Sayre Area High School

ACE courses offered 2024-25

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Understanding of individual and workplace needs as they relate to professionalism, team building, and career growth. Topic areas include human relations, business ethics, business etiquette, team building concepts, and career enrichment. Discussion, participation, and role-playing exercises. May be taught in a simulated work environment.

Credits 3

Communication, decision making, and critical thinking facilitated by the use of software using online tools and word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and databases in a simulated business environment to support other required business courses.
Credits: 3

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

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

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

An intuitive approach to statistics. Analysis and description of numerical data using frequency distributions, histograms and measures of central tendency and dispersion, elementary theory of probability with applications of binomial and normal probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, chi-square, linear regression, and correlation.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4

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

Awareness and participation in a positive, balanced wellness lifestyle. Dimensions of wellness, health related assessments, and the development of personal wellness action plan. Cannot earn credit for this course if you already have credit for HLTH 1207.

Credits 1