Explore.

Exploration Pathways at Napa Valley College are groupings of programs that can lead to similar employment opportunities. These maps are designed to provide students with a clear pathway to the completion of their educational goals, and help them make connections between their studies and different career tracks.

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Education and Careers

Featured program pathways include term-by-term map of courses that you can bookmark and share with the school counselor before making an appointment.

  1. Business & Marketing
    Do you find yourself drawn to the world of business? In this pathway, you will be exposed to the managerial, analytical, social, and personal skills and theories necessary for success in today’s economy.
    19 Programs 249 Careers & Salaries
  2. Health & Human Services
    Are you interested in helping people? This pathway will foster your desire to educate, support, protect, heal, and understand the people of your local and global worlds.
    33 Programs 198 Careers & Salaries
  3. Science & Industrial Technology
    Do you enjoy building things, experimenting, and solving problems? It is through this pathway that you will discover your passion in the biological, chemical, mechanical, technical, and analytical worlds of nature, society, and beyond.
    24 Programs 299 Careers & Salaries
  4. People, Culture, & Society
    Are you excited to learn about and understand people? Through this pathway, you will gain a global perspective, and engage with the behaviors, languages, histories, politics, economics, social dynamics, and cultural interactions that organize and identify the people around the world.
    30 Programs 175 Careers & Salaries
  5. Visual, Design & Performance Arts
    Are you someone who likes to create, design, or perform? As a part of this pathway, you will be engaged with the diverse and exciting ways that you can design, construct, draw, narrate, perform, and otherwise manifest your worlds through artistic expression.
    19 Programs 89 Careers & Salaries
  6. Wine & Food
    Want to be a part of the Napa Valley-Bay Area renowned food and wine scene? Build extensive skills through successive certificate and degree options.
    10 Programs 76 Careers & Salaries
  7. All Studies
    Are you interested in multiple areas? Or not sure about your interests yet? Check out the complete list of programs, degrees, and certificates here.
    97 Programs 495 Careers & Salaries