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Automotive Technology

Build practical understanding of vehicle systems, engines, drivetrains, brakes, electronics, and diagnostic reasoning, then use it for understanding maintenance evidence and troubleshooting vehicle systems safely.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in vehicle systems, engines, drivetrains, brakes, electronics, and diagnostic reasoning
  • Follow a repeatable process for understanding maintenance evidence and troubleshooting vehicle systems safely
Secondary school to professional foundations
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Manufacturing Processes

Build practical understanding of materials, machining, forming, casting, joining, quality, and process selection, then use it for planning how a part can be produced consistently and economically.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in materials, machining, forming, casting, joining, quality, and process selection
  • Follow a repeatable process for planning how a part can be produced consistently and economically
Secondary school to professional foundations
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Construction Planning

Build practical understanding of drawings, quantities, sequencing, site safety, schedules, and project coordination, then use it for turning a design into an organized and buildable work plan.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in drawings, quantities, sequencing, site safety, schedules, and project coordination
  • Follow a repeatable process for turning a design into an organized and buildable work plan
Secondary school to professional foundations
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3D Printing and Prototyping

Build practical understanding of additive processes, model preparation, materials, tolerances, and iteration, then use it for creating testable prototypes and improving them from physical evidence.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in additive processes, model preparation, materials, tolerances, and iteration
  • Follow a repeatable process for creating testable prototypes and improving them from physical evidence
Secondary school to professional foundations
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Philosophy Foundations

Build practical understanding of arguments, knowledge, ethics, mind, reality, and philosophical methods, then use it for reading difficult ideas and building careful positions with objections.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in arguments, knowledge, ethics, mind, reality, and philosophical methods
  • Follow a repeatable process for reading difficult ideas and building careful positions with objections
Secondary school to university
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Ancient Civilizations

Build practical understanding of early states, trade, belief, writing, technology, and archaeological evidence, then use it for comparing societies and explaining change across the ancient world.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in early states, trade, belief, writing, technology, and archaeological evidence
  • Follow a repeatable process for comparing societies and explaining change across the ancient world
Secondary school to university
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Medieval History

Build practical understanding of states, faith, trade, warfare, agriculture, and everyday life in medieval societies, then use it for evaluating sources and comparing regional experiences across centuries.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in states, faith, trade, warfare, agriculture, and everyday life in medieval societies
  • Follow a repeatable process for evaluating sources and comparing regional experiences across centuries
Secondary school to university
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Modern World History

Build practical understanding of revolutions, industrialization, empires, nationalism, conflict, and globalization, then use it for building evidence-based explanations of modern historical change.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in revolutions, industrialization, empires, nationalism, conflict, and globalization
  • Follow a repeatable process for building evidence-based explanations of modern historical change
Secondary school to university
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Art History

Build practical understanding of visual analysis, materials, patronage, style, context, and interpretation, then use it for examining artworks and connecting formal choices with historical settings.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in visual analysis, materials, patronage, style, context, and interpretation
  • Follow a repeatable process for examining artworks and connecting formal choices with historical settings
Secondary school to university
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Religious Studies

Build practical understanding of belief, ritual, texts, institutions, lived practice, and comparative methods, then use it for studying religions respectfully through evidence and multiple perspectives.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in belief, ritual, texts, institutions, lived practice, and comparative methods
  • Follow a repeatable process for studying religions respectfully through evidence and multiple perspectives
Secondary school to university
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Archaeology

Build practical understanding of material evidence, excavation, dating, context, interpretation, and heritage ethics, then use it for building cautious explanations from artifacts, sites, and incomplete records.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in material evidence, excavation, dating, context, interpretation, and heritage ethics
  • Follow a repeatable process for building cautious explanations from artifacts, sites, and incomplete records
Secondary school to university
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Classical Mythology

Build practical understanding of myths, archetypes, gods, heroes, sources, reception, and cultural context, then use it for interpreting ancient stories and tracing how later cultures reuse them.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in myths, archetypes, gods, heroes, sources, reception, and cultural context
  • Follow a repeatable process for interpreting ancient stories and tracing how later cultures reuse them
Secondary school to university
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Sociology

