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Carl Junction high school students will have more course choices for the 2010-2011 school year. The R-1 school board approved several changes for the next school year, including even more dual credit opportunities. The dual credit program allows students to earn college credit at a reduced tuition cost while attending high school.

The school will be offering an “Elements of Literacy” class for freshman who need reading help additional to the freshman reading class. This created a year-long class for lowest-level readers.

The school is also adding an integrated math III class, ag communications and food science technology class.

There will also be additions to the fine arts program. Music appreciation will be added as an elective to replace fine art rotation. Guitar will also be taught as a fine art elective, as will piano. Many students at the school have requested the courses.

The school is also making changes to the physical education program. Physical education (PE) will be changed to PE1 and PE2. The change will keep freshman from having to take the course with upperclassmen and allow the older students to take a more advanced physical education program. Freshman and sophomores will take PE1, with juniors and seniors enrolling in PE2. Athletic training has also been changed to endurance training and running for the next school year. This is a change in name only.

Several other courses at the high school will see changes for the next school year. Civics will become a year-long course to cover all objectives needed for the required end-of-course testing. Personal finance is being moved to the business department as a floating requirement, rather than a sophomore social studies requirement.

Computer applications will be required for all freshmen, as educators said this is the basis for many classes. Broadcast journalism will be changed to video productions. The school made the change due to the fact that no faculty had journalism certification.

The school is combining the debate class with advanced speech and debate. School officials cited a low number of students enrolled in the courses, as well as possible budget cuts.

Building trades I and II will be changed construction trades. This course will encompass various construction trades. There is a chance the courses will be dropped at the high school level. In that event the students will be offered a construction trades course at Franklin Technology Center where senior students will have the chance to use their construction skills to build a house.

There will also be changes in the foreign language programs offered at the high school. There will now be four levels of Spanish offered, with dual credit classes offered at levels three and four. There will also be four levels of French offered. The school has the option to combine levels two through four if enrollment numbers are low.

The school has also decided to drop some courses altogether. The school is dropping post-modern sci-fi literature due to low interest. Another class being dropped due to low enrollment is introduction to fine arts, which was a trial course. Low interest also led the school to drop a geology course.

The addition of some advanced placement (AP) and dual credit courses also led to changes in next year’s course offerings. Chemistry II will be dropped, with the addition of AP chemistry. Biology II is also being dropped, with the addition of AP Biology I. The class will still offer the existing dual credit Bio 101. School personnel said they hope the addition of the AP dual credit courses will challenge the students and equip them to continue their college educations.

Costume technology is being dropped and will be combined with stagecraft, as in previous years. Intro to Business is dropped and will be replaced with personal finance.

Three courses will be dropped due to changes in the agriculture rotation. Those courses are: greenhouse management and horticulture, ag computers and pre-vet animal science.

The school will also be adding an ROTC program through Franklin Tech. Tracie Skaggs, public relations director for the R-1 district, said the school has received requests for a program for some time and said the administration is excited to be making the program available to the students.