Indiana State Approved Course Titles and Descriptions 2012-2013 School Year High School Indiana Department of Education College and Career Readiness 151 West Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN 46204 October 1, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS General Introduction ............................................................................................................. 3 Advanced Placement ............................................................................................................ 7 Agricultural Education ......................................................................................................... 22 Business and Information Technology ................................................................................ 31 Business, Marketing, and Information Technology Education ............................................. 39 Career and Technical Education ......................................................................................... 50 Cooperative Education ....................................................................................................... 53 Engineering and Technology Education.............................................................................. 59 English/Language Arts ........................................................................................................ 66 Family and Consumer Sciences-Career Preparation ......................................................... 86 Family and Consumer Sciences-Family/Consumer ............................................................ 95 Fine Arts ........................................................................................................................... 105 Health and Physical Education ......................................................................................... 132 Health Science Education ................................................................................................. 137 International Baccalaureate Courses ................................................................................ 147 Marketing, Management, and Entrepreneurship ............................................................... 166 Mathematics ..................................................................................................................... 172 Multidisciplinary ................................................................................................................ 181 Project Lead the Way-Biomedical Sciences ...................................................................... 189 Project Lead the Way-Pre-Engineering ............................................................................. 192 Science............................................................................................................................. 196 Social Studies ................................................................................................................... 209 Trade and Industrial Education ......................................................................................... 227 World Languages ............................................................................................................. 243 Indiana Department of Education 2 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School GENERAL INTRODUCTION This October 2011 edition of the Indiana Department of Education‘s State Approved Course Titles and Descriptions includes the following changes of note:  All Elementary and Middle School Course Titles and Descriptions are available in a separate document on the IDOE website.  Course changes have been made in the following subject areas: Business: Added Courses  5394 Preparing for College and Careers  4540 Personal Financial Responsibility Courses Removed  4540 Personal Finance (now Personal Financial Responsibility)  5394 Career Planning and Success Skills (now Preparing for College and Careers) Family and Consumer Sciences: Added Courses  5394 Preparing for College and Careers  4540 Personal Financial Responsibility Courses Removed  5394 Orientation to Life and Careers (now Preparing for College and Careers)  4540 Personal and Family Finance (now Personal Financial Responsibility) Advanced Placement: Title Changes  2032 French Language and Culture, Advanced Placement  2052 German Language and Culture, Advanced Placement  2092 Latin, Advanced Placement  2134 Spanish Literature Language and Culture, Advanced Placement Added  2272 Italian Language and Culture, Advanced Placement Mathematics: Added  2510 Algebra Enrichment  2512 Integrated Enrichment Removed  2508 Pre-Algebra removed beginning 2012-2013 year Multidisciplinary: Added  0532 College-Entrance Preparation We welcome your suggestions and comments. Please contact Kelli McGregor at [email protected] should you have any recommendations or corrections that you would like to share. Indiana Department of Education 3 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School Course descriptions provide brief statements of the content of high school courses. These descriptions are intended to assist schools in communicating, in a broad context, the content and Academic Standards of Indiana state approved course titles. Course descriptions also serve as category descriptions for the state textbook adoption process. Code numbers listed for each course description should be used when reporting courses on Indiana Department of Education documents. Instructional decisions related to curriculum selection and development, implementation, and assessment are left to local school corporations. In fact, Indiana schools may explore, develop, and implement activities and programs that go beyond these descriptions as they strive to prepare their students for life in an ever-changing society. Indiana State Board of Education rules and the school improvement plan required by Public Law 221 provide avenues for gaining approval of well-planned, nonstandard programs and courses. School corporations may apply for a non-standard course waiver if the course or program is not listed in this document. Look for the links under ―Non-Standard Course Request‖ at http://www.doe.in.gov/accreditation/ Please note these other important details:  The course descriptions in this document are based upon State Board of Education approved course titles.  Course descriptions provide guidance for Indiana schools as they develop instructional strategies, classroom resources, and revise the descriptions to meet local needs. In order to meet minimum graduation requirements, the expectations of Core 40, and the requirements of the Honors diplomas, course descriptions must be consistent with the Academic Standards for each course.  The high school courses described in this manual, along with approved non-standard courses, are the only courses that may be offered for high school credit to meet the graduation requirements established by the Indiana State Board of Education.  The maximum number of credits that may be granted for each course is listed in the course description bullets. Generally, one credit is awarded per semester except as noted. Course description bullets identify those courses in which students may receive credit for successive semesters of instruction.  