This course is designed to develop basic skills and content knowledge skills related to the world of work: interpersonal, speaking, listening, vocabulary, reading, writing, use of technology, critical thinking, problem-solving, career planning and advancement, cross-cultural understanding and mathematics. Upon successful completion of this course, students are ready to enter job training courses. A competency is considered attained when a student can demonstrate that competency with 80% accuracy orally, in writing or by actual performance. (FT)