1041 French I     Credit:  1
Course Description:  This course is an introduction to the study of the French language and its culture.  It allows students to perform the most basic functions of the language and to become familiar with some elements of its culture.  The emphasis is placed on the development of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing within a given context extending outside of the classroom setting when possible.  The context focuses on the students’ lives and experiences and includes an exposure to everyday customs and lifestyles.  Grammar is integrated throughout the course and is selected according to the language needs (functions).  A general introduction to the culture, its products (e.g., literature, laws, foods, games) perspectives (e.g., attitudes, values, beliefs) and practices (patterns of social interaction) is integrated throughout the course.  Students acquire some insight into how languages and cultures work by comparing the target language and culture(s) to their own.  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 

1042 French II      Credit:  1
Prerequisite: French I
Course Description:  Students enrolled in French II have either successfully completed the French I course at the high school or middle school or have placed out of level I due to previous language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.  This course provides students with opportunities to continue the development of their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.  Students participate in simple conversational situations by combining and recombining learned elements of the language orally and in writing.  They are able to satisfy basic survival needs and interact on issues of everyday life in the present time and past time inside and outside of the classroom setting.  They compose related sentences which narrate, describe, compare, summarize familiar topics from the target culture.  Focus is placed on understanding main ideas.  They develop a better understanding of the similarities and differences between cultures and languages and they examine the influence of the beliefs and values on the target culture(s).  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 

1043 French III      Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: French II
Course Description:  Students enrolled in French III have either successfully completed high school French I and II courses or have placed out of levels I and II due to previous language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.  This course provides students with additional opportunities to expand their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they create with the language and as they access short literary texts, authentic materials, and media on generally familiar topics.  Students satisfy limited communication and social interaction demands, they initiate and maintain face-to-face communication.  They identify main idea(s) and significant details in discussions, presentations, and written texts within a cultural context, read and interpret authentic materials, narrate and describe in sentences, groups of related sentences, and short cohesive passages in present, past, and future time and compose messages, announcements, personal notes, and advertisements.  They refine their knowledge and understanding of the target language and culture(s) and their own by examining the interrelationship of other cultures to their own, by demonstrating behaviors appropriate in target cultures, and by applying their knowledge and skills inside and outside of the classroom setting.  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 

1044 French IV      Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: French III
Course Description:  Students enrolled in French IV have successfully completed Level III.  A major focus of this course is to enable students to communicate in writing and in extended conversations on a variety of topics.  Students begin to narrate, discuss, and support fairly complex ideas and concepts using concrete facts and topics in past, present and future time.  They satisfy routine social demands and meet most social requirements.  Another emphasis of this course is on culture and literature.  Short stories, poetry, excerpts from various periods of literature, current events, and authentic materials are included.  Emphasis is placed on independent reading.  Finer points of grammar are studied to aid oral and written communication.  There is more in depth study of the target culture(s) and their influence throughout the world.  Students are able to connect the target language to other disciplines and can compare it to their own.  Finally, they are able to use the language inside and outside of the classroom setting.
 

1045 French V       Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite:  French IV
Course Description:  This course is designed for those students who want a course of study which concentrates on major literary works, including explanation of texts along with a detailed study of history and culture as they relate to the author's studies.  Students are encouraged to work independently and to become well acquainted with the technology presently available for language study.
 

1051 Spanish I      Credit:  1
Course Description:  This course is an introduction to the study of the Spanish language and its culture.  It allows students to perform the most basic functions of the language and to become familiar with some elements of its culture.  The em- phasis is placed on the development of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing within a given context extending outside of the classroom setting when possible.  The context focuses on the students’ lives and experiences and includes an exposure to everyday customs and lifestyles.  Grammar is integrated throughout the course and is selected according to the language needs (functions).  A general introduction to the culture, its products (e.g., literature, laws, foods, games) perspectives (e.g., attitudes, values, beliefs) and practices (patterns of social interaction) is integrated throughout the course.  Students acquire some insight into how languages and cultures work by comparing the target language and culture(s) to their own.  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 

1052 Spanish II      Credit:  1
Prerequisite: Spanish I
Course Description:  Students enrolled in Spanish II have either successfully completed the Spanish I course at the high school or middle school or have placed out of level I due to previous language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.  This course provides students with opportunities to continue the development of their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.  Students participate in simple conversational situations by combining and recombining learned elements of the language orally and in writing.  They are able to satisfy basic survival needs and interact on issues of everyday life in the present time and past time inside and outside of the classroom setting.  They compose related sentences which narrate, describe, compare, summarize familiar topics from the target culture.  Focus is placed on understanding main ideas.  They develop a better understanding of the similarities and differences between cultures and languages and they examine the influence of the beliefs and values on the target culture(s).  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 

1053 Spanish III       Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: Spanish II
Course Description:  Students enrolled in Spanish III have either successfully completed high school Spanish I and II courses or have placed out of levels I and II due to previous language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.  This course provides students with additional opportunities to expand their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they create with the language and as they access short literary texts, authentic materials, and media on generally familiar topics.  Students satisfy limited communication and social interaction demands, they initiate and maintain face-to-face communication.  They identify main idea(s) and significant details in discussions, presentations, and written texts within a cultural context, read and interpret authentic materials, narrate and describe in sentences, groups of related sentences, and short cohesive passages in present, past, and future time and compose messages, announcements, personal notes, and advertisements.  They continue to refine their knowledge and understanding of the target language and culture(s) and their own by examining the interrelationship of other cultures to their own, by demonstrating behaviors appropriate in target cultures, and by applying their knowledge and skills inside and outside of the classroom setting.  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 

1054 Spanish IV      Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: Spanish III
Course Description:  Students enrolled in Spanish IV have successfully completed Level III.  A major focus of this course is to enable students to communicate in writing and in extended conversations on a variety of topics.  Students begin to narrate, discuss, and support fairly complex ideas and concepts using concrete facts and topics in past, present and future time.  They satisfy routine social demands and meet most social requirements.  Another emphasis of this course is on culture and literature.  Short stories, poetry, excerpts from various periods of literature, current events, and authentic materials are included.  Emphasis is placed on independent reading.  Finer points of grammar are studied to aid oral and written communication.  There is more in depth study of the target culture(s) and their influence throughout the world.  Students are able to connect the target language to other disciplines and can compare it to their own.  Finally, they are able to use the language inside and outside of the classroom setting.
 

