Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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Visit the Classrooms The commercial curricula also of three types, are for students desiring to enter the business field after graduation from high school. Stenographic training is offered in one; bookkeeping is taken up extensively in the second, while the third course deals with buying and selling. The General Curriculum is designed for students who wish a basic founda- tion for possible future specialization in any field. The Industrial Arts Curricula prepare for various fields of mechanical en- deavor. Machine shop, woodworking, and pattern-making, drawing, and printing are offered. English Home Economics is primarily for girls interested in homemaking. This curricu- lum gives to girls the opportunity to study the design and making of cloth- ing, the selection and preparation of foods, and also teaches them how to care for and maintain a home. Naturally, these courses all have cer- tain requirements. For example, all of them require three years of English for graduation. This accounts for the many English classes in the school. Because the ninth grade English which is given in the junior high school, counts as one year, senior high students have to take this subject only during their sopho- more and junior years. Including Basic and Senior English, and Modern and English Literature, there are eighty-six English classes. Sixty-three classes in history, civics, and economics bring the social studies group close to English in numbers. Fifty-four shop classes, include archi- tectural and machine drawing, printing, auto mechanics, various shop classes, and allied mathematics.

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Prospectus Cameras Geometry Machine Shop Practice Physiography Boys' Gymnasium The wide range of studies offered in Flint Central High School helps its students to obtain the complete back- ground for the complex life of our mod- ern community. Following the recent trends in cur- riculum development, the course of study lists college preparatory, com- mercial, industrial arts, home econom- ics, and general curricula. A student is not held rigidly to the basic curriculum in which he is enrolled. He is allowed to extend his studies into other courses from which he may wish to obtain indi- vidual profits. This flexibility permits the arrange- ment of studies adapted to the individ- ual needs of the students. College preparatory courses of three types give to the student the founda- tion for later college life. The first is for those wishing to become teachers, law- yers, or to follow any other profession dealing with liberal arts. In the second, preparation is made for a future career in architecture or engineering. The third is the foundation for a career in medi- cine, either as doctor, nurse, dentist, or pharmacist. Public Speaking and Drama

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Language classes are rather popular in Central, for many students take a language as their elective. Latin classes are more numerous, having sixteen, with French not far behind with four- teen. There are four German classes. The sixty-eight science classes are divided up into different groups. Mod- ern Science, which has twenty classes, is a requisite in the Commercial Cur- ricula. Library Study Hall Chemistry classes number fourteen, while seven physics classes are for sci- ence majors in the College Preparatory curricula. Seventeen biology classes add testimony that the average student takes at least one year of some science. Four physiology classes, five physio- graphy, and one geology class show that students have interests in a wide field of science. Higher mathematics subjects, judging by appearances, are very popular with many, for their are five advanced geom- etry classes, three higher algebra, and three trigonometry classes. Beginning algebra is usually taken in junior high school, consequently, there are only three classes at Central. Printing Reference and Research Art Studio