INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAREERS
78438-78031 IT Essentials
[ Students may earn Articulated College Credit ] Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11 and 12 Credit: One trimester / Two periods = 1.0 credit Major Outcomes: Install, configure, and troubleshoot computers and mobile devices
• 70 hour CISCO academy course
• Identify common security threats like phishing and spoofing
• Develop critical thinking and problem skills
• Prepare for CompTIA A + Certification Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities, research, and speakers. Co-curricular Connection: Skills USA
78679-78031 Cybersecurity I
[ Students may earn Articulated College Credit ] Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 Credit: One trimester / Two Periods = 1.0 credit Major Outcomes:
• Explore what cybersecurity is and what it means for you personally and professionally
• Learn how to be safe online by understanding the most common threats, attacks and vulnerabilities
• Find out how businesses protect their operations from cyber attacks and why jobs are growing
• Examine legislation related to data confidentiality, integrality and availability
• Understand personal responsibilities and liabilities when working with confidential information
• Recognize the threats and risk to modern data and information systems
• Understand risk management and methods used to address risk
Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities, research, and speakers. Co-curricular Connection: Skills USA
78439-78031 Cybersecurity ll
[ Students may earn Articulated College Credit ] Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 Prerequisite / Selection Process: Cybersecuity I Credit: One trimester / Two Periods = 1.0 credit Major Outcomes:
• Identifying secuirity threats and vulnerabilities
• Managing data, application and host secuity
• Implementing network security
• Implementing access control, authentication and account
Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities, current events and technology exploration.
78444-78031 Ethical Hacking
Prerequisite / Selection Process: Cybersecurity I & II Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 Credit: One trimester / two periods = 1.0 credit Major Outcomes:
• Critically analyze various recon techniques and their effectiveness
• Demonstrate the use of tools to escalate privileges on a remote device
• Demonstrate password cracking using different tools
• Compare and contract various techniques for launching server attacks
• demonstrate various web based attacks
• Compare and contrast various wireless attacks
• Apply ethical theories to a cyber related issue
• Compare and contrast“ white hat hackin” versus“ black hat hacking” versus“ grey hat hacking”
• Differentiate various ethical hacking issues such as hacking, cyber crime, hactivism and cyber terrorism
78033-78031 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 Prerequisite / Selection Process: Introductory programming and HS Intermediate Algebra or probability / statistics recommended Credit: One trimester / two periods = 1.0 credit Major Outcomes:
• Understand core principles and terminology in AI
• Design and implement basic AI algorithms
• Apply machine learning techniques to real-world data
• Analyze the ethical and societal implications of AI systems
• Gain foundational knowledge for more advanced AI courses
Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities, research, and speakers. Co-curricular Connection: Skills USA
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