2011-12 High School Course Offerings - Durham Public Schools

Sports Medicine Practicum (Sports Medicine III)
Prerequisite: Sports Medicine II and Teacher Approval
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an
understanding of athletic training from both a theoretical and
practical viewpoint. Topics include upper/lower extremity injuries,
head/facial injuries, spinal injuries, and abdominal injuries. Students
will continue to learn how prevent and manage injuries including
recognizing specific injuries and learning how to treat and rehabilitate
them. Students will also learn how to organize and administer
athletic programs including understanding how to educate
and counsel athletes. Students help design and implement health
care programs for sports injuries. Practical experience hours
after school may be required.
Sports Medicine Internship (Sports Medicine IV)
Prerequisite: Sports Medicine Practicum and Teacher Approval
This course is a self-paced study of advanced athletic training skills.
Students investigate current trends in sports medicine and experience
practical application of advanced skills. Students are expected
to serve as trainers for various sports teams after school.
Fitness for Life
Prerequisite: Health and Physical Education
Students work with a physical education instructor to plan, and
implement a self-created fitness program using a wide variety of
activities.The following is a list of some of the activities/exercises:
jump rope, aerobics, dance, circuit training, distance/sprint running,
isotonic exercises, and agility drills. Students will also learn how
to monitor their heart rate and ensure proper nutrition for
specific sports or training programs. Students evaluate their
fitness program, monitor their progress, and modify their fitness
plan and/or goals as needed.
Outdoor Education I
Prerequisite: Health/Physical Education, junior or senior status
In this experiential course, students participate in a variety of
activities including: outdoor cooking, rappelling, orienteering, kayaking/canoeing,
adventure trip planning, and initiative games.Through
these experiences, students gain self-confidence and learn how to
trust, cooperate, and communicate more effectively. Field experience
will be optional with space limitations considered.
Outdoor Education II
Prerequisite: Outdoor Education, senior status
Outdoor Education I activities will be enhanced in level II.
Additional activities may include an extensive snowshoe project,
advanced kayaking, fly fishing, and backcountry trip planning.
Students will leave campus for various activities including a conservation
project focused on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Optional
overnight and day trips involving backpacking, kayaking, fly fishing
or caving will be offered with space limitations considered.
World
Languages
❚ Students earn 1 unit of credit for each successfully completed course.
❚ All courses use the NC Standard Course of Study.
❚ Level I and II courses are standard courses.
❚ Level III and IV are honors courses which require students to demonstrate greater
rigor, manage greater complexity, and move at a faster pace.They are weighted +1.
❚ Advanced Placement courses are designed to provide rigorous intermediate college
level foreign language instruction. They are weighted +2.
Level I: Modern World Languages Courses
This course introduces students to the target language and its culture. Class activities develop listening, speaking, reading, and
writing using the students' experiences to practice these skills. Grammar is integrated throughout the course. Students learn
about the target culture through its literature, laws, foods, games, attitudes, values, and patterns of social interaction. Students
develop an appreciation for how languages and cultures work by comparing the target language and culture(s) to their own.
Level II: Modern World Languages Courses
Students further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.They participate in simple conversational situations
and write short paragraphs which narrate, describe, compare and summarize topics from the target culture. By the end of
the course, students will be able to interact with others on issues of everyday life. Students also continue to learn about the
differences between languages and cultures, and how different cultures influence each other.
Level III: Modern World Languages Courses
Students' skills with listening, speaking, reading, and writing progress to allow them to participate in conversations, read short
literary texts and other material about familiar topics, and write short cohesive passages using the present, past, and future
tenses. In discussions, presentations, and written texts, students will be able to identify the main ideas and significant details. As
they continue to build their knowledge of the target culture, students develop a deeper understanding of the interrelationships
of other cultures to their own and will be able to exhibit behaviors appropriate to the target culture.
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