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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
Career Cluster(s): Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Hospitality and Tourism
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications Human Services
Business Management and Administration Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government and Public Administration Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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
Career Cluster(s): Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Hospitality and Tourism
Architecture and Construction Human Services
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications Information Technology
Business Management and Administration Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government and Public Administration Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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 & Credit Value: 0.5
Parenting I

Course Number: 109210 Term(s) Offered: Semester
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12
Career Cluster(s): Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Government and Public Administration
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications Health Science
Business Management and Administration Human Services
Education and Training Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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

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