Career & Technical Education Career Clusters
Career Clusters identify pathways from secondary school to two-and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace, so students can link what they learn in school and what they can do in the future. Career Clusters allow students to access a nationwide framework to help them better analyze their long- and short-term career goals, plan what to take in high school to begin to move toward those goals, and implement strategies for further education and work experience that will prepare them for high-skill, high-wage, high-demand careers in the 21st Century.
The States' Career Clusters Framework for Lifelong Learning updates the Career Pathways used previously in North Carolina and provides links to related academic instruction and electives. The States' Career Clusters initiative further developed pathways to provide a national structure for this effort. The Career Clusters initiative includes 16 clusters and 79 related pathways.
Career Cluster Guide for NC
Here are some of the great CTE programs offered at Union Pines High School:
- Agriculture: Agriscience Applications, Horticulture I & II, Horticulture II Landscape, Animal Science I & II, Vet Assisting
- Architecture & Construction: Core & Sustainable Construction, Carpentry I II & II
- Arts, Technology & Communication: Adobe Visual Design, Adobe Video Design & Adobe Digitial Design
- Business Management & Administration: Business Law, Principles of Business and Finance, Personal Finance, Career Management, Accounting I & II, Project Management I & II
- Health Science: Biomedical Tech I, Health Team Relations, Health Science I & II, Nursing Fundamentals
- Hospitality & Tourism: Foods & Nutrition I & II
- Marketing: Marketing, Marketing Applications (II), Strategic Marketing, Sports & Entertainment Marketing I & II, Entrepreneur I & II
- Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics: Tech Engineering & Design, Technological Design, & Engineering Design
- Transportation, Distribution & Logistics: Automotive Services Fundamental, Automotive Service I, II & III