COURSES

Career & Financial Planning 1

This course is designed to strengthen students’ financial knowledge and career-oriented skills in an effort to prepare students for their post-high school life. Students will learn the skills and concepts needed to gain personal and financial responsibility related to financial planning, savings, investments, and charitable giving in the global community by exploring the relationship between income and careers, money management, credit and debt management, risk management and investing, protecting assets and insurance, taxes, and becoming a critical consumer. Students will be given the opportunity to see how their decisions now can drastically affect future success. Instruction will be provided both in-person, as well as virtually through the use of project-based, authentic learning experiences. These experiences will develop their ability to think critically in order to make informed decisions.

Career & Financial Planning 2

This course is designed to build of the concepts presented in Career & Financial Planning. Students will be provided more rigorous information on career exploration, taxes, investing, insurances, and banking services. In addition to enhancing skills that were previously learned students will be introduced to estate planning, budgeting, student loan planning, and major purchase decision making.

Entrepreneurship

Students will have opportunities to exercise and develop leadership skills that will help prepare them to be driving forces in their communities and organizations. This course will prepare students for small business ownership as well as the workforce of the future. Throughout the semester students will learn about Entrepreneurial trends and traits, various types of business ownership and study successful entrepreneurs and their businesses. Students will have the ability to implement knowledge of this course along with their other business courses to develop an innovative business idea and work with a team to write a Business Plan.

Internship

This program provides juniors and seniors with the opportunity to shadow an individual in a potential career they are considering. The position must be within the student’s career pathway and they must meet eligibility requirements regarding graduation credits, grades and recommendations. A student’s performance in the program will be evaluated and a corresponding grade will be given.