Computational Thinking

A coherent, mechanistic picture of how the Earth actually works as a coupled system — its biogeochemical cycles, climate physics, ecosystems, pollution pathways, and the leverage points where solutions live. The trunk gives you the throughline a working professional needs to reason about environmental claims; clusters dive into circulation, ecology, paleoclimate, climate modeling, pollution, energy, and mitigation.

The foundation curriculum that prepares you for any university-level math course — calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, statistics. Builds symbolic fluency from variables and equations through functions, polynomials, exponentials, trigonometry, and the proof and set-theory groundwork that modern mathematics rests on.

Build the universal mental model that every database is implemented against — the relational model, schemas and keys, indexes, transactions, concurrency, PostgreSQL architecture, production operations, modeling patterns, and the modern data ecosystem (NoSQL, distributed SQL, warehouses, vectors, streaming).

Legal literacy — how law actually works. The trunk gives you the operating system: where law comes from, how courts and precedent work, contracts, torts, property, criminal vs civil, and constitutional structure. Clusters dive into reading cases, contract mechanics, IP, your rights with police, and the startup legal toolkit.

A working understanding of mathematics — the universal language scientists, engineers, and quants use to describe the world. The trunk gives you the throughline from how mathematicians think to how math models reality; clusters dive into proof, trig, calculus mechanics, advanced linear algebra, number theory and cryptography, probability, stochastic processes, and the foundational limits of math itself.

A working understanding of cybersecurity — how attackers operate, how defenders push back, and the moving parts of every modern security program. The trunk gives you the throughline from threat model to defense to response; clusters dive into cryptography, network defense, web application security, secure coding, penetration testing, incident response, cloud security, and governance.