Your online high school diploma program consists of 24 total credits including core curriculum in english, math, science and social studies. Electives are also part of your high school diploma and range from career focused classes, to fitness, art, Spanish and many more to choose from.
Program Outcomes
Students who complete this program will receive their High School Diploma.
Demonstrate and apply understandings of major concepts, skills and practices in literacy, mathematics, science and social studies.
Examine life skills including financial literacy, wellness, lifetime fitness and career development.
Communicate clearly and concisely via written and verbal communication.
Complete mathematical problems using fundamental math skills.
Apply critical thinking skills through completing learning tasks that require recognizing problems and formulating appropriate solutions, demonstrating usage of higher-order thinking skills, and using logic to solve problems.
Students can also choose an optional career pathway/vocational program. If they do they will explore skills for building a career, researching careers, and setting career path goals.
High School Curriculum Breakdown
English
Students are required to finish 4 credits in English:
Introductory level course that teaches students about the role of word analysis and structure, vocabulary, grammar, prediction, and different types of text.
Students will learn about literature while exploring different genres, poetry, parts of speech, rhetoric, conflict, irony, satire, the art of argument, and drawing conclusions.
Students study the roots of the United States through Native American myth-telling, the American Revolution, Individualism, Gothic style, and on through the 1900’s to today.
Students will learn how to write to make a difference. From making the argument, using information, choosing words wisely, narratives, editing, and writing for the audience.
Introductory course that sets the stage for high school math. Students learn the basics of decimals, integers, and fractions; expressions; equations and inequalities; and rations, proportions and percents.
This course covers bits of information to help students through quantitative reasoning, writing and graphing equations, evaluating and recognizing patterns, function notation, equations and inequalities, and nonlinear and exponential functions. Students will finish this course with polynomial expressions and quadratic equations.
Students will learn about linear and literal equations, function operations, absolute value, function inverses, symmetry, and rate of change. Students will continue to learn about quadratics complex numbers, polynomials, and begin learning about rational functions.
Explore the expanding universe, stars, sun, solar system, and gravity. This course also covers topics including history of the earth, minerals and rocks, and plate tectonics. The course continues with erosion, weathering, climate, atmosphere, and energy resources.
Students will begin learning the elements of living organisms and will cover carbohydrates, proteins, lipids as well as cell structure, DNA, and genetics.
Students will learn the rich history of the United States including reconstruction, industrialization, expansion, imperialism, World Wars I and II, the Depression and New Deal, Cold War, and civil rights.
This course covers scarcity, resources, opportunity cost, competition and free enterprise, economic systems, micro- and macroeconomics, personal financial literacy, and the global economy.
Required Electives
Students will be required to complete the following non-vocational electives for 2 credits:
This course will teach students how to be successful in their studies. The course begins with motivation and then continues with evaluating study habits and styles, setting goals, preparing for online learning, using the internet wisely and with integrity, memorization skills, notetaking, and test taking skills.
Students are required to take Art History 1A prior to taking this class. They will learn about the history of world art after 1200, 18th and 19th century European and American art, and modern art.
Understanding business is an integral part of being part of the working world. Students learn basic ethics, social responsibility, business structures, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Students learn basics about contract law, including what makes a contract and negation of the contract; property transactions and rights; and how businesses are organized.
Students discover the four principles of management: planning, organizing, controlling and leading. Delving deeper into planning, students apply principles for a company, department and personal level.
This course introduces students to healthier food choices, kitchen sanitation and safety, meal planning, reading food labels, salt replacement, food choice cost and healthy beverages.
Career management is a vital skill for anyone in the workforce. This course teaches students about the process of career change and how to identify and achieve career goals.
Learn the basics of psychology including the nervous and endocrine systems, perceptions and sensations, consciousness, learning theories, language, and memories.
Students are required to have completed PS001 or equivalent. Students will continue learning about psychology, diving into intelligence, motivation, stress, emotion, human growth and development, personality, and abnormal behaviors and disorders.
Learn the basics of the Spanish language including, colors, greetings, common verbs, family, descriptions, hobbies, food, weather, places, body parts, shopping, professions, numbers, transportation, clothing, directions, sports, and vacations.
This class continues to build on the knowledge learned in Spanish 1, therefore, students are required to have taken Spanish 1 or equivalent transfer class. In this class students learn more verbs, holidays, pastimes, cars, measurement, work, social and slang content, and nature.
This course is an introduction to sociology, exploring culture, social control, the social structure and socialization. Students will also learn how different age groups function in society as well as social control and stratification.
This course helps students learn how to prepare and deliver a speech, helping them overcome their fear of public speaking! Students will also learn how to deliver informative and persuasive speech presentations.
Explore the world of event planning, beginning with how to create an event plan, managing available resources, and managing all details necessary for a successful corporate and private event.
Students must have finished Event Planning I to take this course as it is a continuation. Learn successful event management including laws, tipping, fundraising, and community events.
Foundations of Personal Wellness 1A is a prerequisite to this course. Learn about adolescent development, stress, alcohol, tobacco, drugs and mental health.
Students can expect to learn the fundamentals of health and wellness, including healthy choices, personal care, goal setting, health services, first aid, consumer choices, safety, and environmental health.
Students must complete Healthy Living 1A before taking this course as it is a continuation of previous subjects. They will also learn more about healthy living with a mental illness and emotional health, growth and development, family and social health, and diseases and disorders.
Explore figurative language, conflict, and themes in the controversial novel, The Red Badge of Courage. Henry Flemming searches for glory when he enlist in the Union Army. But does he have the courage needed when it comes to battle?
Students learn about proportional and spatial relationships, basic geometric shapes, tools and techniques. Students will draw basic shapes and angles, perform basic shading, learn terminology and learn how to depict objects.
