Page 13 - The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12: Technological Education, 2009 (revised)

students planning to pursue an apprenticeship pathway, either college preparation courses or workplace preparation courses may be the appropriate choice, depending on the subject area.
In Grades 11 and 12, destination-related technological education courses may be delivered as courses that emphasize a particular area of the subject and/or as multiple-credit cours- es (see the following sections for detailed guidelines. Note that these options apply only to destination-related courses, not to open courses). The availability of these options allows school boards the flexibility to design programs that meet the specific needs of their school communities within the parameters of a standardized, rigorous curriculum for technological education for schools across the province.
Although courses in technological education are optional, students should keep in mind that they can take any Grade 9–12 technological education course to fulfil the Group 3 additional compulsory credit requirement for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma.2 There is no restriction on the total number of technological education credits that students may earn in secondary school.
Grade 11 and 12 technological education courses are ideally suited for cooperative educa- tion programs and are often included in programs that lead to a diploma with a Specialist High Skills Major designation.
Courses in Technological Education, Grades 11 and 12*
Grade Course Name Course Type Course Code** Prerequisite
Communications Technology
11
Communications Technology
University/College
TGJ3M
None
11
Communications Technology: Broadcast and Print Production
Open
TGJ3O
None
12
Communications Technology
University/College
TGJ4M
Grade 11 Communications Technology, University/College
12
Communications Technology: Digital Imagery and Web Design
Open
TGJ4O
None
Computer Technology
11
Computer Engineering Technology
University/College
TEJ3M
None
11
Computer Technology
Workplace
TEJ3E
None
12
Computer Engineering Technology
University/College
TEJ4M
Grade 11 Computer Engineering Technology, University/College
12
Computer Technology
Workplace
TEJ3E
Grade 11 Computer Technology, Workplace
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* Each Grade 11 and 12 course has a credit value of 1. (Half-credit and multiple-credit courses may be developed according to conditions described in this document.)
** Course codes consist of five characters. The first three characters identify the subject; the fourth character identifies the grade (i.e., 3 and 4 refer to Grade 11 and Grade 12, respectively); and the fifth character identifies the type of course (i.e., M means “univer- sity/college preparation”; C means “college preparation”; E means “workplace preparation”; and O means “open”).
2. To meet the Group 3 additional compulsory credit requirement, students have the choice of earning one credit for a course in technological education (Grades 9 to 12) or computer studies (Grades 10 to 12), or one credit for an additional course in science (Grade 11 or 12), or one credit for a cooperative education course.