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Course Title: Independent Living Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 109130 Term(s) Offered: Semester
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11,
12
Description: This project-based course is designed to prepare you to become more independent now and in the future. You
will have the opportunity to modify projects based on your own interests and life goals. Real-life simulation is used to
expose students to the realities of choosing careers, managing money, and entering the world of work. Nutrition, healthy
food choices, and recipe modification are put into practice in the foods laboratory where students will improve their skills
in the kitchen in order to feed themselves and their current and future families. This is a course that all college freshmen
and young adults living on their own for the first time wish that they would have taken while they were in high school.
This class fulfills the APPLIED ART credit required by some colleges and is applied towards Pine-Richland’s ELECTIVE
graduation requirement.
Course Title: Contemporary Living Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 109131 Term(s) Offered: Semester
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11,
12
Description: Express your creativity while gaining useful real-life experience in this project-based Contemporary Living
course that focuses on design as it relates to Family and Consumer Sciences topics including clothing construction, child
development, relationships, and foods. Students are encouraged to prepare for life on their own as they discover how to
design and choose furnishings for that first apartment or dorm room and prepare budget-friendly healthy
meals. Developing interpersonal skills through communication and conflict resolution helps to prepare for healthy
relationships in adulthood while the reality of raising children is discussed. Explore the world of fashion and design while
sewing your own creations. This course will help prepare students for life beyond high school. This class fulfills the
APPLIED ART credit required by some colleges and is applied towards Pine-Richland’s ELECTIVE graduation
requirement.
Course Title: Child Development & Parenting I Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 109210 Term(s) Offered: Semester
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12
Description: This experiential course studies the theories of physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of
children birth through age six during the first nine weeks. Students gain real-life experience developing and using effective
communication, time-management skills and problem-solving techniques while participating in the Preschool Laboratory
during second quarter. Students apply developmentally appropriate practice to learning activities, story, music, and
movement activities. Students generally, upon successfully completing Child Development and Parenting I, enroll in Child
Development and Parenting II. This class fulfills the APPLIED ART credit required by some colleges and is applied
towards Pine-Richland’s ELECTIVE graduation requirement.
Course Title: Child Development & Parenting II Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 109220 Term(s) Offered: Semester
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Child Development and Parenting I Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12
Description: In a continuation of Child Development and Parenting I, students expand their knowledge and explore the
effects of heredity and environmental influences on the prenatal development of children and apply the theories and
research of Piaget, Montessori, and Erikson while exploring the stages of preschool growth. Budgeting and emotional
challenges of parenting along with the health and safety of children are explored through the Baby-Think-It-Over project,
a simulated infant doll. In a mutually beneficial situation, this course offers an extended experience in the Preschool
Laboratory, increasing the weeks spent in interaction with the children. Career opportunities are also investigated.
This class fulfills the APPLIED ART credit required by some colleges and is applied towards Pine-Richland’s ELECTIVE
graduation requirement.
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