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James Hillhouse High
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Business Education affords all students the opportunity to study the many aspects of business. Students may be interested in business education because they want to learn about investments, develop computer skills, understand how economic principles apply to life, or learn about the principles of entrepreneurship so they can start their own business. Students may study business courses because they intend to go to work immediately after graduating from high school, attend a community/technical college; or if pursuing a college degree in business is their goal, they study business education to build a foundation in business to prepare for higher education. Regardless of the reason for studying business, all students need to have a general understanding of how the American economy operates and the role business plays in the economic well being of this country. Business Education provides a foundation for success for all students at all levels of education, no matter what their ultimate career goals in life may be.
Students cannot adequately function in today’s society and escape the need for the life-long lessons that are taught in the Business Education curriculum. Namely, developing personal and interpersonal skills, technology skills, business knowledge, decision-making skills and positive attitudes, that are necessary for successful employment and advancement, as well as that essential for post-secondary education and for becoming productive and contributing members of society.
BUSINESS ELECTIVES Accounting I Grade(s) 11, 12 1 Credit Level: 2 Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: This course presents the fundamental accounting principle and is designed to emphasize the theory of accounting. The accounting cycle is presented as it pertains to proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Extensive accounting vocabulary and theory challenges students to develop skills they will use in life as well as in a career in the business field.
Accounting II Grade 12 1 Credit Level: 1 Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: Accounting I with a grade of C or better Description: This course expands on topics introduced in the first-year course while adding new topics about management accounting, cost accounting, not-for-profit accounting and financial analysis. Accounting concepts are introduced using modern businesses to which students can relate. ___ Business Law Grade(s) 11, 12 1 Credit Level: 2 Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn about the law as it pertains to contracts, ethics, employment, credit, banking, partnerships bankruptcy, e-commerce, cyber law and more.
Business Management Grade(s) 10 ½ Credit Level II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: This course covers topics students need to know to manage and operate business-finance marketing, communications, human resources, and more. Students learn how business organizations work and are managed-their goals, strategies, structures, technologies, and environments.
Career and Technology Internship Grade(s) 11, 12 1 Credit Level: 1 Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: This course is open to all students. Students are given an opportunity to explore a career that they might be interested in pursuing by getting on-the-job training. For the first semester, students are in class learning how to write resume and cover letters, fill out job applications, interviewing techniques, job etiquette, critical thinking skills, etc. During the second semester, students will intern at a work site in a career area of their choice.
Computer Literacy Grade(s) 10, 11 1 Credit Level: II Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn keyboarding skills as well as the basis for the many uses of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint software.
General Business Grade(s) 9, 10, 11, 12 1 Credit Level: III Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: This is an introductory course where students learn and apply the business and economic concepts that will enable them to become part of the global economy.
Keyboarding Grade(s) 9, 10, 11, 12 1/2 Credit Level: III Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn the touch method keyboarding.
Keyboarding and Document Processing Grade(s) 9, 10, 11, 12 1 Credit Level: III Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn the touch method of keyboarding with the addition of formatting skills as applied to basic personal and business documents-letters, reports and tabulated information.
Marketing Grade(s) 11, 12 1 Credit Level: II Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: This course will enable students to understand and apply marketing, management, and entrepreneurial principles to make rational economic decisions; and to exhibit social responsibility in a global economy.
Personal Finance Grade(s) 11, 12 1/2 Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn the importance of goals and how to manage money wisely, the budgeting process and its importance as related to money management, and the necessity of financial planning for the future.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE ACADEMY Are you interested in pursuing a career in business management, accounting, data entry, word processing or starting you own business? Then you should be in the Business Education and Technology Academy. The course selections and sequence of courses have been designed to give you a more comprehensive foundation in business.
This academy will train you for a wide variety of entry-level job opportunities or help you build a good foundation for the post-secondary major that you want to pursue in obtaining a degree in accounting, business administration business management and other business-related fields.
We will show you how to start your own business in our entrepreneurship class. Our teachers are certified by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Inc. (NFTE).
In your senior year, as an intern you will be placed at a work site that will enable you to use the skills and knowledge that you have acquired for on-the-job experience. THIS ACADEMY BEGINS IN THE FRESHMAN YEAR.
** All courses are half year courses except Accounting 1 & 2 and Internship which are full year courses
Freshman – 1 credit Sophomore – 2 credits Junior – 2 credits Senior – 3 credits
BUSINESS ACADEMY COURSES
Accounting 1 Grade(s) 11 1 Credit Level: II Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: This course presents the fundamental accounting principle and is designed to emphasize the theory of accounting. The accounting cycle is presented as it pertains to proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Extensive accounting vocabulary and theory challenges students to develop skills they will use in life as well as in a career in the business or accounting field.
Accounting II Grade 12 1 Credit Level: I Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: Accounting I with a grade of C or better Description: This course expands on topics introduced in the first-year course while adding new topics about management accounting, cost accounting, not-for-profit accounting, and financial analysis. Accounting concepts are introduced using modern business to which students can relate.
Business Communication Grade 9 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn to strengthen and refine basic skills in all phases of communication, including writing, listening, speaking, reading, interpreting non-verbal cues and applying decision-making skills to problem- solving.
Business Communication II Grade 10 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: Business Communication I Description: Students will use what they learned in business Communications I to do more technical writing and oral presentations.
Business Economics Grade 12 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn how the economy operates and how to apply the knowledge learned in the analysis to solving basic economic problems with our limited resources in satisfying unlimited consumer wants.
Business Law Grade 10 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn about the law as it pertains to contracts, ethics, employment, credit, banking, partnerships, bankruptcy, e-commerce, cyber law and more.
Business Management Grade 10 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: This course covers topics students need to know to manage and operate a business-finance, marketing, communications, human resources, and more. Students learn how business organizations work and are managed-their goals, strategies, structures, technologies, and environments.
Business Technology I Grade 10 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: Keyboarding Description: Students learn the basics of Microsoft Word, Desktop Publishing and excel.
Business Technology II Grade 11 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: Business Technology I Description: Students learn more advanced features of Microsoft Word, Desktop Publishing and Excel as well as the basics of Microsoft Access, and Power Point.
Business Technology III Grade 12 ½ Credit Level: I Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: Business Technology II Description: Students learn the advanced applications of Microsoft Access and PowerPoint as well as Web Page design.
Entrepreneurship Grade 11 ½ Credit Level: II Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn how a business is started from a basic idea to a full-run operation-writing a business plan, acquiring capital, buying, selling, marketing, credit, employees, taxes, insurance, reasons for failure, and more. ________________________________________________________________________ Internship Grade 12 1 Credit Level: I Length of Course: Full Year Prerequisite: None Description: To culminate their learning experience in the Business Academy, students will be placed at various work sites where they can utilize the knowledge and skills that they have learned to obtain on-the-job experience.
Keyboarding Grade 9 ½ Credit Level: III Length of Course: Half Year Prerequisite: None Description: Students learn the touch method of keyboarding with the addition of formatting skills as applied to basic personal and business documents effectively in drawing. Proportions and measurements in anatomy drawing, anatomical details, the nine principles of foreshortening, surface forms, movement and how the figure is art historically developed are included. ______
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