63475 Economics and Personal Financial Literacy

63475 *ECONOMICS AND PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY

Open to: 9-10-11-12

Length: 1 Semester

Prerequisites: None

Credits: 1/2 credit

NOTE: This course satisfies the Personal Financial Literacy requirement.

Content: The course is designed to help the learner make wise spending, saving, and credit decisions and to make effective use of income to achieve personal financial success. An emphasis on economics provides the foundation for comprehensive fundamental economic concepts and institutions so that students can apply economic thinking to their own decisions as consumers, employers, and citizens in a market-oriented economic system. Topics include, but are not limited to, supply and demand, employment, prices and production, fiscal policy, monetary policy, market structures, money management, household budgets, credit management, insurance, taxes and international trade and finance.

Activities: Multiple texts, research projects, multimedia presentations, computer activities, discussions, group activities, reports, case studies, outside reading and internet activities.

Cost: None

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