This is the second semester of a two semester course. This course continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to managing and maintaining computer hardware and software. The course closely integrates the CompTIA A+ Exam objectives to prepare students for the 220-1101 and 220-1102 certification exams. The course includes the latest trends in hardware, security, virtualization, coverage of cloud computing, Linux and Mac OS, and increased emphasis on mobile devices.

TCH330 Digital Media: Illustrator with Exam Prep is MSi curriculum that prepares students for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam. This course gives students comprehensive training in the fundamentals of design. Topics covered include identifying the purpose, audience, and audience needs for preparing images, communicating with colleagues and clients about design plans, understanding copyright and licensing, using design principles and best practices, setting up projects and utilizing the interface, managing colors, swatches, and gradients, organizing design elements, creating and manipulating visual elements, and preparing images for export to Web, print, and video.

TCH310 Digital Media: Photoshop with Exam Prep is MSi curriculum that prepares students for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam. The course covers the fundamentals of working in the design industry. It will familiarize students with the key terminology related to digital images, introduce them to the purpose, audience, and needs of preparing images, and teach them basic design principles and best practices. The course will also cover project setup and interface, document organization, creating and modifying visual elements, and publishing digital media. Students will be exposed to using layers, modifiable visibility, and nonprinting design tools; importing assets; managing colors, swatches, gradients, brushes, symbols, styles, and patterns, understanding destructive and nondestructive editing; and preparing images for export.

TCH220 Software Apps: Excel with Exam Prep is MSi curriculum that prepares students for the Microsoft Office Specialist Exam. This course introduces students to the Excel application interface and covers topics related to managing worksheets and workbooks, data cells and ranges, tables and table data, formulas and functions, and charts. Students will learn how to import external data, create, and edit named ranges, apply number formats, create charts, and format text using functions. They will also learn to add and modify chart elements and apply chart styles. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to navigate the Excel application interface, create formulas, manipulate data, and create charts.

This semester-long course for high school freshmen is an exploratory course in web communications. It explores and delves into applications encompassing: digital citizenship, information literacy, creative credit and copyright, online and in-person collaboration, designing and developing accessible websites as an avenue to personal creativity, and understanding structural aspects of computing (e.g., hardware, servers, devices, file organization). The course is taught utilizing a project-based learning (PBL) approach. Each unit of the course is broken down into lessons. Lessons consist of video tutorials, short quizzes, example web pages to explore, and web design exercises in which students develop and publish their own web sites. Each lesson includes at least one formative short multiple choice quiz. At the end of each unit, students take a summative multiple choice unit quiz that assesses their knowledge of the concepts covered in the unit.

Many buildings that are rendered in the real world first are constructed in a digital 3D world that depicts the aesthetics, environment, and conditions of what will come to be. In this course, you will be introduced to the tools and techniques needed to create works of 3D art. You will bring your objects to life with color, textures, lighting, and shadow all while simulating the movement of world around. Are you ready to bring beautiful objects to life in a 3D world? Let’s get started today!

The robots have invaded… and they’re here to make our lives easier. You’ve learned about the basics of robotics and STEM careers, but now we’re going to learn about manipulating the physical world to create desired effects. In this course, you’ll learn to manipulate electrical signals to create logic and memory, how to quantify the physical world through variables, and how to have an impact through tools. You’ll discover how to choose the best tools and materials, how to create AI, and how to take an idea from initial planning to a completed project. Let’s continue the pursuit of a career in robotics so the friendly invasion can thrive!

This course examines the impact of human activities on sustainability while exploring the basic principles and technologies that support sustainable design. Students learn about the potential for emerging energy technologies such as water, wind, and solar power. They find out how today’s businesses are adapting to the increased demand for sustainable products and services. In this course, students develop a comprehensive understanding of this fast-growing field.

You’ve learned your audience, found your voice, and can read the body’s unspoken words. Now, it’s time to limber up those fingers and learn the P’s and Q’s of communicating in a business setting. In this course, you’re going to take the basic writing skills you’ve developed and revise them so you can take new approaches to planning, building, and distributing documents for a business audience. You’ll continue to explore the essentials of writing while drafting new understandings of business documents, and then you’ll learn to apply your business communication skills to job applications, interviews, and presentations. No matter your career of choice, learning to effectively communicate will help your professionalism grow leaps and bounds. Let’s get writing!

This course is designed as an exploration of career pathways in Sales and Promotion. In this course students explore basic concepts in the broad areas within the National Career Clusters® Framework, as well as career option. Students study the concepts of the sales profession, the role of sales in marketing, understanding customer needs, communication, the selling process, and more.

This Pharmacy Technician course is designed to education and train the student in the diverse field of Pharmacy Technology. The student will be provided didactic coursework in the areas of prescription processing, pharmacy nomenclature, biopharmaceutics and drug activity, dosage calculations, and common mathematical formulas and conversions. Consideration of drug routes and formulations includes tablets and capsules, liquid prescriptions, parenteral and enteral, and insulin and syringes. To better understand the business side of the pharmacy world, students will learn about HIPAA, drug regulation and control, inventory management, financial considerations, legal and ethical issues, sterile and non-sterile compounding, and units of measurement. Throughout the course, the student will perform realistic pharmacy simulations that duplicate tasks performed in the work environment.

This Pharmacy Technician course is designed to education and train the student in the diverse field of Pharmacy Technology. The student will be provided didactic coursework in the areas of prescription processing, pharmacy nomenclature, biopharmaceutics and drug activity, dosage calculations, and common mathematical formulas and conversions. Consideration of drug routes and formulations includes tablets and capsules, liquid prescriptions, parenteral and enteral, and insulin and syringes. To better understand the business side of the pharmacy world, students will learn about HIPAA, drug regulation and control, inventory management, financial considerations, legal and ethical issues, sterile and non-sterile compounding, and units of measurement. Throughout the course, the student will perform realistic pharmacy simulations that duplicate tasks performed in the work environment.