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Course Guide: Career & Technical Education (CTE)

Course Guide: Career & Technical Education (CTE)

Graduation Requirements

1.0 CTE for a standard 24 credit graduation pathway
More CTE graduation pathways are available: Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Course Guide

Career and College Readiness

Career Connections 1
HCT1298
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

The foundation for career planning is developing a better understanding of oneself. Students will explore their learning styles, identify their personal values, understand personality types, evaluate their employability skills, and discover career interests as they start planning for their future through authentic classroom projects. The purpose is to provide students with instruction in the career planning process directly related to local industry data, career interest, and skill attainment. Students will explore future careers and set goals to support their success during high school and beyond and learn the basics of financial literacy. To conclude the course, students will demonstrate their 21st century skills and create their first resume.

Career Connections 2
HCT1299
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

To prepare for life beyond high school, this course supports students in completing essential career planning steps, internships, and applications before graduation. Students will begin by exploring and researching prospective careers in-depth and conducting informational interviews with career panels in chosen fields. Then they will create a professional career portfolio, which includes career assessments, resumes, cover letters, letters of recommendation, and artifacts of student’s work that demonstrate their 21st century skills. Students will learn about various postsecondary pathway options including apprenticeships, college, jobs and certification, and visit worksites on field trips to see careers in action. Financial literacy skills in budgeting, income tax, investing, financial aid, and credit will also be covered. Finally, students will practice job interviews using best practice methods and receive feedback on their career portfolios from local professionals.

Worksite Learning Internship (Course Codes Vary)
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

This course (internship) is a student worksite experience in the field that emphasizes connecting activities, coordination and integration between worksite and classroom learning, uses written agreements to outline mutual expectations. Internships will meet District and State academic standards for academic credit. During an internship, a student completes structured activities or projects that connect work to learning at school, relate to the real work of the company, give a broad understanding of a business or occupational area, and reinforce 21st Century Skills. To be eligible, student must have taken a CTE course and earned a C or better, or be enrolled in a CTE course, maintaining a C grade or better.

Woodworking

Woods 1
HCT7963
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

This introductory class in Woodworking that provides students with the opportunity to work with many of the tools, materials, and processes common to working with wood and wood construction. Start by building birdhouses and move on to building dog houses, play houses and tiny houses while developing a skill set that can take you around the world building all kinds of cool stuff

Woods 2
HCT7964
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Woods I
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

This course is designed for the students who wish to pursue advanced study in the area of specialization that is an extension of choices made in earlier wood classes.

Residential Carpentry 1A
HCT6893 (Residential Carpentry 1B: HCT6894)
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Woods I
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Residential Carpentry is a preparatory course that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. Includes instruction in technical mathematics, framing, construction materials and selection, job estimating, blueprint reading, foundations and roughing-in, finish carpentry techniques, and applicable codes and standards.

Residential Carpentry 1B
HCT6894
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Residential Carpentry 1A
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Residential Carpentry is a preparatory course that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. Includes instruction in technical mathematics, framing, construction materials and selection, job estimating, blueprint reading, foundations and roughing-in, finish carpentry techniques, and applicable codes and standards.

Engineering and Publishing

Intro to Engineering Design
HCT1574
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Want to solve the world’s problems through design and technology? Then learn how to use the design process to take an idea from concept to reality. The first course of the Project Lead the Way (Pre-Engineering) Program is an introductory course, which develops student problem solving skills, with emphasis placed on the development of three- dimensional solid models.

Principles of Engineering
HCT1576
Length: 2 Semester
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Students explore how modern engineers help improve the world through diverse engineering fields, such as product design, mechanical design, infrastructure, and sustainability. Students learn and use some of the cutting-edge tools that engineers use in robotics, 3D modeling, programming, and prototyping.

Photography and Video

Photography Beginning
CFA2536
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed or Fine Arts

Photography Beginning is designed to explore photography as a method of creative visual communication. Students in this course learn basic camera operations and principles of photography such as photo composition, lighting, exposure, and editing.

Photography Advanced
CFA2537
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Photography Beginning
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed or Fine Arts

Photography Advanced is designed for students interested in expressing their personal creative vision through photography. Students in this course develop their own ideas through open-ended assignments and explore photography as a potential career pathway.

Video Beginning A & B
CFA2452-3
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed or Fine Arts

This introductory course teaches the fundamentals of creatively and effectively communicating visual stories through the lens of a video camera, including critical media analysis. Students collaborate while learning the video production process: pre-production (planning, developing ideas, and identifying resources), production (lighting, composition, and audio recording techniques), and post-production (editing with graphics, sound, and visual effects). Types of productions may include narrative, documentary, news, informational, and experimental.

