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Course Offerings
High School TJA Electives
Journalism/Creative Writing
Credit 1
Description: Journalism introduces students to the exciting world of print, online and broadcast media. Law, ethics and the history of journalism complement the major units of study: reporting, writing, editing, photography, advertising, design, management and teamwork.
Intro to Social & Digital Media
Credit 1
Description: The course teaches individuals how to create a social media campaign, and how to analyze and present data in order to address organizational issues and make appropriate business decisions... You will also learn how to build social media strategies and tactics, build and manage campaigns, and develop social media content.
Future Engineers
Credit 1
Description: This STEM course is a basic introduction to engineering for all students. Students who complete this course will learn the concepts necessary in order to develop their ideas into solutions that will improve our lives. Exciting hands-on learning activities like data comparison of heart rates, rating consumer products, destructive testing and building speakers apply math, science, history, and English content from other courses in a STEM experience. This course makes science and mathematics more engaging, interesting, concrete, and relevant. The courseʼs intention and purpose is to educate students in a “main line” method providing STEM education for everyone. While providing a STEM based education for all students, those interested in becoming practicing engineers clearly benefit from this course content.
Intro to Business
Credit 1
Description: Introduction to Business introduces students to the various functions and areas of business, including strategy, marketing, economics, finance, operations, accounting, ethics, human-resources, management, technology, and information.
Entrepreneurship Lab
Credit 1
Description: An entrepreneur is someone who identifies an opportunity by creating a solution to a problem, starts a business, assumes the personal and financial risk (and rewards) of the venture, and strives for constant improvement in an effort to grow the business and improve society. In Principles of Entrepreneurship, we will highlight the various aspects involved in envisioning, starting, growing, leading, and managing a business. And, we walk students through the process of creating a pitch deck for their business plan, i.e. a roadmap of the businessʼs goals and objectives, and the strategy and details of how those goals and objectives will be achieved. In this course students will spend the year building their own business plan and developing a business pitch for an investor panel.
Physical Education
Credit 1
Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to learn a variety of sports and sport related movements as well as health and fitness concepts. Health topics relate to nutrition, fitness health and wellness. Emphasis is placed on active participation and positive social interaction during fitness and sport activities.
Yoga
Credit 1
Description: Students will develop an enhanced appreciation of their own body, and an acceptance of its uniqueness. They will have improved spinal mobility, increased flexibility of movement, increased strength, and improved posture and sitting habits. Their focus and concentration will improve, as will their functional breathing. They will learn to be more in touch with their own needs, and those of others. Students will learn to identify the precursors of stress and release them more easily. They will learn how to relax at will. They will experience the health benefits of yoga, and learn coping skills that will enable them to get more out of everyday life.
Health & Fitness
Credit 1
Description: This course aims to educate students on topics such as exercise, nutrition, and stress management to help them make healthy choices throughout their lives.
Advanced Performance & Wellness
Credit 1
Description: This course focuses on fitness, strength training, physical conditioning, and concepts, activities, and knowledge that promote lifelong health and wellness. The course is structured to develop students understanding of weight training and physical conditioning for the beginning and advanced athlete.
Dual Enrollment
ENGLISH/ LANGUAGE ARTS
ENC 1101 College Writing & Rhetoric I Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: ENC 1101, the first of FIU's two-course writing sequence, introduces students to the writing, reading, and critical thinking skills required for college writing. Course materials and writing projects introduce rhetorical concepts and invite students to consider themselves as writers inside and outside the classroom. Students will read and analyze professional nonfiction texts to understand how experienced writers develop and present ideas through writing. They will complete four major writing projects for a variety of audiences and purposes.Three of these projects (800-1,800 words in length) will be written in a multi-draft writing process, while a fourth project will offer students practice in timed writing contexts.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
ADV 3008 Principles of Advertisement Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Comprehensive survey of basic principles and practices of advertising emphasizing creative/media strategy decision processes and historical, social, economic, and social influences.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
SPC 2608 College Public Speaking Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: SPC 2608 examines the basic components of effective individual and group presentations, including research, preparation, construction, and delivery. This course will help you succeed personally, professionally, and academically. It will improve your confidence and ability to communicate successfully with others, both in and outside the classroom. It will teach you how to prepare and deliver formal presentations, which is vital during your education and in the workplace. Improvement is a process and will not happen overnight; however, you will gain and hone skills with each speech. This course requires you to deliver speeches, which prepares you for real-world speaking contexts. PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
MATHEMATICS
MAC 1105 College Algebra Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: MAC 1105 is a review of Algebra designed to prepare students for higher level college Math and Science courses. This course includes the study of relations; linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, radical, absolute value, rational and polynomial functions, including their properties and graphs; radicals, exponents, complex numbers, and absolute values; and systems of equations and inequalities. PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements.
MAC 1147 College Pre-Calculus & Trigonometry Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Course content includes college algebra, functions, coordinate geometry, exponential and logarithmic functions, and trigonometry. This fast-paced course is designed as a review of algebra and trigonometry to prepare the student for calculus. It combines two courses (MAC 1140 and MAC 1114) into one. In this course the student will study various function families (e.g. polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric) from both analytic and graphical viewpoints, and will use them to model real-life situations. The student will be exposed to additional topics that will deepen their mathematical understanding, including systems, matrices and determinates, sequences and series, parametric equations, and polar coordinates and equations. A graphing calculator may be required.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements.
SCIENCE
EGN 2271 College Intro to Circuits & Hardware for Electrical Engineering Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: This is an undergraduate-level course which covers the basics of circuits and digital design. The course presents an insider's perspective on the fundamental of resistive circuits, how digital systems are designed and how they work. The course is intended to serve students with a background in the Internet of Things. Topics covered include the resistive circuits, laws governing circuits, electronic switches, logic gates, gate-level minimization, arithmetic and logic unit, and electronic memories. PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
COP 1000 College Intro to Computer Programming Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Uses graphics and animation in a media programming environment to teach problem solving and programming concepts to students with no prior experience. This course is an introduction to computer programming. Students will solve programming problems by coding programs that input and process data and generate output. Solutions to programming problems will require coding decision structures, repetition structures, and custom functions. Some programs will require creating and reading text files and working with lists. Additional topics include and overview of how computers work, the Internet, binary numbers, and hexadecimal numbers. PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIUʼs Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
PSY 2012 College Intro to Psychology Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Psychological principles underlying the basic processes of sensation, perception, cognition, learning, memory, life-span developmental, social behavior, personality, abnormal behavior, and psychotherapy.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements.
SOCIAL STUDIES
GEB 2011 College Intro to Business Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Looks at the business arena by examining the role/function of business, types of businesses, managerial functions, marketing principles, financial management, technology, ethics and global influences.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
ENT 1000 College Intro to Entrepreneurship Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Introduction to how to start and run a new enterprise. How to write business plans. Obtaining loans, copyrights, permits, and other resources. Tools and experience that can be utilized professionally.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements
ECO 1000 College Intro to Economics Dual Enrollment
Credit 1
Description: Introduction to economics. Includes microeconomics: the economics of individual units in the economy, like households and firms; and macroeconomics: the economics of aggregate problems like inflation, unemployment, and growth. PREREQUISITE: Completion of FIU's Dual Enrollment Admissions Requirements