1055 Spanish V      Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: Spanish IV
Course Description:  This course is a continuation of Spanish IV with more emphasis on conversation.  Study focuses on major literary works along with a detailed study of Spanish and Latin American history and culture.  More work with technology is available for language study.
 
 

1060 German I       Credit:  1
Course Description:  This course is an introduction to the study of the German language and its culture.  It allows students to perform the most basic functions of the language and to become familiar with some elements of its culture.  The emphasis is placed on the development of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing within a given context extending outside of the classroom setting when possible.  The context focuses on the students’ lives and experiences and includes an exposure to everyday customs and lifestyles.  Grammar is integrated throughout the course and is selected according to the language needs (functions).  A general introduction to the culture, its products (e.g., literature, laws, foods, games) perspectives (e.g., attitudes, values, beliefs) and practices (patterns of social interaction) is integrated throughout the course.  Students acquire some insight into how languages and cultures work by comparing the target language and culture(s) to their own.  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 
 

1061 German II      Credit:  1
Prerequisite: German I
Course Description:  Students enrolled in German II have either successfully completed the German I course at the high school or middle school or have placed out of level I due to previous language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.  This course provides students with opportunities to continue the development of their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.  Students participate in simple conversational situations by combining and recombining learned elements of the language orally and in writing.  They are able to satisfy basic survival needs and interact on issues of everyday life in the present time and past time inside and outside of the classroom setting.  They compose related sentences which narrate, describe, compare, summarize familiar topics from the target culture.  Focus is placed on understanding main ideas.  They develop a better understanding of the similarities and differences between cultures and languages and they examine the influence of the beliefs and values on the target culture(s).  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 
 

1062 German III      Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: German II
Course Description:  Students enrolled in German III have either successfully completed high school German I and II courses or have placed out of levels I and II due to previous language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.  This course provides students with additional opportunities to expand their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they create with the language and as they access short literary texts, authentic materials, and media on generally familiar topics.  Students satisfy limited communication and social interaction demands, they initiate and maintain face-to-face communication.  They identify main idea(s) and significant details in discussions, presentations, and written texts within a cultural context, read and interpret authentic materials, narrate and describe in sentences, groups of related sentences, and short cohesive passages in present, past, and future time and compose messages, announcements, personal notes, and advertisements.  They continue to refine their knowledge and understanding of the target language and culture(s) and their own by examining the interrelationship of other cultures to their own, by demonstrating behaviors appropriate in target cultures, and by applying their knowledge and skills inside and outside of the classroom setting.  Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.
 
 

1063 German IV      Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Prerequisite: German III
Course Description:  Students enrolled in German IV have successfully completed Level III.  A major focus of this course is to enable students to communicate in writing and in extended conversations on a variety of topics.  Students begin to narrate, discuss, and support fairly complex ideas and concepts using concrete facts and topics in past, present and future time.  They satisfy routine social demands and meet most social requirements.  Another emphasis of this course is on culture and literature.  Short stories, poetry, excerpts from various periods of literature, current events, and authentic materials are included.  Emphasis is placed on independent reading.  Finer points of grammar are studied to aid oral and written communication.  There is more in-depth study of the target culture(s) and their influence throughout the world.  Students are able to connect the target language to other disciplines and can compare it to their own.  Finally, they are able to use the language inside and outside of the classroom setting.
 
 

Based On Teacher Availability
1080 Latin I (SI, LN)     Credit:  1
Course Description:  The Cambridge Latin Course is designed to introduce students to the language, culture, and history of the Roman empire during the first century AD (especially that of Pompeii, Roman Britain, and Alexandria).  Emphasis is placed on reading and comprehension of the written word.  Through the study of Latin, students begin to master a wealth of root words, prefixes, and suffixes essential to build English vocabulary useful in preparing for the SAT.
 
 

1081 Latin II (SI, LN)     Credit:  1
Course Description:  Latin II reviews the skills mastered in Latin I and uses them as a building block for further grammatical concepts.  The course continues to introduce new aspects of culture and history, focusing on Roman Britain and the city Rome.  Emphasis is still placed on learning new vocabulary and increasing English vocabulary via derivatives.
 

1082 Latin III  (SI, LN)     Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Course Description:  Latin III includes a review of introductory and intermediate Latin vocabulary and grammar while students continue to work toward a mastery of reading and interpreting original works of Latin authors of the first century AD.  Original passages from Ovid and Vergil (mythology), Catullus (poetry), and Pliny (prose) are first introduced.
 

1083 Latin IV  (SI, LN)    Credit:  1 (1 Quality Point)
Course Description:  Latin IV Emphasizes increased enjoyment of Latin masterpieces such as the works of Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace and Platus.  Students acquire additional vocabulary and mature understanding of Roman literature through translation.