Business Department
All Business Courses
(All Courses Above are Included in GPA)
Business Concepts L3
BU130 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 9-10
Prerequisite:
- None (PLEASE NOTE: This course is only available in grades 9-10.)
This semester course provides students with an understanding of how the American business economy operates and helps prepare them to make decisions as consumers, wage earners, and citizens within that economy.
Personal Finance L3
BU131 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 9-10
Prerequisite:
- None (PLEASE NOTE: This course is only available in grades 9-10.)
This semester course provides students with an overview of financial and economic concepts, focusing specifically on skills and information needed to manage one’s own finances. The issues of budget creation, checking accounts, the US tax system, credit, insurance, and employment laws will also be examined.
Accounting I L4
BU240 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 10-12
Prerequisite:
- None
This semester course is designed to provide a background in accounting for those students interested in pursuing a career in business. The course utilizes automated accounting software in a case study approach to develop a fundamental knowledge of accounting principles. Topics emphasized in the course include owner’s equity in a proprietorship, analyzing and journalizing financial transactions as well as developing financial statements.
Accounting II L4
BU241 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 10-12
Prerequisite:
- C- or better in Accounting I L4
This semester course expands on the principles of Accounting I and continues the case study approach. Concepts developed in this course include: journalizing purchases, cash payments, sales and cash receipts, posting to general and subsidiary ledgers, preparing payroll records, taxes, and reports.
Business Management L3
BU230 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 10-12
Prerequisite:
- None
The central focus of the course is to build a solid foundation of established business principles and practices that form the groundwork for all operations with emphasis on economic, legal and social foundations. Management’s use of business ethics and motivational theories to guide decision making and employee development are examined as business leaders make decisions in a dynamic economic environment. The course stresses group work, focused classroom discussion and research in relating topics to current business trends.
Entrepreneurship L3
BU231 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 10-12
Prerequisite:
- None
This semester course will focus on small business ownership. Future small business owners will learn fundamental business concepts as well as how to identify a market need, develop a business and write a business plan. During this process, fundamental principles of banking, marketing, and taxation will also be studied.
Financial Investing L3
BU234 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 10-12
Prerequisite:
- None
This semester course provides students with an overview of how to prepare themselves for the challenges of financial security in their future. This course will specifically focus on investment options in stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real property and investment strategies involving risk and return in various categories, obtaining credit, as well as discussing leasing versus owning a vehicle.
International Business L3
BU232 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 10-12
Prerequisite:
- None
The course will prepare students for the economic realities of living and working in a global marketplace. Since the United States functions as an integral member of the global economic community, consumer products and job opportunities are increasingly impacted by events in the international arena. Cultural and economic factors existing in other parts of the world will have a greater impact on our economic existence than ever before. Students electing this course will be involved in group work, discussion and individualized course work as they develop the insight as well as the understanding necessary to function as informed citizens in a global economy.
Business Law L4
BU340 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 11-12
Prerequisite:
- None
This course will acquaint students with legal rights and responsibilities by using authentic case studies and policy debate. Topics included for study through focused discussion are legal issues relating to ethics, civil law, torts, contracts, real property, and the buying and selling of goods.
Marketing L3
BU330 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 11-12
Prerequisite:
- None
This semester course provides students with an understanding of the marketing concept, with specific emphasis on price, product, place and promotion. Students will learn marketing through the discussion and application of a marketing strategy, market segments and the role of promotion in the contemporary market place.
Macroeconomics L5
BU352 - 0.5 Credit - Semester Long - Grades 11-12
Prerequisite:
- None - NOTE: Although this course does not have a specific prerequisite, it does require substantial outside preparation and disciplined work habits for success.
Macroeconomics L5 introduces students to the basic principles of macroeconomics and their application to the economic system as a whole. Students will examine the economic conditions of full-employment, recessionary gap, and inflationary gap presented through the use of various graphs, charts and data in order to analyze and determine plans for returning the economy to optimum level. This course will explore many of these concepts through the use of current events that bring the theoretical to life. Students will work both individually and collaboratively to construct and present economic findings that will aid in their academic success.
Macroeconomics L3/L4 is also available in the Social Studies Elective section.
Macroeconomics L3/L4 is also available in the Social Studies Elective section.
AP Microeconomics
BU450 - 1.0 Credit - Year Long - Grades 12
Prerequisite:
- None - NOTE: Although this course does not have a specific prerequisite, it does require substantial outside preparation and disciplined work habits for success.
It is almost impossible to listen to any newscast or read a newspaper today without seeing economics at work in the world around us. This course provides students with a thorough preparation for the AP examination in Microeconomics by studying the forces that influence financial decisions made by consumers and producers within our economic system. The four models of economic competition will be examined in relationship to the product and factor markets, with emphasis placed on graphical analysis, cost curves and the determinants of supply and demand. The role of government in promoting greater efficiency to correct market failures and equity will also be studied.
The pace of the course requires a significant amount of independent study. The course will prepare students for analyzing and applying the economic concepts covered and will prepare them for the AP Microeconomics Exam.
The pace of the course requires a significant amount of independent study. The course will prepare students for analyzing and applying the economic concepts covered and will prepare them for the AP Microeconomics Exam.