and machinery. It includes instruction in sketching rough layouts; drafting detailed multiview drawings; and analyzing compression, magnitude, direction, point of application of tension, and bending factors. Instruction is also included in compiling and analyzing test data to determine design effects on machinery in relation to temperature, pressure, speed, horsepower, and fuel consumption and in producing drawings that indicate dimensions, tolerances, fasteners, joining requirements, and other engineering data.

5574 Engineering Technology

The Engineering Technology Pathway provides learning opportunities for students interested in preparing for careers in the design, production, and maintenance of mechanical, telecommunications, electrical, electronics, and electromechanical products and systems.

5575 Environmental and Natural Science Engineering

The Environmental Natural Science Engineering Pathway provides students with the opportunity to prepare for careers in the environmental natural science. They learn to design and develop processes, equipment, and systems that are used to create, monitor, prevent, or correct environmental events and conditions.

5781 Exploring Engineering and Design, Level 1

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5782 Exploring Engineering and Design, Level 2

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5708 Piping Drafting

This industry-specific program teaches the techniques and develops the knowledge necessary to construct drawings for the piping industry. These assembly drawings are necessary for power plants, pumping plants, and heating and plumbing systems.

5783 Principles of Engineering and Design Technology

This program is designed for students planning technical careers in the engineering-related sector. It includes numerous units presented over a one or two year span. Each of the units deals with a principle of technology/engineering as it applies to the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices, equipment, systems and operations. The units also cover mathematics and science skills needed to understand and apply the principles. Instruction focuses on work, rate, resistance, energy, power, force transformers and other related topics. The second year of instruction may cover momentum, waves and vibrations, energy converters, transducers, radiation, optical systems, and time constraints.

5707 Technical Drafting

5709 Technical Illustration

This instructional program prepares individuals to present information graphically by means of schematics, sections, exploded views, and other techniques that illustrate or clarify oral or written descriptions.

5749 Other Engineering and Design

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Engineering and Design that is not described above.

English Subjects

2105 American Literature

This course is designed to offer the student an opportunity to study and reflect upon American literature. Students improve their critical thinking skills as they determine the underlying assumptions and values presented in American literary works. Oral discussion and written composition are integral parts of the course emphasis. The course may survey representative works of a particular genre or a specific theme or works of a particular era of American literature.

2102 Basic English/Language Art (proficiency development)

This course is designed to provide instruction in basic language skills and integrates reading, writing, speaking, and listening while emphasizing individual student progress. Course content depends on the student's abilities entering the course. Instruction may include vocabulary building, spelling and grammar, writing and composition, reading silently or aloud, and improving listening and comprehension skills. The course may take place in a laboratory setting or resource center.

2113 Composition

Composition emphasizes expository writing, logical development and statement of thought, and the refinement of basic writing skills. Though the structure of the course may include analyzing literature, its primary purpose is to improve the students' writing. Students compose papers using the descriptive, narrative, persuasive, or expositive mode.

2114 Advanced Composition

This course is designed to refine students' writing skills. Students develop different types of papers for various purposes and audiences. Students write paragraphs, essays, letters, applications, formal documented papers, or technical reports using the descriptive, narrative, persuasive, or expository mode. Although creative writing opportunities may be presented, the composition course focuses on nonfiction, scholarly, or formal writing.

2101 Comprehensive English

This course is designed to build upon the students' prior knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, word usage, and the mechanics of writing. The course introduces students to various genres of literature through writing exercises often linked to the reading selections. Students learn literary analysis skills. They also learn to write persuasive, critical, and creative multi-paragraph thematic essays and compositions. In upper-level courses, students write essays and learn the techniques of writing research papers.

2130 English 9

English 9 builds upon the students’ prior knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, word usage, and mechanics of writing, and usually includes the four aspects of language use: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Various genres of literature, including expository and informational materials, are introduced, with written compositions in a variety of genres, often linked to the reading selections.

2131 English 10

English 10 offers students a balanced focus on composition and literature. Students learn to write persuasive, critical, and creative multi-paragraph thematic essays and compositions. The study of literature and other written material encompasses various genres as students improve their reading comprehension and develop the skills to determine the purposes and themes of authors and to recognize the techniques employed by authors to achieve their goals.

2132 English 11

English 11 courses continue to develop students’ writing skills, emphasizing clear, logical writing patterns, word choice, and usage, as students write essays and learn the techniques of writing research papers. Students continue to read works of literature and other written materials that often form the backbone of the writing assignments.

2133 English 12

English 12 courses blend composition and literature as students write critical and comparative analyses of classic and contemporary literature and other written genres. Typically, multi-paragraph essays in a variety of genres predominate as the form of student composition, but one or more major research papers may also be required.

2110 English Language Development

The course focuses on reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Students participate in extensive listening and speaking exercises. The course covers basic structures of the English language. Students progress from an elementary understanding of English words and verb tenses to a more comprehensive grasp of various formal and informal styles. The course may include an orientation to the customs and cultures of people in the United States.

2106 English Literature

This course is designed to offer the student an opportunity to study and reflect upon English literature. Students improve their critical thinking skills as they determine the underlying assumptions and values presented in English literary works. Oral discussion and written composition are integral parts of the course emphasis. The course may survey representative works of a particular genre or a specific theme or works of a particular era of English literature.

2107 Ethnic Literature

This course is designed to offer the student an opportunity to study and reflect on American literature written by the different ethnic groups that either immigrated or were brought forcibly to the United States. Students improve their critical thinking skills as they determine the underlying assumptions and values presented by the various authors. Oral discussion and written composition are integral parts of the course emphasis. The course may survey representative works of a particular ethnic group or a specific theme common to different ethnic groups or works of a particular era in American literature that portrays ethnic themes.

2115 Forensics

This course is designed to teach students how to employ oral skills effectively in formal and informal situations. Included in the course content are logic and reasoning, the organization of thought and supporting materials, and effective presentation of one's voice and body. The course introduces numerous public speaking situations that are often linked to an extracurricular program. Students learn the methods, aims, and styles of a variety of events (e.g., formal debate, expository speaking, radio broadcast, oral interpretation, and dramatic interpretation).

2111 Journalism

Journalism prepares students for work on school newspapers by fostering habits of clear, concise, written expression and by developing the ability to write interestingly. The course improves students' use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence and paragraph form, style, and structure and offers basic training in techniques of interviewing and news writing. It fosters a critical attitude toward news and develops the ability to evaluate the worth of publications through wide and intelligent readings of newspapers and periodicals.

2116 Language Structure/Language Arts (traditional grammar, transformational grammar, structural linguistics)

This course covers traditional grammar, transformational grammar, and the mechanics in oral and written expression. The course may also include material on the history and development of language.

2120 Reading (state-funded Miller-Unruh Specialist)

This remedial reading course offers students the opportunity to improve their reading skills in the student's area of weakness. The course is designed to bring the student's reading comprehension up to a desired level or to develop strategies for the student to read more efficiently to progress at a steady rate through high school (state-funded Miller-Unruh).

2100 Reading Improvements/Developmental Reading/Reading Recovery

This course is designed to provide instruction in basic and developmental reading skills and strategies while emphasizing individual student progress. Course content depends on students' abilities entering the course and is designed to accelerate student growth in reading ability. Instruction may focus on reading silently or aloud, vocabulary development, comprehension, fluent decoding, reading/writing connections, text-based collaboration, student motivation and self-directed learning.

2117 Science Fiction

This course is designed to offer the students the opportunity to study and reflect upon science fiction literature. Students improve their critical thinking skills as they explore the various science fiction themes as presented by science fiction authors. Oral discussion and written composition are integral parts of the course emphasis. The course may survey representative works, reflect a particular genre or a specific theme, or survey works of a particular era.

2112 Speech

Speech develops fundamentals of effective oral delivery such as voice, diction, poise, and ease. The course develops effective organization through selection and arrangement of material, transitions, and rhetorical effect. Activities include preparation and practice in making short speeches to inform, convince, stimulate, actuate, and/or entertain. The course may include instruction in parliamentary procedure, discussion, debate, and oral interpretation.

2108 World Literature

This course is designed to offer the student an opportunity to study and reflect upon world literature. Students improve their critical thinking skills as they determine the underlying assumptions and values presented in the different literature of the world. Oral discussion and written composition are integral parts of the course emphasis. The course may survey representative works of a particular genre or a specific theme or works of a particular era or world region.

2109 Other Literature

This designation is for any literature course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

2198 Other English Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any English course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment course list.

English (AP) Subjects

2170 AP English Language

This course is designed to parallel college-level English courses. It exposes students to prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. The course emphasizes the interaction of authorial purpose, intended audience, and the subject at hand. Students learn to develop stylistic flexibility as they write compositions covering a variety of topics.

2171 AP English Literature

This course is designed to parallel college-level English courses. It enables students to develop critical standards for evaluating literature. Students study the language, character, actions, and theme in works of recognized literary merit; enrich their understanding of connotation, metaphor, irony, syntax, and tone; and write compositions of their own (including literary analysis, exposition, argument, narrative, and creative writing).

English (IB) Subjects

2160 IB Language A1 (English Literature)

Offered at two levels, in more than 40 languages, Language A1 is designed to promote an appreciation of literature and a knowledge of a student's own culture and that of other societies. English A1 develops students' powers of expression, both in oral and written communication, by emphasizing the skills involved in writing and speaking English in a variety of styles and situations. Students read several texts grouped by themes or genres. The texts are chosen from a broad list of authors and works representing different English literary genres or styles, as well as literature from other languages and cultures read in translation. Oral and written examinations are used to assess students' individual language skills, their ability to critically analyze and comment upon familiar and unfamiliar texts, and their ability to express a personal and independent response to literature.

Fashion and Interior Design Subjects

4412 Apparel Manufacturing, Production, and Maintenance

A program that prepares students with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in apparel manufacturing, maintenance, alterations and repair occupations. Instruction includes industry regulations; operational procedures; analysis of textiles products; apparel and accessory construction and repair methods; fitting and alteration; and technology used in the industry. Students develop skills to select fabrics; design and construct apparel; fit and alter garments; and apply finishing and cleaning techniques.

4411 Fashion and Textile Design

A program that prepares students with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in fashion and textile design occupations. Instruction includes such topics as industry regulations; identification and analysis of textiles and textile product s; elements and principles of design; garment construction; merchandising and fashion forecasting. Students develop skills to illustrate designs; create color charts with interesting pattern and texture variations; design apparel (including draping, pattern making, and grading); and develop and merchandise a line.

4410 Fashion Merchandising

A program that prepares students with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in the fashion merchandising of apparel and accessories. Instruction includes such topics as operational procedures; textiles identification and analysis; fabric selection, care and repair; the elements and principles of design; product knowledge and merchandising techniques; sales and service; fashion forecasting; visual merchandising; inventory control and loss prevention; cash and credit transactions; and technology used in the industry.

4430 Interior Design, Furnishings, and Maintenance

A program that prepares students for employment in occupations concerned with furnishing and decorating residential and commercial properties. Instruction includes assisting purchasers in selecting and maintaining suitable furnishings and/or equipment; assisting interior designers, decorators or professional home service directors; selection of slipcovers, draperies, curtain and window treatments; upholstery; designing accessories as floral arrangements or decorations; designing space to address needs; the care and maintenance of residential and commercial floor surfaces, wall coverings, furnishings and equipment; and personal management.

4449 Other Fashion and Interior Design

This designation is for an instructional program in Fashion and Interior Design that is not described above.

Finance and Business Subjects

4600 Accounting/Computer Accounting

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform any combination of the following and similar tasks: apply the accounting cycle for both a service and merchandising business through closing the books for a sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation; select and use appropriate computer hardware and software to develop, process, and maintain accounting records and create reports; create and maintain subsidiary ledgers; prepare, analyze, and interpret financial statements; apply procedures for asset acquisition and disposition and analyze and calculate depreciation methods; create budgets, design flexible budgets, and make capital budgeting decisions.

4609 Administrative Support

This instructional program prepares individuals to supervise employees; budget, analyze, and coordinate clerical and other office activities; evaluate, organize, and/or revise office operations and procedures to establish uniformity in handling correspondence, records, and other materials; design various office layouts to facilitate maximum production and efficiency; evaluate employee records; coordinate activities of the clerical department and workers; and classify, store, retrieve, and purge paper, film, and computer-based records.

4650 Business Career Exploration (grades 6-9)

This instructional program provides individuals with exploratory experiences related to career opportunities in business at entry, technical, and professional levels. These experiences explore careers in computer science and information processing, accounting and finance, business management, marketing, and entrepreneurship. The program provides information about employment and the education requirements for various business occupations, interest and aptitude assessment, and career and educational planning. The program also provides exploration in the following areas: business and consumer concepts, business computations, computer literacy, economic concepts, and scientific and technological developments.

4630 Business Economics

This instructional program integrates economic principles with entrepreneurship/business concepts. Such programs provide functional economic literacy through an experienced-based entrepreneurship/business curriculum.

4602 Business Fundamentals

This instructional program introduces major principles and concepts that are the foundation for future study of business and management. Program content includes such topics as basic business principles, personal finance concepts, management concepts, systems thinking, quality management, and the current environment for business in a multinational marketplace. Communication skills and basic mathematical concepts are reinforced in this course. Simulations, projects, work-based learning opportunities, teamwork, and career technical student organization (CTSO) leadership activities, meetings, conferences, and competitions provide opportunities for application of instructional content.

4637 Business Management

This instructional program describes management functions and processes in contributing to organizational goals. Program content addresses organizational theory; human resource development; management principles and styles; policy and strategy formation; production and operations management, planning and development; and economic theory and practice.

4623 Business Technology

This instructional program provides individuals with a foundation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes common to a variety of business occupations. The program may address one or more of the following content areas: Business Communications; Business Environment; Career Preparation and Job Acquisition; Financial Concepts, Business Functions; Human Resource Development; Leadership; Technology; Business Mathematics; and Business Law.

4601 Computer Operations/Computer Science

This instructional program prepares individuals to understand and apply systems and programming concepts to business, including any combination of the following and similar tasks: design algorithm solutions; coordinate the preparation and operations of peripheral equipment systems; design programs with defined user interface, code, execute, test and debug components; develop programs using abstract data types and object-oriented programs; create structured programs in various languages using control structures, procedures, functions, parameters, variables, error recovery and recursion; develop programs that access and modify databases using various file access methods; design hardware and software systems for electronic communication.

4613 General Office Occupations

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform any combination of the following and similar tasks: copy information from one record to another; sort, file, and retrieve records or other documents; tabulate and post data in record books; address and stuff envelopes; sort and distribute mail; and proofread records and reports. The student will also duplicate records, using a copying machine and answer the telephone and record or relay messages. He or she operates an electronic calculator, microcomputer, and/or electronic typewriter.

4615 Information Processing

This instructional program prepares individuals to create business correspondence, reports, publications, and forms by using computer operating systems; word processing; database, spreadsheet, and desktop publishing software; hardware and peripherals; and/or electronic typewriters. The student will use appropriate electronic information resources to research and transmit information and operate industry-standard equipment.

