Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 127 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION › Subchapter I - HEALTH SCIENCE › Section 127.408 - Pathophysiology (One Credit), Adopted 2015

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) General requirements. This course is
				  recommended for students in Grades 11 and 12. Prerequisites: Biology and
				  Chemistry. Recommended prerequisite: a course from the Health Science Career
				  Cluster. Students must meet the 40% laboratory and fieldwork. This course
				  satisfies a high school science graduation requirement. Students shall be
				  awarded one credit for successful completion of this course.
(b) Introduction.
(1) Career and technical education
				  instruction provides content aligned with challenging academic standards and
				  relevant technical knowledge and skills for students to further their education
				  and succeed in current or emerging professions.
(2) The Health Science Career Cluster focuses
				  on planning, managing, and providing therapeutic services, diagnostic services,
				  health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and
				  development.
(3) The
				  Pathophysiology course is designed for students to conduct laboratory and field
				  investigations, use scientific methods during investigations, and make informed
				  decisions using critical thinking and scientific problem solving. Students in
				  Pathophysiology will study disease processes and how humans are affected.
				  Emphasis is placed on prevention and treatment of disease. Students will
				  differentiate between normal and abnormal physiology.
(4) Science, as defined by the National
				  Academy of Sciences, is the "use of evidence to construct testable explanations
				  and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the knowledge generated
				  through this process." This vast body of changing and increasing knowledge is
				  described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models. Students should
				  know that some questions are outside the realm of science because they deal
				  with phenomena that are not scientifically testable.
(5) Scientific inquiry is the planned and
				  deliberate investigation of the natural world. Scientific methods of
				  investigation are experimental, descriptive, or comparative. The method chosen
				  should be appropriate to the question being asked.
(6) Scientific decision making is a way of
				  answering questions about the natural world. Students should be able to
				  distinguish between scientific decision-making methods (scientific methods) and
				  ethical and social decisions that involve science (the application of
				  scientific information).
(7) A
				  system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact. All
				  systems have basic properties that can be described in space, time, energy, and
				  matter. Change and constancy occur in systems as patterns and can be observed,
				  measured, and modeled. These patterns help to make predictions that can be
				  scientifically tested. Students should analyze a system in terms of its
				  components and how these components relate to each other, to the whole, and to
				  the external environment.
(8)
				  Students are encouraged to participate in extended learning experiences such as
				  career and technical student organizations and other leadership or
				  extracurricular organizations.
(9)
				  Statements that contain the word "including" reference content that must be
				  mastered, while those containing the phrase "such as" are intended as possible
				  illustrative examples.