Minimum and recommended prerequisites are listed for some courses. Local schools and districts may require additional prerequisites.  Course abbreviations are suggested only and generally contain 10-12 characters.  In May 2009, the Indiana State Board of Education issued an immediate waiver of the ―seat time‖ requirement for awarding high school credit. Schools may choose to award high school credits by ―demonstration of proficiency‖ (usually an assessment or other collection of experiences that demonstrate mastery of the content standards of the course). Schools may choose to continue to define credit using the state definition of a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) minutes of instruction per week for one (1) semester for a school operating on a traditional schedule; a minimum of eighty-five (85) minutes of instruction per class period, exclusive of passing time, for a school operating on a block schedule; or a minimum of seventy (70) minutes of instruction per class period, exclusive of passing time, for a school trimester schedule. Indiana Department of Education 4 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School  A laboratory course, identified by (L) in these course descriptions, is one in which a ―minimum of twenty-five percent (25%) of the total instructional time is devoted to laboratory activities. Laboratory activities are those activities in which the pupil personally uses appropriate procedures and equipment in accomplishing that learning task.‖  Schools may designate a course as ―Honors‖ when the course content is significantly more rigorous than the state approved course. Honors-level courses must be standards-based, have defined criteria for student admission to the course as well as clear expectations of student outcomes, and include a culminating honors project that reflects understanding of the Honors course content. The course description should reflect the ‗honors‘ nature of the course and course titles should include an ―H‖ or the word ―Honors‖ in the title.  The Indiana State Board of Education does not restrict high school credit to course work completed in Grades 9 through 12. Schools may elect to award high school credit to students who complete courses before entering Grade 9 if the course is equivalent to its high school counterpart. Local policies and procedures should be developed to govern credit for high school courses taught below grade nine. Multiple credits may not be awarded for the same course unless the course description permits multiple credits to be awarded.  Course titles and descriptions within Cooperative Education, Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate subject areas may also appear under other subject areas where appropriate. Indiana Department of Education 5 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School OTHER HELPFUL DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES Indiana‘s Academic Standards - http://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/index.shtml Indiana State Approved Course Titles and Descriptions – http://doe.in.gov/publications/courses.html Teaching Requirements by Subject and Grade Level (Assignment Code Table) - http://www.doe.in.gov/educatorlicensing/pdf/AssignmentCode.pdf Subject and Level Code List – http://www.doe.in.gov/stn/pdf/subject_codelist1011.pdf Common Core Standards http://www.doe.in.gov/commoncore/ Instructional Time FAQ – http://www.doe.in.gov/accreditation/instructionaltime.html Indiana Diploma Requirements Q & A – http://www.doe.in.gov/core40/diploma_requirements.html Core 40 with Technical Honors Diploma Q & A – http://www.doe.in.gov/core40/docs/THD_faq.pdf Indiana Dual Credit Q & A – http://www.doe.in.gov/sservices/counseling/docs/Dual_Credit_QA.pdf Indiana AP, IB, and Dual Credit Information http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/apibdual.html Indiana Educator Standards http://www.doe.in.gov/educatorlicensing/standards.html Indiana‘s Academic Standards Resource http://www.indianastandardsresources.org/ Indiana Department of Education 6 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School ADVANCED PLACEMENT Indiana State Approved Course Titles and Descriptions Indiana Department of Education College and Career Readiness 151 West Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN 46204 Indiana Department of Education 7 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School ADVANCED PLACEMENT Academic content standards are at: http://www.doe.in.gov/standards Teacher Requirements are available at: http://www.doe.in.gov/educatorlicensing/pdf/AssignmentCode.pdf Introduction Advanced Placement (AP) courses are intended to be equivalent to a similar college level course. The College Board does not designate a time period during which the content of the high school course is to be covered. Most AP courses require two traditional semesters to adequately address the course content and prepare students for the associated exam. The bulleted items following each course description indicate a few AP classes that could conceivably be completed in either one semester or two. All schools wishing to label a course ―AP‖ must submit the subject-specific AP Course Audit form and the course syllabus to the College Board for each teacher of that AP course. The AP course audit information and is available at www.collegeboard.com/html/apcourseaudit . It is also strongly recommended that all AP teachers take advantage of professional development opportunities in their content area. Student Selection Criteria for AP courses: The College Board suggests that all students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum should be considered for admission to AP courses. The College Board encourages the elimination of barriers that restrict access to AP courses for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the AP Program. Schools should make every effort to ensure that their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population. The IDOE further supports a school developing criteria for admission to AP courses to include, but are not limited to, AP Potential, previous success in content area courses, teacher recommendations and standardized test results. Advanced Placement (AP) Courses are intended to be the equivalent to the comparable college level course. Most AP courses require instructional time equivalent to two traditional semesters, or one academic year in order to adequately address the course content and prepare students for the associated exam. However, the bulleted items following each course description indicate the AP courses that could conceivably be completed in either one semester or two. ART HISTORY, ADVANCED PLACEMENT 4025 (ART HIST AP) Art History, Advanced Placement is a course based on the content established by the College Board. Art History is designed to provide the same benefits to secondary school students as those provided by an introductory college course in art history: an understanding and knowledge of architecture, sculpture, painting, and other art forms within diverse historical and cultural contexts. Students examine major forms of artistic