Note: Textbook required This course is designed as an introduction to American Sign Language through sign vocabulary, finger spelling and number signing. The class provides basic functional skills required for communication with the deaf. It also presents an introduction to deaf culture with enhanced exposure offered through various guest speakers (hearing and deaf). Through mime, games, music and fun students will build and strengthen their expressive and receptive practical ASL skills. No prior knowledge of sign language is required.

Prerequisite: Conversational Sign Language I Note: Textbook required A continuation of American Sign Language (Conversational Sign Language I). Continue gaining skills and knowledge to pursue an interpreting career by being introduced to the ASL glossary for further development of vocabulary. Students will learn classifiers and their placement. There will be expressive and receptive use of directional verbs, negations and English to ASL sentences.

Prerequisite: Reading level 4 Note: Textbook required This course covers corrections in the criminal justice system; organization of correctional systems; correctional role; institutional operations; alternatives to institutionalization; treatment and rehabilitation; current and future issues. (CRIJ 2313)

Prerequisite: Reading level 4 Note: Textbook required This course includes examination of the role of the judiciary in the criminal justice system. Topics include the structure of the American court system, prosecution, right to counsel, pretrial release, grand jury process, adjudication process, types and rules of evidence, and sentencing concepts. (CRIJ 1306)

Prerequisite: Writing level 7 Note: Textbook required This elective composition course provides an opportunity for students to create imaginative works for pleasure and publication within the supportive atmosphere of a writing workshop. The workshop may emphasize a single genre, such as poetry, fiction, or drama. Alternatively, the workshop may allow individual students to write original compositions in genres of their interest in response to classroom assignments. Students analyze significant contemporary literature, finding models of successful forms and effective technique. In addition, they critique the work of classmates. Literary theory and strategies for publication are discussed. Students are also encouraged to participate as editors of the College literary magazines and to submit their best work for publication. (ENGL 2307)

This course covers the study of crime problems in historical perspective, social and public policy factors affecting crime, impact and crime trends, social characteristics of specific crimes, and crime prevention. (CRIJ 1307) Prerequisite: Reading level 4 Note: Textbook required

Prerequisite: Reading level 4 Note: Textbook required This is a study of investigative theory, the collection and preservation of evidence, sources of information, concepts of interviewing and interrogation, the use of forensic sciences; and trial preparation. (CRIJ 2314)

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook are required. If age 17, parental or guardian consent is required. Learn to carry on simple conversations, ask and answer personal information questions; behave comfortably in social or work situations; read simple English material; write simple present-tense messages, and proceed through segments of daily life such as check writing, reading bills and notices and shopping in grocery stores. Also includes ten hours of computer lab time utilizing specialized software to help students learn and reinforce their English skills.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook are required. If age 17, parental or guardian consent is required. Learn to carry on simple conversations; prepare a resume of work experience; understand conversations with school teachers, doctors and bank personnel, ask for clarifications as needed; behave comfortably in business-related situations; read newspapers with fifty percent comprehension; and understand televised news and weather broadcasts. Also includes 10 hours of computer lab time utilizing specialized software to help students learn and reinforce their English skills.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook are required. If age 17, parental or guardian consent is required. Extend your conversational skills to increase speaking proficiency. Introduction to short writing exercises in multiple tenses. Better understand U.S. culture through visual and audio means. Increase confidence in social and business settings. Be able to comprehend televised commentary to a great degree. Also includes ten hours of computer lab time utilizing specialized software to help students learn and reinforce their English skills.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook are required. If age 17, parental or guardian consent is required. Learn to describe past activities; ask about and give information about past events; be able to ask and tell about future plans and activities. Also, prepare for a job interview; answer questions about skills and work experience; follow a map and interpret a simple map route. In addition, be able to describe an accident, give first-aid instructions and make a doctor´s appointment and call to report an absence from work. Also, includes ten hours of computer lab time utilizing specialized software to help students learn and reinforce their English skills.

Note: Bring paper and two pens Effective Study Skills (ESS) is a copyrighted, nationally published, and scientifically validated system for study developed by Houston sociologist James K. Semones. Taught to thousands of high school, college, and graduate students throughout the United States, this seminar will be taught in person by its author and developer. ESS is designed for learners 15 years of age and up. In one dynamic seminar, students are taught how to use a comprehensive, skill-based system to earn superior grades in school. Skills covered include how to read a textbook for maximum comprehension and retention, get the most out of class, take effective notes, manage time effectively, prepare for different types of exams in order to earn superior grades, conquer test anxiety, etc. The seminar also incorporates a confidential pretest to enable each participant to accurately pinpoint current skill levels and areas that need improvement. (Note: One or both parents may attend for free for each registered high school student.)

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook are required. If age 17, parental or guardian consent is required. Designed for students whose primary language is other than English, this course presents industry-related basic reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The emphasis is on high-frequency vocabulary (basic sight words) and phonics; refining oral and written production; assists with listening skills for enhanced job productivity; and increasing the control of the English sound system to minimize on-the-job miscommunication or misinterpretation due to foreign accent. This is the first class in our nine levels of English language instruction.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required This is a continuation of English Communication Skills Level 1. The emphasis is on high-frequency vocabulary (basic sight words) and phonics; refining oral and written production; assists with listening skills for enhanced job productivity; and increasing control of the English sound system to minimize on-the-job miscommunication or misinterpretation due to foreign accent. This is the second class in our nine levels of English language instruction.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required This course will provide dynamic communicative practice for students whose primary language is other than English, exposing students to the uses of language in a variety of situations. Students will learn to match vocabulary words with their respective definitions when terms and definitions are presented in writing. Students will learn to select the correct meaning of a word based on the context of the word; give examples of the pronunciation, meaning and part of speech of vocabulary words that relate to work or everyday life activities. This level will provide the student with skills to summarize the main idea in writing.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required This is a continuation of Level 3. This course will provide dynamic communicative practice for students whose primary language is other than English, exposing students to the uses of language in a variety of situations. This level will provide the student with skills to summarize the main idea in writing.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required This level focuses on the improvement in reading and vocabulary/comprehension skills, as well as speaking, writing, and listening skills for job or academic success. The emphasis is on recognition and comprehension of idioms, analogies, antonyms and synonyms, and context clues. The interpretation of factual material and opinions associated with job-related and daily life communications is the focus of this course.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required This is a continuation of English Communication Skills Level 5. This level focuses on the improvement in reading and vocabulary/comprehension skills, as well as speaking, writing, and listening skills for job or academic success.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required Level 7 is designed for the student who needs to focus on comprehending challenging materials for the workplace or for academic success. This level will prepare the student with the skills to determine meaning from written text, identify word forms and variation in meaning, synonyms and antonyms, context clues, connotation and denotation and fact and opinion. It is designed for advancing students into higher level English language skills.

Prerequisite: Pre-assessment required Note: Textbook and workbook required This is a continuation of English Communication Skills Level 7 designed for the student who needs to focus on comprehending challenging materials, texts, or practical discussions for fluency in the English language.