Students develop basic drawing skills, such as line, tone, volume, space, form, composition and subject matter. Students draw from still life, landscape, human figure and architectural subjects. Students learn about shading and texture.
This course introduces students to photographic terms, early photographic systems, equipment, file formats, camera lenses, light meters and light sources. Students learn about select photography artists.
Students learn the difference between art and fine art photography, various composition techniques, and effective use of light. Students will learn how to describe the states of production and apply design skills to create original works of art.
This course introduces students to visual perception and artistic expression. Students are presented with basic artistic concepts of the color wheel, transparency/opacity, hue, value, chroma, temperature and color contrast.
Students develop confidence in using painting as a medium for artistic expression and learn to verbalize ideas, study historical and contemporary issues in art as well as major painting styles and masters.
Vocational Education Electives
USCI’s career pathway program allows students to replace 4 elective credits with career focused credits in healthcare, business, veterinary, fitness, or paralegal. The following are the available credits:
Business Career Pathway:
Students in the Business Career Pathway must complete 4 credits:
Business is an integral part of the working world and understanding it is essential. In this course, students will learn the basics of social responsibility, ethics, business structures, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Students must complete Business Fundamentals I prior to enrolling in this course. Students will learn the basics of quality control, management, human resources, production, marketing, and the global economy.
This course covers the basics of business law, including contract law, including what makes a contract and negation of the contract; property rights and transactions; and how businesses are organized.
This course explores the four principles of management: organizing, planning, controlling, and leading. Focussing on planning, students will apply the principles to a company, department, and personal level.
For anyone in the workforce, career management is an important skill. Students will learn about the process of career change, how to identify and achieve career goals, and how to perform career research and explore the job market.
This course builds on Career Development Strategies 1, continuing on career management. Students will learn how to pursue the right job, how to interview, sculpt a professional image on paper, and how to negotiate and accept a job.
This course helps students learn how to prepare and deliver a speech, helping them overcome their fear of public speaking! Students will also learn how to deliver informative and persuasive speech presentations.
Healthcare Career Pathway:
Students in the Healthcare Career Pathway must complete 4 credits:
In this course, students will learn the basics of communicating in the healthcare industry with medical terminology. Topics include combining and dividing terms as well as abbreviations.
Students learn about the importance of patient privacy in the healthcare industry.This course also covers healthcare law, ethics, fraud, compliance, HIPAA, abuse, and release of records.
Students will learn about the relation between anatomy, pathology, and physiology. This course will also delve into anatomical landmarks and divisions as well as tissue and cell anatomy and pathology.
For anyone in the workforce, career management is an important skill. Students will learn about the process of career change, how to identify and achieve career goals, and how to perform career research and explore the job market.
This course builds on Career Development Strategies 1, continuing on career management. Students will learn how to pursue the right job, how to interview, sculpt a professional image on paper, and how to negotiate and accept a job.
This course helps students learn how to prepare and deliver a speech, helping them overcome their fear of public speaking! Students will also learn how to deliver informative and persuasive speech presentations.
Veterinary Career Pathway:
Students in the Veterinary Career Pathway must complete 4 credits:
Learn what workforce behaviors can improve career success. This course covers communication, work ethic, diversity, collaboration and teamwork, evaluations, organizational responsibilities, and project management.
For anyone in the workforce, career management is an important skill. Students will learn about the process of career change, how to identify and achieve career goals, and how to perform career research and explore the job market.
This course builds on Career Development Strategies 1, continuing on career management. Students will learn how to pursue the right job, how to interview, sculpt a professional image on paper, and how to negotiate and accept a job.
This course helps students learn how to prepare and deliver a speech, helping them overcome their fear of public speaking! Students will also learn how to deliver informative and persuasive speech presentations.
Fitness Career Pathway:
Students in the Fitness Career Pathway must complete 4 credits:
Fitness is a huge industry, with a lot of career opportunities. Students will learn about the industry, the psychology of wellness, the fitness-wellness connection, and basic exercise physiology.
In this course students will learn the importance of nutrition in overall wellness including how to fuel the body for activity, digestion, and absorption.
For anyone in the workforce, career management is an important skill. Students will learn about the process of career change, how to identify and achieve career goals, and how to perform career research and explore the job market.
This course builds on Career Development Strategies 1, continuing on career management. Students will learn how to pursue the right job, how to interview, sculpt a professional image on paper, and how to negotiate and accept a job.
This course helps students learn how to prepare and deliver a speech, helping them overcome their fear of public speaking! Students will also learn how to deliver informative and persuasive speech presentations.
Paralegal Career Pathway:
Students in the Paralegal Career Pathway must complete 4 credits:
Students will gain an understanding of the role of a paralegal in the legal system, how laws are created, will review the U.S. Constitution, and learn about the three branches of government.
The legal system is a maze of laws, cases, and resources. Students will be introduced to primary and secondary sources of law, how to read court reports, research resources, both state and federal, and statutory research.
This course covers the basics of business law, including contract law, including what makes a contract and negation of the contract; property rights and transactions; and how businesses are organized.
Learn what workforce behaviors can improve career success. This course covers communication, work ethic, diversity, collaboration and teamwork, evaluations, organizational responsibilities, and project management.
For anyone in the workforce, career management is an important skill. Students will learn about the process of career change, how to identify and achieve career goals, and how to perform career research and explore the job market.
This course builds on Career Development Strategies 1, continuing on career management. Students will learn how to pursue the right job, how to interview, sculpt a professional image on paper, and how to negotiate and accept a job.
This course helps students learn how to prepare and deliver a speech, helping them overcome their fear of public speaking! Students will also learn how to deliver informative and persuasive speech presentations.
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