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What is a Career Pathway
A Career Pathway is a system that creates well-marked “paths” of sequenced courses, which provide both focus and direction to learning experiences. Some day everyone will need to get a job. You may go to college first or get advanced education in other ways. Pathways help you start planning your future, so that your future won’t plan you. By having a plan you will put purpose in learning. Maximize your potential and opportunities by meeting with your academic advisor and other staff to review your progress toward achieving your goals. Taking the time to do so will help you further refine your academic and career plans, as well as help you understand how important it is to do well in each course you take.
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The Six Career Pathways
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Is This Career Pathway For You
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Arts and Communication
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 Careers in this path are related to humanities and performing, visual, literary, and media arts. These include architecture; graphic, interior, and fashion design; writing; film; fine arts; journalism; languages; media; advertising; and public relations. |
Are you a creative thinker? Are you imaginative, innovative, and original? Do you like to communicate ideas? Do you like making crafts, drawing, playing a musical instrument, taking photos, or writing stories? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably would enjoy an occupation in the Arts and Communication pathway. |
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Business, Management, Marketing, and Technology
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 Careers in this path are related to the business environment. These include entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, computer/information systems, finance, accounting, personnel, economics, and management. |
Do you enjoy being a leader, organizing people, planning activities, and talking? Do you like to work with numbers or ideas? Do you enjoy carrying through with an idea and seeing the end product? Do you like things neat and orderly? Would you enjoy balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, or holding an office in a club? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably would enjoy a career in this pathway. |
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Engineering, Manufacturing, and Industry
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 Careers in this path are related to technologies necessary to design, develop, install, and maintain physical systems. These include engineering, manufacturing, construction, service, and related technology. |
Are you mechanically inclined and practical? Do you like reading diagrams and blueprints, and drawing building structures? Are you curious about how things work? Would you enjoy painting a house, repairing cars, wiring electrical circuits, or woodworking? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you would probably enjoy an occupation in the engineering, manufacturing, and industry careers pathway. |
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Human Services
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 Careers in this path are related to economic, political, and social systems. These include education, government, law and law enforcement, leisure and recreation, military, religion, child care, social services, and personal services. |
Are you friendly, open, understanding, and cooperative? Do you like to work with people to solve problems? Is it important to you to do something that makes things better for other people? Do you like reading, storytelling, travelling, or tutoring young children? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably would enjoy an occupation in the human services pathway. |
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Health Sciences
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 Careers in this path are related to the promotion of health and treatment of disease. These include research, prevention, treatment, and related health technologies. |
Do you like to care for people or animals who are sick or help them stay well? Are you interested in diseases and how the body works? Do you enjoy reading about science and medicine? Would it be fun to learn first aid or volunteer at a hospital or veterinary clinic? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably would enjoy an occupation in the health sciences pathway. |
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NATURAL RESOURCES AND AGRI-SCIENCE
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 Careers in this path are related to agriculture, the environment, and natural resources. These include agricultural sciences, earth sciences, environmental sciences, fisheries, forestry, horticulture, and wildlife. |
Are you a nature lover? Are you practical, curious about the physical world, and interested in plants and animals? Do you enjoy hunting or fishing? Do you like to garden or mow the lawn? Are you interested in protecting the environment? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably would enjoy an occupation in the natural resources and agri-science pathway. |