Electives

On-Demand: Computing has become foundational to understanding and engaging in society, and it has tremendous value for every student to learn. The Computer Science Discoveries course provides students with a critical lens for interpreting the world and prepares them to be involved and informed contributors to an ever-more connected world. The course utilizes activities and assignments that are engaging and interactive, and that apply to their day to day lives.  Students are asked to collaborate, think critically, and to generate their own questions that can be answered in the scope of the coursework.

On-Demand: The personal Financial Literacy course includes a specific focus on each of the following content areas: Economics, Financial Literacy, Mathematics, economic concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and cost/benefit analysis. Several other disciplines (Language Arts, Civics, etc.) are interspersed with the course standards and help make this a truly inter-disciplinary course. The goal for students to have practical, and applicable knowledge is met with a focus on economic decision-making and real-life scenarios using realistic data.

The primary content for the course pertains to the study of learning the ideas, concepts, knowledge and skills that will enable students to implement beneficial personal decision-making choices; to become wise, successful, and knowledgeable consumers, savers, investors, users of credit and money managers; and to be participating members of a global workforce and society.