Career Pathways

What are career pathways?

Each pathway is a broad grouping of careers with similar characteristics and whose employment requirements call for many common interests, strengths, and competencies. A chosen pathway focuses a student’s elective courses toward preparing for a specific goal area.

Why should I choose a career pathway?

To help focus on a career area that matches interests in high school
To help set goals and discover classes necessary to achieve those goals
To create career awareness and encourage planning for post-secondary education
and opportunities
To provide knowledge that relates your high school education to the world after
Graduation

Career Pathway Options

Arts & Communications

This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ awareness, interpretation, application, and production of visual, verbal, and written work.

Business & Technology

This pathway is designed to prepare students for careers in business, finance, and information systems.

Engineering & Industrial

This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ interests, awareness, and application to areas related to technologies necessary to design, develop, install, or maintain physical systems.

HUMAN SERVICES

This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ interests, skills, and experiences for employment in careers related to family and human needs.

SCIENCE & HEALTH

This pathway is designed to cultivate students’ interests in the life, physical and behavioral sciences, in addition to the planning, managing, and providing of therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health information, and biochemistry research development.

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