Crowder College Personal Finance is based on the Missouri Personal Finance Competencies and provides students with the essential knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about real-world financial issues. This course prepares students to navigate personal and professional financial responsibilities with confidence.
Students will explore how financial choices influence career options, future earning potential, and lifestyle decisions. Instruction emphasizes applying decision-making skills to evaluate career pathways, set personal and financial goals, and plan for long-term success.
Course content is designed to help students manage everyday financial responsibilities and long-term planning, including taxes, insurance, budgeting, saving, borrowing, credit management, investing, Social Security, estate planning, and major purchases such as buying a home or automobile. Students will learn how to effectively use income, manage risk, and make sound financial decisions that support personal financial stability and success.
Consumer Finance equips students with practical, lifelong financial skills and fulfills the district’s graduation requirement for financial literacy.
Prerequisites for this course include the successful completion of Introduction to Business.
Students choosing to take the course for college credit must apply to Crowder College and enroll in the course through both Crowder College and the high school. Students are financially responsible for any course fees incurred for taking the course for college credit.