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Principles of Human Services
Offered In: 9-10 • Prerequisites: None
Description: Students will investigate different careers that involve helping and serving people. This course provides hands-on experience in the career fields of counseling and mental health, early childhood development, family and community services, fashion and interior design, and entrepreneurial pathways. Students will also develop strong career traits in management, budgetary practices, and nutrition.

Lifetime Nutrition and Wellness
Offered In: 10-12 • Prerequisites: Principles of Human Services
Learn how to stay healthy for the rest of your life. This course explores the role of nutrients in the body and examines the long-term effects of food choices. Students will analyze current lifestyle habits that increase health risks, important food buying strategies, and investigate careers in nutrition. This technical laboratory course concentrates on nutrition, food choices, and food management skills for individuals and the family throughout the life cycle. Students will engage in a hands-on experience that will not only teach the fundamentals of food preparation, but also the fundamentals of good nutrition. This course is paired with Interpersonal Studies in the Spring semester.

Interpersonal Studies
Offered In: 10-12 • Prerequisites: Principles of Human Services
This course examines how the relationships between individuals and among family members significantly affect the quality of life. Students will learn essential principles of personal development, decision-making, family life cycle, and stress management through hands-on projects. Students will investigate the roles and the influences of families, peers, and technology on relationships. They will explore adulthood, including marriage and family roles, friendship development and influences of peers, values, and cultural awareness. Course content includes career preparation and planning, consumer roles, decision-making, rights and responsibilities, and personal hygiene. This course is paired with Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness in the Fall semester.

Human Growth and Development
Offered In: 10–11 • Prerequisites: Principles of Human Services
Description: Human Growth and Development is an examination of human development across the lifespan with emphasis on research, theoretical perspectives, and common physical, cognitive, emotional, and social developmental milestones through hands-on activities and discussion. The course covers material that is generally taught in a postsecondary, one-semester introductory course in developmental psychology or human development.

AAC Counseling and Mental Health
Offered In: 12 • Prerequisites: Human Growth and Development
Description: In Counseling and Mental Health, students explore the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue a counseling and mental health career through simulated environments. Students are expected to apply knowledge of ethical and legal responsibilities, limitations on their actions and responsibilities, and the implications of their actions. Students understand how professional integrity in counseling and mental health care is dependent on acceptance of ethical and legal responsibilities.

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