What Is CTS?
Career and technology studies (CTS) is a provincially authorized curriculum for Alberta secondary schools designed on a pathways model to offer flexible programming using one-credit courses.
The CTS program is designed to develop skills that senior high students can apply in their daily lives when preparing for entry into the workplace or for further learning opportunities. Through the CTS program, students are provided with opportunities to personalize their learning, identify and explore their interests, manage transitions and build partnerships, all while developing basic competencies—that is, the attitudes and behaviours people need to participate and progress in today’s dynamic world of work.
The CTS program is divided into clusters to provide students, teachers and administrators with opportunities to create pathways in which students can sample courses of interest or use courses to create focused pathways that lead to specialized skills, external credentials or further education.
A cluster is a group of CTS courses within an occupational area that represents broad industry commonalities. Clusters in CTS are aligned with the National Occupational Classification (NOC) and function as an organizing tool for the CTS program.
EIPS offers a wide variety of CTS courses at each school depending on student interest. Refer to your school's website for available courses.
