Personal Finance
Personal Finance, a one-half credit course, is designed to provide students with opportunities to develop skills for solving real-world problems. The Personal Finance curriculum focuses on areas of study that address personal financial planning, financial services, budgeting, investments, insurance protection, credit management, consumer purchases, and consumer rights and responsibilities. Another integral component of the curriculum is the application of decision-making skills that enables students to become more responsible consumers, producers, or business entrepreneurs.
Instructional strategies may include the use of projects, cooperative learning, simulations, real world experiences, guest speakers, Internet access to businesses, and computer/technology applications. (Asterisks denote required content to be used in developing the one-half credit Personal Finance course.)
Career and technical student organization, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) is an integral, co-curricular components of each career and technical education course. This organization serves as a means to enhance classroom instruction while helping students develop leadership abilities, expand workplace-readiness skills, and broaden opportunities for personal and professional growth.
There is no prerequisite for this course.
Please see the syllabus for this course below.