Virtual High School of Excellence - The Virtual Home School - Online High School Curriculum and resources for Homeschool, Alternative, At-Risk, and Traditional Students

Art	1.0 Credit

Art is a full year class. Students in class will learn basic design principles before beginning unit projects. Units in art may include hand-built and clay pottery, drawing, or oil painting. Mini units will address individual and small group interests such as calligraphy, digital art, and watercolor. Mini units will address art history. Students are expected to work in class on each unit.

Career Planning	.05 Credit

Students explore career opportunities based on personal assessments, interviews with community members, guest speakers and research of occupational outlooks. Other topics to be covered include: filling out employment applications, mock interviews, field trips to various businesses and job shadowing.

Life Skills	0.5 Credit

This course gives students practice in the skills needed for such tasks as budgeting, banking, income and credit management, taxes, insurance and investments. Also covered are job applications and interviews, personal finance and other important life skills.

Marketing	1.0 Credit

This course is designed to prepare students for employment in various sales, customer service, advertising and promotion, and first line supervisory positions in wholesale, retail and service areas. Students will prepare to perform marketing and management functions and tasks as they relate to selling and retailing, e-commerce, sports and entertainment, and hospitality and tourism industries. Students will experience application of the following Florida Math Standards: number sense data analysis and probability, patterns and algebra, discrete math, and logic.

Business Law	0.5 Credit

This course involves the study of how our nation's laws were formed, the ethics behind our laws, our kinds of law, how laws are enforced, and the difference between crimes and torts. Laws for minors, families, and consumers will also be studied. However, the main emphasis of this course will be the study of contracts--different types, how they are formed and ended, and damages.

Windows / NT*	0.5 Credit

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop technical abilities in planning, implementing, and maintaining a fully functional and efficient computer operating system. Students will develop implementation plans for a functional installation, install and configure a functional system, optimize, tune, monitor, and administer the system. They will also troubleshoot and problem-solve the system. Students will learn to create computer users, groups, and policies with appropriate profiles and permissions for a secure environment. This course is recommended for advanced computer students who wish to pursue further Microsoft Certification course work. The student may experience application supporting the Florida Math Standards.

PC101	0.5 Credit

This course will prepare students to use the computer as a tool to assist in personal, business and educational use at an accelerated pace. Students will learn fundamentals of computer use in addition to software applications using Windows and Microsoft Office. Skills taught will include a keyboarding tutorial, letters, reports, tables, and an employment unit. Students will also use spreadsheet, database, and presentation software to create professional documents. The students will experience applications supporting the Florida Math Standards and the Florida Standards for Language Arts.

Internet and Web Design	0.5 Credit

This course is designed to help students create personal, business, or school web pages for the Internet. It is designed for intermediate Internet users. Topics covered include: web browser features, Internet research techniques, multimedia capabilities, and web page creation. Student web pages will include text, sound video, tables, links, and forms. The student may experience applications supporting the Florida Math Standards.

Minimum Course Loads
Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors must enroll in a minimum of five credit-bearing classes. Seniors are encouraged to enroll in five classes, however, they must enroll in a minimum of four classes. Students may enroll for a maximum of six credits during the regular enrollment term.

Testing Out

Qualified students may "test out" of courses. A fee is charged for the service. Students that successfully test out will be awarded credit but will not be awarded a letter grade for use in grade point average or class rank calculations.

Other Educational Options
Independent Study – Independent Study courses and programs are available. Contact your counselor for further information.

Summer School – Only need a class or two during summer break. Contact your counselor for further information.

Correspondence Courses – Correspondence courses are available. Contact your counselor for further information.
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