Free Finance Course With Certificate
Get skills to help you explore a career in the financial field. Know how careers in finance promote personal and societal financial stability. Learn how financial stability varies between and within countries, communities, and circumstances
- Explore concepts of justice and sustainability, explore pay differentials based on gender, concepts of ‘rich’ and ‘poor’, as well as how small and large businesses affect local economies. Learn to think critically about how trade and labor conditions shape financial realities worldwide
- Learn about global dynamics of consumer culture and dependency networks, and prepare for a career in finance.
Course for youths aged 13-18 years old
✦ FREE Course
✦ Online Access
✦ 4 Learning Modules
✦ Live Virtual Events
✦ Get certificate
“Student to World is successful in building students’ global awareness, 21st Century Skill of communication & collaboration, action-orientation, and empathy.”
Cogent Evaluation, Program Evaluation (2020)
Global Nomads Group leverages the power of storytelling to promote empathy and bring social issues to life through day-to-day realities. Read real, impactful, stories from youth participants around the world that reveal deep truths about global issues. Then youth can enhance the conversation by sharing their own stories with fellow Student to World users and participate in moderated live conversations.
More about the course
- Includes written text, images, videos, and multimedia.
- Interactive lessons
- Respond to embedded videos and images
- Understand key vocabulary
- Read personal stories from real users
- Submit and share stories
- Content is available in a growing selection of languages.
- Course available in English, Arabic & American Sign Language
Designed by Youth for Youth
Each Student to World course is a product of Global Nomads Group’s unique Content Creation Lab, a virtual internship program that brings together youth leaders from around the world.
Working under the guidance of subject matter experts, these participants study, synthesize information, and create age-appropriate content for their peers.
Standards Alignments
Career Ready Practices
- Attend to personal health and financial well-being.
- Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions.
- Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals.
Finance Career Cluster (FN)
- Implement safety, health and environmental controls to ensure a safe and productive financial workplace.
Accounting Career Pathway (FN-ACT)
- Utilize career-planning concepts, tools and strategies to explore, obtain and/or develop an accounting career.
Business Finance Career Pathway (FN-BFN)
- Manage the use of financial resources to ensure business stability.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 5: Gender Equality
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
CASEL Social & Emotional Learning
- Self Awareness
- Self Management
- Responsible Decision Making
Asia Society Global Competencies
- Investigate the world
- Recognize perspectives
- Communicate ideas
- Take Action
21st Century Skills
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Creativity and Innovation
- Information Literacy
- Media Literacy
- Technology Literacy
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- Initiative and Self-Direction
- Productivity and Accountability
- Leadership and Responsibility
- The Common Career Technical Core (CCTC)
Learning Modules
This finance course is delivered in an engaging, storytelling format. A combination of live sessions and pdf notes gives youth a chance to easily study and engage. The Finance Student To World course has the following modules;
Module 1: Everyday Financial Scales
Youth explore the impact finance has on individuals, communities, and circumstances. They observe pay differentials based on gender, and share stories about financial inequalities.
Module 2: Everyday Financially Connected
Youth learn about small versus large businesses, exploring entrepreneurism, effects of small businesses on the local economy, and investments.
Module 3: Everyday Interdependent Sustainability
Youth explore the concept of trade, learning components that come into play such as worker exploitation, MNCs (Multinational Corporations), ESGs (Environmental, Social and Governance standards.) and more.
Module 4: Everyday Action
Youth read about the skills needed for a career in finance. They design goals in order to further explore a career in the financial field, keeping in mind the importance of justice and sustainability.
Learning Objectives
- Define and understand the role of money in economies.
- Understanding sustainable finance practices.
- Understand how financial inequality disproportionately affects certain subgroups; particularly due to gender.
- Understand economic inequality.
- Understand that financial inequality exists within countries, communities, and life circumstances.
- Explore trade routes and global interdependencies.
- Explore the effect Multinational Corporations have on the environment.
- Examine the differences between small and large businesses.
- Learn about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria that companies around the globe are starting to implement.
