CTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Pathway Summary
Be the next Famous Entrepreneur in the United States. Starting up your own business is one of the most rewarding achievements in life. This pathway will provide students with the skills needed to effectively organize, develop, create, and manage a business. Various forms of technologies will be used to expose students to resources and application of business principles for starting, operating, and maintaining a business.
Course Summaries
CTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1
Grade Level: 10-12
Prerequisite: None
Length: Year
This course meets UC/CSU (G) and District graduation requirements for Elective Credit. This course is in the Marketing pathway. The course integrates the communication and media demands of marketing careers with the communications skill expectations for post-secondary study in marketing or business. The course provides an application of current theories and concepts in effectively marketing goods and services to identified target customers from a domestic and global perspective.
ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAITS & TRENDS (TNT)
Grade Level: 10-12
Prerequisite: None
Length: Year
This course meets UC/CSU (G) and District graduation requirements for Elective Credit. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to investigate the concept of entrepreneurship focusing on two main dimensions: Entrepreneurship’s economic role in the US free market economy; and the defining characteristics of entrepreneurs in general, and specifically, how those traits are congruent with those necessary for self-employment. Students will focus on both individual and collaborative discourse, evidence-based writing, and multi-media presentations. They will develop a portfolio that will not only demonstrate their findings and analysis of various dimensions of entrepreneurial enterprises and thinking but will also provide a guide for future endeavors and studies that coincide with their own strengths and interests.