Business Department Course Offerings
by Emma Forrester
February 07, 2008
BUSINESSDEPARTMENT COURSE OFFERINGS
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The mission of the Business/Marketing Department is to educate students for and about business and technology and show them how these affect the lives of all individuals.
| BusinessComputer Applications 1(REQUIRED) | Grades 9-12 | 1 Semester |
This course is required for graduation.
This course is designed to improve the student's word processing skills, as well as to introduce the students to basic spreadsheet and database functions. Students will also create documents using desktop publishing features and create slide presentations using PowerPoint. (Suggested minimum keyboarding speed of 30 words per minute with reasonable accuracy.)
| BusinessComputer Applications 2 | Grades 9-12 | 1 Semester |
Requirement: Computer Applications 1
This course is designed to expand student's ability to use word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications. The student is also introduced to charts, form letters, merging, tables and desktop publishing.
| BusinessMultimedia | Grades 9-12 | 1 Semester |
Requirement: Computer Applications 1
In this course, students will create projects that incorporate graphics, text, color, animation, and video. The course is divided into three main sections: (1) creating slide show presentations, (2) creating web pages, and (3) creating movies.
| AdvancedBusiness Multimedia | Grades 9-12 | 1 Semester |
This course is designed for those students who want to advance their skills in the areas of web design and video editing. Several independent projects will be required, including projects that could be used by counselors, administrators, classroom teachers, or members of our community.
| PersonalFinance | Grades 11-12 | 1 Semester |
Students will learn basic business knowledge for making “real life" financial decisions and solving problems in the areas of banking, credit, investments, and taxes. Students will practice making good money decisions through “real life" applications.
| RecordKeeping | Grades 11-12 | 1 Semester |
Students will learn the necessary math skills associated with personal budgets, checking accounts, loans and credit cards. Students will practice these skills by completing “real life" applications.
This class is a good foundation for Personal Finance, Personal Law, Beginning Accounting, and Advanced Accounting.
| BeginningAccounting | Grades 11-12 | 2 Semesters |
This course provides a thorough background in the basic accounting procedures used to operate a business. The use of the multi column journal approach will also serve as a solid background for employment in office jobs and preparation for studying accounting courses in college. Students will study the accounting cycle for sole-proprietorship and partnerships.
| AdvancedAccounting | Grade 12 | 1 Semester |
Requirement: Beginning Accounting
This course expands on topics learned in the first-year course while adding new topics. Included is the expansion of
the students understanding of the principles and concepts of double-entry accounting as well as the further integration of computers for accounting applications and integration.
| PersonalLaw | Grade 12 | 1 Semester |
This course is designed to help students develop an appreciation for law and to gain a practical understanding of the legal framework within which individuals function. Included in this study are such topics as contracts, crimes, the court system, commercial paper, juvenile law and insurance. This course is not designed to prepare students to practice law, but to allow students to gain a basic understanding of their rights and duties in various legal matters.
| BasicMarketing 1-2 | Grades 10-12 | 1 Semester |
This course is a foundational course in economics and marketing. It is recommended that students considering a business major in college take this class. Students will learn about the laws of supply and demand, scarcity of resources, types of economies, trends in retailing, understanding consumers, receiving and pricing merchandise, the promotional mix, selling, and inventory control.
| Marketing/Management | Grades 11-12 | 1 Semester |
Marketing/Management combines information technology with fundamental topics needed to manage and operate a business. Finance, marketing, communications and human resources are just a few of the topics that relate to real life scenarios that will help bring the business world into the classroom.
| WebPage Design | Grades 11-12 | 1 or 2 Semesters |
Requirement: Business Multimedia
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to continue to develop skills within the area of web design. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own independent projects as well as maintain and create pages for the NPHS website. Students will also be exposed to topics such as developing websites using CSS and HTML.
| WorkplaceReadiness | Grade 12 | 1 Semester |
*Students must be employed part-time to enroll in this course. Students must attend a class during the first week of each semester.
Students will be provided with the skills to meet the challenges and changes of the workplace. They will focus on teamwork, self management, problem solving, and job seeking skills.
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