Video Advanced A & B
CFA2454-5
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Video Beginning A & B
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed or Fine Arts

This is a hands-on, project-based course in which students work in teams to produce a variety of increasingly complex productions. Students refine their understanding of the production process, incorporating more advanced techniques in development, shooting, sound, lighting, editing, graphics and special effects.

Yearbook, Design, and Marketing

Publishing Yearbook 1
HCT7285-6 (1st Year) HCT7287-8 (2nd Year)
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None, but photography encouraged
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed (Fine Art for 2nd Year)

The students on the Annual Staff in this class are responsible for the publication of our school yearbook, CACHE. Working under strict deadlines and with the help of the advisor, students use online design software to capture the year’s events. If you are creative, dependable, enjoy teamwork and want to experience the creation and publishing of a book from scratch, this class if for you! Learn or develop layout and design skills, photography, copy and caption writing-experience a production environment and be part of creating something that will last forever.

IB Design Technology
HCT2545-6
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

IB Design Technology is a year-long class where students will learn to generate and execute design of products that exist in a complex, global environment. Diploma Programme design technology achieves a high level of design literacy by enabling students to develop critical-thinking and design skills, which they can apply in a practical context. While designing may take various forms, it will involve the selective application of knowledge within an ethical framework. A well-planned design programme enables students to develop not only practical skills but also strategies for creative and critical thinking. Students will need a basic knowledge of computer design skills, Graphic Design, Photo, or Video Production are suggested prerequisites for this course.

Project Management 1 & 2
HCT4361-2
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

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. The class covers goal setting, project planning systems, work breakdown structure analysis, negotiation and conflict resolution to facilitate planning. Students must be able to work independently to be successful in this class.

Marketing Store 1 & 2
HCT5057 and HCT 5060
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisite: Project Management
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Marketing Store is a hands-on, year-long course that provides students with real life experience of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising. Students learn about each phase of marketing and the wide range of options that all marketing managers and business owners consider as they create or revise marketing plans. They learn about the operational issues that new businesses face, such as regulations, protecting intellectual property, and the financial risks of starting a business.

Nutrition, Culinary Arts, and Health

Nutrition and Wellness
HCT2227
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

The course focuses on the practices and early eating and nutritional habits formed through families, paving the way to lifelong health and wellbeing across the lifespan. Skills gained from the course content in nutrition and wellness lead to more careful meal planning and choices, as well as a transfer of knowledge and employability skills to careers in dietetics, fitness, and all related fields such as food analysis, production, preparation, and hospitality. The course may be used in a variety of ways, including a pre-requisite for advanced courses in Food Production, Careers in Education, Family and Community Services, Human Development, Child Development and courses in the Health Sciences strand. 

Baking and Pastry
HCT2457
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Recommended but not required-Nutrition and Wellness
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

This course allows students a more in-depth study of baking and pastry arts. Areas of study include baking terminology, tool and equipment use, formula conversions, functions of ingredients, and methods used in creating yeast breads, pastries, quick breads, and other desserts. The fundamentals of dough and basic decorating skills are covered. The appropriate use of technology and industry-standard equipment is an integral part of this course. Upon successful completion of this course, students will have acquired entry-level skills for employment in this field. Units of study include safety and sanitation, knife skills, equipment use, quick breads, yeast breads, desserts/pastries and dessert plating. 

Culinary Arts 1A and 1B
CSC6061 and CSC6062
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisite: Must have successfully completed 0.5credits of Baking and Pastry or Nutrition and Wellness. 
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Culinary Arts 1A, first covers theory and practice of the principles of cooking, terminology, recipe development, ingredients, equipment, safety, and career development. Industry skills lead to culinary, hospitality, and food service careers. Culinary Arts 1B second semester covers a variety of food preparations, continues nutrition, food and beverage service, safety and production methods in school and outside the program. Industry skills lead to culinary, hospitality, and food service careers. This CTE course is eligible for dual credit because it adheres to the standards defined in the articulation agreement with South Seattle College when both Culinary Arts A&B are completed with a minimum grade of B (these credits are transferrable to any technical or community college in Washington state).

Family Health
HCT7004
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed, Health

This class will include topics in nutrition, health and wellness, growth and development, global, mental, community, and reproductive health, health risks, fitness, and safety. Additional topics include an introduction to health careers. National FCCLA (Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America) programs incorporated into the course assessments. Students use a variety of learning strategies, vocabulary, scenarios, technology, real-world activities, and applications to explore topics, career ad skills leading to health-related certifications.

