Graduation Requirements
All
students must take Personal Finance Management.
Instructor
Course Offerings
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Course
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Grades Offered
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Level
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Accounting 1
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Grades 11 - 12
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3/5
|
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Personal Finance Management
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Grades 10 - 12 Required before Graduation
|
3/5
|
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Economics
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Grade 12
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3/5
|
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Entrepreneurship
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Grades 11-12
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3/5
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Department Highlights
A
detailed “Career Project” and “Budget Project” are done in Personal
Finance class as well as checkbook balancing, filing income tax returns,
and investing in the stock market.
Students learn how to create a résumé, cover letter and practice interviewing techniques.
In
Entrepreneurship class, students do hands-on projects where they start a
business of their very own and donate any proceeds to charity. They
also receive visits from local entrepreneurs.
Organizations & Activities
Future Business Leaders of America: FBLA
holds conferences and seminars, sponsors a competitive awards program
and provides scholarships, programs, and other services for its members.
FBLA
helps students promote competent, aggressive business leadership,
understand American business enterprise, establish career goals,
encourage scholarship, promote sound financial management, develop
character and self-confidence, and facilitate transition from school to
work.
Junior Achievement: Serra
students teach grades K-8 in eight Catholic elementary schools in
Western Pennsylvania. Junior Achievement programs help to prepare young
people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and
effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities
more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.
Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of
contributing to their communities.
Academic Competitions/Awards
FBLA Regional Competitions: Seventy
Serra students participated in the FBLA regional competition at St.
Vincent's College in January. Twenty students qualified for the state
competition, and one student qualified to compete at the National Level! |