Business Education

Job Skills Development, Economics, Management, & Marketing

This course is designed to introduce students to how business works in today’s society and to provide a foundation for a student’s future career goals. Content is focused on employability skills such as writing a resume’, job interview practice, workplace behavior, written and oral communication skills, general customer service, introductory entrepreneurship and management concepts, and an overview of the U.S. banking system and economy.

Real Experience in Business Idea Generation, Planning & Implementation

This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge needed for organizing, developing and implementing a business within the private free enterprise system. Topics of study will include learning the advantages and disadvantages of owning a business, preparing a business plan, choosing a location, securing a loan, determining organizational structure and promoting a business. Students will have the opportunity to put learning into practice with special sales and product development projects offered throughout the course.

Laws of US & Missouri, Debate, Conflict Resolution, & Career Exploration

This course is designed to acquaint students with the basic legal principles relevant to their roles as citizens, consumers and employees through a mixture of personal, business and consumer law. The content includes the basic characteristics of the American system of free enterprise, rights of private property, basic elements of contracts, employer-employee relations, landlords and tenants, individual rights, wills and estates, family and juvenile justice law and community property.

Management & Marketing

This course is designed to help students develop an understanding of skills and resources needed to manage a business. Instruction includes a general overview of American business, forms of business ownership, personnel management, labor-management relations, public and human relations, taxation and government regulations. The use of computers and software as tools in making business decisions in areas such as accounting, sales analysis, and inventory control is also introduced.

Communicating Successfully in Today's Workplace

This course provides reinforcement of students’ basic language arts skills (composition, grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.) and development of essential competencies for oral and written communication in today’s technological workplaces. Emphasis is placed on using the computer to compose and produce accurate and effective documents (including e-mail messages, letters, memos, reports, etc.) for personal and professional purposes. Using technology (presentation software and telecommunications) to develop oral communication skills such as making presentations, giving instructions, interviewing, and making reports in an effective manner is reinforced in this course.

MS Office Suite & Keyboarding

This course is designed to help students master beginning and advanced skills in the areas of word processing, database management, spreadsheet applications, desktop publishing, multimedia, Internet usage and integrated software applications. Students will be prepared to sit for Microsoft Office Certification exams at the end of the course.

Journalism, Graphic Design & Marketing

Students develop proficiency in using graphic arts/desktop publishing software to create a variety of business publications such as flyers, brochures, newsletters, etc. Progressive opportunities to enhance leadership and design skills are part of years II and III.

Budgeting, Paying Bills,

Mortgage Lending, Saving

& Responsible Use of Credit

Understanding and managing personal finances are key to one’s future financial success. This one-semester course is based on the Missouri Personal Finance Competencies and presents essential knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about real world financial issues. Students will learn how choices influence occupational options and future earning potential. Students will also learn to apply decision-making skills to evaluate career choices and set personal goals. The course content is designed to help the learner make wise spending, saving and credit decisions and to make effective use of income to achieve personal financial success.