Detailed Syllabus for Economics, 1st Year of the New Secondary
- Introduction to economics has 1 period a week, 30 a year, in the common core of years 1 and 2, out of 35 weekly periods.
- A teaching period lasts at least 45 and at most 60 minutes.
- Years 3 and 4 split into general streams (math and physics, life and earth sciences, economic and social sciences, letters and arts), technological streams and a teacher-training stream.
- In the economic and social sciences stream, the subject rises to 6 periods a week.
- The 1st-year program covers market types, the role of money, GDP and national income, firms and their costs, and inflation and unemployment in Haiti.
The economics program for the 1st year of the reformed secondary school, dated 2006-2007 and revised under the Direction de l'Enseignement Secondaire and the Commission Multisectorielle d'Implantation du Nouveau Secondaire by subcommissions drawn from public and private schools, universities and other bodies, with technical support from IHFOSED. It opens with the aims of Haitian education and the missions of secondary schooling, then a study plan giving weekly and annual periods per subject for the common core of years 1 and 2 and for the general, technological and teacher-training streams of years 3 and 4; a period lasts 45 to 60 minutes. A framework program lists economics themes for the cycle, from scarcity, markets and elasticity to GDP, the consumer price index, investment and the budget. The detailed 1st-year program sets competencies, content and suggested activities on market economies, money, national accounts, firms and their costs, and inflation and unemployment in Haiti.
How to cite
Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), 2006, Detailed Syllabus for Economics, 1st Year of the New Secondary, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/menfp-nouveau-secondaire-economie-s1