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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: 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.