COURSES OFFERED

Career Preparedness focuses on three integrated s of instruction: academic planning and career development, financial literacy, and technology. Course content includes college and career preparation, computer literacy skills, and personal finance. Technology topics are interwoven throughout course instruction. These standards are designed to provide a strong foundation for student acquisition of the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that enable them to achieve success in school, at work, and across the life span.

Other topics addressed in Career Preparedness are business and industry, continuing education, and lifelong learning. Partnerships and alliances between educational institutions, governmental entities and employers can support these standards and connect students to potential career opportunities.

Hospitality Management and Marketing emphasizes skills needed for ownership, management, or employment in the growing hospitality and tourism industry. Standards are designed to develop a leadership perspective about social, environmental, economic, legal, human resource, customer relations, and consumer

factors impacting the hospitality industry. The course also focuses on the marketing aspect of hospitality and tourism, including sales, promotions, advertising, and public relations.

Digital Technology is designed for students who want to master basic skills in the areas of word processing, database management, spreadsheet applications, multimedia presentations, and Internet research. Reading, mathematics, and communication skills are reinforced throughout this course. Digital Technology may be offered as a component of a course rotation allowing students to explore different areas of interest. All content standards must be addressed regardless of the duration of the course. The depth of the content standards will be determined by the course duration. Foundational standards, shown in the table below, are

an important part of every course. 

Through these standards, students learn and apply safety concepts, explore career opportunities and requirements, practice the skills needed to succeed in the

workplace, develop leadership qualities and take advantage of the opportunities afforded by Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs), and learn and practice essential digital literacy skills. The foundational standards are to be incorporated throughout the course.