4633 Information Systems Management

This instructional program prepares individuals to develop and evaluate hardware and software applications to improve computerized information system productivity by evaluating, selecting, installing, and configuring computer components, peripherals, and operating systems; previewing, selecting, and installing software; evaluating, operating, and managing systems for electronic communication and data transmission; and providing information and instruction to users to enable them to operate computer systems.

4610 Keyboarding (typing)

This instructional program prepares individuals to operate an electronic typewriter or computer keyboard by using the touch system; set tabs and margins; adjust spacing; center text; and format simple letters and reports.

4621 Legal Office Occupations

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform clerical or secretarial duties related to the preparation of legal papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions, subpoenas, and so forth. It includes instruction in legal terminology, procedures, and documents. Students take dictation in shorthand or use transcribing machine to transcribe notes on an electronic typewriter and/or microcomputer; prepare and send bills to clients and record appointments; prepare and maintain client files, and operate an electronic calculator.

4608 Secretarial

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform any combination of the following and similar tasks: read and route incoming mail; locate and attach appropriate files to correspondence to be answered by the employer; take dictation in shorthand or by machine and transcribe notes on an electronic typewriter and/or microcomputer; or transcribe from voice recordings; compose and type routine correspondence; file correspondence and other records; answer the telephone and give information to callers; schedule appointments for the employer; keep personnel records; and record minutes of staff meetings.

4121 Small Business Ownership and Management

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform marketing and management functions and tasks associated with starting, owning, and operating a business. Students learn the principles and methods of organizing a business firm and for combining resources to produce goods and services, taking account of costs, profits, and the nature and extent of competition in markets.

4618 Telecommunications

This instructional program prepares individuals to communicate electronically by using bulletin boards, online information services, electronic mail systems, voice mail, and facsimile machines. Students may identify, evaluate, select, and configure various hardware and software applications across various platforms; analyze, manage, and maintain various types of electronic networks; identify, evaluate, create, and process audio and visual transmissions; and apply work group applications to electronic mail, calendaring, scheduling, and video conferencing.

4614 Word Processing Occupations

This instructional program prepares individuals to operate word processing and computer system hardware and software to design, originate, record, edit, store, and revise business correspondence, reports, and publications.

4698 Other Finance and Business

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Finance and Business that is not described above.

Fine and Performing Arts (IB) Subjects

2860 IB Art/Design

Offered at two levels, Art/Design is designed to provide students with the opportunities to develop aesthetic, imaginative and creative facilities; stimulate and train visual awareness, perception, and criticism of the arts of various cultures; enable students to discover, develop, and enjoy various means of creative visual expression; encourage the pursuit of quality through training, individual experiment, and persistence; and encourage a lively, inquiring, and informed attitude toward art and design in all its forms, both in history and today.

2360 IB Music

Offered at two levels, Music is designed to promote a greater awareness and understanding of the power and variety of musical experiences for those who have a general interest in music and for those who intend to continue their formal study of music. Candidates are exposed to a broad spectrum of music, ranging from classical and modern Western traditions to that of other regions and cultures. At both levels, the creative and practical aspects of music are evenly balanced with the theoretical or academic. All students study basic music theory, undertake general and detailed studies of Western music from different time periods and of world music from each continent, and participate in the creation of music through compositions or performance. Candidates are not expected to play more than one instrument but may choose more than one (including the voice) if they wish.

2960 IB Theater Arts

Offered at two levels, Theatre Arts is designed to help students understand the nature of the theatre by making it as well as by studying it and to understand the forms it takes in cultures other than their own. Having completed the course, a student will be expected to demonstrate the following: a knowledge of the major developments and techniques in the theatrical history of more than one culture; an ability to interpret play scripts and other theatrical texts analytically and imaginatively; an understanding of the art of the stage and of the essential nature of criticism in the theatre, particularly self-criticism; an ability to perform before an audience and to demonstrate an understanding of, and some skill in, acting techniques; the acquisition of sufficient technical skill to produce satisfactory work in at least one of the theatrical arts or crafts; and an understanding of the basic processes of theatrical production. Students' ability in and understanding of the theatre arts are assessed in a variety of ways, including research projects and an oral play analysis.

Foreign Language Subjects

2230 American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is the sign language most commonly used in the North American deaf community. ASL is a rich and complex visual-gestural language, with a grammatical structure independent of English. ASL is often acquired as a first language by deaf children who have deaf parents.

2214 Chinese (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Chinese people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Chinese culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Chinese people.

2215 Chinese (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate Chinese culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Chinese people.

2223 Chinese (for native speakers)

Courses for native speakers of Chinese support, reinforce, and build upon students' knowledge and skills in their primary language. Because the students who enroll in these courses often are able to carry out a range of oral language functions with a high degree of competency, these courses often focus on literary development. These courses parallel English language arts in several ways, but especially those courses that emphasize composition and literature addressing ethnic themes. Often these courses also feature a strong cultural component focusing primarily on the study of histories and cultures within and beyond California and the United States of the respective ethnic group.

2227 Filipino (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Filipino people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Filipino culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Filipino people.

2228 Filipino (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate the Filipino culture by acquainting the students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Filipino people.

2204 French (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the French language and the culture of the French people in Europe and in the Americas. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the French culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the French-speaking people of Europe and the Americas.

2205 French (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate French culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the French-speaking people of Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

2200 German (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the German people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the German culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the people.

2201 German (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate German culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the people.

2202 Italian (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Italian people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Italian culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the people.

2203 Italian (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate Italian culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the people.

2216 Japanese (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Japanese people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate Japanese culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Japanese people.

2217 Japanese (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate the Japanese culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Japanese people.

2212 Korean (first and second year)

This course teaches students about the language and culture of the Korean people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Korean culture by emphasizing the art, literature, customs, and history of the Korean people.

2213 Korean (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate the Korean culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Korean people.

2224 Korean (for native speakers)

Courses for native speakers of Korean support, reinforce, and build upon students' knowledge and skills in their primary language. Because the students who enroll in these courses often are able to carry out a range of oral language functions with a high degree of competency, these courses often focus on literary development. These courses parallel English language arts in several ways, but especially those courses that emphasize composition and literature addressing ethnic themes. Often these courses also feature a strong cultural component focusing primarily on the study of histories and cultures within and beyond California and the United States of the respective ethnic group.

2210 Latin (first and second year)

This course introduces and develops grammatical concepts through the practice of structures, forms, and vocabulary. The course emphasizes pronunciation, vocabulary building, and study of the relationship of English to Latin. The reading materials offered pertain to Roman life and customs.

2211 Latin (advanced)

This course reviews and broadens grammatical concepts through practice of structures, forms, and vocabulary. The course emphasizes pronunciation, vocabulary building, and study of the relationship of English to Latin. The reading materials offered pertain to Roman life and customs.

2218 Portuguese (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the European Portuguese and Brazilians. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Portuguese and Brazilian culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Portuguese-speaking people.

2219 Portuguese (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate the Portuguese culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Portuguese-speaking people.

2208 Russian (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Russian people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Russian culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Russian people.

2209 Russian (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate the Russian culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Russian people.

2206 Spanish (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Spanish and Latin American people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Spanish and Latin American cultures by acquainting students with art, literature, customs, and history of the Spanish-speaking people.

2207 Spanish (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate Spanish and Latin American cultures by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Spanish-speaking people.

2225 Spanish (for native speakers)

Courses for native speakers of Spanish support, reinforce, and build upon students' knowledge and skills in their primary language. Because students who enroll in these courses often are able to carry out a range of oral language functions with a high degree of competency, these courses often focus on literary development. These courses parallel English language arts in several ways, but especially those courses that emphasize composition and literature addressing ethnic themes. Often these courses also feature a strong cultural component focusing primarily on the study of histories and cultures within and beyond California and the United States of the respective ethnic group.

2220 Vietnamese (first and second year)

This course is designed to teach students about the language and culture of the Vietnamese people. The first-year course emphasizes communication, basic grammar and syntax, and simple vocabulary so that students can read, write, speak, and comprehend on a basic level. The second-year course enables students to expand upon what they have learned, increasing their skills and depth of knowledge. The course teaches students to appreciate the Vietnamese culture by acquainting students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Vietnamese people.

2221 Vietnamese (advanced)

This course typically focuses on having students express more complex concepts both orally and in writing, as well as comprehend and react to native speech. The course teaches students to appreciate the Vietnamese culture by acquainting the students with the art, literature, customs, and history of the Vietnamese people.

2226 Other Language Course (for native speakers)

Courses for native speakers support, reinforce, and build upon students' knowledge and skills in their primary language. Students who enroll in these courses often are able to carry out a range of oral language functions with a high degree of competency. Therefore these courses often focus on literary development. These courses parallel English language arts in several ways but especially those courses that emphasize composition and literature addressing ethnic themes. Often these courses also feature a strong cultural component focusing primarily on the study of histories and cultures within and beyond California and the United States of the respective ethnic group.

2298 Other foreign Language Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any foreign language course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Foreign Language (IB) Subjects

2264 IB Language Ab Initio

Offered at only the subsidiary/standard level in ten languages, Language Ab Initio is designed for students who have had no previous instruction in the target language. The fast-paced two-year foreign language course takes students from the beginning and provides them with a foundation for further study of the target language while developing their ability to communicate in speech and in writing so that they may deal adequately with familiar and practical needs. It also introduces them to the culture(s) of the countries where the language is spoken.

2262 IB Classical Languages

Offered at two levels in Latin or Classical Greek, Classical Languages is designed to give students the basic linguistic skills they need to read standard classical authors with understanding in the original language and to provide them with a better understanding of classical civilization and of its essential differences from, and similarities to, their own. In both Latin and Classical Greek, students read prescribed works in the original language and in translation. Authors to be studied include Virgil, Homer, Cicero, and Sophocles. Students are assessed on their ability to translate, but not write, in the target language. They also need to demonstrate an appreciation and knowledge of the cultural and historical background surrounding the prescribed texts and topics.

2260 IB Language A (non-English)

Offered at two levels in more than 40 languages, Language A1 is designed to promote an appreciation of literature and a knowledge of a student's own culture and that of other societies. Language A1 (non-English) develops students' powers of expression, both in oral and written communication, by emphasizing the skills involved in writing and speaking one's native language in a various styles and situations. Students read several texts grouped by themes or genres. The texts are chosen from a broad list of authors and works of different literary genres or styles in the target language. The students also study literature from other languages and cultures read in translation.

2261 IB Language B

Offered at two levels in 27 languages, Language B is designed for foreign language learners and focuses principally on the interaction between speakers and writers of the target language. The aim of the program is to prepare students to use the language appropriately in a range of situations and contexts and for a variety of purposes. The skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing are equally emphasized and are taught and developed through the study of a range of authentic oral and written texts (literary and others) chosen by the teacher. The course also allows students to develop an awareness and appreciation of the culture(s) of the countries in which the target language is spoken.

2263 IB Language A2

Offered at two levels in nine languages, Language A2 is designed for students with a high level of ability in the target language. Language A2 students might be native second-language speakers or advanced nonnative speakers. The course gives candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds the opportunity to reach a high level of competence in a second language through the study of several texts (primarily literary) and at the same time to appreciate the range of issues generated by the study of language and culture.

Foreign Language and Literature (AP) Subjects

2278 AP Chinese Language and Culture

This course is designed to be comparable to fourth semester (or equivalent) college/university courses in Mandarin Chinese. This course prepares students to demonstrate their level of Chinese proficiency across the three communicative modes (interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational) and the five goal areas (communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities) as outlined in the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. Its aim is to provide students with the ongoing and varied opportunities to further develop their proficiencies across the full range of language skills within a cultural frame of reference reflective of the richness of Chinese language and culture.

2270 AP French Language

The course is designed to parallel third-year college-level courses in French composition and conversation. Building on a prior knowledge of French, the course develops the students' ability to understand others and express themselves accurately, coherently, and fluently in French. Through these courses students develop a large enough vocabulary to understand literary texts, magazine/newspaper articles, films, and television productions.

2271 AP French Literature

The course is designed to parallel third-year college-level courses in French Literature. AP French Literature covers representative works of French literature and builds students' French-language proficiency so that they are able to read and understand moderately difficult prose and express critical opinions and analyses in oral and written French. The study of literary components (such as character, theme, structure, imagery, style, and tone) is an important part of the course.

2272 AP German Language

The course is designed to parallel third-year college-level courses in German composition and conversation. The course builds on prior knowledge and develops students' ability to understand others and express themselves accurately, coherently, and fluently in German. Throughout the course, students develop a large enough vocabulary to understand literary texts, magazine/newspaper articles, films, and television productions.

2277 AP Italian Language and Culture

This course is designed to be comparable to college/university Italian courses that serve as a transition between language courses and linguistics or content-based courses. These transition courses are typically taught in the fourth semester, or the equivalent. Its aim is to develop students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills within a cultural frame of reference reflective of the richness of Italian language and culture.

2279 AP Japanese language and Culture

This course is designed to be comparable to college/university Japanese courses that represent the point at which students complete approximately 300 hours of college-level classroom instruction. The course supports students as they develop the productive, receptive, and cultural skills necessary to communicate with native speakers of Japanese. The course articulates its goals in terms of the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (Standards) three modes of communication: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. Employing these communication modes as a framework upon which to weave its content, the course also addresses the Standards' other important goals: cultural competence, connections to other school disciplines, comparisons between the target language and culture and those of the learners, and the use of the language within a broader community beyond the traditional school environment.

2274 AP Latin-Literature

This course parallels advanced college-level Latin. By building upon the students' increased knowledge of Latin, the course enables students to read the language with comprehension to accurately translate Latin into English and to appreciate the stylistic literary techniques used by authors Catullus and Horace. The course includes the study of the political, social, and cultural background of the literary works of Cattalos and Horace, as well as their influence on later literature.

2273 AP Latin-Vergil

This course parallels advanced college-level Latin. By building upon the students' prior knowledge of Latin, the course enables students to read the language with comprehension to accurately translate Latin into English and to appreciate the stylistic literary techniques used by the poet Vergil. The course also includes the study of the political, social, and cultural background of the literary works of Vergil, as well as his influence on later literature.

2275 AP Spanish Language

The course is designed to parallel third-year college-level courses in Spanish composition and conversation. Building upon students' prior knowledge of Spanish, the course develops the students' ability to understand and express themselves accurately, coherently, and fluently in Spanish. In the course, students develop a large enough vocabulary to understand literary texts, magazine/newspaper articles, films, and television productions.

2276 AP Spanish Literature

The course is designed to parallel a third-year college-level introductory Spanish literature course. AP Spanish Literature covers representative works from the literature of Spain and the Spanish-speaking people of Latin America. The course builds upon the students' Spanish-language proficiency so that they are able to read and understand moderately difficult prose, express critical opinions, and provide literary analyses of Spanish works in oral or written form.

