Horseheads High School

ACE courses offered 2024-25

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Vocabulary and concepts of accounting and bookkeeping for the small business. Provides some knowledge of accounting for working in a business environment and some skills to do the accounting in a small business organization. 
Cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been earned for ACCT 1030.
Credits: 4 

The modern aspects and techniques of biology will be emphasized. BIOL 1510 will cover scientific methodology, biochemistry, cell structure and physiology, genetic mechanisms, plant structure and physiology, taxonomy, and bacterial, protist, fungal, and plant diversity. 
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.
Credits: 4

Emphasizes the modern aspects of biology and its techniques. Includes evolution, animal diversity, human and animal anatomy/physiology, animal behavior, reproduction and development, and ecology. Laboratory requires dissection of a preserved fetal pig and various vertebrate organs, as well as the use of living invertebrates and fish.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences and Critical Thinking.
Credits: 4

This is the first course in a two-course general chemistry sequence, which covers the principles of chemistry and its quantitative aspects. Topics include the atomic theory of matter, electronic structure of atoms, theories of chemical bonding, reactions and stoichiometry, and properties of gases. Descriptive chemistry is integrated throughout the course.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.
Credits: 4

This is the second course in a two-course general chemistry sequence, which covers the principles of chemistry and its quantitative aspects. Topics include thermochemistry, intermolecular forces and physical states of matter, properties of aqueous solutions, thermodynamics and equilibrium, electrochemistry, and chemical kinetics. Descriptive chemistry is integrated throughout the course.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Science.
Credits: 4

U.S. macroeconomic goals, the American market system, price determination, distribution of income, government taxation and spending, national income accounting, fiscal policy, and monetary policy.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Social Sciences.
Credits: 3

Elasticity of supply and demand, utility theory, production cost analysis, profit maximization, monopoly and government regulation, labor organization, international trade and finance, economics of growth, resource depletion, and pollution.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Social Sciences.
Credits: 3

Essay writing designed to sharpen the student's perceptions of the world and to facilitate communications with correctness, clarity, unity, organization, and depth. Assignments include expository writing, argumentation, and research techniques.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Written Communication and Information Literacy.
Credits: 3

Essay writing course designed to advance critical, analytical, and writing abilities begun in ENGL 1010. Literary analysis essays and interpretation on works of fiction, poetry, and drama.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Humanities.
Credits: 3

Techniques and practices of engineering graphics for communication and interpretation of engineering design intent through the use of the three-dimensional parametric modeling program (SolidWorks) and international standard governing geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. (ASME/ANSI Y14.5 and ISO) Engineering freehand sketching and graphically solving problems including pictorial and multiview drawings, geometric constructions, plane and descriptive geometry, sectioning conventions and coordinate dimensioning and tolerancing.
Credits: 3

Designed to assist first-year students in adjusting to the college environment as well as becoming familiar with strategies for success. A general orientation to the resources of the college, essential academic success skills to better understand the learning process, and career exploration will be covered.
Credits: 3

A comprehensive course addressing the use and abuse of drugs in contemporary society, with emphasis on motivation for drug use and abuse; specific types of drugs and their identification; physiological and psychological implications of drug abuse; legal aspects of drug abuse; and treatment of the person with drug dependence.
 Credits: 3

This course is designed to prepare students for calculus. Topics include problem solving, algebraic and graphical analysis, equations, inequalities, absolute values, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithms, trigonometric and circular functions, inverses, polar coordinates and conics.
Cannot take both MATH 1411-1412 and 1413 for credit.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4

The first semester of differential and integral single variable calculus. Basic theory using algebraic and trigonometric function and applications are covered concurrently. Topics include limits, derivatives, considered algebraically and graphically, differentials and their use as approximations, the indefinite and definite integrals with applications to areas, volumes, surface area, arc length, moments and center of mass.
Cannot receive credit for this course and MATH 1510-1520.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4

A continuation of Calculus I. Topics include calculus of conics, logarithmic, exponential, and hyperbolic functions, techniques of integration, infinite series, parametric equations and polar coordinates.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4

The first semester of a two semester sequence in calculus-based physics. Mechanics, including vectors, particle kinematics and dynamics, work and energy, impulse and momentum, rotational motion, harmonic motion, and waves if time permits.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.
Credits: 4

Development of facility in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding the language through a systematic review of its structure. Representative readings as an introduction to Spanish civilizations.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in World Languages.
Credits: 4

A thorough analysis of the language; intensive discussion of grammar, usage, style and vocabulary, enhancing expression through composition, oral reports, and more informed class discussions and conversations.
Credits: 4