0.5 Credit

 

This course provides students opportunities to determine benefits and risks of selfemployment and develop a specific competence in starting a small business. Students will experience application of the following Arizona Economics Standards: implications of scarcity, analysis of current events, interdependence of households and firms, comparison of different economic systems, principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics, the economic role of government, effects of international trade, and financial choices. Students will also experience application of the following Arizona Academic Math Standards: number sense, data analysis and probability, patterns and algebra, discrete math, and logic. (This course meets state economic standards and the TUHSD economics credit requirements.) [Board Adopted 2000] [Board Revised 2003] [Board Revised 2007] Note: In cooperation with Rio Salado Community College, the student may enroll in the college course (MGT175) to receive 3 hours of college credit.