Career Connection
Career Connection focuses on improving one's self-concept, communication skills, decision-making, conflict resolution, working as a team member, managing stress, planning personal goals, career exploration, and employability skills that lead to job success.
Consumer Education
Consumer Education students learn how to buy a car, maintain a checking account, prepare a budget, shop for insurance, understand tax forms, use credit wisely, work toward financial goals, select housing, analyze legal documents, and make wise buying decisions.
Academic Credit: VPPA and SMR
Contemporary Living
PREREQUISITE: Career Connection recommended but not required Contemporary
Living provides students with skills to help them understand and improve family and peer relationships. Course units include: improving interpersonal skills, dating and love relationships, marriage preparation, coordinating career employment with family life, household finance, family life cycles, goal planning and evaluation. Students experience the "Life in the Real World" simulation project. Students learn skills needed to cope with life situations such as preparing for college life, renting one's first apartment, and time management skills.
Academic Credit: VPAA
Food and Nutrition
This course provides students with an understanding of safety and sanitation, basic cooking techniques, food presentation, meal-time etiquette, and the exploration of food-related careers. Through demonstration, lab experience, taste testing and evaluation, students will become familiar with healthy food choices, principles of nutrition, and weight control techniques.
Academic Credit: VPAA and OLE
