Students will demonstrate ability to collect and analyze information, solve problems that demand a report, and make independent and collaborative decisions. Students consider the important effects of work teams and computer technology on technical reporting. Students develop advanced writing techniques and build upon those skills obtained through Written Communication. Students adapt communication strategies and techniques to a wide range of problem-solving applications that provide realistic workplace situations in which written and oral reports will be required. This course involves a study of human behavior and relationships pertinent to the family, community, and occupation.
Students learn to apply basic psychology in their interactions with people.
Strategies for coping with problems, improving interpersonal relations, and influencing decisions are surveyed. I perform arithmetic operations with real numbers. They solve and graph linear equations. They solve problems involving variation and proportion. Students determine basic measurements of geometric shapes.