Basic Skills High School
10 courses · Cuesta College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026
BSHS 404 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS BIOLOGY
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Designed to introduce students to the living world and its systems. Introduces concepts of cell biology, genetics, evolution, and physiology will be presented. This is an elective course towards a high school diploma.
BSHS 405 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS ENGLISH
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Introduces skills in language arts. Develops skills through active reading of literary and informational texts, academic language development of text-embedded vocabulary, oral language practice, and writing of informational argumentative, synthetic, and narrative pieces. Provides practice with critical thinking, comprehension, and application skills through thematic units centered on topics such as plot and conflict, themes and symbols, argument and persuasion, and drama.
BSHS 406 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS ECONOMICS
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- 4 hours per week: (4.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
Introduce students to microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economic relationships. Presents vocabulary and the technical knowledge needed for an understanding of economic issues, both in the media and at the collegiate level of study. Provides the student with information and analytical tools useful in developing a personal system of values in regard to economic issues.
BSHS 407 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS WORLD HISTORY
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Introduces major turning points that shaped the modern world, from the late eighteenth century through the present, including the cause and course of two world wars. Tracing the rise of democratic ideas and develop an understanding of the historical roots of current world issues, especially as they pertain to international relations. Develop an understanding of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts.
BSHS 408 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS U.S. HISTORY
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Introduces the major turning points in American history in the twentieth century. Following a review of the nation's beginnings and the impact of the Enlightenment on US democratic ideals, students build upon the tenth grade study of global industrialization to understand the emergence and impact of new technology and a corporate economy, including the social and cultural effects.
BSHS 409 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS ALGEBRA I
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Designed to cover symbolic reasoning and calculations with symbols allowing a student to develop an understanding of the symbolic language of mathematics and the sciences. The range of problem solving situations allow for the development of algebraic skills and concepts.
BSHS 410 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS ALGEBRA II
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Introduces Algebra II topics including linear equations and inequalities, systems of equations and polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions. Geometric topics covered are: triangular and circular trigonometry. Other topics covered are: probability, conic sections and trigonometric functions and their graphs.
BSHS 411 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS GEOMETRY
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Focuses on fundamental knowledge of basic geometric postulates and theorems and their use in proofs. Integrating algebra in a geometric setting. Using formulas to calculate perimeter, area, and volume of a variety of geometric shapes. This is an elective course towards a high school diploma.
BSHS 412 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS POLITICAL SCIENCE
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- 4 hours per week: (4.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
Presents the organization and mechanics of our federal, state, and local systems of government. Explores the basic ideals of American democracy as well as contemporary issues relevant to American government.
BSHS 414 NONCREDIT BASIC SKILLS SPANISH I
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- 4 to 8 hours per week: (4.00 - 8.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Focuses on reading, writing, speaking and understanding standard Spanish at a basic level. Acquiring basic vocabulary and grammar structures, including the simple present tense, noun-adjective agreement, subject-verb agreement, interrogatives, the immediate future tense, and the preterite tense. Exposure to and interaction with the cultures of the Spanish-speaking countries of the world. Using Spanish selectively both within and beyond the school setting. Participating in cultural projects, including comparing and contrasting other cultures to their own.