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Personal Finance
Personal Finance
Recommended Placement: Sophomore, Junior or Senior standing
Credits: 5
College Prep Course
UC / CSU approved
Financial Literacy is a 10th, 11th and 12th grade course rooted in Dave Ramsey’s Foundations in Personal Finance curriculum, which meets national standards developed and written by the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. Students are taught simple saving habits that can lead them to be financially independent and live debt free. The curriculum helps to enable students to confidently discuss money issues and plan for their own financial future, with the ultimate goal of retiring as a millionaire, regardless of career choice. Parents, this is the class that you would say: "I wish they had when I was in school!"
In addition to the financial aspects of the course other topics that are covered include:
Goal Setting
Buying a reliable used car for cash.
Career Exploration
Resumes, Cover Letters, Professional Dress
Marital Responsibilities and Family Planning (financially speaking)
PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
Recommended Placement: Sophomore, Junior or Senior standing
Credits: 5
College Prep Course
UC / CSU approved
CP Psychology is an 10th, 11th and 12th grade course where students will learn why we behave the way we do and the methods used by psychologists to study behavior. The course encourages students to apply this knowledge to enhance their own lives. Some of the topics included are: Social, Psychology, Human Development, and Mental Health & Mental Illness. This course will lay the foundation either for a more rigorous learning environment like AP Psychology, a college major in psychology, or just for gaining a better understanding of yourself and others!
AP PSYCHOLOGY
AP PSYCHOLOGY
Advanced Placement
Recommended Placement: Sophomore, Junior or Senior standing
Credits: 10
College Prep Course
UC / CSU approved
AP Psychology is a one-year course that is open to Sophomore, Junior and Senior students. AP Psychology will cover those topics generally discussed in a college-level introductory psychology course. Through inquiry-based investigations, simulations, projects, and research you will learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice and take a deep dive into the scientific study of how behavior and mental processes are influenced by a variety of factors from our biology, to the unique environments that we grow up in, to how we learn, to our unexplored/subconscious self.
AP MACROECONOMICS
AP MACROECONOMICS
Advanced Placement
Recommended Placement: Junior or senior standing
Credits: 5
College Prep Course
UC / CSU approved
AP Macroeconomics is a rigorous course designed to engage students in the most important concepts of Macroeconomics, similar to what a university freshman would experience in the Economics discipline. The purpose of this AP course in macroeconomics is to give students a thorough understanding of 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, and also develops students’ familiarity with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics.
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