This classroom-based driver’s education course provides the foundation of safe, lawful, and responsible driving. Through interactive lessons, real-world scenarios, and evidence-based instruction, students learn traffic laws, hazard recognition, risk management, and decision-making skills essential for novice drivers. The course emphasizes defensive driving, distraction and impairment prevention, and the attitudes and behaviors that reduce crash risk.

Learning objectives:

• Explain key state and federal traffic laws, road signs, and right-of-way rules
• Identify common driving hazards and apply strategies for hazard detection and avoidance
• Demonstrate safe decision-making in complex traffic situations using risk-management frameworks
• Explain the effects of impairment (alcohol, drugs, fatigue, medications) and distraction on driving performance
• Describe basic vehicle systems and routine maintenance that affect safety
• Apply strategies for sharing the road with vulnerable users (pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists)
• Prepare for the written permit/license exam and for responsible behind-the-wheel practice