Health Education Subjects

2535 Health Education

This course provides students with knowledge and skills related to one or more of the nine content areas of health education, as defined in the Health Framework: (1) nutrition; (2) prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; (3) personal health; (4) injury prevention and safety; (5) individual growth and development; (6) consumer and community health; (7) environmental health; (8) communicable and chronic diseases; and (9) family life. Family life education promotes the development of positive family interactions and may include human sexuality, dating, relationships, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. This course provides students with content and skills that enable them to apply specific knowledge in their own personal behaviors and environments. This course builds the skills students need to recognize and resist negative influences. It includes decision-making, goal setting, communication, and interpersonal skills.

2538 Other Health Education Course (not included in description of 2535 Health Education)

This designation is for any health education course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Health Science and Medical Technology Subjects

4288 Biotechnology Research and Development

The standards for the Biotechnology Research and Development Pathway apply to occupations and functions in biotechnology research and development that apply primarily to human health. The standards specify the knowledge and skills common to occupations in this pathway.

4234 Preparing to Work in Therapeutic Services - Dental Services

Dental services incorporate the job-specific health careers services fundamentals with didactic, laboratory, and clinical competencies for the various dental occupations. The course prepares students completing course work in the dental services to provide preventive, supportive restorative, and interceptive services for patients. Workplace learning experiences may occur in private and group dental practices, dental clinics, dental laboratories, and hospitals that have a dental department.

4265 Preparing to Work in Therapeutic Services - Diagnostic Services

The standards for the Diagnostic Services Pathway apply to occupations or functions involved primarily in creating a picture of the health status of patients at a single point in time. The standards specify the knowledge and skills needed by professionals pursuing careers in this pathway.

4232 Preparing to Work in Therapeutic Services - Emergency Medical Services

See definition for code 4260 - Therapeutic Services.

4224 Exploring Health Care (exploratory core)

Exploratory health careers core designed to be offered in middle/junior high school. The core includes content that supports students, explorations of the various benefits, demands, and opportunities of working in health care that lead to a broad career selection prior to entering high school.

4276 Preparing to Work in Health Informatics

The standards for the Health Informatics Pathway apply to occupations or functions that document patient care. The standards specify the knowledge and skills needed by professionals pursuing careers in this pathway.

4255 Preparing to Work in Health Support Services

Support services incorporate the job-specific health careers fundamentals with didactic, laboratory, and clinical competencies from the various support occupations. The course prepares students completing course work in support services to provide supportive assistance to the patient, environment, equipment, and materials. Workplace learning experiences may be in a variety of health care settings.

4225 Introduction to Health Care (introductory core)

This course, offered to ninth- or tenth-grade students, provides the information needed for defining career choices that culminate in a career plan. The plan provides the template for designing the student's education program consistent with the student's career goals.

4242 Preparing to Work in Therapeutic Services - Medical Office Services

Medical office services incorporate the job-specific health careers fundamentals with didactic, laboratory, and clinical competencies for the various medical office occupations. The course prepares students completing course work to provide direct medical administrative or direct patient clinical support. Workplace learning experiences may occur in private and group medical practices or medical clinics.

4280 Preparing to Work in Therapeutic Services - Nursing Services

Nursing services incorporate the job-specific health careers fundamentals with didactic, laboratory, and clinical competencies. The course prepares students completing course work in the nursing services to assist with direct patient care required as a result of a condition, disease, illness, or injury. Workplace learning experiences may be in a variety of health care settings.

4226 Preparing to Work in Health Care

The preparatory core, for all students seeking a career in health care, includes a common set of skills and knowledge necessary for all health care employees. This course is intended to be offered for students in their junior year.

4267 Preparing to Work in Therapeutic Services - Health, Wellness, and Rehabilitation

Preventive services incorporate the job-specific health careers fundamentals with didactic, laboratory, and clinical competencies for the various preventive occupations. The course prepares students completing course work in preventive services to support the client's well-being and promotes efforts aimed at disease prevention and health maintenance. Workplace learning experiences may be in outpatient and other community settings.

4298 Other Health Science and Medical Technology

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Health Science and Medical Technology that is not described above.

Footnote

*The Health Science and Medical Technology Industry sector is unable to provide course descriptions as the CTE standards are being aligned with the courses. Please contact Cindy Beck at cbeck@cde.ca.gov for details.

Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation Subjects

4421 Food and Beverage Production and Preparation

A program that prepares individuals with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in food and beverage production and preparation occupations. Instruction includes such topics as customer relations; industry awareness; sanitation and food handling; nutrition; standardized recipes and measurements; tools, utensils, appliances and equipment; and operational procedures. Students develop skills to select and use proper equipment, supplies and procedures to produce a variety of food products to be sold or served; plan menus and arrange for equipment, decorations, entertainment, transportation and storage of food.

4420 Food and Hospitality Services

A program that prepares students with food production, preparation, and service skills for employment institutional, commercial, or independently owned food establishments or other food and hospitality industry occupations. Instruction includes topics such as planning, selecting, storing, purchasing, preparing, testing, serving and selling of quality food and food products; nutritive values; safety and sanitation; use and care of commercial equipment; management of food establishments; cost and profitability analysis; side work and customer orders; and handling cash and credit transactions.

4472 Food Science and Technology

A program that prepares students with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in food science and technology occupations. Instruction includes such topics as operational procedures; dietary needs; food preparation; data and statistics; and food preferences and marketing. Students develop skills to support and assist food scientists, technicians or home economists by applying, under their direction, scientific and nutritional knowledge to the production, processing, preservation, evaluation and/or distribution of food. Students develop skills in identifying qualities of various foods; collecting and testing food samples as directed; recording and comparing test results; purchasing and maintaining laboratory supplies and inventory.

4471 Food Science, Dietetics, and Nutrition

A program that prepares students for employment in occupations in food science, dietetics and nutrition. Includes instruction in meeting nutritional needs; planning, selecting, purchasing and preparing of food to conserve nutrients; food safety and sanitation; using dietary and food guidelines to plan healthy diets; food preferences and marketing. Students develop skills to utilize nutritional knowledge in preparing, inspecting and serving meals to people with special counseling under the direction of a dietetic technician or professional dietitian.

4441 Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation

A program that prepares students for employment in occupations in hospitality, tourism, and recreation. Instruction includes providing hospitality services in diverse settings to meet the needs of a wide variety of clients. Instruction may include but not be limited to eco-tourism; guest services; geography of the continents; customs and culture of countries as tourist destinations; special documentation needed for international travel; planning events to client specifications; recreational opportunities related to on-site and off-site attractions; and environmental and ecological principles.

4110 Hotel and Lodging

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform marketing and management functions and tasks in any business enterprise primarily engaged in lodging services and related convention services.

4442 Lodging Services

A program that prepares individuals with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in lodging occupations. Instruction includes such topics as dignity of work; business management; communications and interpersonal skills; team building and leadership; disability facilitation; life management; hospitality industry awareness; policies and procedures; computer applications; tools and supplies; task management skills; financial transactions; sales; guest services and satisfaction.

4117 Recreation and Travel

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform marketing functions and tasks in any business enterprise primarily engaged in satisfying the desire of people to make productive or enjoyable use of leisure time. Recreation includes products and services related to entertainment, sports, hobbies, and cultural activities. Travel includes enterprises that furnish travel information, arrange tours and transportation, and serve as ticket agencies for transportation carriers.

4444 Theme Parks, Attractions, and Events

A program that prepares individuals with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in theme parks, attractions, outdoor recreation, exhibitions and event-planning occupations. Instruction includes planning special financial transactions; salesmanship, guest services and satisfaction; culture and customs; computer and industry technology; eco-tourism, client information; and planning specialized events to include themes, timelines, budgets, target audiences, objectives, agendas and public relations.

4443 Travel-Related Services

A program that prepares individuals with the skills, attitudes and knowledge needed for employment in travel-related service occupations. Instruction includes such as topics as business management; life management; transferability; industry awareness and policies; security and emergency procedures; salesmanship and guest satisfaction; computer applications; geography, culture and customs; reservations and ticketing; travel itineraries; international travel; and technology used in the industry.

4498 Other Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation that is not described above.

Humanities Subjects

2748 Any Humanities Course

From kindergarten to grade eight, students learn to appreciate great works of art, architecture, literature, and poetry. Students in grades nine through twelve, look at written works, art works, architecture, rituals, social groups, and political institutions as examples of the creative power of the human mind and spirit. Expanded fields of study include linguistics, archaeology, law, history of religions, and the humanistic approach to science technology. Students' writing serves as an expressive response to the works of others, as well as a major way of forming their own ideas.

Humanities (IB) Subjects

2768 IB Theory of Knowledge

Obligatory for all diploma candidates, the Theory of Knowledge (ToK) is unique to the International Baccalaureate. Designed to be taught for a minimum of 100 teaching hours during the two-year program, students follow ToK in addition to their six diploma subjects. The purpose of the course is to stimulate reflection on the knowledge and the experience of students both inside and outside the classroom. Various areas of knowledge (e.g., mathematics, history, and science), truth, logic, value judgments, and the role of language and thought in knowledge are examined at different points in the course. ToK challenges students to question the bases of knowledge, to be aware of subjective and ideological biases, and to develop a personal mode of thought based on analysis of evidence and expressed in rational arguments.

Information Technology Subjects

4603 Business and Electronic Communication

This instructional program introduces essential oral and written communication skills students will apply in the business workplace. Emphasis is placed on utilizing the computer to further develop written communication skills such as composing memos, letters, and reports; describing processes or mechanisms; completing forms; and responding to e-mail. The effective use of technology (presentation software and telecommunications) to further develop oral communication skills, such as delivering oral presentations, giving instructions, interviewing for information, and presenting information/reports in an effective manner is reinforced in this course.

4615 Information Processing

4633 Information Systems Management

4604 Networking

This instructional program provides a broad-based foundation in the engineering and administration of computer network systems. Emphasis is placed on PC and network hardware and operating systems, architecture, protocols, design and security, and career development. Simulations, projects, work-based learning opportunities, teamwork, and career technical student organization (CTSO) leadership activities, meetings, conferences, and competitions provide opportunities for application of instructional content.

4618 Telecommunications

4649 Other Information Technology

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Information Technology that is not described above.

Manufacturing and Product Development Subjects

5626 Applied Manufacturing and Design Communications

5703 Architectural Drafting

This instructional program prepares individuals to support architects and/or architectural engineers in the development of plans for buildings or other structures while complying with a variety of building codes and zoning laws, staying within cost limitations, and satisfying client preferences.

5753 Bookbinding

This instructional program prepares individuals to gather pages, forms, and related materials for assembly into books or pamphlets. It includes instruction in binding and repairing books and documents.

5945 Communications Technology (drafting, electronics)

Communications technology courses explore the fundamentals of message design, production, and transmission. Included is occupational and consumer information that is related to this important part of an industrial and technological society. Learning experiences include activities that involve electronic and verbal communication as well as drafting, photography, and reprographics.

5756 Composition, Make-Up, and Typesetting

This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, compose, and make up typesetting and typecast by hand and by machine.

5603 Computer Numerical Control

This instructional program prepares individuals to program and operate computerized numerical controlled machines. Study includes the evolution of a variety of numerical controlled machine tools and numerical control systems.

5623 Exploring Manufacturing and Design, Level 1

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5624 Exploring Manufacturing and Design, Level 2

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5940 Exploring Technology (general industrial arts)

This broad-based industrial technology education program provides middle school students with an integrated, common educational core. Its focus is on career guidance, power and energy technology, construction technology, manufacturing technology, communications technology, and tools and machines. As a result of participation in this program, students who are entering high school will be able to make informed educational decisions relating to career choices. These decisions will be based on the knowledge and skills acquired and will relate to personal interests and aptitudes.

5604 Foundry

This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in activities at ferrous and nonferrous foundries. It includes instruction in foundry equipment, various sands and refractors, sand and machine molding, core-making, chipping, grinding, foundry chemistry, and metallurgy.

5605 Industrial Ceramics Manufacturing

This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in manufacturing activities to produce ceramic machine tools; refractors for space vehicles; and brick, glass, crockery, tile, pipe, and other articles made from clays and silicas. It includes instruction in testing physical, chemical, and heat-resisting properties of materials and in processing, forming, and firing clays to develop ceramic products.

5606 Jewelry Design, Fabrication, and Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to design, fabricate, and repair jewelry articles such as rings, brooches, pendants, bracelets, and lockets. It includes instruction in model making, casting, engraving, polishing, stone setting, and ring fitting. It also includes instruction in soldering broken parts, reshaping and restyling old jewelry, and in the use of special jeweler's hand tools and machines.

5615 Machine and Forming Technology

Machine and Forming Technology courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in machine tool and materials forming industries. Representative topics include the interpretation and layout of machine and formed-part prints; the cutting, shaping, fastening, and finishing of machine tools; and casting, forging, molding, cold forming, and shearing processes.

5607 Machine Tool Operation/Machine Shop

This instructional program prepares individuals to shape metal parts on machines such as lathes, grinders, drill presses, milling machines, and shapers. The program may also train individuals in the use of one machine tool. It includes instruction in making computations related to work dimensions, testing the feeds and speeds of machines using precision measuring instruments such as layout tools, micrometers, and gauges; machining and heat-treating various metals; and laying out machine parts.

5601 Manufacturing/Materials Processing

This instructional program prepares individuals for enrollment in advanced vocational and technical education programs and includes operational and basic technical information and laboratory experiences that are directly related to the manufacturing processes used in industry. The purpose of the program is to assist individuals in making meaningful occupational and educational choices. Instructional activities focus on the study of the information and the basic skills concerned with industrial technical materials and processes, including the properties and use of these materials as they are fabricated into usable products. Instructional activities involve hand and machine processes for the fabrication, analysis, or testing of metals, woods, and plastics. The program emphasizes production management in manufacturing and the documentation of industrial enterprise systems. It provides an introduction to manufacturing processes used in the design, tooling, and assembly of industrial products.

5955 Manufacturing Technology (Metal Shop)

This course is a study of the information and skills that relate to manufacturing processes, organizations, and occupations. A variety of materials, tools, and processes are used to give students a look at the important industrial and technical concepts of today and tomorrow.

5608 Metal Fabrication

This instructional program prepares individuals to fabricate and assemble a variety of products. It includes instruction in layout; the sequence of design; the construction of templates and fixtures; and the positioning, aligning, fitting, and welding of parts.

5609 Metallurgy

This instructional program describes the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of materials, including metallic materials, alloys, ceramics, and polymers. Instruction includes material selection, heat treatment, and mechanical testing.

5610 Optical Goods

This instructional program prepares individuals to mold and cast optical products, patterns, and prototype parts such as eyeglass lenses and contact lenses.

5611 Plastic/Composites

This instructional program prepares individuals to mold and cast plastic parts, patterns, and prototype parts; fit, fabricate, and repair internal carvings; finish plastic parts; and assemble plastic components into products.

