Dunwoody High School - Career Academies

Career Academies

Dunwoody High School offers two career academies through the National Academy Foundation program. The academies provide a combination of school-based curricula and work-based experiences, which include paid internships.

• The Academy of Finance is a two-year program in which students gain specialized preparation in the field of finance while completing their normal course curriculum. Over the course of the program, students are introduced to four segments of business: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, International Business and Personal Finance. Students practice real world activities while preparing marketing plans for products and competing in financial competitions. Business partners from the community visit the class and work with the students. Each year, the academy students visit the New York Mercantile Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and an investment bank to experience how the world’s largest financial center operates.

• The Academy of Mass Communications is a two-year program which offers students the opportunity to build an educational foundation aimed at a future in the communications industry. The program introduces the students to all facets of the journalism industry (broadcast journalism, print journalism, and speech). Students receive hands-on training in video production with the use of fifteen Final Cut Pro editing systems and have the chance to work on interview techniques and newspaper layout, as well as produce a daily news program shown over the closed circuit television system. Each year, the academy students visit NBC in New York to see first hand how one of the world’s largest broadcasting companies operates. The school gained a new newsroom studio and Apple Mac lab in the spring of 2011.