BUSINESS

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

This course emphasizes the skills needed for managing a business that involves the selection and supervision of employees including efficient use of time, personnel, facilities, and financial resources. Students will explore forms of business ownership; typical business organizational structure; product or service promotion in business; effective communications; human relations skills required in dealing with employees; and effective management strategies used in personnel, finance, production, marketing, and information processing.

1 Credit, Grades 9-12

PERSONAL FINANCE

This course helps students to become financially responsible, conscientious members of society.  Students will develop understanding and skills in the money management, budgeting, financial goal attainment, credit, insurance, investments, and consumer rights and responsibilities. 

*Beginning in 2023-2024 students will have had to have taken or been enrolled in two (2) business courses for personal finance to count towards a math credit.*

1 Credit, Grades 9-12

PRINCIPLES OF HOSPITALITY

This course provides instruction to prepare students to provide services in the hospitality and leisure fields. Students will study hospitality operations; customer sales; marketing techniques; assistance operations and techniques; basic office management; sports, recreation, and equipment management; and food and beverage services.

1 Credit, Grades 9-12

PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING

This course provides a basic foundation for further study in marketing. Students study economic functions at work in the marketplace, marketing functions including purchasing, pricing, and distribution functions. This course is based on the business and marketing core that includes communication skills, economics, financial analysis, and promotion. Both marketing and employment skills learned will improve and increase the chance of successful transition into the world of work. 

1 Credit, Grades 9-12

PRINCIPLES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This course introduces students to a wide array of entrepreneurial concepts and skills, including the role of entrepreneurship in our economy, entrepreneurial discovery processes, ideation, and preliminary start-up venture planning. Students also develop an appreciation for marketing’s pivotal role in the development and success of a new business. 

1 Credit, Grades 10-12

THE GENERAL STORE

Students will operate Thomas Nelson’s General Store. Students will be engaged in developing budgeting, inventory, marketing, merchandising, and operating point of sale systems. This course is a hands on application of the introductory business courses.                                         

*Prerequisite: Previously taken a business course.* 

1 Credit, Grades 10-12

MARKETING EDUCATION CO-OP

Cooperative Education for CTE courses provide supervised work site experience related to the student's identified career pathway. A student must be enrolled in an approved capstone course during the same school year that the co-op experience is completed. Students who participate receive a salary for these experiences, in accordance with local, state and federal minimum wage requirements according to the Work Based Learning Guide. 

3 Credits, Grades 11-12