Child Development, Psychology, and Teaching

Child Development
HCT2430
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore or above.
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

An introduction to developmental psychology, exploring the different stages of human life and the biological, psychological and social changes occurring in individuals during them. Child development focuses on the development of a child from utero to age 12. A child’s development in their families through parenting, typical and atypical development in physical, emotional, social, and intellectual areas will be introduced. Students will learn about safety, engagement strategies, nutrition, and age appropriate activities. Students have the opportunity to work monthly with young children and experience a simulation with a simulator baby to have practical experiences with children. Students will have the opportunity to earn 5 college credits; 20 STAR basic training; and an infant/child CPR certification.

Intro to Teaching
HUE9727
Length: 1 Semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

This class introduces students to the teaching profession. Students will complete observations, have practical teaching experiences including creating lessons and activities, and explore educational issues and practices. Students will also learn about different careers in the field of Education. Students will receive instruction including classroom scenarios, creating learning targets, creating success criteria and rubrics, creating lesson plans, applied learning activities, demonstrations, classroom management, as well as opportunities for personal reflection and growth.

IB Psychology SL
HCT8065-6
Length: 2 Semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisite: None Graduation Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Offered at the Standard Level (SL), IB Psychology offers students a broad understanding of psychology through multiple levels of analysis. The course guides students through the study of human behavior by exploring key topics from four district levels of analysis; socio-cultural, cognitive, biological and abnormal behavior. Students will also study research design, methods, statistics, ethical issue in psychological research and application. This in-depth learning opportunity will have you asking more questions about human behavior, and provide a deeper understanding of yourself. Students will learn how to design a research study and prepare for the rigorous IB exam.

Computer Science

Exploring Computer Science
HCT2448
Length: 1 semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Algebra or equivalent knowledge of algebraic concepts
Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Exploring Computer Science develops students’ computer science skills including algorithm development, problem solving, and programming. Students will also be introduced to topics such as embedded software, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. This is designed for students interested in computing careers and is a broad introduction to computer science. Students will learn what computer scientists do and how they think.

Intro to Programming
HCT2447
Length: 1 semester
Credit: 0.5
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Algebra equivalent knowledge of algebraic concepts
Requirement Satisfied: Occupational Ed

Intro to Programming is an introductory-level course for students brand new to programming. They will learn problem-solving strategies, software design, and the foundations of computer science in a Python environment. Not only will this course prepare students for continuing their students in computer science (for example, by taking IB Computer Science), but it will also teach them how to think like a scientist and solve real-world problems.

IB Computer Science A & B
HCT2483, HCT2484
Length: 2 semesters
Credit: 1.0
Grade(s): 11, 12
Prerequisites: Knowledge of Python, Java, or C++; Algebra
Requirements Satisfied: Occupational Ed

IB Computer Science is a problem-solving course that teaches students about computer systems, programming, and how to apply these skills to solve real-world problems. Students will learn: the basics of programming languages; how to represent information digitally; how to think procedurally, logically, and recursively; and how to develop algorithms and express them clearly.    

CTE Pathways at Chief Sealth International High School

CTE Pathways at Sealth

  • Career Connections 1 & 2 and Worksite Learning can count toward any pathway
  • Students must have 2 credits in a pathway. Preference for the sub-pathways but can be two from the underlined macro pathway.
  • Students must have 2 credits in a pathway. Preference for the sub-pathways but can be two from the underlined macro pathway.

Business and Marketing

  • Marketing
    • Project Management (1.0)
    • Marketing Store 1&2 (1.0)
    • IB Design Technology (1.0)
  • Publishing
    • Yearbook 1&2 (1.0)
    • Yearbook 3&4 (1.0)

Culinary and Hospitality

  • Culinary Arts
    • Nutrition and Wellness (0.5)
    • Baking and Pastry (0.5)
    • Culinary Arts 1 (0.5)
    • Culinary Arts 2 (0.5)

Education and Human Services

  • Early Childhood
    • Child Development (0.5)
    • Intro to Teaching (0.5)
    • IB Psychology (1.0)
  • Health and Wellness
    • Family Health (0.5)
    • Nutrition and Wellness (0.5)
    • IB Psychology (1.0)

Skilled and Technical Sciences

  • Construction Trades
    • Woods 1 (0.5)
    • Woods 2 (0.5)
    • Residential Carpentry 1 (0.5)
    • Residential Carpentry 2 (0.5)

STEM Engineering

  • STEM Engineering
    • Intro to Engineering Design (1.0)
    • Principles of Engineering (1.0)

Arts, Design, and Graphics

  • Media Arts Video
    • Video Beginning A (0.5)
    • Video Beginning B (0.5)
    • Video Advanced A (0.5)
    • Video Advanced B (0.5)
  • Media Arts Photography
    • Photography Beginning (0.5)
    • Photography Advanced (0.5)
    • Yearbook 1 & 2 (1.0)
  • Computer Science
    • Intro to Programming (0.5)
    • Exploring Computer Science (0.5)
    • IB Computer Science A & B (1.0)