5625 Principles of Manufacturing and Design Technology

Principles of Technology is a course designed for students planning technical careers. It includes 14 units presented over two years. Each of the 14 units deals with one principle as it applies in the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices and equipment. The units also cover the mathematics needed to understand and apply the principles. They focus on work, rate, resistance, energy, power, and force transformers. The second year of instruction covers momentum, waves and vibrations, energy converters, transducers, radiation, optical systems, and time constraints. These studies complete the program.

5761 Printing Press Operations

This instructional program prepares individuals to prepare, operate, and maintain printing processes.

5612 Robotics

This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, program, maintain, and repair robotic devices. It includes instruction in the history and development of robotic devices; the types of robotic devices used in industry and their component makeup; computer control systems and robot computer language programming; troubleshooting techniques, especially for servomechanisms, microprocessors, and computer operation; and the integration of these devices and factors into a total manufacturing system.

5613 Sheet Metal

This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, fabricate, erect or install, and maintain systems using hand tools and machines such as cornice brakes, forming rolls, and squaring shears.

5762 Silk Screen Making and Printing

This instructional program prepares individuals to make silk screens and to perform silk screen printing operations.

5620 Specialized Welding Program

The specialized instructional program in high technology welding prepares individuals to use submerged arc welding (SAW), flex-core arc welding (FCAW), plasma arc welding (PAW), laser beam welding (LBW), and other advanced welding processes.

5614 Tool and Die Making

This instructional program prepares individuals to analyze specifications; lay out metal stock; and set up and operate machine tools to fit and assemble parts for the manufacture and repair of metal working dies, cutting tools, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools. It includes instruction in metal properties and in the applications and construction of tool and die designs.

5616 Welding: Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals to use both gas welding and any combination of arc welding processes to weld metal parts and plan and lay out materials as specified by diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications.

5617 Welding: Electric

This instructional program prepares individuals to use sheet metal arc welding (SMAW), methane inert gas metal arc welding (GMAW), and inert gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) electrical welding equipment to weld metal parts. It includes instruction in planning and laying out materials as specified by diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications.

5618 Welding: Gas

This instructional program prepares individuals to use gas welding (OAW) and flame cutting equipment to weld or cut metal parts and to plan and lay out materials as specified by diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications.

5619 Welding: Technology

Welding technology courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in welding and related industries. Representative topics include the interpretation and layout of welded and assembled-part prints, mechanical bonding, joining, cohesive bonding, adhesive bonding, and mechanical fastening.

5649 Other Manufacturing and Product Development

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Manufacturing Technology that is not described above.

Marketing, Sales, and Services Subjects

4100 Advertising Services

This instructional program prepares individuals to master marketing foundations and apply principles to the unique characteristics of the advertising services industry and perform functions and tasks related to creating, executing, transmitting, and evaluating commercial messages on the promotion and sale of products, services, and institutions.

5811 Barbering

This instructional program prepares individuals to cut, shampoo, and style hair and to give shaves. Special attention is given to hygiene, skin and scalp diseases, and equipment sterilization. Instruction qualifies students for licensing examinations.

5866 Bicycle Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in the repair and maintenance of bicycles. Instruction is given in the use and care of tools and equipment and in the adjustment and repair of individual components.

5812 Cosmetology

This instructional program prepares individuals to care for and beautify hair, complexion, and hands by giving shampoos, rinses, and scalp treatments and by styling, setting, cutting, dyeing, tinting, permanent-waving, and bleaching hair. Instruction includes giving facials, manicures, and hand and arm massages. Hygiene, sanitation, customer relations, and salon management are emphasized. Instruction qualifies students for licensing examinations.

5861 Custodial Services

This instructional program prepares individuals to clean and care for buildings; fixtures; furnishings; floor surfaces such as linoleum, plastic, terrazzo, tile, rugs, and wood; wall coverings such as panel, paint, plastic, and wood; and synthetic materials. Instruction is given in using tools and caring for them; dusting, wet mopping, scrubbing, waxing, and refinishing surfaces; cleaning toilets, windows, and walls; applying various cleaning agents, protective coatings, and disinfectants; scheduling work; and purchasing custodial supplies.

4119 Customer Service Representative

This instructional program prepares individuals to provide customer services unique to a variety of industry and/or company environments. Customer services may include the following: opening and closing credit accounts; investigation and resolution of product or service problems of customers; arranging for repair or replacement of defective products; providing technical information to customers related to products or services sold; resolving customer complaints; contacting delinquent account customers; arranging for custom or specialized products or services for customers; providing inside and outside sales support services; and communicating with customers in writing and in person to assess/evaluate customer satisfaction.

4103 Financial Services

This instructional program prepares individuals to master marketing foundations and apply principles to the unique characteristics of the financial services industry and perform marketing functions/tasks in financial institutions such as commercial banks, savings and loans associations, credit agencies, credit unions, consumer-finance companies, collection agencies, security and commodity brokerages, and credit departments of business enterprises.

4104 Floristry

This instructional program prepares individuals to master marketing foundations and apply principles to the unique characteristics of the floral industry and perform marketing functions and tasks in retail and wholesale floral operations.

4107 General Merchandise Retailing

This instructional program prepares individuals to master marketing foundations and apply principles to the unique characteristics of the general merchandise retailing industry and perform marketing practices and tasks in general merchandise retail operations.

4113 International Trade

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform marketing activities in enterprises primarily engaged in exporting or importing industrial and consumer goods in world markets. The program emphasizes trade controls, foreign trade operations, negotiation practices, monetary issues, international public relations, and locating markets.

5814 Manicure and Pedicure

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform a manicure or pedicure.

4122 Marketing Fundamentals

This instructional program prepares individuals to perform basic marketing functions common to a variety of enterprises and provides foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes for advanced or specialized study in marketing. Students study marketing foundations and principles, including customer service, promotion, pricing, finance, selling, risk management, marketing information management, and product/service planning.

5865 Pool and Spa Service

This instructional program prepares individuals to clean, care for, and manage spas and pools. Instruction is given in the use and care of tools and chemicals, the cleaning of all types of surfaces, the maintenance of filter systems, the regulation of the pH in pools, the scheduling of work, and the purchase of equipment and supplies.

4106 Restaurant Marketing

This instructional program prepares individuals to master marketing foundations and apply principles to the unique characteristics of the restaurant industry and perform marketing functions and tasks in business enterprises engaged in food and beverage services.

4114 Virtual Enterprise

This instructional program is a simulated business offered locally and coordinated statewide by the Virtual Enterprise (VE) Center in Kern High School District, which also manages California Virtual Enterprise online resources for use by trained teachers and students. In the VE instructional program, students establish and run a simulated business to prepare them for working in a global business environment. The students determine the nature of their business, its products and services, and its management and structure. They learn the daily operations of a business under the guidance of a consultant (teacher) and with the support of real business partners. Emphasis is placed on using current business software packages and the internet for business transactions, research, and resources.

4198 Other Marketing Sales, and Services

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Marketing, Sales and Services that is not described above.

Mathematics Subjects

2423 Accelerated Mathematics (any of grades four through eight)

This course is designed for students who have accelerated mathematics skills and progress beyond what is expected for their grade level.

2417 Advanced Algebra/Advanced Geometry/Symbolic Logic/Number Theory

Courses in this category include extended algebraic concepts for students who have taken intermediate algebra or advanced topics in geometry. Algebra topics include: the study of polynomials; logarithmic; exponentials and rational functions; as well as studies in set theory; Boolean algebra; symbolic logic; mathematical induction; matrix algebra; limits; and continuity. In geometry, topics deal with the intersection of lines, planes in space, vectors, polar coordinates, equations and graphs of conic sections, rotations and transformations, and parametric equations.

2414 Analytic Geometry/Pre-Calculus

This course prepares students for work in calculus. Topics include: coordinate geometry with analytical methods and proofs; equations and graphs of conic sections; rectangular and polar coordinates; parametric equations; vectors; the study of polynomial, logarithmic, exponential, and rational functions and their graphs; induction; limits and rate change; continuity; and problem analysis. The course unifies and emphasizes the structure of mathematics.

2403 Beginning Algebra/Algebra 1

In this course, students develop an understanding of the symbolic language of mathematics and the sciences. Algebraic skills and concepts are developed and used in a wide variety of problem-solving situations. The course includes a study of the real number system; the solving of equations and inequalities; linear, polynomial, and rational functions; graphing; systems of two linear equations; polynomials; rational expressions and functions; the quadratic formula; and logical reasoning.

2428 Beginning Algebra Part 1 (first year of a two-year course)

Symbolic reasoning and calculations with symbols are central in algebra. Through the study of algebra, a student develops an understanding of symbolic language of mathematics and the sciences. In addition, algebraic skills and concepts are developed and used in a wide variety of problem-solving situations. In the first year of a two-year algebra course, the properties and operations of the real numbers are introduced as well as solving and graphing linear equations and inequalities also using absolute value.

2429 Beginning Algebra Part 2 (second year of a two-year course)

Symbolic reasoning and calculations with symbols are central in algebra. Through the study of algebra, a student develops an understanding of symbolic language of mathematics and the sciences. In addition, algebraic skills and concepts are developed and used in a wide variety of problem-solving situations. The second year of this two-year course extends their knowledge of the real numbers and systems of linear equations and inequalities as well as develops the use and understanding of linear, quadratic, exponential, and rational equations and functions They solve and graph quadratic functions and use and apply quadratic equations. The quadratic formula is developed and used.

2415 Calculus

Calculus is a course for students who completed pre-calculus objectives, including some combination of trigonometry, elementary functions, analytic geometry, and mathematics analysis, or pre-calculus. The course includes: the study of derivatives; anti-derivatives; differentiation; integration; the definite and indefinite integral; and applications of calculus. This high school course should have the same level of depth and rigor as an entry-level college and university calculus course.

2401 Consumer Mathematics/Senior Mathematics

This is a general mathematics course designed to reinforce basic mathematics skills and link those skills to consumer applications. Such applications may include budgeting, taxation, credit, banking service, insurance, buying and selling products and services, home and/or car ownership and rental, managing personal income, and investment.

2400 General Mathematics/Basic Mathematics/Vocational Mathematics

This is a general mathematics course designed to reinforce basic skills in mathematics and teach students the application of these skills to real world problems and situations. The topics covered include arithmetic using rational numbers, the numeration systems, and place value. The higher grades may include basic geometry and basic statistics.

2413 Geometry

This course develops geometry skills and concepts useful to all students. Students will develop their ability to construct formal, logical arguments and proofs in geometric settings and problems. The course includes congruence and similarity; the Pythagorean theorem; basic constructions; coordinate geometry; properties of angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, triangles, special right triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles; basic trigonometric function; perimeter, circumference, area, volume, lateral area, and surface area of common geometric figures.

2425 Integrated Mathematics I (college preparatory)

Integrated Mathematics Course I is the first of three mathematics courses required for college entrance. The course content includes: functions; algebra; geometry; statistics; probability; discrete mathematics; measurement; number; logic; and language. The course emphasizes mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and communication through integration of the various strands, connections with other subject areas and real-life applications, use of technology, and exploratory and group activities. The course emphasizes algebra.

2426 Integrated Mathematics II (college preparatory)

Integrated Mathematics Course II is the second of three mathematics courses required for college entrance. The course content expands upon the mathematical content and techniques of Integrated Mathematics Course I. In addition to further development of the strands with connections and applications, this course emphasizes unifying ideas such as mathematical modeling and argumentation, variation, algorithmic thinking, and multiple representations. The course emphasizes geometry.

2427 Integrated Mathematics Course III (college preparatory)

Integrated Mathematics Course III is the third of three mathematics courses required for college entrance. The course content expands upon the mathematical content and techniques of Course II. Connections among the strands and unifying ideas continue with attention given to depth of understanding. Students successfully completing Course III are prepared for pre-calculus or alternative mathematics courses that emphasize real-world applications in the social sciences, or life and physical sciences. The course emphasizes advanced algebra and trigonometry.

2430 Integrated Mathematics IV (college preparatory)

The Integrated Mathematics Course IV is for programs that cover the Integrated Mathematics subjects in four years, instead of three years. The course emphasizes advanced geometry, advanced algebra, and probability and statistics.

2404 Intermediate Algebra/Algebra II

This course complements and expands the mathematical content and concepts of Algebra I and geometry. Students will gain experience with algebraic solutions of problems in various content areas, including the solution of systems of quadratic equations, logarithmic and exponential functions, the binomial theorem, and the complex number system. Course topics include absolute value, systems of linear equations and inequalities, matrices, operations on polynomials, rational expressions, quadratic equations and functions, conic sections, inverse functions, sequences and series, probabilities, and mathematical induction.

2408 Intermediate Algebra and Trigonometry

This is a course of studies that integrates intermediate algebra and trigonometry. Topics include: field properties and theorems; set theory; operations with rational and irrational expressions; factoring of rational expressions; in-depth study of linear equations and inequalities; graphing of constants, linear and quadratic equations; properties of higher degree equations; operations with rational and irrational exponents; right trigonometric and circular functions, inverses and graphs; trigonometric identities and equations; solutions of right and oblique triangles; complex numbers; and numerical tables.

2412 Linear Algebra

In this course students learn the techniques of matrix manipulation so that they can solve systems of linear equations in any number of variables. Linear algebra is most often combined with another subject, such as trigonometry, mathematical analysis, or pre-calculus. Topics include: operations on matrices; inverse matrices; determinants; vectors; and linear systems.

2431 Math 6 (grade six standards)

In this course students master arithmetic operations and their applications using integers and positive fractions and decimals. Students learn to add and multiply fractions and conceptually understand ratios, proportions, and percentages. Student understands the concepts of mean, median, mode, and range of data sets and how to use charts and graphs. Students know pi and the circumference and area of a circle and the formulas for basic geometric shapes and can solve one-step linear equations.

2432 Math 7 (grade seven standards)

2420 Math A

Math A is a transition course emphasizing mathematics as problem solving, communication, and reasoning. Students not ready for the core curriculum learn essential mathematical ideas that help the student succeed in later courses. The course focuses on patterns and properties in mathematics, fundamental ideas in geometry and spatial visualization, data analysis, large numbers, graphs, growth and decay, models for operations, measurement, probability, and functions. The course includes: open investigations that embody relevant applications; and introduces mathematical tools in the context of these applications.

2421 Math B

Math B is a second transition course to develop essential mathematical ideas that help students succeed in later courses. The goal is to develop students' understanding of key mathematical ideas in algebraic and geometrical thinking that are crucial to success both in the core college-preparatory curriculum and in vocational-technical courses. Students develop non-mathematical skills that are essential for success in high school mathematics, such as organizing work, making generalizations, working cooperatively, using technology as a tool, and communicating effectively.

2422 Math Analysis

This course combines the trigonometric, geometric, and algebraic techniques needed to prepare students for the study of calculus and strengthens their conceptual understanding of problems and mathematical reasoning in solving problems. This course takes a functional point of view toward those topics. The most significant new concept is that of limits. Mathematical analysis is often combination with a course in trigonometry or perhaps with one in linear algebra to make a year-long pre-calculus course. Topics include polar coordinates, vectors, complex numbers, limits, mathematical induction, fundamental theorem of algebra, conic sections, rational functions, and functions and equations defined parametrically.

