Courses
Connected high school courses designed to help students understand the world, navigate it wisely, and connect learning to real life. Courses may be taken individually or paired with a complementary course.
These eight courses were intentionally created to develop a foundation that is especially valuable for living thoughtfully, acting responsibly, and contributing to the good of others.
Learn Across the Pair
Each course stands on its own, but complementary courses can be taken together to help students connect subjects from two different angles. History and literature, government/economics and civic/financial reasoning, or practical living and personal leadership can deepen one another without requiring students to take them in a particular order.
Choose one course, or learn across a complementary pair for a broader connected experience.
Courses are $58 individually or $98 for a complementary pair.
Build practical knowledge for adult life through relationships, well-being, money, work, home responsibilities, decision-making, and everyday life skills.
Life Management & Practical Living
Personal Leadership & Life Plan
Develop self-awareness, character, resilience, leadership, values, habits, and direction while creating a personal plan for purposeful adult life.
Trace the American story through evidence, turning points, and ideas while learning to ask better questions and weigh historical claims.
American History
American Literature & Writing
Explore American voices and ideas while strengthening reading, analytical writing, argument, speaking, and clear, purposeful expression.
Discover how government and economics shape everyday life through rights, representation, markets, incentives, trade, policy, and responsibility.
Government & Economics
Evaluate claims, evidence, media, and statistics, then apply sound quantitative reasoning to real-world personal finance decisions.
Civic & Financial Reasoning
Why These Eight Courses?
We developed the Connected Learning Series with a particular purpose: to help young people understand the world around them, develop meaningful abilities, make thoughtful decisions, and grow in character.
Our eight courses bring together history, literature, writing, government, economics, practical living, civic and financial reasoning, and personal leadership. These subjects offer important opportunities to explore human experiences, consider ideas and their consequences, strengthen communication and judgment, and prepare for the responsibilities of everyday life.
The courses are intentionally connected. Together, they build a foundation of understanding, practical abilities, reasoning, and character.
The Noble Venture Award takes this preparation a step further.
The Noble Venture Award is an optional opportunity for students who wish to take their learning further. To earn the award, students complete all eight Connected Learning courses and undertake a substantial Legacy Project, drawing on their knowledge, interests, and abilities to make a genuine contribution to others.
Life Management & Practical Living will begin with a Noble Adventure and develop practical skills students can apply to larger undertakings. Students interested in pursuing the award can begin exploring Legacy Project ideas through optional activities in Personal Leadership & Life Plan.
Their projects may involve science, technology, art, construction, education, community service, or countless other fields. What matters is how students investigate needs, learn from others, make decisions, overcome challenges, and use their growing abilities for good.
The Noble Venture Award does not represent mastery of every academic subject. It recognizes a meaningful foundation, sustained personal effort, and the beginning of a lifetime of learning and contribution.
Have questions about choosing a course?
If you’d like help comparing courses, understanding the complementary pairs, or deciding what may fit your student, we’d be happy to help.
