Santa Barbara Unified School District

Students are introduced to innovative product design work & learning spaces focused on design factors such as aesthetics, format, geometric shape and form, perspective drawing, scale, proportion, and presentation techniques. This course incorporates Product Design & Invention - a cross curriculum collaboration between Art & Design, Physics, Product Design & Engineering. Students begin to use computers and tools as a medium/tool for design of project components such as: Designing, rendering, sketching, inventing, model making, CAD, 3D printing, 3d Modeling, manufacturing & product development. 

This pathway exposes students to tools, machines, processes, and enables students to experience the process of translating an idea into a finished product. Class projects will include "real world" design projects from industry, guest speakers and industry field trips with possible internships, employment and college credit to generate cross curriculum education, as well as critical thinking across the board. Students will demonstrate language arts, mathematics, and scientific knowledge and skills required to pursue the full range of post-secondary and career opportunities by solving problems using critical thinking skills (analyze, synthesize, and evaluate). The students will work independently and in teams using creativity and innovation, and demonstrate use of concepts, strategies, and systems for obtaining and conveying ideas and information to enhance communication in the workplace by completing required training, education, and certification (i.e., Solidworks and AutoCAD) to prepare for employment in Product Design. 

This course is academically challenging and involves substantial reading, research and writing of design proposals and use of math in building prototypes. Students use problem-solving with laboratory/ shop work by creating working prototypes of their products. Students use analytical thinking, as well as factual content to research, problem solve and create working products. Students verbally & visually present their product concepts to the class, and receive lectures from guest speakers and the instructor, and incorporate their learning to develop skills and cultivate interest in Product Design.

Translation and Interpretation 2 is the second and capstone course in the Translation and Interpretation CTE Pathway. This course involves the use of Spanish grammar in the context of interpretation from English into Spanish. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of interpretation theory and will put them into practice by analyzing and interpreting literature, advertisement, business, healthcare, legal and educational situations. The course will present opportunities to critically discuss and reflect on the specific tasks interpreters perform while analyzing fundamental differences in style, cultural norms and grammar structures in Spanish and English. Each unit will explore specific problems and techniques of some aspect of interpretation, including but not limited to: Grammatical problems, Lexical (word) problems, Miscellaneous problems in Spanish-English interpreting. There will be a continued emphasis on the ethnics and cultural proficiency skills in high-quality translation and interpretation.