Grade 11

This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and procedures of accounting. Students will develop financial analysis and decision-making skills that will assist them in future studies and/or career opportunities in business. Students will acquire an understanding of accounting for a service and a merchandising business, computerized accounting, financial analysis, and ethics and current issues in accounting.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials:

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Sage Business Cloud Accounting (Sage One)". Access instructions provided by your instructor after school start.

This course focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas, and organize resources to plan successful ventures that enable them to achieve their goals. Students will create a venture plan for a school-based or student-run business.Through hands-on experiences, students will have opportunities to develop the values, traits, and skills most often associated with successful entrepreneurs.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of product marketing, which includes the marketing of goods, services, and events. Students will examine how trends, issues, global economic changes, and information technology influence consumer buying habits. Students will engage in marketing research, develop marketing strategies, and produce a marketing plan for a product of their choice.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None

 

Prerequisite: None

 

Required Course Materials: None

This course explores Canadian law, with a focus on legal issues that are relevant to the
lives of people in Canada. Students will gain an understanding of laws relating to rights
and freedoms in Canada; our legal system; and family, contract, employment, tort, and
criminal law. Students will develop legal reasoning skills and will apply the concepts of
legal thinking and the legal studies inquiry process when investigating a range of legal
issues and formulating and communicating informed opinions about them.

Prerequisite: Canadian History since World War I, Grade 10, Academic or Applied

Required Course Materials: None

This course introduces students to a range of issues related to housing and home design. Students will learn about the needs that housing fulfils; housing options; home maintenance and safety; and environmental, economic, legal, and social considerations related to housing. They will use the elements and principles of design to analyse design and decorating decisions. Students will develop research skills as they investigate issues related to housing and home design.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None

This course prepares students for occupations involving children from birth to six years of age. Students will study theories about child behaviour and development, and will have opportunities for research and observation and for practical experiences with young children. Students will become familiar with occupational opportunities and requirements related to working with infants and young children. They will also have opportunities to develop research and critical-thinking skills as they investigate and evaluate current research about early childhood education.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None

This course introduces students to theories, questions, and issues related to anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Students learn about approaches and research methods used by social scientists. Students will be given opportunities to apply theories from a variety of perspectives, to conduct social science research, and to become familiar with current issues within the three disciplines.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None

This course provides students with opportunities to think critically about theories, questions, and issues related to anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Students will develop an understanding of the approaches and research methods used by social scientists. They will be given opportunities to explore theories from a variety of perspectives, to conduct social science research, and to become familiar with current thinking on a range of issues within the three disciplines.

Prerequisite: The Grade 10 academic course in English, or the Grade 10 academic history course (Canadian and world studies)

Required Course Materials: None

This course will help students combine the skills required for and knowledge of different subjects and disciplines to solve problems, make decisions, create personal meaning, and present findings beyond the scope of a single subject or discipline. Through individual and collaborative inquiry and research, students will analyse the connections among diverse subjects and disciplines; develop information literacy skills in analysing, selecting, evaluating, and communicating information; and become aware of a variety of resources and viewpoints on contemporary issues. They will also examine their own learning styles, relate their inquiries and research to real-life situations, and investigate career opportunities in new disciplines.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None 

 

Prerequisite: MAT2L or MFM1P or MPM1D or MTH1W

 

Required Course Materials: None

This course explores the themes, forms, and stylistic elements of literary, informational, graphic, oral, cultural, and media text forms emerging from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures in Canada, and also looks at the perspectives and influences of texts that relate to those cultures. In order to understand contemporary text forms and their themes of identity, relationship, and self-determination, sovereignty, or self-governance, students will study the use of text forms by Indigenous authors/creators from other periods in expressing ideas related to these themes. Students will also create oral, written, and media texts to explore their own ideas and understanding, focusing on the development of literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for success in academic and daily life. 

 

Prerequisite: English, Grade 10, Academic or Applied

 

Required Course Materials: None

 

Prerequisite: English, Grade 10, Academic or Applied, or Grade 10 locally developed compulsory credit (LDCC) course in English

 

Required Course Materials: None

This course emphasizes the development of literacy, critical thinking, and communication skills through  the study of works in English by Aboriginal writers. Through the analysis of literary
texts and media works, students will develop an appreciation of the wealth and complexity of
Aboriginal writing. Students will also conduct research and analyse the information gathered;
write persuasive and literary essays; and analyse the relationship between media forms and
audiences. An important focus will be the further development of students’ understanding of
English-language usage and conventions.

Prerequisite: English, Grade 10, Academic

Required Course Materials: None

This course introduces students to computer programming concepts and practices. Students will write and test computer programs, using various problem-solving strategies. They will learn the fundamentals of program design and apply a software development life-cycle model to a software development project. Students will also learn about computer environments and systems, and explore environmental issues related to computers, safe computing practices, emerging technologies, and postsecondary opportunities in computer-related fields.

Prerequisite: None

Required Course Materials: None