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HEALTHFUL LIVING - REQUIRED ONE-YEAR COURSE #03094 Open to Grade 9 Prerequisite: None Description: Healthful Living, a general health class, is based on the philosophy that both prevention and rehabilitation are important to lifelong wellness. The course offers enriching experiences for the pupil to recognize the extensive techniques avail-able to overcome such teenage experiences as low self-esteem, stress management, decision-making leading to constructive life goals. Additional health subjects, such as nutrition and eating disorders, diseases, personal relationships, human reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases, and child abuse, are taught with an emphasis on the practical aspects of adjusting healthful living to life experiences. Students are encouraged to discuss the various healthful living topics with their families. It is hoped that values and morals of the family unit are strengthened as a result of this parent/child communication.	PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - ONE-YEAR COURSE #03100 Open to Grades 9, 10 Prerequisite: Teacher or Counselor approval Description: This program is designed to help students claim their self-esteem, identify their individual talents, create the internal motivation and drive to expand those talents, assume responsibility for themselves, and interact responsibly with others. Students develop specific skills enabling them to claim self-esteem, act responsibly, relate effectively, solve problems, and set goals.
PEER HELPING - ONE-YEAR COURSE #03098 Open to Grades 10, 11, 12 Prerequisite: Application process. (See teacher.) Description: This class is designed to train students to be good listeners, good communicators, and good support people through group interaction exercises. This includes learning the meaning of confidentiality and its importance. Students gain self-awareness as well as awareness of the unique-ness and individuality of others.	PSYCHOLOGY - ONE-YEAR COURSE #03087 Open to Grade 11, 12 Prerequisite: None Description: The primary objective of this course is to give the students a broad overview of the behavior of organisms, of which man is but one. Students are encouraged to read extensively in one or more areas of interest. Emphasis is upon group experiments, group discussions, and reading.
AP PSYCHOLOGY - ONE-YEAR COURSE #03089 Open to Grades 11, 12 Prerequisite: Psychology and teacher permission. Those students who have received an "A" or "B" in Psychology and/or "A’s" and "B’s" in specific subjects, such as college preparatory classes, will be admitted with additional supporting documentation (i.e., teacher recommendation, test results, PSAT, SAT, ACT, etc.) Description: "The purpose of the Advanced Placement course in Psychology is to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental process of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principals, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. They also learn about the methods psychologists use in their science and practice." associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. They also learn about the methods psychologists use in their science and practice." (The College Board, May, 1995)