Business Department Moving to the Future...

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The high school business department is moving in the direction of two Career Pathways.  In 2011-2012, courses will be offered in the areas of Business Entrepreneurship and Management, and Business Finance/Accounting.  Students can gain knowledge and skills in Accounting, Business Law, Management and Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and gain real-world experience in Advanced Business Experiences.

BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT                                                                                   

Do you enjoy being a leader, organizing people, planning activities, and talking? Do you like to work with numbers or ideas? Do you enjoy carrying through with an idea and seeing the end product? Do you like things neat and orderly? Would you enjoy balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, holding an office in a club, or surfing the Internet?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, a career in business might be a good consideration for your future!  Courses in business will lead you down the road to starting your own business, a role in management, or working in accounting.

Suggested Sequence if pathway interest:

*Required courses to complete this pathway

Accounting A/B         Trimester: 2      Grade: 10-12       Prerequisite: Braves Business or Instructor approval

Course Description:(Section A) This is an introductory course for students to learn the basic accounting process in a one owner business.  Students will develop skills in analyzing and recording transactions, and completing the tasks for a full accounting cycle.  (Section B) Students will continue to increase skills in bookkeeping for a business through exploring payroll procedures, taxes, and move from a one owner business into partnerships and corporations.  Students will also gain proficiency in using the program QuickBooks by completing the accounting cycle for a business on the computer.

Advanced Accounting A/B     Trimester: 2     Grade: 11-12        Prerequisite: Accounting 

Course Description: This course will expand upon the foundational accounting principles and procedures used in business.  Content includes the full accounting cycle, payroll, taxes, debts, depreciation, ledger and journal techniques, and periodic adjustments.   Calculators, electronic spreadsheets, and QuickBooks accounting software will be used.

Advanced Web Page Design     Trimester: 1     Grade: 10-12    Prerequisite: Web Page Design

Course Description: This course will build on the knowledge and skills gained in Web Page Design.  Students may have the opportunity to build and/or maintain web sites for other organizations and businesses.

Braves Business   Trimester: 1    Grade: 10-12   Prerequisite: Business Essentials or 10^th Gr.

 THIS COURSE SHOULD BE COMPETED PRIOR TO OTHER BUSINESS COURSES!

Course Description: This course will be hands-on, group and partner focused, and a lot of fun!  The course will acquaint students with the knowledge and skills necessary to own and operate their own business. Topics include economics, marketing principles, human relations and psychology, business and labor law, legal rights and responsibilities of ownership, business and financial planning, finance and accounting, and communication.   

Business Essentials  Trimester: 1    Grade: Required 9th     Prerequisite: None

Course Description: This is a introductory course designed to give students an overview of the business, marketing and finance career cluster occupations.  Students will identify employability and personal skills needed to obtain a career and be successful in the workplace. Students will apply their understanding of computer software learned previously.

Advanced Business Experiences A/B     Trimester: 2   Grade: 11,12   Prerequisite: Management/Leadership

Course Description: This course includes classroom activities as well as involving further study of the field and discussion regarding real-world experiences and applications that students encounter in owning and managing a business.

Business Law  Trimester:1   Grade: 10-12     Prerequisites: Sophomore status

Course Description: This course introduces students to the law, placing emphasis on business law. Students will take a look at situations and issues that they will confront every day including contracts, consumerism, and sales agreements.

Management & Leadership    Trimester: 1  Grade: 10-12  Prerequisites: Braves Business or Instructor Approval

Course Description:  Students will explore the activities undertaken by the management and leadership of a business organization.  Students will apply problem-solving and decision-making skills to situations that affect business functions, and develop the skills and knowledge to support them in pursuing a variety of leadership roles.

On-The- Job Training (OJT)    Trimester: 3    Grade: 11,12   Prerequisite: 2 Business Courses  AND Instructor approval prior to enrollment!!!

Course Description: This is a yearlong course designed to give students enrolled the opportunity to gain real-world experience working in an actual business-related job in the community. This MAY be a paid position and has the possibility of extending into after-school hours as a part-time job.

Web Page Design    Trimester: 1   Grade: 10-12  Prerequisite: Business Essentials or 10^th Gr.                 

Course Description: This course focuses on the creation of web pages using the HTML programming language and Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software program. Students will learn skills to design, build, upload and maintain a large functional website.  Time will be spent with photography and editing photos with Adobe Photoshop CS5.