ALAS 1825 - Career Exploration and Financial Independence

Credit Hours: 3

The course combines Financial Literacy with Entrepreneurship to offer career exploration and financial knowledge to students from all disciplines. The course is designed with two areas in mind, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship as a way of making a living. Financial literacy allows the student to be financially well informed when choosing careers, jobs, loans, housing, etc. In the modern world, Entrepreneurship offers an avenue to progress as far as entrepreneur skills and creativity can take them. Students in this class will gain basic hands-on, real-time experience on how to evaluate financial scenarios (personal and professional), and also will be faced with the challenge of evaluating if they want to start their own business. 79 Revised 12/19/2025 Many young professionals can benefit from exploring career options, including the idea of owning and operating their own business. Innovative individuals naturally see opportunities. Entrepreneurs have been creating new generations of profitable businesses, while also providing solutions to some of the most difficult societal challenges. These social experiments (later businesses) help in understanding alternative solutions creating sustainable global scale industries and pave the way to the next generation of human living standards (i.e. the world wide web). The course will be interactive, using team exercises, and real-life examples. Emphasis will be given to collaborating and organizing creative ways to maximize innovation, selfachievement, and financially sound decisions.

Level of Study: UG

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ALAS 1825 - Career Exploration and Financial Independence