Business and Computer Science Course Descriptions
Course Name and Credit: KEYBOARDING 1 5 CREDITS 9-12
Course Description: Keyboarding 1 - Students develop speed, accuracy and basic formatting skills.
Course Name and Credit: ENTREPRENEURSHIP5 CREDITS 9-12
Course Description: Students will explore the process of owning a business. Topics include selecting a product or service to sell, determining who the customers will be, learning how to market the business, obtaining financing, managing employees and more.
Course Name and Credit: SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING 5 CREDITS 9-12
Course Description: Students will explore the dynamic topic of sports and entertainment marketing. The basic functions of marketing are applied to this hugely popular subject. Students will evaluate marketing strategies used by successful sports and entertainment marketing firms, investigate Internet marketing, explore advertising and promotion as well as examine legal and ethical issues in the sports and entertainment field. In addition, students will complete a professional sports management simulation overseeing all aspects of the organization.
Course Name and Credit: VIDEO GAME MARKETING AND DESIGN 5 CREDITS 9-12
Course Description: This exciting course exposes students to all aspects of promotion and marketing related to video games. It also exposes students to simple programming that they can use to understand and create their own video games. This course is open to all students but is especially well suited to any student seeking a career in business, marketing, computer software engineering or programming.
Course Name and Credit:FINANCIAL LITERACY5 CREDITS9-12
Course Description: This course introduces students to money management and personal financial tasks that students will use in everyday life. Students will learn how to earn money through career search and method of payments, manage money through banking and budgeting, make money grow through investments such as stocks and bonds, make sound purchasing decisions, and be a responsible user of credit.
Course Name and Credit: ACCOUNTING 1 5 CREDITS 10-12
ACCOUNTING 2 5 CREDITS 10-12
ACCOUNTING 3 5 CREDITS 10-12
Course Description: Accounting 1 - The students learn to analyze business transactions and make simple financial statements for a service-type, one-owner business. Accounting 2 - (Prerequisite: BE1371 Accounting 1) Students learn to record, classify and summarize business activities for a one-owner merchandising business. Accounting 3 - (Prerequisite: BE1372 Accounting 2) Students learn to audit the financial problems relating to the merchandising businesses that fall under the three classifications of one owner, partnerships and corporations.
Course Name and Credit: COMP OVERVIEW5 CREDITS9-12
Course Description: (Prerequisite: Ability to touch type or instructor approval) The students will produce, store, edit, retrieve, and print documents using word processing, database, spreadsheet, and desktop publishing applications with proper formatting and proof reading. They will also learn to use the Internet as a resource.
Course Name and Credit: COMPUTER GRAPHICS 1 5 CREDITS 9-12
COMPUTER GRAPHICS 2 5 CREDITS 9-12
Course Description: Computer Graphics 1 - This course is designed to explore the relationship between design, artistic expression and the latest technology. Students will enhance the traditional methods of designing and visual problem solving with digital imaging and other electronic media production processes. Images will be manipulated in a variety of ways to create artistic imagery. Computer Graphics 2 - students will explore digital video editing, multimedia technology, and will be introduced to desktop publishing techniques.
Course Name and Credit: A.P. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1 5 CREDITS 11-12
A.P. COMPUTER SCIENCE 2 5 CREDITS 11-12
A.P. COMPUTER SCIENCE 3 5 CREDITS 11-12
Course Description: (Prerequisite: Consent of instructor) This college-level class is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement Exam in Computer Science. This course is for college bound students, especially those planning to major in computer science, engineering, or the physical sciences to prepare students for AP testing and possible accreditation in college level computer science courses. The course consists of a full academic year of course work in the following areas of study: top down design of computer software; readability, modularity, portability, and robustness of computer programs; as well as issues directly related to fundamental control structures; standard, scalar and sub-range data types; intermediate control structures; arrays; repeat and nested structures; recursion records; sets; pointers; dynamically allocated data structures and hierarchal records and files. There will also be some emphasis on team problem-solving and software engineering.
Course Name and Credit: WEB DESIGN 5 CREDITS 9-12
Course Description: Web Design will teach students about basic web design principles including the use of graphics, typography, and site organization. Other sites that students work on include a fictitious business site and an informational site.
Course Name and Credit: WEB DESIGN 25 CREDITS10-12
Course Description: Description not available. Pre-requisite course: Web Design
Course Name and Credit: ADVANCED WEB DESIGN5 CREDITS10-12
Course Description: Description not available. Pre-requisite course: Web Design & Web Design 2
Course Name and Credit: POWERPOINT MULTIMEDIA5 CREDITS10-12
Course Description: Students will move through the basics of PowerPoint and then add advanced features. Students will use clip art, download graphics from the internet, draw graphics, edit graphics, and use digital camera, scanner, and photo editing software. Students will also learn to capture and edit sound and work with video, including digital video editing. Class serves as part of the Software Specialist Academy at Kirkwood and counts as 3 Kirkwood
Community College Credits. (Dual credit - Provides both H.S. and Kirkwood Community College credit)
Course Name and Credit: INTERNSHIP5-7.5 CREDITS11-12
Course Description: Internships through the Workplace Learning Connection allow students to get hands-on experience in possible careers. 45 hour and 90 hour internships are available for credit. Placements are made by Workplace Learning Connection and are available in the fall and spring. Applications available from Mr. Goodlove.
Course Name and Credit: EMPLOY SEMINAR5 CREDITS11-12
Course Description: Description not available.