2411 Modern Abstract Algebra

Modern abstract algebra is a high level algebra course that covers advanced topics from groups, rings, modules and fields including applications to combinatories and coding theory. The course prerequisite is advanced algebra.

2424 Pre-Algebra

Pre-algebra provides an extra year of study for students who have attained standard mathematics objectives, but are not ready to enter algebra. Pre-algebra covers a variety of topics, such as exponents and radicals, the rectangular coordinate system, sets, logic formulas, and solving first-degree equations and inequalities.

2410 Probability and Statistics

This course is an introduction to the study of probability, interpretation of data, and fundamental statistical problem solving. Mastery of this academic content will provide students with a solid foundation in probability theory and calculations and facility in processing statistical information. Topics include independent events, conditional probability, discrete random variables; standard distributions; mean, median, and mode; variance and standard deviation; and data organization.

2402 Remedial Mathematics/Proficiency Development

This is a course of basic skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, as well as fractions and decimals. The course is designed for low achieving students. To effectively assist students, teachers individualize and/or make use of small group instruction. The teaching techniques emphasize the use of manipulatives and other tools, including technological tools in a laboratory setting.

2409 Solid Geometry/Trigonometry

This course is designed to prepare students for eventual work in calculus. Topics include: the study of right trigonometric and circular functions, inverses, and graphs; trigonometric identities and equations; solutions of right and oblique triangles; complex numbers; numerical tables; polynomial, logarithmic, exponential, and rational functions and their graphs; vectors; set theory; Boolean algebra and symbolic logic; mathematical induction; matrix algebra; sequences and series; and limits and continuity.

2407 Trigonometry

Trigonometry uses the techniques that students have previously learned from the study of algebra and geometry where the trigonometric functions studied are defined geometrically rather than in terms of algebraic equations. Facility with these functions, as well as the ability to prove basic identities regarding them, is especially important for students intending to study calculus, more advanced mathematics, physics and other sciences, and engineering in college. Course topics include radian measure; unit circle; trigonometric identities; graphs of trigonometric functions and their inverse; polar coordinates; and complex numbers.

2498 Other Mathematics Course (including combinations of above)

This assignment code covers any mathematics course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Mathematics (AP) Subjects

2480 AP Calculus AB

This is a course that provides students with an intuitive understanding of the concepts of calculus and experience with its methods and applications. The course introduces calculus and includes the following topics: elementary functions; properties of functions and their graphs; limits and continuity; differential calculus (including definition of the derivative, derivative formulas, derivative theorems, geometric applications, optimization problems, and rate-of-change problems); and integral calculus (including anti derivatives and the definite integral).

2481 AP Calculus BC

This is a course that follows AP Calculus AB and assumes a thorough knowledge of elementary functions. In addition to a review of AP Calculus AB, the topics covered include: vector functions, parametric equations, and polar coordinates; rigorous definitions of finite and nonexistent limits; derivatives and advanced applications of the definite integral; and sequence and series.

2483 AP Statistics

This is a college-level course that covers the following topics: exploring data; planning a study (deciding what and how to measure); anticipating patterns (introducing probability and simulation); and statistical inference. Mastery of the course content gives students the background to succeed in the Advanced Placement examination in this subject.

Mathematics (IB) Subjects

2460 IB Mathematical Studies

Offered at the subsidiary/standard level only, Mathematical Studies is designed to provide a realistic mathematics course for students with varied backgrounds and abilities who may not study mathematics at the university level. The course develops the skills needed to cope with the mathematical demands of a technological society with an emphasis on the application of mathematics to real-life, everyday situations. Course topics include: linear, quadratic, and exponential functions; approximation and error; algorithms; probability and statistics; sets and logic; simple sequences and finance; linear programming; vectors; matrices; and trigonometry. Before entering the course, students should have a good understanding of basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. A personal research project involving the collection, analysis and evaluation of data is a requirement of the course.

2461 IB Mathematical Methods

Offered at the subsidiary/standard level only, Mathematical Methods is designed to provide a background of mathematical thought and a reasonable level of technical ability to students who will continue to study mathematics at the university level. Course topics include: logarithms; sequences and series; linear and quadratic functions and equations; the binomial theorem; arcs and sectors; trigonometry; functions and calculus; vectors and matrices; and probability and statistics. Students must also complete one of two optional topics: analytical geometry and further calculus; or further probability and statistics. Before entering the course, students should have a good understanding of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics.

2462 IB Mathematics Higher Level

Offered at the higher level only, Mathematics HL is designed for those students who have a good background and genuine interest in mathematics and who enjoy meeting its challenges and problems, and for those who will continue to study mathematics or engineering at university level. Course topics include: sequences and series; counting and proof; trigonometry; complex numbers; discrete and continuous probability distributions; functions, differentiation, integration, and differential equations; and matrices and vectors. Students must also complete one of four optional topics: abstract algebra; graphs and trees; statistics; or analysis and approximation. Before entering the course, students should have a strong understanding of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics.

2463 IB Advanced Mathematics

Offered at the subsidiary/standard level only, Advanced Mathematics is designed for students who intend to specialize in mathematics at the university level and requires a high degree of competence and interest in the subject. Advanced Mathematics allows students to gain an increased exposure to, and deeper understanding of, mathematical concepts and methods. Course topics include: abstract algebra; graphs and trees; statistics; analysis and approximation; logic; sets; relations; the real number system; primes; concepts and methods of proof; recurrence relations; and sequences. Before entering the course, students should have completed or be enrolled in Mathematics HL.

Middle Years Program (IB) Subjects

2467 MYP Algebra (I or II)

MYP Mathematics promotes an understanding of how cultural, societal and historical influences from a variety of cultures have shaped mathematical thought. Students learn to understand and discuss the international nature of mathematics. Schools are required to develop schemes of work according to a framework that includes five branches of mathematics: number, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, statistics and probability, and discrete mathematics. Objectives include understanding mathematical reasoning and processes, the ability to apply mathematics and to evaluate the significance of the results, the ability to develop flexible strategies for problems in which solutions are not obvious, and the acquisition of mathematical intuition.

2479 MYP Computer Technology

MYP Computer Technology aims at establishing the foundations for technological literacy and know-how and providing a balance among three key areas: systems, information, and materials. The course allows students to display ingenuity and creativity and to devise practical solutions to given tasks by following the design cycle of investigation, planning, creation and evaluation. This subject area offers great potential for reinforcing and integrating skills learned in other disciplines, especially in the presentation and handling of data and the processes involved in the design and manufacture of a product.

2464 MYP Coordinated Program of Math (CPM)

2667 MYP Design Technology

MYP Design Technology aims at establishing the foundations for technological literacy and know-how and providing a balance among three key areas: systems, information, and materials. The course allows students to display ingenuity and creativity and to devise practical solutions to given tasks by following the design cycle of investigation, planning, creation and evaluation. This subject area offers great potential for reinforcing and integrating skills learned in other disciplines, especially in the presentation and handling of data and the processes involved in the design and manufacture of a product.

2961 MYP Drama

MYP Drama brings students into contact with the performing art forms and aesthetic values of other cultures as well as their own, and helps to develop perceptions between ideas and art. Students are encouraged to identify particular creative abilities and to master techniques appropriate to that form of expression. In addition to developing the student’s own imagination and skills, the program seeks to acquaint students with the creations of men and women whose works have proven to be of enduring worth.

2468 MYP Geometry and/or Trigonometry

2769 MYP Humanities (history and/or geography)

MYP Humanities consists of both geography and history and is intended to be taught throughout the full sequence of the program. The study of geography is intended to lead students from an understanding of the immediate environment to an appreciation of spatial phenomena at regional, national, and global levels. The study of history addresses a variety of cultures and times, and stresses their increasing interaction in our modern world.

2469 MYP Integrated Math Program

2161 MYP Language A

MYP Language A is defined as the student’s best language. It is typically but not necessarily the language of instruction in the school, and is fundamental to the curriculum as it crosses the boundaries of the traditional disciplines. The program distinguishes between the instrumental function of language when it emphasizes listening, viewing, speaking, reading and writing skills, and the study of literature, which encompasses a variety of periods and genres.

2265 MYP Language B

MYP Language B, an additional modern language, is the means by which one communicates with another linguistic community and the gateway to the understanding of another culture. The study of Language B fosters communication skills and the appreciation of other cultures, increasing the students’ self-knowledge and their knowledge of the world.

2361 MYP Music

MYP Music brings students into contact with the performing art forms and aesthetic values of other cultures as well as their own, and helps to develop perceptions between ideas and art. Students are encouraged to identify particular creative abilities and to master techniques appropriate to that form of expression. In addition to developing the student’s own imagination and skills, the program seeks to acquaint students with the creations of men and women whose works have proven to be of enduring worth.

2560 MYP Physical Education

MYP Physical Education aims to facilitate physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development. The program intends to cultivate a healthy and active lifestyle for students and consequently advocates activities which are not only enjoyable but also contribute to healthy living. Students are helped to develop the motor skills necessary to enable them to participate successfully in a variety of physical activities, and learn the benefits of a regular exercise regime.

2665 MYP Science (biology, chemistry, or physics)

MYP Science aims to provide the student with both a body of knowledge and an understanding of the scientific approach to problem solving. This dual role makes science an important means to investigate and understand the natural world. The ability to formulate hypotheses, design and carry out strategies to test them, and evaluate results, constitutes the framework within which specific content is presented. Among other skills, the student is expected to use basic laboratory equipment safely and efficiently, to measure and make sensible estimates, and to classify things logically. Within MYP Sciences are the traditional subjects of biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as topics, concepts and issues from other branches of science, such as earth and health sciences.

2861 MYP Visual Arts

MYP Visual Arts brings students into contact with the visual art forms and aesthetic values of other cultures as well as their own, and helps to develop perceptions between ideas and art. Students are encouraged to identify particular creative abilities and to master techniques appropriate to that form of expression. In addition to developing the student’s own imagination and skills, the program seeks to acquaint students with the creations of men and women whose works have proven to be of enduring worth.

Music Subjects

2300 Band

This program is a performing band, typically of fifteen or more students, in which students learn proper individual and band instrument technique, receive standards-based sequential music instruction. It may include guitar band, garage band, symphonic band, marching band, Mariachi, jazz band, swing bands, or stage bands. There may be more than one band group at the same time, within the course of instruction.

2305 Chorus/Choir/Vocal Ensemble

This course is inclusive of students learning proper vocal choral, choir and ensemble techniques, the elements of music, and choral music of different styles, cultures, and periods; it may include principals of music drama and appropriate acting within the musical theatre arena. This course offers instruction inclusive of music standards and may include vocal jazz, show or swing choir, Broadway chorus or Blues, jazz choir, madrigal, chamber, vocal ensemble, world music choir/chorus, musical theatre choir, and others; it may provide demonstration of the learning; and includes utilization of the learning through performances. There may be several choral or ensemble groups at the same time, within the course of instruction.

2309 Composition/Songwriting

This class is for students who wish to express themselves through creation of music. It may or may not have a prerequisite of music theory and/or ability to play a melodic instrument; it may use either non conventional or conventional notation; it may include harmonization in addition to melody writing; it may use computers for creating music.

2323 Computers and Electronic/Digital Music

This course is devoted to music composed or realized through electronic media or computer applications related to music, such as creative work, music writing and printing, and performances of contemporary compositions. The course is inclusive of music standards instruction, the study of appropriate physics of sound, and students learn to use the equipment through performance of music from other sources and explore personal means of self-expression.

2326 General/Classroom/Exploratory Music (elementary school standards)

This class is designed to develop the student’s ability to make discriminating judgments regarding music through a variety of musical experiences. The class is inclusive of elementary music standards instruction, the elements of music as found in many different styles, cultures, and periods of music. Classes may include “Music,” “Exploratory Music,” “Introduction to Music,” and others. This class does not normally perform as a group other than an end of course demonstration of learning. If the class performs on a regular basis, it should be coded under another vocal or instrumental course.

2327 General/Exploratory/Introduction to Music (secondary school standards)

This class is designed to develop the student’s ability to make discriminating judgments regarding music through a variety of musical experiences. The class is inclusive of secondary music standards instruction, the elements of music as found in many different styles, cultures, and periods of music. Classes may include “Mime and Music,” “Music Introduction,” “Today’s Music,” “Music of Yesterday and Today,” “Music Survey,” “World of Music,” and others. This class does not normally perform as a group other than an end of course demonstration of learning. If the class performs on a regular basis, it should be coded under another vocal or instrumental course.

2328 Instrumental Ensemble

This course is for instrumental performing groups, typically of two to fourteen students, in which students learn proper individual and ensemble instrument technique, receive standards-based sequential music instruction. It may include world music ensembles, percussion or drumming ensembles, recorder ensemble, jazz ensemble, swing ensemble, guitar ensemble, stage ensemble, or Mariachi. There may be several ensemble groups at the same time, within the course of instruction.

2324 Instrumental Music Lessons (elementary school standards)

This course provides individual class instrumental instruction (brass, guitar, keyboard, digital, percussion, recorders, strings, woodwinds) where students learn to play specific instruments and identify their unique contributions to various types of ensembles. This course provides a study of the elements of music and learning to read music; students are taught to the elementary music standards. This class does not normally perform as a group other than an end of course demonstration of learning. If the class performs, it should be coded as one of the instrumental categories (band, ensemble, or orchestra/symphony).

2325 Instrumental Music Lessons (secondary school standards)

This course provides individual class instrumental instruction (brass, guitar, keyboard, digital, percussion, recorders, strings, woodwinds) where students learn to play specific instruments and identify their unique contributions to various types of ensembles; provides a study of the elements of music and learning to read music and is taught to the proficient and/or advanced music standards. This class does not normally perform as a group other than an end of course demonstration of learning. If the class performs, it should be coded as one the instrumental categories (band, ensemble or orchestra/symphony).

2307 Music Appreciation/History/Literature

This class emphasizes listening activities related to the structure or design of the music from perceptual, creative, historical, and critical viewpoints using a variety of musical forms and styles.

2308 Music Theory

This class concentrates on the theoretical aspects of music, such as symbols, intervals, scale and chord structure, duration, meter, pitch, and harmony. Classes such as "Harmony, Theory, and Styles" belong in this category and not in Music History if the largest proportion of study is theoretical rather than historical or cultural.

2322 Musical Theater

This class is one in which students learn vocal music techniques, principles of musical drama, and acting techniques. They learn skills through performing examples of musical theater, including, but not confined to, Broadway shows.

2303 Orchestra/Symphony

This course is inclusive of fourteen or more students in which they learn proper individual and ensemble instrumental techniques; the elements of music; orchestra music of different styles, cultures, and periods; is inclusive of music standards instruction learning. It provides demonstration of the learning; and includes utilization of the learning through performances.

2316 Voice Class

This class is one in which students learn to use their voices appropriately by singing various types of music, especially chosen for the unique characteristics of their voice (such as range, timbre, tessitura). They also study the elements of music and learn to read music. For this course, a student may perform individually but not as part of a choir/chorus/ensemble.