expression from the past and the present from a variety of cultures. They learn to look at works of art critically, with intelligence and sensitivity, and to analyze what they see. This course incorporates research, extensive reading, and analytical writing. A comprehensive description of this course can be found on the College Board AP Central Course Description web page at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/descriptions/index.html  Recommended Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, or 12  Credits: A two-semester course, one credit per semester  Fulfills requirement for Fine Arts credits for Core 40 with Academic Honors diploma Indiana Department of Education 8 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School  Counts as a Directed Elective or Elective for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical Honors diplomas BIOLOGY, ADVANCED PLACEMENT (L) 3020 (BIO AP) Biology, Advanced Placement is a course based on the content established by the College Board. The major themes of the course include: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life, Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis, Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes, Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. A comprehensive description of this course can be found on the College Board AP Central Course Description web page at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/descriptions/index.html  Recommended Grade Level: 11-12  Recommended Prerequisite: Biology I and Chemistry I  Credits: A two credit course, 1 credit per semester  Counts as a Science Course for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical Honors diplomas CALCULUS AB, ADVANCED PLACEMENT 2562 (CALC AB AP) Calculus AB, Advanced Placement is a course based on content established by the College Board. Calculus AB is primarily concerned with developing the students‘ understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. The connections among these representations also are important. Topics include: (1) functions, graphs, and limits; (2) derivatives; and (3) integrals. Technology should be used regularly by students and teachers to reinforce the relationships among the multiple representations of functions, to confirm written work, to implement experimentation, and to assist in interpreting results. A comprehensive description of this course can be found on the College Board AP Central Course Description web page at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap-calculus-course-description.pdf.  Recommended Grade Level: Grades 11 or 12  Recommended Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus  Credits: A two credit course, 1 credit per semester  Counts as a Mathematics Course for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical Honors diplomas CALCULUS BC, ADVANCED PLACEMENT 2572 (CALC BC AP) Calculus BC, Advanced Placement is a course based on content established by the College Board. Calculus BC is primarily concerned with developing the students‘ understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. The connections among these representations also are important. Topics include: (1) functions, graphs, and limits; (2) derivatives; (3) integrals; and (4) polynomial approximations and series. Technology should be used regularly by students and teachers Indiana Department of Education 9 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School to reinforce the relationships among the multiple representations of functions, to confirm written work, to implement experimentation, and to assist in interpreting results. A comprehensive description of this course can be found on the College Board AP Central Course Description web page at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap-calculus-course-description.pdf.  The content of Calculus BC is designed to qualify the student for placement and credit in a course that is one course beyond that granted for Calculus AB.  Recommended Grade Level: Grades 11 or 12  Recommended Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus  Credits: A two credit course  Counts as a Mathematics Course for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical Honors diplomas CHEMISTRY, ADVANCED PLACEMENT (L) 3060 (CHEM AP) Chemistry, Advanced Placement is a course based on the content established by the College Board. The content includes: (1) structure of matter: atomic theory and structure, chemical bonding, molecular models, nuclear chemistry; (2) states of matter: gases, liquids and solids, solutions; and (3) reactions: reaction types, stoichiometry, equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamics. A comprehensive description of this course can be found on the College Board AP Central Course Description web page at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/descriptions/index.html  Advanced Placement (AP) Courses are intended to be the equivalent to the comparable college level course. Most AP courses require instructional time equivalent to two traditional semesters, or one academic year in order to adequately address the course content and prepare students for the associated exam. However, the bulleted items following each course description indicate the AP courses that could conceivably be completed in either one semester or two.  Recommended Grade Level: 12  Recommended Prerequisite: Chemistry I, Algebra II, Precalculus/Trigonometry  Credits: A two credit course, 1 credit per semester  Counts as a Science Course for the General, Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical Honors diplomas CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, ADVANCED PLACEMENT 2014 (CHI LANG AP) Chinese Language and Culture, Advanced Placement is a course which follows the College Board course guidelines for AP Chinese Language and Culture and prepares students to be successful on the AP Chinese Language and Culture exam. Emphasizing the use of the Chinese language for active communication, the AP Chinese Language and Culture course has as its objectives the development of advanced listening comprehension, reading without the use of a dictionary, expanded conversational skills, fluent and accurate written expression, and strong command of vocabulary and structure of the Mandarin Chinese language. Course content might best reflect interests shared by the students and the teacher, e.g. the arts, current events, sports, etc. Additional emphasis is given to exploration and understanding of both contemporary and historical Chinese culture, integrating the study of the Chinese language with the study of Chinese culture. The AP Chinese Language and Culture course seeks to develop language skills and cultural understanding that are useful in themselves and that can be applied to various activities and disciplines rather than being limited to any specific body of subject matter. Extensive practice in the organization and writing of compositions should also be emphasized. A comprehensive description of this course can be found on the College Board AP Central Course Description web page at: Indiana Department of Education 10 October 1, 2011 State Approved Course Titles & Descriptions High School