Courses Available at CSIHS

EXPLORING HOSPITALITY
Students learn about the history of the industry, explore traveler motivation and consumer needs, the industry’s economic and environmental impacts, domestic and international travel, and sales in tourism. Finally, students explore careers in the hospitality and tourism industry. The culminating project for this class is planning the Academy senior trip.
EVENT PLANNING/SPORTS MARKETING
This course introduces students to the skills and knowledge required in the event planning profession. After studying the steps involved in planning a special event, students learn about event planning in sports. They then examine the unique requirements of event planning in entertainment and the performing arts.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Students learn not only the skills necessary to become entrepreneurs, but also the attitudes, characteristics, and techniques found with successful entrepreneurs. Students explore steps to starting a business; analyzing the market, financing, and creating a form of organization that will accommodate future growth.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Students learn the concept of service as a critical component of a hospitality or tourism business. It combines learning current theory and practice with observations of customer service in action, role-play, and critical analysis of models to provide a comprehensive perspective on this subject.
IB PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
The focus of the PPS course is studying what we know in a specific career and technical field of knowledge and how we know it. Curriculum will focus on critical thinking, personal and interpersonal development, problem-solving and the acquisition of practical skills.
GRAPHIC ARTS/DESIGN
Course provides hands-on introduction to the technical and relative skills of a professional graphic designer. Students gain technical skills in Adobe Photoshop and then learn to master the basic principles of graphic design.
PRINCIPLES OF IT
Course provides an overview of information technology today and introduces students to the basics of hardware and software. Students explore operating systems, software applications, and programming languages.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
This class is an introduction to Project Management in Contemporary Organizations. It includes the role of the project manager characteristics and attributes of successful project managers; and the challenges of managing projects in a multicultural, global environment.
WORKSITE LEARNING ACADEMY SUMMER INTERNSHIP
Students can earn .5 CTE credits for work-site learning. Gain real-life PAID work experience in the Hospitality and Tourism field.

Chief Sealth Academy of Hospitality and Tourism