2398 Other Music Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any music course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Music (AP) Subjects

2370 AP Music Theory

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a first-year music theory college course. The course develops students' understanding of musical structure and compositional procedures. Usually intended for students possessing performance-level skills, this course extends and builds on the students' knowledge of intervals, scales, chords, metric/rhythmic patterns, and their interaction in composition. Musical notation, analysis, composition, and aural skills are important components of the course.

Other Instruction-Related Assignment Subjects

6023 AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination)

AVID is a college preparatory program for underachieving, educationally disadvantaged secondary students. It was established in 1980 by Mary Catherine Swanson, a high school English teacher in San Diego, California. AVID rejects remediation for disadvantaged students in favor of challenging them to succeed. The AVID model focuses on students who are "C" students, traditionally unlikely to be eligible for university admission, and offers them access to academic support through specially developed teaching and learning strategies. In exchange for this support, AVID students are expected to commit to taking the most rigorous college preparatory classes offered at their school. Students who join AVID are placed in a daily, single-period AVID class that features a heavy emphasis on writing and inquiry supported by specialized tutoring in core academic subjects. College students provide tutoring.

6013 Home or Hospital

This class consists of instruction and/or services delivered in the home or hospital to a student who is unable to attend school for medical reasons (including psychiatric problems) or any other reasons.

2536 Peer Counseling/Conflict Management

This class is designed to provide students with skills in conflict resolution. Students learn to mediate disagreements through nonviolent means. Students develop an awareness of differences that may arise from a student body that is racially or culturally diverse. Students learn the importance of a neutral third party who can assist in negotiating a solution to any potential conflict.

2821 Yearbook

This course is designed to provide students with practical experience in planning and producing a book that chronicles the school's events during the year. The course uses an eclectic approach in which students from a variety of disciplines (English, art, photography, graphic arts) cooperate in the production of a yearbook.

Physical Education Subjects

2502 Athletic Practice, Not Extracurricular

This course is designed to allow students to experience and develop skills in more than one team sport (such as volleyball, basketball, football, soccer).

2501 Dance, All Phases

This physical education class is one in which students use music and dance for exercise and recreation.

2500 Physical Education

This general physical education course develops skills through some of the following activities: team, individual, dual, recreational sports, or fitness and conditioning activities.

2598 Other Physical Education Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any physical education course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Public Services Subjects

5850 Civil Law

Civil Law is an instructional program examining civil law and its application to everyday life. Includes various types of civil laws and the way such laws affect family, business, and social decision making.

5804 Client Support Services

An instructional program providing an overview of social welfare policy issues in the understanding of client support services and treatment of mental illness at the national, state, and local levels. Focus is on major factors influencing the condition of mental health services.

5801 Conflict Resolution

An instructional program focused on leadership, communication, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills. The subject matter includes non-violent techniques, working with a diverse group, safe community and school, ability to diagnose problems and find solutions, and building a sense of respect for differences.

5851 Constitutional Law A/B

Constitutional Law A/B is an instructional program introducing students to the basics of the United States legal system, including but not limited to the Constitution and Bill of Rights, trial procedures, and government policy.

5842 Corrections Occupations

This instructional program describes the theories, principles, and techniques used in the development, administration, and management of institutions whose purpose is the incarceration, behavior modification, rehabilitation, and return to society of legal offenders.

5844 Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice is an instructional program offering a comprehensive study of the criminal justice system. The program includes an overview of career opportunities within the criminal justice system.

5845 Criminal Law

An instructional program examining how statutes and policies are developed to safeguard society. Includes an analysis of civil rights and liberties, and the ways courts and legislators deal with constitutional questions.

5831 Fire Control and Safety

This instructional program prepares individuals to function as fire control, prevention, and safety specialists. It includes instruction in structural design and materials; meteorological factors impinging on fire situations; the chemistry of combustion; techniques for coping with fires; and procedures for handling hazardous materials (such as petroleum products and other volatile, explosive, or corrosive materials) either routinely or in an accident situation. Instruction includes methods for inspection of equipment and its proper use and for inspection of public and private property for safety conditions.

5833 Firefighting Occupations

This instructional program prepares individuals to fight fires and control the outbreak of fires. It includes instruction in fire department organization; the use of water and other materials in fire fighting and the use of equipment such as extinguishers, pumps, hoses, ropes, ladders, gas masks, hydrants, and standpipe and sprinkler systems. Instruction includes methods of entry and rescue; salvage practices and equipment; and fire and arson inspection and investigation techniques.

5839 Other Fire Technology Course

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Fire Technology that is not described above.

5840 Forensic Science

Forensic Science is an instructional program describing the role of science in solving crimes. Students learn the historical background, the role of the forensic laboratory, scientific evidence gathering and the scope of the field. Students observe crime scenes, gather evidence, process evidence, establish hypothesis and draw conclusions.

5841 Advanced Forensic Science

An instructional program blending the knowledge and skills developed throughout high school courses in science, English, social science, mathematics, and computer skills. Students will explore career opportunities; develop skills and concepts required for successful employment in the field of criminalistics (forensic science) or administration of justice.

5806 In Human Services Careers Psychology

An instructional program exploring the nature of critical thinking from a human services careers perspective. Through an interactive classroom environment, emphasis is placed on class discussions, debates, and writing. Moreover, critical skills such as problem solving, cause and effect relationships, analyzing arguments, fallacies in thinking, and comparing facts with opinions.

5807 Fundamentals of Personal and Social Adjustment

An instructional program exploring psychological theories of human personality that inform the practice of human services professionals. The main focus is on behavioral and humanistic approaches and the way in which these views are applied and explain personal adjustment.

5852 Government Services Policies and Procedures

Government Services Policies and Procedures is an instructional program examining how statutes and policies are developed to safeguard society. Includes, but is not limited to the study of civil rights and liberties, the policy considerations behind the manner in which courts and legislators deal with constitutional questions, and an exploration of problem solving skills that are employed by local agencies and community based groups.

5843 Homeland Security

Homeland Security is an instructional program examining the relationship between those entities and institutions necessary for the protection of the United States. Course will explore career options in federal, state and local police agencies, as well as the role of private security and emergency responders.

5853 International Law Applications

International Law is an instructional program examining the world system of sovereign nation-states and their methods of conducting international relations. The program includes opportunities to develop an understanding of the factors of physical, economic, and political geography that influence relationships among nations; and to examine the role of government and non-government employees in international relations.

5800 Introduction to Human Services Careers

An instructional program that examines career opportunities and the nature of helping, by identifying significant issues in the field of human services. Includes, but is not limited to, instruction in the skills required by human service professionals.

5847 Law Enforcement Occupations

This instructional program describes the theories, principles, and techniques used in the development, administration, and management of services that provide for the safety and security of people and property.

5854 Legal Assistance Preparation

An instructional program that provides an introduction to the legal documents and research skills related legal assistance careers.

5802 Marriage and Family Relations

An instructional program that provides a basic understanding of communication and relationship issues related to human services occupations. Specifically, this course emphasizes the uniqueness of families and individuals, including values, goals, decision-making, interpersonal relationships and communication skills, and managing personal and family crises.

5803 Principles of Recovery and Psychosocial Rehabilitation

An instructional program providing an overview of the philosophy, practices, and perspectives used in working with people and families with mental illness. The course will introduce and familiarize students with proven recovery and rehabilitation methods that allow individuals with a severe and persistent mental illness to reintegrate into society.

5846 Protective Services Policies and Procedures

Protective Services Policies and Procedures is an instructional program that describes the policies and procedures used in the development, administration, and management of services that provide for the safety and security of people and property.

5849 Security Services

This instructional program prepares individuals to police private property to maintain order and to prevent thievery, malicious damage, and dishonesty on the part of employees or patrons of a private business.

5805 Specialized Client Services

An instructional program integrating theory and practice pertaining to the role of mental health workers and integration of those roles within a person-environment perspective. The program applies direct specialized client service models and development of advanced specialized skills for addressing the behavioral, emotional, and situational problems of a special population.

5898 Other Public Services

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Public Services that is not described above.

Science Subjects

2601 Aerospace Education

This course provides students with an introductory understanding of the principles of the aerospace industry. Students learn the different principles of flight in space, the physics related to planet orbiting, and the biology of space flight.

2655 Anatomy and Physiology

This course is an in-depth study of the human body and its biological systems (skeletal, muscular, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, glandular, and nervous) and understanding of their functions and processes. The course includes study of anatomical terms, cells and tissue structure and function, metabolism, and the human life cycle.

2600 Astronomy

Astronomy is an introduction to the solar system and general astronomical concepts. The course may include extensive observations and descriptions of the night sky. Students develop the ability to compare and contrast stars, planets, and other objects in space and the way they move. Students learn the names of major constellations, develop familiarity with radio astronomy, and astronomical measuring techniques.

2603 Biology

This laboratory course explores the origins, organization, reproduction, genetics, growth, development, evolution, behavior, and interdependence of living things.

2604 Advanced Biology

Advanced Biology includes selected topics studied in the introductory biology course. Students pursue these topics in greater depth with more opportunity for increased laboratory and individual study in areas of special interest.

2605 Botany

This practical oriented course provides the student with an understanding of plants, their life cycles, and evolutionary relationships. The course develops in students an appreciation for living things.

2607 Chemistry

This introductory course covers the basic topics of chemical bonds, periodicity, kinetic molecular theory, kinetics, energies, dynamic equilibrium, conservation laws, atomic and molecular theory, and chemical systems. The course usually includes applications of chemical principles.

2608 Advanced Chemistry

Advanced Chemistry includes selected topics studied in the introductory chemistry course. This course pursues these topics in greater depth with more opportunity for individual study in areas of special interest.

2635 Conceptual Chemistry

This is a practical, non-quantitative chemistry course designed for students who desire an understanding of chemical concepts and applications.

2617 Conservation

Conservation is a course of study that uses a variety of disciplines such as biology, history, and physical science to show students the relevance of conserving environmental habitats. Students learn the importance to our cultural heritage of safeguarding individual objects, structures, sites, or monuments that have significant artistic, historic, scientific, or religious value.

2626 Coordinated/Integrated Science I

First-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science draws from the principles of several scientific disciplines - earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics - and organizes the material around thematic units. Common themes include systems, models, energy, patterns, change, and constancy. Students investigate applications of the theme using appropriate aspects from each discipline.

2627 Coordinated/Integrated Science II

Second-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science draws from the principles of several scientific disciplines - earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics - and organizes the material around thematic units. Common themes include systems, models, energy, patterns, change, and constancy. Students investigate applications of the theme using appropriate aspects from each discipline. This course builds on the content learned in First-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science, addressing additional concepts in Coordinated/Integrated Science or previous concepts at a more advanced academic level.

2628 Coordinated/Integrated Science III

Third-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science draws from the principles of several scientific disciplines - earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics - and organizes the material around thematic units. Common themes include systems, models, energy, patterns, change, and constancy. Students investigate applications of the theme using appropriate aspects from each discipline. This course builds on the content learned in Second-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science, addressing additional concepts in Coordinated/Integrated Science or previous concepts at a more advanced academic level.

2629 Coordinated/Integrated Science IV

Fourth-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science draws from the principles of several scientific disciplines - earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics - and organizes the material around thematic units. Common themes include systems, models, energy, patterns, change, and constancy. Students investigate applications of the theme using appropriate aspects from each discipline. This course builds on the content learned in Third-Year Coordinated/Integrated Science, addressing additional concepts in Coordinated/Integrated Science or previous concepts at a more advanced academic level.

2618 Earth Science

This course covers the fundamental topics associated with the formation and changes in the earth's crust, meteorology, astronomy, paleontology, materials of the earth, earth cycles, history of the earth, and earth in space. Geoscience is another name used to identify the course.

2619 Energy Education

This course focuses on one or several aspects of energy or power in transportation and work. The course content may include various sources of energy, mechanisms for energy transfer, such as electricity and heat, energy production through wind/nuclear solar energies, and energy conversion by means of motors and engines.

2612 Environmental Studies

This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the interrelationship between organisms and their physical environment. Students gain an awareness and understanding about ecological concepts and current environmental issues regarding air quality, water resources, energy resources, integrated water management, and human and natural communities.

2611 General Science

This course combines more than one branch of science into a cohesive study where students explore general scientific concepts. Topics covered include the principles underlying the scientific method and the techniques of experimentation.

2652 General Science with Focus on Earth Science (grade 6 standards)

This course emphasizes the study of earth science providing students with an introduction to the Earth's history and the mechanisms that account for the planet's topography, weather phenomena, and interactions of living things within the Earth's system. The course focuses on learning how two sources of energy (the Sun and the radioactive decay inside the Earth) power convection currents that cause weather, the reshaping of the Earth's surface, and the continuation of ecosystems. Through the investigation and experimentation standards, students learn and apply the scientific methods, interpret maps, interpret events by sequence and time, and identify changes in natural phenomena.

2653 General Science with Focus on Life Science (grade 7 standards)

This course focuses on life science with the study of cells, body systems, and genetics and the history of life on Earth. Examination of the evolution of life through the geologic history learned in grade six receives considerable emphasis. The physical science principles that underlie biological structures and functions (e.g., light, levers, blood pressure) are studied to gain a deeper understanding of living systems. Through the investigation and experimentation standards, students learn how to use appropriate tools and technology and a variety of print and electronic resources, communicate ideals logically, construct scale models and diagrams to communicate knowledge, and communicate the steps and results from investigations.

2654 General Science with Focus on Physical Science (grade 8 standards)

This course focuses on topics in chemistry and physics. The topics in chemistry focus on the structures of matter, behavior of atoms and molecules and the chemical makeup of living systems. Physics topics focus on motion, forces, and density and buoyancy that are explored as aspects of the behavior of matter. The Earth and the solar system are studied according to the physical interactions of bodies in space. Through the investigation and experimentation standards, students learn how to plan and conduct a scientific investigation, evaluate data, distinguish between variables and controls, construct linear graphs, and manipulate simple mathematical formulas.

2620 Geology

Geology is an in-depth study of the forces that form and continue to affect the earth's crust. Topics may include the structure and development of the earth's crust, the composition of the earth's interior, rock types, and the forms of life found in fossil and plate tectonics. The course covers earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, and erosion in the context of a changing earth.

2621 Life Science

Life Science provides students with a basic understanding of living things. The course applies the principles of conservation to show the interrelationships of organisms within ecosystems.

2622 Meteorology

Meteorology covers the properties of the atmosphere. Topics include atmospheric layering, changing pressure, winds, water vapor, air masses, fronts, temperature changes, and weather forecasting.

2609 Oceanography

A course designed for students seeking a greater knowledge of the sea. Laboratory experiences and field work are important parts of the course. Students investigate both physical and biological aspects of the ocean. Marine Science is another name used to identify the course.

2633 Pacesetter Science

The College Board designed this course as a capstone course for the 12th grade. It is appropriate for students who have taken coordinated, integrated or discipline specific science courses. This course requires specific prerequisite courses, including at least two years of college preparatory science in the first three years of high school.

