frontier christian academy courses
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frontier christian academy courses
Invention and Design
$300.00
Students will go through the Engineering Design Process from "I wish I had something that does ________," to a working prototype device that solves that problem for an actual adult market, all within this 36 week course. They will then develop a marketing plan for how to generate interest in their solution, as well as a business plan to describe how they will get it to their newly adoring public. Finally, they will come up with a product testing video to convey their solution to the world. Students can walk out of this course with a turnkey career, before they even leave high school. Scroll down for more information.
Novel Writing and Publishing
$300.00
Students will plan, draft, edit, revise, rewrite, publish, and market their novel in this 36 week course. They will also create a video book trailer as part of their marketing plan as well. Please scroll down for more information.
Biblical Hermeneutics, Apologetics, and Counseling
$300.00
Students will defend each and every major Biblical doctrine of the Christian faith against real live skeptics on their own forums in this 36 week course. Students will work in pairs and will plan and reflect on each engagement. Please scroll down for more information.
The Media and the Message
$300.00
In this 36 week course, students will learn to be visual storytellers by creating and publishing a bi-weekly comic strip, producing and publishing 4 different video advertisements for various products, services, and organizations, and producing and publishing a 4 episode TV series as a member of a 4-person production team. As more stories are told visually, this course equips students to lead their generational narrative. Please scroll down for more information.
Foreign Language I
$300.00
In this 36 week course, students will develop speaking fluency in one "world" foreign language (defined as being the national language of at least three countries.) They will do this by using various free resources to tell a joke, tell a Bible story, and deliver 9 different elevator pitches for products, services, and organizations, to native speaking strangers in their target language. There will be no writing requirements in their target language for this course, as it is entirely focused on speaking fluency. Please scroll down for more information.
Econopolicy
$300.00
In this 36 week course, students will develop a predictive mathematical model of the global economy, using historical data available online and various regression models and economic relationships. They will then convert that model into a user interface in the form of an app in order to make it available to those that have not participated in the modeling process. Through this, they will learn mathematical modeling, data-based decision making, and technical communications and design. Please scroll down for more information.
Military Art and Science
$300.00
In this 36 week course the student will use applied military history to predict America's next war. The student will then design and publish a commercial board game based on that war. The students will then, as a group, draft legislation to send to Washington military decision makers, transforming our current force structure into a force structure that is designed to win that war. They will then produce a video presenting their case for transformation and publish that on social media as a way of engaging the public in smart foreign policy. Please scroll down for more information.
Architectural Design and Optimization
$300.00
In this 36 week course, the student will design a building for a particular occupant for a particular purpose. They will then optimize it for structural integrity, efficiency, acoustics, aesthetics, functionality, and cost. They will create a 3D animated "virtual tour" video of their building, as part of a larger "pitch package" designed to convince their prospective tenant to buy/occupy their building. They will produce a blueprint for the building as well that could be handed off to a contractor. While this will not license them as architects, it will give them actual experience in communicating with the stakeholders in designing physical space for a purpose. Please scroll down for more information.
Geography, Culture, and Influence
$300.00
In this 36 week course, students will create and publish a Cultural Influence Plan based on the factors of social influence developed by U.S. Army Psychological Operations forces over the last half a century, as well as Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions, as well as various modern influence theorists. They will submit this document for publication in a professional scholarly journal. They will then find an American company that attempts to market to their chosen culture, and they will determine that company's worst-selling product. They will then develop a marketing plan for that company's product to that culture, based on their Cultural Influence Plan, and submit it to the marketing director for that company. Please scroll down for more information.
Reading People
$300.00
In this 36 week course the student will learn to "read minds," by being able to categorize people through various cues and clues into various typologies (e.g. Enneagram, Myers Briggs, Love Languages, Learning Styles, Gender, etc.) Once the student has a working knowledge of these typologies, they will analyze a particular organization to determine which "types" of people would be best suited for that organizational environment. They will then develop an onboarding process, including, at a minimum, a scripted interview and an orientation process, to allow that organization to best select potential candidates. They will then send this proposal for an onboarding process to the organization for which it was designed. Please scroll down for more information.
Organizational Design
$300.00
In this 36 week course, the student will create an organization designed to perform a certain function or functions. They will then optimize the different flows that happen in an organization (personnel, information, work, resources, etc.) in order to make it a better fit for its organizational environment. They will then create and publish various videos explaining the organization to its different internal and external stakeholders. They will also create and publish various policy documents targeting different categories of internal and external stakeholders. Upon completion, the student should have a working knowledge of how to set up and optimize the organizations of which [s]he is a part. Please scroll down for more information.
Anatomy: Systems and Diagnostics
$300.00
In this 36 week course, students will develop an app to provide health advice based on actual biology, rather than on economics or politics. They will look at the biology and chemistry of the different bodily systems, and will create predictions about how to cause the various bodily systems to function optimally again. This course is based on the Biblical assumption that we have been "fearfully and wonderfully made." Students will learn how to design a user interface, as well as some basic organic chemistry and physiology. Please scroll down for more information.