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Cluster: Hospitality and Tourism Major: Culinary Arts Description: Culinary Arts is designed to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills needed in a professional kitchen. These skills include kitchen safety and sanitation following ServSafe guidelines, food handling and storage techniques, and equipment operation and care. Basic knowledge taught will explore the role of nutrition in our diet; identify customer service duties and the concept of work ethics. More advanced culinary preparations, management skills, and menu planning including the costing out of recipes and calculating food cost percentages are also covered. The National Restaurant Association’s Level 1 and Level 2 ProStart curriculum may also be covered in this program. It “is a two-year industry based curriculum that prepares high school students for careers in the restaurant and food service industry. Students gain valuable restaurant and food service skills through their academic and workplace experiences.

__Cluster:__ Health Science __Major__: Health Science __Description__: The Health Science program focuses on therapeutic, diagnostic, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development pathways of a health science career cluster. This program is designed to develop healthcare specific knowledge and skills, both academic and technical, necessary for transition to clinical or work-based experiences in healthcare. The foundational standards incorporate anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, communication, healthcare systems and teams, health science career research, legal and ethical practice, safety, health and wellness, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid, disease, therapies and care rehabilitation, prevention, systems theory, legal standards, ethical and safety practices, advance technical skills, and information technology applications. Guiding students to make connections from the classroom to the healthcare industry occur through job shadowing, clinical rotation, internship, and/or cooperative education.

__Cluster__: Education and Training __Major__: Early Childhood Education __Description__: The Early Childhood Education program is designed to provide students with hands-on opportunities to actively explore and observe the world of preschool children. This course provides an in-depth study of career paths, developmentally appropriate practices, curriculum development, safe and healthy learning environments, collaborative relationships, and professional employment skills.

Cluster: Manufacturing Major: Mechatronics Integrated Technologies Description: Students enrolled in Mechatronics receive training in electrical theory, electrical test equipment, electrical blueprints, commercial and industrial wiring, conductor terminations, circuit breakers and fusers, contractors and relays, lubrication, precision measuring tools, basic machining, basic hydraulic systems, basic pneumatic systems, motor maintenance, programmable logic controllers and robotic systems.

Cluster: Business, Management, and Administration Major: Operations Management Description: The Operations Management major is comprised of the virtual enterprise courses. Virtual Enterprise is part of a national curriculum called Virtual Enterprises International and the South Carolina Virtual Enterprise Network that allows students to experience in a simulated business environment all facets of being an employee in a firm. The program allows students to run simulated offices in their schools and engage in virtual trading with other practice firms. Currently, more than 3,600 virtual enterprises in over thirty-six countries are part of the International Practice Enterprise Network. The program provides student with interdisciplinary instruction and an in-school work experience to develop school-to-career skills.

Cluster: Business, Management, and Administration Major: Business Information Management Description: The Business Information Management major is designed to instruct students on how to gather, analyze, and store information using specialized software and techniques so that the information can be easily accessed and used by businesses. Students in this major will expand their office computing skills by learning how to edit clip art and photographs for inclusion in printed documents using industry specific desktop publishing software. Students will also develop skills in designing, implementing, and maintaining a web site using Adobe Creative Suite authoring tools.

Cluster: Business, Management, and Administration Major: General Management Description: The General Management major prepares students for leadership positions in management. Students will learn general management functions such as marketing, staffing, and financial decision making. Students will also gain knowledge and skills by developing a business plan for small business ownership.