Business Law:
This is a one-credit, one-semester
course designed to acquaint students with the basic legal principles common to
business and personal activities. Topics include evaluating contracts,
maximizing purchasing power through credit, and renting and owning real estate.
Business concepts such as contracts, ethics, starting a business, hiring
employees, and managing employees are included. This course is recommended for
any student intending to pursue a degree in law or business.
Prerequisite:
None
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Business Management:
This is a one-credit,
one-semester course designed to assist students to study the basic management
concepts and leadership styles as they explore business ownership, planning,
economics, international business and human relations issues such as employee
motivation and conflict resolution.
Students explore the impact of technology on the business world. Students learn to evaluate and choose
appropriate marketing tools.
Prerequisite:
None
Grades:
10, 11, 12
Design Multimedia, and Web Technologies:
This is a one-credit, one-semester course designed to help students
develop proficiency in using desktop publishing software to create a variety of
printed and electronic publications. Students will incorporate journalistic
principles in design and layout of publications. Students will work with
hardware and software to develop web sites and multimedia presentations.
Prerequisite:
None
Grades:10, 11, 12
Entrepreneurship Education:
This is a one-credit, one-semester course designed for students who
wish to concentrate on strategies for career development through
ownership/management of their own businesses. Although individual skills are
emphasized, the focus of the course is on development of a business plan,
including the following: Determination of type of business enterprise, legal
considerations, location selection, financing, steps in getting the enterprise
started, marketing strategy, and interaction with successful entrepreneurs.
Prerequisite:
None
Grades: 10, 11, 12
Keyboarding Applications:
This is a one-credit,
one-semester course designed to allow students to develop or refine touch
skills for entering alphabetic, numeric, and symbol information on a keyboard. Students
apply keyboarding skills to produce a variety of personal and business
documents. Students will develop a
resume, type business letters and memos, and learn to develop charts and
tables. Students will compile a
portfolio containing representative examples of each type of document learned.
Prerequisite:
None Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Work Experience: Certain students in some JRTC programs may
participate in a work experience program in a JRTC approved local business or
industry. In this work experience
program, a student may earn additional credit in the third course of a
three-course sequence. The student must participate in a related business or industry
to that final course in a JRTC program.
The student’s teacher would supervise the work experience program as it
would relate to the JRTC classroom and lab.
Prerequisite:
Enrolled in the final course of a
three-course sequence
Grade:
12