Business/Computer Technology Department
Course Descriptions

Course No. 600
Career and Financial Management

Semester Course         
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: None
This course emphasizes career preparation and exploration, using the Internet for research. Financial literacy is stressed throughout the course as students learn how to develop personal budgets, handle personal banking, making investments, manage credit wisely, fill out income tax forms and evaluate insurance needs. In addition, student will develop a general knowledge of economics and understand how the U.S. economy works in today’s global marketplace through the Stock Market Game. Students will understand the basics of business organization and current workplace issues. Opening real savings accounts with UFirst Federal Credit Union is an option in this course.
Culminating Activity:  Semester Project/Portfolio

Course No. 601
Keyboarding w/Microsoft Word

Semester Course (required prerequisite)
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to introduce and increase student’s keyboarding skills. Using a specifically designed interactive software package students learn and improve their keyboarding techniques to increase their speed and accuracy. Students are introduced to Microsoft Word and begin to create and format letters, memorandums, reports and resumes while learning other basic word processing skills.
Culminating Activity:   Semester Exam/Project

Course No. 607
Sports & Entertainment Marketing

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Marketing is a tool that has allowed the United States economy to be one of the most successful in the world. The course textbook along with a companion website will take students on a journey through the world of marketing and show the basic functions of marketing and how these functions are applied to sports and entertainment. Sports and entertainment are important parts of our modern economy. Fans and companies spend billions of dollars each year on sports while entertainment represents one of the largest exports from the U.S. to the rest of the world.
Culminating Activity:   Semester Exam/Project

Course No. 612
Business and Personal Law

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of their legal rights and responsibilities. This class uses a textbook with a companion website along with discussions to help students analyze, evaluate, and resolve legal disputes as well as gain an understanding of everyday legal problems. Students pursuing criminal justice as a  college major will find this course invaluable.
Culminating Activity: Semester Exam/Project

Course No. 615
Accounting

Full Year Course
Credit: 1 unit
College Credit Option (fee involved)
Target audience: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Did you know that college business programs require their students to learn the basics of Accounting?  This course is designed to develop competence in the application of the accounting cycle.  Students will record business transactions and prepare financial statements using software and practice sets. Using these simulations students will experience running a business financially from start to finish.
Culminating Activity:     School Exam/Project

Course No. 616
Multimedia Computer Design

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Any Beginning Computer Course
Want to create digital graphics, learn how to modify a photograph or design a magazine cover or CD cover? Using hands-on computer activities you will learn tips and tricks of basic design principles using the hottest multimedia programs Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Within a few lessons and some practice you will be drawing electronically, editing images and photos and enhancing projects with your own visual affects and learning how to create those headlines and graphics you find on the web or in magazines.
Culminating Activity:     Electronic Portfolio

Course No. 618
Multimedia Web Design

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 Unit
Target Audience: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Multimedia Computer Design
Web Design! Animated Graphics! Film Editing! This course can be taken at several levels. If you are interested in web design, film editing or creating animations this is a course for you.  Using the web authoring software Dreamweaver you will learn the principles of good web design and create a variety of web sites. Using digital cameras, video cameras, computer film editing software I-Movie and Adobe Premiere you will produce movies adding special effects, music, sounds and much more. Using the program Flash you will learn to create animated graphics and interactive controls for web sites.
Culminating Activity:     Integrated Multimedia Project

Course No. 608
Microsoft Office Course I

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Keyboarding
This class is designed to make you a proficient user of Microsoft Office Software. Through various exercises you will learn many features of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Publisher. Students will create and edit documents such as letters reports, brochures, presentations and newsletters. Students will become competent in inserting and manipulating pictures, sounds, tables and charts.
Culminating Activity:   Semester Exam/Project

Course No: 619
Microsoft Office Course II Semester Course

Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Keyboarding 
This is a hands on course where students use the computer as a tool to solve real business problems. Using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and Filemaker Pro students will use spreadsheets and databases to analyze and retrieve information to generate reports and charts. This course provides a solid foundation for those students intending to pursue business as a major in college.
Culminating Activity:   Semester Exam/Project

Course No. 632
Entrepreneurship

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to entrepreneurship and small business management. Owning and operating a business today is quite different than it was in the past. The global marketplace has brought about new resources and ideas. Information technology allows people to communicate instantly and entrepreneurs are the cornerstone of the American free enterprise system.
The class discusses national and global opportunities, types of business ownership, steps in starting a business, developing a business plan, selecting and planning a site and the legal environment of running a business. As a resource the class will use a textbook along with a companion website to do web research.
Culminating Activity:   School Exam/Project

Course No. 650
Career Exploration Internship Program

Full Year
Credit: 2 units
Target Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: age 14+, working papers, and interviews
CEIP is a school-business partnership program that provides students the opportunity to obtain non-paid, on-site, career exploration experiences. This program links learning academics with learning at the work site. Student’s acceptance into the program is through interviews. Every effort will be made to accommodate student’s interest and career goals for job placement. The students will leave the program with a career portfolio, employable skills and clearer direction of career paths. This learning experience facilitates a smooth transition from school to college or the work force. Click here to view the CEIP home page
Culminating Activity: Career Plan Portfolio

Course No. 630
College Survival Skills

Semester Course
Credit: 1/2 unit
Target Audience: 11,12
Prerequisites: None
Could you benefit from further advice on how to face additional responsibilities after high school graduation? College is a major transition in a student’s education and requires considerable adjustment. Students will learn practical information on credit history, budgeting, banking, filling out college applications, applying for financial aide, along with personal skills needed to succeed in college. The college selection process, interviewing, paying for college, living away from home, and campus resources are among the topics that will also explored.
Culminating Activity: School Project