Catalog of Courses

Basic concepts and applications of artificial intelligence (AI), including AI project cycles. Focus on issues surrounding AI including ethics, bias, culture, regulations, and professional expectations. Prerequisites: None.

Introduction to machine learning concepts and Python applications, including data acquisition, supervised and unsupervised learning, and data modeling.

Fundamental concepts in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text processing. Focus on knowledge and skills necessary to create a language recognition application.

Understand and apply the basic techniques to process images using OpenCV and Python libraries.

Fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to support business solutions.

Focus on how a social issue is explored, brought through the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Project cycle, and delivered as a solution using the different domains of AI, including computer vision and natural language processing.

Study of human evolution and variation; including fossil hominids and their tools, primate anatomy and behavior, human genetics, and the environment and human biology. Prerequisites: None.

General Education Designations: SB, SG

Foundation course in digital arts and design, with emphasis in the production of art using the computer. Prerequisites: None.

Fundamentals of digital photography. Includes camera operations, exposure techniques, introduction to digital output, and theory of digital photography. Prerequisites: None.

Basic understanding of design principles and the stages of graphic design, with an emphasis on final product and presentation.

Introduction to business and personal computer operations and usage. Software applications for analyzing and solving business problems including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation graphics. Prerequisites: None.

General Education Designations: CS

Explore technical aspects of personal computers, including system components, installation, system configuration, peripheral devices, and notebooks. Emphasis placed on hardware installation, maintenance, mobile devices, and hardware troubleshooting. Helps prepare students for the CompTIA A+ examinations. Prerequisites: None.

Explore advanced technical aspects of maintaining and servicing computers. Emphasis placed on OS installation, maintenance, mobile devices, security, software troubleshooting, and on proper usage of tools, safety procedures, and professionalism. Helps prepare students for the CompTIA A+ examinations.

Study of the science of human development from conception through adolescence. Includes observation skills, parent and adult roles in the lives of children, and contemporary issues. Prerequisites: None.

General Education Designations: SB

This class is for students at the high beginning level of English language acquisition in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar to talk and write about themselves, their family & friends, school objects, schedules & activities, health problems, locations in the community, food quantities & prices, work schedules & skills, and free time activities. Students will practice present tenses in simple sentences and questions. Simple past tense and paragraph writing are introduced at this level.

This class is for students at the low intermediate level of English language acquisition in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar to describe people, clothing styles, educational and job goals, accidents & safety issues, travel, and household repairs. Students will practice present, past, and future tenses in simple sentences, questions, and short paragraphs. Language for giving advice and making comparisons is introduced at this level.

This class is for students at the high intermediate level of English language acquisition in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar to discuss personality traits, learning strategies, health advice, leisure events, time management, financial advice, job searching, and emergencies. Students will practice reading strategies and use present, past, and future tenses in longer sentences, questions, and paragraphs. Perfect tenses are introduced at this level.