This one-semester required course is generally taken in the sophomore year. Students in the music programs must fit this into their junior or senior year schedule.

This course is designed to challenge students to think critically and analyze verbal and non-verbal communication in the modern world. The students will learn to prepare and give formal public presentations. They will study and immerse themselves in media and will engage in a four-part media project that will incorporate public speaking, website creation, non-verbal communication, and video/sound recording/ editing.

This one semester elective for sophomores, juniors and seniors serves as an introduction to journalism. Students participate in a writing intensive course that involves reporting, research, and new media. Units will cover journalism writing styles, editing, First Amendment issues, news writing, sports writing, crime reporting, and styles. Students will also be introduced in class to special guests from the journalism field and they will join the staff of the Cub News for the semester.

Prerequisite: 21 Century Media & Cultural Communications

An Independent Study course for editors of the Cub News and leaders of Cub Broadcast.

Publishing the Cub News and preparing Cub Broadcasts requires editors and broadcasters to collaborate and spend considerable amount of time to work on layouts, editing, and filming to produce a quality end product. This class would allow for some of that time to be spent in school, rather than entirely on the students’ own time.

Prerequisite: Approval by Cub News or Cub Broadcast Teacher Advisors

Print and Multimedia Production is a writing intensive hands-on production of the Cub Annual, U of D Jesuit's school yearbook. The course is designed for students who want an opportunity to explore art, writing, and technology in the 21st century. Students will work as a team to choose and create all the elements that go into the yearbook including themes, layouts, editing, reporting, researching, interviewing, and picture production. Students need to have an understanding of design, photography, and the importance of meeting deadlines. Students will also learn how to work with Adobe Flash and photoshop to create layouts, catchy headlines, and captions to tell a story.

This course is open to sophomores for 0.5 credit. and juniors and seniors for 1.0 credit.

This 0.5 credit course is open to juniors and seniors. This course is designed for students who want to know, learn and experience the world of personal finance. The course is driven by the real experiences all teens and adults face, including: credit, debt, career, taxes, investing, insurance, money in relationships, and the power of giving.

This course is a one-semester elective for sophomores and above. This course provides an introduction to programming in the context of game development. Students will work with an object-oriented language (currently C#) in a game engine (currently Unity 5). The course will explore the game industry, game design and development processes, and good programming practices. Students will design their own game throughout the semester and develop it as a final project.

This course is a 0.5 credit elective for sophomores, juniors and seniors. This course teaches basic computer support skills and an introduction to computer networking. This course is delivered through a mixture of classroom instruction, project based learning and through the opportunity to provide technology support to students and faculty. The course teaches the use and support of personal technology including device selection, basic hardware maintenance, software installation, software maintenance and upgrading, basic software support, basic security, Audio/Visual (A/V) setup, and device networking with a focus on wireless networking.

Important: Students taking this course in the Fall semester are required to attend a week-long orientation session (8:30am - 12:30pm) scheduled in the early summer.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

This course is a one-semester elective for juniors and seniors. It is an introduction to programming techniques in the Java programming language. Students will learn about variables and constants, expressions, algorithms, conditional branching, looping structures, and arrays, along with the basics of classes and object-oriented programming. Students who earn an A or B in this course may continue, with the instructor's permission, with the AP Computer Science course in the second semester.

This course is an intensive follow-up to the introductory course. Students will go much deeper into the Java language in preparation for the AP Computer Science A test, gaining greater depth in object-oriented programming and algorithms, exploring inheritance, interfaces, arrays, recursion, complexity, searching, sorting, and analysis. Combined with the Introduction course, this course is the equivalent of a first-semester college course.

The course includes significant practice for the AP exam and prepares students for the AP Computer Science A exam; many colleges award one semester of computer science credit for passing scores on this test.

Prerequisite: B or higher in Introduction to Computer Science and teacher recommendation.

Course Fee: $94 AP Computer Science Exam Fee

This course is a one-semester elective for juniors and seniors. It is an introduction to several areas in the field of engineering: Computer Aided Design (CAD), taught through CATIA; programming in both textual and graphical languages; and basic principles of mechanical design including rigid structures and gear ratios. The University of Detroit Mercy grants 1 credit hour for the CATIA portion of the class.

This course is a one-semester elective for juniors and seniors. It is an introduction to several areas in the field of engineering: Computer Aided Design (CAD), taught through CATIA; programming in both textual and graphical languages; and basic principles of mechanical design including rigid structures and gear ratios. The University of Detroit Mercy grants 1 credit hour for the CATIA portion of the class.

Introduction to Engineering and CAD I is a prerequisite to this class.