Build practical understanding of institutions, groups, identity, inequality, culture, and social change, then use it for connecting personal experiences with larger social patterns and evidence.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in institutions, groups, identity, inequality, culture, and social change
  • Follow a repeatable process for connecting personal experiences with larger social patterns and evidence
Secondary school to university foundations
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Anthropology

Build practical understanding of culture, kinship, language, human variation, fieldwork, and comparative thinking, then use it for interpreting human practices without treating one culture as the default.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in culture, kinship, language, human variation, fieldwork, and comparative thinking
  • Follow a repeatable process for interpreting human practices without treating one culture as the default
Secondary school to university foundations
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Human Geography

Build practical understanding of population, migration, cities, economies, culture, and spatial inequality, then use it for explaining how people and places shape one another.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in population, migration, cities, economies, culture, and spatial inequality
  • Follow a repeatable process for explaining how people and places shape one another
Secondary school to university foundations
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Political Science

Build practical understanding of power, institutions, elections, political behavior, states, and comparative systems, then use it for analyzing political outcomes with concepts, cases, and evidence.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in power, institutions, elections, political behavior, states, and comparative systems
  • Follow a repeatable process for analyzing political outcomes with concepts, cases, and evidence
Secondary school to university foundations
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Behavioral Economics

Build practical understanding of decision biases, incentives, framing, habits, experiments, and bounded rationality, then use it for explaining real choices that differ from simple economic models.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in decision biases, incentives, framing, habits, experiments, and bounded rationality
  • Follow a repeatable process for explaining real choices that differ from simple economic models
Secondary school to university foundations
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Communication Studies

Build practical understanding of messages, audiences, media, persuasion, identity, and interpersonal dynamics, then use it for analyzing how meaning changes across channels and contexts.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in messages, audiences, media, persuasion, identity, and interpersonal dynamics
  • Follow a repeatable process for analyzing how meaning changes across channels and contexts
Secondary school to university foundations
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Gender and Society

Build practical understanding of gender roles, institutions, representation, work, identity, and social change, then use it for evaluating claims with respectful language and evidence from varied contexts.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in gender roles, institutions, representation, work, identity, and social change
  • Follow a repeatable process for evaluating claims with respectful language and evidence from varied contexts
Secondary school to university foundations
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Urban Studies

Build practical understanding of cities, housing, transport, public space, inequality, governance, and planning, then use it for examining how urban systems affect daily life and opportunity.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in cities, housing, transport, public space, inequality, governance, and planning
  • Follow a repeatable process for examining how urban systems affect daily life and opportunity
Secondary school to university foundations
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Legal Literacy

Build practical understanding of legal systems, rights, responsibilities, procedures, documents, and reliable sources, then use it for understanding common legal information while recognizing when professional advice is needed.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in legal systems, rights, responsibilities, procedures, documents, and reliable sources
  • Follow a repeatable process for understanding common legal information while recognizing when professional advice is needed
General to university foundations
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Consumer Scam Awareness

Build practical understanding of impersonation, pressure tactics, source verification, payment risk, evidence, reporting, and consumer-protection processes, then use it for recognizing suspicious claims and responding without exposing money or personal information.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in impersonation, pressure tactics, source verification, payment risk, evidence, reporting, and consumer-protection processes
  • Follow a repeatable process for recognizing suspicious claims and responding without exposing money or personal information
General to university foundations
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Constitutional Law Foundations

Build practical understanding of constitutions, separation of powers, rights, courts, and institutional limits, then use it for reading constitutional questions and comparing legal reasoning.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in constitutions, separation of powers, rights, courts, and institutional limits
  • Follow a repeatable process for reading constitutional questions and comparing legal reasoning
General to university foundations
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International Relations

Build practical understanding of states, power, cooperation, conflict, institutions, and global political economy, then use it for analyzing international events through competing theories and evidence.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in states, power, cooperation, conflict, institutions, and global political economy
  • Follow a repeatable process for analyzing international events through competing theories and evidence
General to university foundations
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