INTRO TO BUSINESS
CONSUMER ED
ADULT LIVING
AP ECONOMICS (FULL-YEAR)
WORK PROGRAM (SPRING SEMESTER ONLY)
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS
This is an introductory Business course that not only gives students exposure to the topics covered in our upper-level business courses, but exposes them to everything they need to live on their own.
Highlights: Business Plan (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Accounting, Law & Management) and Shark Tank Presentation, Budgeting & Consumerism, Credit & Managing Debt, Saving & Investing (Stock Market Challenge), Banking Basics, Insurance
Level: 9, 10
CONSUMER EDUCATION - BUSINESS
This course gives students hands on learning experiences as they forecast their future career and make money management decisions; budgeting, banking, saving, checking, credit and investing (stock market challenge). Students will have an opportunity to search for grants and scholarships as they prepare for their future education. Real world simulations are used in this project-based class.
Level: 11, 12
ADULT LIVING - FACS
The major goal of Adult Living is to help the student acquire a deeper understanding of his/her functioning role in society. Areas of emphasis will include: issues facing adolescents today; maturity, and character growth; personality development; stress and conflict management; decision-making and problem-solving; and cost comparison, budgeting, checking, and credit. In addition, this course encourages each student to develop a greater understanding of his/her relations with others and the realization of the value of effective communication in these relationships. The awareness of the factors involved in lasting male and female relationships and the positive aspects of human sexuality will be discussed. These issues will all be discussed within the context of the family.
Level: 11, 12
Interrelated Occupations - Work Study Program
(SPRING SEMESTER ONLY)
Students enrolled in this course during the second semester will meet the Consumer Education requirement for graduation.
This cooperative education program is designed to provide students the skills needed to be successful in our rapidly changing global economy and workforce. Classroom topics include: job search skills (resumes, networking, interviewing techniques), career exploration, occupational survival skills (decision making, problem solving, goal setting, interpersonal) as well as money management skills. Students are released from school and receive credit for their on-the-job cooperative work experiences enabling them to apply the skills learned in class.
They will work an average of fifteen hours per week. Students must have a job prior to the start of the class or risk being dropped from the program. There are always students with jobs waiting to join and space is limited.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT MACROECONOMICS
The full year of the AP Economics course (Macroeconomics and Microeconomics) will meet the Consumer Education graduation requirement.
Students taking this course are required to also enroll in AP Macroeconomics during the same school year. Due to a variety of matters including, but not limited to the sequence and pacing of the curriculum, students will not meet the consumer education graduation requirement unless they successfully complete both AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics.
The 2014 College Board AP Course Description Guide states, “AP Macroeconomics is an introductory college-level course that focuses on the principles of economics that apply to an economic system as a whole. The course places particular emphasis on the study of national income and price-level determination; it also develops students’ familiarity with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and the international economics. Students learn to use graphs, charts, and data to analyze, describe, and explain economic concepts.”
This course is targeting students that are highly motivated, demonstrate critical thinking skills, math skills, and an interest in business related matters. Students will prepare for the AP Macroeconomics exam.
Semesters: 2
Prerequisites: Approval of the division leader. Students must demonstrate strong competencies in mathematics.
Level: 10, 11, 12