Career & Life Management 20 (3 credits)

Career and Life Management (CALM) 20 is a compulsory 3 credit course for all Alberta high school students who wish to qualify for a high school diploma.  CALM is the core program for health literacy at the senior high level and is designed to help students make well-informed decisions and choices in all aspects of their lives.  It is also intended to assist them in their development of behaviors and attitudes that contribute to the well-being and respect of themselves and others, now and in the future.

The three units and corresponding topics include:

• Career & Life Choices:
  • Developing skills for lifelong career development,
  • Understanding the connection between self-awareness, personal assets, values, and career goal setting,
  • Examining the career and educational planning process,
  • Participating in presentations from post-secondary institutions such as the University of Calgary and SAIT,
  • Doing career research including occupational profiles or job shadowing,
  • Exploring workplace rights and responsibilities.
• Personal Choices:
  • Understanding the holistic nature of well-being,
  • Examining thinking and learning processes and communication and personality styles,
  • Investigating addictions, high risk behaviors and current health issues,
  • Exploring the nature of safe and healthy human sexuality,
  • Distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy relationships,
  • Acquiring conflict resolution strategies,
  • Becoming familiar with community support resources.
• Resource Choices:
  • Differentiating between needs and wants,
  • Identifying personal resources of time, energy, knowledge, community and money,
  • Developing a financial planning vocabulary,
  • Understanding credit,
  • Preparing a post-secondary budget.

This course is one term (1/4 year) in length and open to grade 11 and 12 students. In addition, this course can be taken online through CBe-learn.