2610 Physical Science

This course covers the structure and state of matter. Topics may include forms of energy, wave phenomenon, electromagnetism, and physical/chemical interactions.

2613 Physics

The first course in physics with mathematical reasoning not exceeding the level of trigonometry. The course uses the concept of vectors. Physics concepts usually include conservation laws, motion, gravity, optics, energy, kinetic theory, fields and interactions, and atomic structure.

2614 Advanced Physics

Any course in physics that has a first course in physics as a prerequisite. This course may deal with additional concepts in physics or with previous concepts at an advanced academic level.

2636 Conceptual Physics

Conceptual Physics is a first course in Physics with mathematical reasoning not exceeding the level of Algebra I. The concepts usually include conservation laws, motion, gravity, waves, optics and atomic structure. The course may include applications to technology.

2624 Science Projects

This course assists advanced science students with the individual study, research, and development of a science project.

2625 Space Science

This course is an introduction to space flight and the aerospace industry. Topics may include astronomy, orbits, propulsion systems, space flight, biology, communication technology, history of flight, NASA, exploration, and satellite programs. The course may also include simulated flight and field trips.

2606 Zoology

This survey course provides the student with an introductory under standing of animals, and the niche they occupy in their habitat, their life cycles, and evolutionary relationships to each other. The course also develops an awareness and understanding of biotic communities and to sharpen laboratory and field skills.

2698 Other Science Course (including combinations of above)

Any science course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Science (AP) Subjects

2670 AP Biology

This course is typically taken after a year of high school biology and chemistry. The course parallels a college-level introductory biology course. The course is described in the AP Biology syllabus. The instructor is expected to follow and complete the syllabus.

2671 AP Chemistry

This course parallels a college-level chemistry course. AP Chemistry usually follows high school chemistry and second year algebra. The course is described in the AP Chemistry syllabus. The instructor is expected to follow and complete the syllabus.

2674 AP Environmental Science

This course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them.

2672 AP Physics B

This course parallels a non-calculus college-level physics. The course is described in the AP Physics B syllabus. The instructor is expected to follow and complete the syllabus.

2673 AP Physics C

This course parallels a calculus based college-level Physics. The course is described in the AP Physics C syllabus. The instructor is expected to follow and complete the syllabus

Science (IB) Subjects

2660 IB Biology

Offered at both the higher and subsidiary/standard levels, Biology is designed to give students a secure knowledge of a limited body of facts and at the same time a broad understanding of the field of biology. The syllabus is organized around four central themes: structure and function; universality versus diversity; equilibrium within systems; and evolution. Course topics at both levels include cells, chemistry of life, genetics, ecology, and human health and physiology. In IB experimental science courses, students perform practical (laboratory) work that covers a range of topics and skills, including a multi-disciplinary science group project.

2661 IB Chemistry

Offered at both the higher and subsidiary/standard levels, Chemistry is designed to meet the needs of students who want to study science at the university level and who will complete their formal study of science at the end of the course. Course topics at both levels include stoichiometry, atomic theory, periodicity, bonding, states of matter, energetics, kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, oxidation and reduction, and organic chemistry. Students perform practical (laboratory) work that covers a range of topics and skills, including a multi-disciplinary science group project.

2666 IB Design Technology

Offered at both the higher and subsidiary/standard levels, Design Technology is designed to teach students how to adapt to new experiences and approach problems with the appropriate skills and techniques to identify the problem's important elements and to develop optimum solutions. It assumes no previous experience in either design technology or designing. Course topics at both levels include designers and the design cycle, the responsibility of the designer, materials, manufacturing processes, and techniques, production systems, processing and control systems, and project design in action. Students perform practical (laboratory) work that covers a range of topics and skills, including a multi-disciplinary science group project.

2664 IB Environmental Systems

Offered at both the subsidiary/standard level only, Environmental Systems is designed to provide students with a coherent perspective on the environment that is essentially scientific and above all enables them to adopt an informed and responsible stance on the wide range of environmental issues they will inevitably come to face. The course leads students to an appreciation of the nature and value of internationalism. Course topics include systems and models, the ecosystem, global cycles and physical systems, and human population and carrying capacity. Students perform practical (laboratory) work that covers a range of topics and skills, including a multi-disciplinary science group project.

2662 IB Physics

Offered at both the higher and subsidiary/standard levels, Physics is designed to introduce students to the laws of physics, the experimental skills required in physics, and the social and historical aspects of physics as an evolving body of human knowledge about nature. Course topics at both levels include measurement, mechanics, thermal physics and properties of matter, waves, electricity and magnetism, and atomic and nuclear physics. Students perform practical (laboratory) work that covers a range of topics and skills, including a multi-disciplinary science group project.

Social Science Subjects

2700 Anthropology

Students learn about human beings and their cultures by studying the two major divisions of anthropology: physical and cultural. In physical anthropology students consider the biological characteristics of human beings, their adaptation to their environment, and development in the context of various forms of animal life. In cultural anthropology students learn about the culture of specific peoples, past and present, as well as those components of culture found universally among human societies.

2708 California History

This course emphasizes the study of California, including the people and its history, its geography, its multicultural heritage, its government and economy, the major issues and unresolved problems facing the state, and the ways in which students can become active participants in local and state government and community service organizations.

2706 Comparative Political Systems

This course is one in which students learn about the difference between democratic and non democratic political systems. The key topics discussed include the nature of leadership, the institutional setting, allocation and use of power, decision making, the role of the individual citizen, and political and social ideology.

2726 Comparative World Religions

Students consider the principal religions of the world that are active today and deal with basic questions: What does humankind believe and what does it worship? In what ways do we worship? What are our understandings of the ethical life? What are the influences of contemporary times and cultures? The course introduces students to the basic tenets of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

2707 Current Events

This course is one in which students identify, research, analyze, and discuss contemporary social, economic, and political issues and events from the different points of views identified in the United States and the world. The course covers the global context of issues, as well as their importance in local, state, or national affairs. Ideally, students study the topics in their historical context, thereby making connections from past to present. Students present their positions on the issues.

2701 Economics

In this course students deepen their understanding of the basic economic problems and institutions of the nation and world in which they live. They learn to make reasoned decisions on economic issues as citizens, workers, consumers, business owners and managers, and members of civic groups. This course enriches students' understanding of the operation and institutions of economic systems. Topics include Fundamental Economic Concepts, Comparative Economic Systems, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and International Economic Concepts.

2710 Ethnic Studies

This course focuses on an in-depth study of one or more ethnic groups, including their history, culture, achievements, contributions, barriers and strategies to overcome these barriers, and status in the United States. Students learn about the characteristics of America's ethnic groups and the similarities and differences of these groups in both their past and present experiences from multiple perspectives. Students learn that Americans, as descendants of many cultures, races, religions, and ethnic groups are bonded by a democratic vision of liberty, equality, and justice.

2734 History-Social Science (social studies) (any of grades kindergarten through eight)

This course is normally taught by the regular classroom teacher; however, this course listing is for a teacher specialist teaching one or more classes in history–social science. The topics by grade levels are as follows: kindergarten — topics related to learning and working now and in past historical time periods; grade one — geography (topics that localize a child's place in time and space) and awareness of cultural diversity now and long ago; grade two — people who supply our needs (parents, grandparents, ancestors, and people from many cultures); grade three — topics dealing with continuity and change in local history and the nation's history; grade four — California history; grade five — United States history and geography; grade six — ancient civilizations; grade seven — medieval and the early modern world; grade eight — United States history and geography.

2705 International Studies

This course is a study of the world system of nation-states and their relationship and relationships between social and political systems, with a special emphasis on diplomatic relations and the factors affecting the development of U.S. foreign policy.

2732 Law-Related Education

Students gain a practical understanding of the law and the legal system developed under the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. They become aware of the current issues and controversies relating to law and the legal system and the mechanisms created to deal with new problems and inequities. Students are encouraged to participate as citizens in the legal system. The course includes a study of concepts underlying the law, as well as an introduction to the origin and development of our legal system, including civil and criminal law.

2713 Philosophy

Philosophy familiarizes students with the terminology, problems, major philosophers, and systems that pertain to this field. The course deals with major questions in the fields of epistemology, axiology, aesthetics, logic, and metaphysics. Students discuss, explore, and evaluate important philosophical systems, such as materialism, idealism, naturalism, mysticism, pragmatism, institutionalism, realism, and existentialism. The course emphasizes the field of ethics where moral questions are analyzed in literature, history, and contemporary events.

2702 Physical Geography

This course develops the basic themes of physical geography, including a systematic discussion of the physical landscape through geomorphology and topography; the patterns and processes of climate and weather; and water resources. These studies equip students with an understanding of the constraints and possibilities that the physical environment places on human development. The course covers natural resources and place-name geography.

2703 Principles of American Democracy/Government and Civics

Students apply knowledge gained in previous years of study to pursue a deeper understanding of the institutions of American government. They draw on their studies of American history and of other societies in the world today. This course prepares students to vote, to reflect on the responsibilities of citizenship, and to participate in community activities. Topics include the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; the Courts and the Governmental Process; Our Government Today; the Legislative and Executive Branches; Federalism; and State and Local Government. Contemporary issues, including key passages from the Federalist Papers and similar primary sources are studied in light of democratic principles.

2714 Psychology

This course focuses on the scientific study of human development, learning, motivation, and personality. Students explore implications for everyday life with a scientific perspective on human behavior.

2715 Sociology

This course introduces students to sociological concepts, theories, and procedures. Students learn how sociologists analyze the basic structures and functions of societies and of groups within societies, discover how these societies became organized, identify the conditions under which they become disorganized, and predict the conditions for their reorganization. Typical study units for this course include such social issues as crime, poverty, and the problem of discrimination toward women, children, the disabled, the aged, and minorities.

2709 United States History

This course focuses on the examination of major turning points in American history in the twentieth century. The course emphasizes specific themes, such as the expanding role of the federal government and federal courts; the continuing tension between the individual and the state and between minority rights and majority power; the emergence of a modern corporate economy; the impact of technology on American society and culture; change in the ethnic composition of American society; the movements toward equal rights for racial minorities and women; and the role of the United States as a major world power.

2730 Women’s History

This course includes the study of the history of American women in which students analyze the place of women in history. Students study the complexities of women's changing roles, including women as immigrants and as settlers, women in the formation of the nation, women's work and the response to industrialization, the awakening women's movement in America and its impact on women of color, the American feminist revolution, and creative endeavors of women in the past and present.

2728 World Cultures

This course focuses on an investigation of one or more cultures in a geographic region of the world today; for example, cultural studies of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, or Southeast Asia. The course covers geographic settings; the population, the stature and roles of women and minority groups; and processes of cultural change and exchange. Students learn about the culture's historical, economic, and political developments, including nation building across time. The course may include an in-depth study of one or more different cultures to expand the students' understanding of cultural diversity and provide balance in the representation of ethnic groups and societies around the world.

2711 World History: Survey

This course provides an overview of the history of human society from early civilization to the contemporary period, examining political, economic, social, religious, military, scientific, and cultural developments. Students study cultures of the western and nonwestern world. The course integrates geography with history and cultural studies.

2724 World Regional Geography

This course provides an understanding of the distribution and characteristics of the world's major cultures and of the dynamics of human migration and cultural diffusion. Topics include basic physical geography, map reading, and studies of various regions of the world. The course emphasizes the traditional and contemporary roles of foreign nations in the growth of American culture.

2712 Other History, Culture, Geography: Survey

This designation is for any history course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

2798 Other Social Science Course (including combinations of above)

This designation is for any social science course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Social Science (AP) Subjects

2772 AP Comparative Government and Politics

This course offers students a basic understanding of the world's diverse political structures and practices. Topics include sources of public authority and political power; the relationship between state and society; the relationships between citizens and states; political and institutional frameworks; political change; and the comparative method.

2774 AP European History

This course examines European civilization from the High Renaissance period to the recent past and provides a basic exposure to the factual narrative. Students develop an understanding of some of the principal themes in modern European history and an ability to analyze historical evidence and express that understanding and analysis in writing.

2777 AP Human Geography

AP Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.

2770 AP Macroeconomics

This course provides students with a thorough understanding of the principles of economics that apply to an economic system as a whole, emphasizing the study of national income and price determination. The course develops students' familiarity with economic performance measures, economic growth, and international economics.

2771 AP Microeconomics

This course provides students with a thorough understanding of the principles of economics that apply to the functions of consumers and producers, emphasizing the nature and functions of product markets while also including a study of factor markets and the role of government in the economy.

2776 AP Psychology

This course introduces students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings, exposes students to each of the major sub fields within psychology, and enables students to examine the methods that psychologists use in their science and practice.

2773 AP United States Government and Politics

This course provides students with an analytical perspective on government and politics in the United States, involving both the study of general concepts used to interpret U.S. politics and the analysis of specific case studies. Topics include constitutional underpinnings of U.S. government, political beliefs and behaviors, political parties and interest groups, the institutions and policy process of national government, and civil rights and liberties.

2775 AP United States History

This course provides students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to understand the course of United States history. Students learn to assess historical materials and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. The course examines time periods from discovery and settlement of the New World through the recent past.

2778 AP World History

AP World History course is designed for students to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.

Social Science (IB) Subjects

2766 IB Business Organization

Offered at two levels, Business and Organization is designed to explore how and why individuals form organizations and the types, problems, and life cycles of organizations; provide a broad knowledge of the variety of organizations that exist, including profit and nonprofit organizations; examine and apply the principles of organization and the techniques widely practiced in the ongoing process of decision making in organizations; develop an understanding of the interdependence of organizations and its effect on problem solving; and examine the role of individuals and groups within organizations. The course is organized around three themes: people, resources, and challenges. Students at both levels explore these themes by relating the effects of decision making, communication, and change to each theme.

2760 IB Economics

Offered at two levels, Economics is designed to develop within the student the following skills: disciplined economic reasoning skills; an ability to apply tools of economic analysis to situations and data and to explain the findings clearly; an understanding of how individuals and societies organize themselves in the pursuit of economic objectives; an ability to evaluate economic theories, concepts, situations, and data in a way that is rational and unprejudiced; and international perspectives that feature a tolerance and understanding of the diversity of economic realities in which individual and societies function. The course syllabus has four compulsory parts: resource allocation (i.e., microeconomics); national income analysis (i.e., macroeconomics); international trade; and economic growth and development.

2761 IB Geography

Offered at two levels, Geography is designed to: promote a global perspective and international understanding through geographical education; encourage an appreciation of the role that geography can play in the analysis of contemporary issues; develop an appreciation and concern for the diversity of the natural environment and an understanding of human and physical processes; promote a respect for different cultures through an understanding of their development and their interrelationships; develop an appreciation and understanding of the spatial patterns of physical and human features in the environment; and understand and apply the tools and techniques of geography. The course syllabus includes five central themes: population dynamics; economic growth and development; human responses to natural hazards; agriculture and world food supply; and urban environments.

