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VCHS Course Catalog
Business Courses
Personal Finance & Stewardship
This course provides students the skills needed to avoid debt like the plague, budget with intention, invest, and build & steward wealth. Biblical tools and knowledge will be taught through teacher lectures, videos, class discussions, team projects, homework assignments and tests. All these ways of teaching a student will help them learn and bring this curriculum to life in their everyday financial decisions. This class will change the financial future of students and set them on a path to win with money.
In this course, emphasis is placed on five major units: 1) introduction to personal finance; 2) savings; 3) budgeting; 4) credit and debt; and 5) investing for retirement.
Additional Course Details
- Students will be required to open their own checking and savings account.
- Students will create a budget & track their own expenses using spreadsheets and budgeting mobile app.
- This course is a DECA approved course.
| Course Number | 0901 |
| Grade Level | 9,10,11,12 |
| Pre-Requisite | None |
| Application and/or Audition Date | None |
| Credits | 10 |
| VCHS Graduation Credit | Elective |
| UC Approval | Yes Area G (General Elective-Interdisciplinary) |
| Fees | $75 Curriculum Fee (includes textbook) |