Officials at Wareham High School have cooked up some new courses for their students, and they’re banking on them to get kids prepared for the future.

Among several new courses featured for the 2015-16 school year introduced by Principal Scott Palladino at Wednesday night’s school committee include an Introduction to Culinary Arts class and a Personal Finance class. Several School Committee members expressed their satisfaction with the two new electives specifically.

“I’m very happy to see the (Introduction to) Culinary Arts . . . It’s good to see it back,” said Committee member Melvin Lazarus. “I’m even happier that Personal Financing is going to be back. I think both of these are about to be a big step forward for the high school.”

Palladino said the newly introduced classes would only become official if they had enough student interest to warrant them.

Other classes introduced were Introduction to Dramatic Arts: The Art of Reading, Directing and Staging Plays (English Language Arts), Bootstrap Algebra (a mathematics course that teaches students “what it takes” to be a software engineer), Advanced Placement (AP) Government and Politics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, Death and Dying, and “Herstory,” an Introduction to Women’s History. Other electives introduced were a Marketing Education class and a Technical Drawing class.

Currently, microeconomics and macroeconomics are included in the same course.

Palladino also said they’d also be re-introducing a “true” gym alignment that sees ninth and tenth-graders together and eleventh and twelfth-graders together.

Two classes removed from the Program of Studies include Precalculus College Prep and Precalculus Honors courses.

Physical education will also be counted toward a students GPA, whereas currently, it does not affect it.

“We’re hoping the courses are requested by students,” said Palladino.