2762 IB History

Offered at two levels, History is designed to promote the acquisition and understanding of historical knowledge in breadth and in depth and across different cultures; an appreciation and understanding of history as a discipline, including the nature and diversity of its sources, methods, and interpretations; international awareness and understanding by promoting the achievement of empathy with, and understanding of, people living in diverse places and at different times; a better understanding of the present through an understanding of the past; an appreciation of the historical dimension of the human condition; an ability to use and communicate historical knowledge and understanding; and a lasting interest in history. The syllabus requires students to study a selection of six topics in twentieth-century world history: causes, practices, and effects of war; nationalist and independence movements, decolonization and challenges facing new states; the rise and rule of single-party states; the establishment and work of international organizations; the Cold War; and the state and its relationship with religion and with minorities.

2767 IB History of the Islamic World

Offered at two levels, History of the Islamic World is designed to provide students with the means of acquiring openness and a deep understanding of various aspects of the Islamic world and of its contribution to world civilization. Approached from a historical perspective, the course includes political, social, economic, intellectual, and other facets of the Islamic world. Students at both levels study at least three historical topics relating to the origins of Islam and its developments through 1600 AD. History of the Islamic World higher level students undertake a more in-depth study of the prescribed topics by studying a selection of related optional topics: the Fatimids 909-1171 AD; the Ottomans 1400-1566 AD; the Mughals of India; warfare in the medieval Islamic world; Muslim rule in Spain 711-1492 AD; the Islamic city 650-1600 AD; the intellectual legacy of Islam; and Islamic art and architecture.

2764 IB Philosophy

Offered at two levels, Philosophy is designed to enable students to use philosophical language clearly, consistently, and appropriately; identify and formulate problems philosophically; examine concepts and questions philosophically; relate specific texts and authors to the examination of concepts and problems; and construct philosophical arguments. The course is organized around five optional themes and 12 prescribed texts. The texts are divided into two lists: authors up to and including Kant; and post-Kantian philosophy. Students at both levels also undertake individual course work on a philosophical theme, tradition, or text.

2763 IB Psychology

Offered at two levels, Psychology is designed to give students a broad understanding of psychology and of its different theoretical approaches. At both levels, the course guides students through the study of human behavior by examining key topics from four distinct perspectives: behavioral, cognitive, humanistic/phenomenological, and psychodynamic. The course seeks to introduce students to diverse methods of psychological inquiry and promote ethical practices and responsibilities in psychological inquiry. To meet this aim, students at both levels study research design, methods, statistics, and ethical issues in psychological research and application. All students must also undertake one or more research studies.

2765 IB Social Anthropology

Offered at two levels, Social Anthropology is designed to introduce students to the universal principles of social and cultural life and to characteristics of specific societies and cultures. The course has six required areas of study: ways of understanding society and culture; the nature of ethnography; anthropological models of society; a society's own models and concepts; methodology, methods, and techniques used in field research; and an introduction to developments in anthropological theory. Students at both levels also study a selection of the optional topics in production, distribution, and consumption; authority and the exercise of power; the organization of social relations; power, status, and wealth; gender as an organizing concept; ideologies and cosmologies; the processes of social and cultural transformation; identity and difference; and others.

Special Designated Subjects

2602 Aviation Education

Aviation education acquaints students with federal aviation regulations, meteorology, navigation, aeronautical design and construction, operation and use of an aircraft, and airport operations. The course emphasizes career opportunities in aviation.

2545 Driver Education

This course is designed to teach students correct driving skills, rules of the road, traffic procedures, safe driving procedures and practices, legal obligations and responsibilities, and the physical and mental factors (including alcohol and other drugs) affecting the driver's capability.

2546 Driver Training

This course is designed to teach students driving skills for operating an automobile. Students learn to drive under different driving conditions. The course emphasizes safe driving strategies and practices.

2505 Military Science

Students participate in a physical conditioning program aimed at promoting military values and military precision in group activities, such as rifle corps or marching squad. For secondary students, this course also brings together information from other subject areas, and relates these skills and knowledge to a military setting. Examples include engine mechanics, electricity or electronics, and aviation technique.

2548 Other Safety Education Course

This designation is for any safety education course not identified in the series of courses outlined on the CBEDS assignment code list.

Special Education (SE) Subjects

3005 SE Elementary

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the elementary grade content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an individualized education program (IEP).

A course taught by an individual holding a Special Class Authorization on a Clinical Rehabilitative Services Credential who is providing specially designed instruction in the elementary grade content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP should also report under this code.

A course for elementary, middle, or secondary students with significant cognitive disabilities who receive instruction in curriculum aligned to alternate achievement standards should also be reported under this code. This course should not be reported under code 3019.

3019 SE Elementary or Secondary Other Non-Core Academic Subject Areas

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in other non-core academic subject areas meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. This may include non-core academic subjects such as health, computer science, adaptive physical education, vocational and career technical education, driver education training, and speech and language therapy.

A course for elementary, middle, or secondary students with significant cognitive disabilities who receive instruction in curriculum aligned to alternate achievement standards are not reported under this code. This course should be reported under code 3005.

3016 SE Secondary Arts (art, music, dance, drama)

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary Arts content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in the Arts and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3010 SE Secondary English/Language Arts/Reading

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary English/Language-arts content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in English/Language-arts/Reading and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3017 SE Secondary Foreign Language

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary Foreign Language content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in Foreign Language and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3012 SE Secondary General Science

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary General Science content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in General Science and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3013 SE Secondary Life Science

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary Life Science content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in Life Science and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3011 SE Secondary Mathematics

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary Mathematics content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in Mathematics and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3014 SE Secondary Physical Science

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary Physical Science content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in Physical Science and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3015 SE Secondary Social Science

This course is designed to provide specially designed instruction in the secondary Social Science content standards meeting the unique needs of children with disabilities who have an IEP. In order to be NCLB Compliant, these teachers must be deemed subject matter competent in Social Science and other NCLB teacher requirements.

3020 SE Consultation/Instructional Support – Elementary or Secondary

Teachers in this assignment are not providing initial direct instruction, but are providing instructional support to students with disabilities on an IEP. These teachers also may be consulting with an NLCB compliant teacher who is providing direct instruction in the core elementary or secondary curriculum.

Support Teaching Assignments (Elementary) (STAE) Subjects

2880 STAE Art

Art instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2489 STAE Computer Education

Computer education instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2280 STAE Foreign Language

Foreign language instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2488 STAE Mathematics

Mathematics instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2380 STAE Music

Music instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2580 STAE Physical Education

Physical education instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2180 STAE Reading Improvement

Special reading instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

6080 STAE Resource Teacher

Additional instruction in multiple subjects, or a subject not covered in the other support teaching assignments that are provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

2680 STAE Science

Science instruction provided by a teacher who is not the primary teacher of record for those students. In most cases, this is a teacher who provides instruction to students in multiple classrooms at a school or to multiple schools. This teacher may also provide instruction to small groups of students within a classroom or in another setting.

Transportation Subjects

5653 Aircraft Mechanics, Combination

This instructional program prepares the individual for employment as an airframe mechanic, a power plant mechanic, or a combination of airframe and power (A & P) mechanic. It includes instruction in inspection, repair, service, and overhaul of airplane parts, including engines, propellers, instruments, airframes, fuel and oil tanks, control cables, and hydraulic units. This program is designed to meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensure requirements.

5677 Alternative Fuel Vehicles

This course provides a laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for students to learn about various alternative fuel vehicles including, but not limited to Fuel Cell, Hybrid/Electric, Hydrogen Fuel, Compressed Natural Gas, Liquid Natural Gas, Ethanol and Methanol Fuel vehicles. Environmental concerns, legislation, safety, applications and their integrated systems from various manufacturers as well as the development of new technology will be discussed. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5670 Automatic Transmission/Transaxle

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as automatic transmission/transaxle specialists. This program includes instruction in general transmission/transaxle problem diagnosis, transmission/transaxle maintenance and adjustment, and in-car and off-car transmission/transaxle repair.

5668 Automotive, Level 1

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5669 Automotive, Level 2

This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.

5664 Automotive Body Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as auto body technicians. It includes instruction in plastics and adhesives, mechanical and electrical components, structural analysis and damage repair, and nonstructural analysis and damage repair.

5654 Automotive Body Repair and Refinishing, Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as combination auto body repair and auto painting and refinishing technicians. This comprehensive program includes instruction in painting and refinishing, plastics and adhesives, mechanical and electrical components, structural analysis and damage repair, and nonstructural analysis and damage repair.

5655 Automotive Mechanics, Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as automotive service technicians. This comprehensive program includes instruction in the maintenance and repair of automatic transmissions and transaxles, brakes, electrical systems, engine performance systems, engine heating and air-conditioning systems, manual drive trains and axles, and suspension and steering systems.

5666 Automotive Painting and Refinishing

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as auto painting and refinishing technicians. It includes instruction in surface preparation; spray gun operation; paint mixing, matching, and applying; solving paint application problems; causes and cures for finish defects; and safety precautions.

5688 Automotive Specialty, Other Combinations

This instructional program combines specialty programs in a manner not otherwise described in this listing.

5652 Automotives

This instructional program prepares individuals to be better automobile owners and drivers. The program can also serve as the first phase of programs that ultimately prepare individuals for employment in industries that require servicing and maintenance of automotive/truck/aircraft/air-cooled gasoline-engine-powered equipment. Instruction includes but is not limited to the role of the automobile in the nation and the world's economy; employment opportunities, working conditions, and training requirements in occupations related to the automobile; the principles of operation of the basic automotive systems; and the basic servicing and maintenance of automotive systems.

5656 Aviation and Aerospace Transportation Services

The Aviation and Aerospace Transportation Services pathway prepares students for postsecondary education and employment in the aviation and aerospace industries.

5674 Brakes

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as brake specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in hydraulic system diagnosis and repair, drum brake diagnosis and repair, disc brake diagnosis and repair, the diagnosis and repair of power assist units, and miscellaneous (wheel bearings, parking brakes, electrical, and so forth) diagnosis and repair.

5676 Brakes/Suspension and Steering, Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as combination brakes/suspension and steering specialists. This program includes instruction in the combined skills of the separate programs for brakes, steering, and suspension.

5663 Collision, Repair, and Refinishing

The Collision Repair and Refinishing pathway prepares students for postsecondary education and employment in the transportation industry, including, but not limited to, body and frame straightening, estimating, painting and refinishing.

5657 Diesel Equipment Mechanics

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as heavy-duty truck technicians. This comprehensive program includes instruction in diesel and gasoline engine maintenance and overhaul; repair and adjustment of fuel injection systems; repair and replacement of water pumps, generators, governors, auxiliary and accompanying power units and controls; transmissions, drive lines, and drive axles; brakes, tires, and wheels; steering and suspension systems; electrical and lighting systems; hydraulics and pneumatics; safety codes and regulations; and general shop skills, including brazing and welding.

5667 Emerging Technologies in Automotives

Emerging Technologies is an instructional program that provides instruction in new and emerging technologies not covered in existing coursework.

5678 Engine Performance (including emission control)

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as engine performance specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in general engine diagnosis, ignition system diagnosis and repair, fuel and exhaust systems diagnosis and repair, emissions control systems diagnosis, California's smog certification program, and other engine-related services.

5680 Engine Performance/Electrical Systems, Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as combination engine performance and electrical systems specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in the combined skills of the separate engine performance and electrical systems programs.

5684 Engine Performance/Engine Repair, Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals as combination engine performance and engine repair specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in the combined skills of the separate engine performance and engine repair programs.

5682 Engine Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as engine repair specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in general engine diagnosis and repair, cylinder head and valve train diagnosis and repair, engine block diagnosis and repair, and lubricating and cooling systems diagnosis and repair.

5658 Heavy Equipment Maintenance and Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as heavy equipment mechanics. This comprehensive program deals with field and shop maintenance and repair of heavy-duty and construction equipment, including earth-moving and materials-handling equipment, and instruction in the inspection, maintenance, and repair of tracks, wheels, tires, and brakes. Instruction also covers operating controls, transmissions, drive systems and drive axles, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, electrical and electronic circuitry, engines, and general shop skills, including welding and brazing.

5651 Introduction to Transportation

This introductory course enables an individual to sample the many courses and programs included in the power, energy, and transportation cluster. The purpose of the course is to assist an individual in understanding the basic skills and knowledge needed to pursue further study in the cluster and to aid in making intelligent and meaningful career and educational choices. Instructional activities focus on the theory, maintenance, and servicing of machines and devices especially on energy sources, small gasoline engines, basic electricity, and methods of transmitting power.

5673 Logistics and Distribution

Exploration of Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics courses introduces students to careers that involve the planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and products using any of several modes of transport. Such careers may also involve infrastructure, vehicle service, maintenance and repair, and operating or managing facilities of goods being transported. Therefore, specific course topics vary widely and depend upon the careers being explored.

5671 Manual Drive Train and Axles

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as manual drive train and axle specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in clutch diagnosis and repair, transmission diagnosis and repair, transaxle diagnosis and repair, drive (half) shaft and universal joint diagnosis and repair, drive axle diagnosis and repair, and four-wheel drive component diagnosis and repair.

5659 Marine Power Plant Maintenance

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as marine power plant mechanics. Instruction includes the maintenance and repair of inboard and outboard marine engines, steering systems, electrical systems, propellers, and other propulsion systems.

5660 Motorcycle Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as motorcycle mechanics. This comprehensive program provides instruction in the repair and maintenance of motorcycles, mopeds, all terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, and similar vehicles. Instruction covers the repair and maintenance of engines, transmissions, drive trains, electrical systems, suspension systems, frames, brakes, tires, and wheels. Instruction also includes damage repair and refinishing.

5661 Small Engine Repair

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as small engine mechanics. Instruction includes the maintenance and repair of small engines (e.g., lawn mowers, gardening equipment, chain saws, and recreation vehicles).

5675 Suspension and Steering

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as suspension and steering specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in steering systems diagnosis and repair; suspension systems diagnosis and repair; wheel alignment diagnosis, adjustment, and repair; and wheel and tire diagnosis and repair.

5672 Transmissions/Drive Trains, Combination

This instructional program prepares individuals as combination automatic and manual transmission/drive train specialists. This specialty program provides instruction in the combined skills of the separate automatic and manual transmission and drive train programs.

5662 Truck and Bus Driving

This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as truck and bus drivers. Instruction includes operation of gas, diesel, or electrically powered trucks and buses. Both classroom and hands-on instruction is provided in basic operation and handling of vehicles, operation and minor servicing of the vehicle's power and control systems, loading cargo or passengers, reporting delays or accidents, verifying loads against shipping papers, keeping records of receipts and fares, maintaining logs, and observing laws and regulations governing vehicle operations.

5665 Vehicle Maintenance, Service, and Repair

The Vehicle Maintenance, Service and Repair pathway prepares students for postsecondary education and employment in the transportation industry, which includes, but is not limited to, motor vehicles, rail systems, marine applications and outdoor power equipment.

5698 Other Transportation

This designation is for an instructional program/course in Transportation that is not described above.

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