Business Management & Entrepreneur Pathway

INTRODUCTORY LEVEL

Business Essentials 

Duration: 0.5 credit

Prerequisites: None

This is a core course designed to give students an overview of the business, marketing, and finance career cluster occupations. Students will develop an understanding of how academic skills in mathematics, economics, and written and oral communications are integral components of success in these occupations. Students will examine current events to determine their impact on business and industry and legal and ethical behavior, acquire knowledge of safe and secure environmental controls to enhance productivity, determine how resources should be managed to achieve company goals, and identify employability and personal skills needed to obtain a career and be successful in the workplace. As students learn about different types of business ownership, they will interpret industry laws and regulations to ensure compliance, identify principles of business management, and analyze business practices to determine ethics and social responsibilities. 

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TECHNICAL LEVEL 

Business Communications 

Duration: 0.5 credit

Prerequisite: Business Essentials recommended

Business Communications courses help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for effective communication in business situations and environments. Emphasis is placed on all phases of communication: speaking, listening, thinking, responding, reading, writing, communication non-verbally, and utilizing technology for communication. Business communication functions, processes, and applications in the context of business may be practiced through problem-based projects and real-world applications.

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Business Management 

Duration: 0.5 credit

Prerequisite: Business Essentials recommended

Business Management courses acquaint students with management opportunities and effective human relations. These courses provide students with the skills to perform planning, staffing, financing, and controlling functions within a business. In addition, they usually provide a macro-level study of the business world, including business structure and finance, and the interconnections among industry, government, and the global economy. The course may also emphasize problem-based, real-world applications of business concepts and use accounting concepts to formulate, analyze, and evaluate business decisions.

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Entrepreneurship 

Duration: 0.5 credit

Prerequisite: Business Essentials recommended

Entrepreneurship courses acquaint students with the knowledge and skills necessary to own and operate their own businesses or the ability to use the entrepreneurial mindset in an existing organization. Topics from several fields typically form the course content: economics, marketing principles, human relations and psychology, business and labor law, legal rights and responsibilities of ownership, business and financial planning, finance and accounting, and communication.

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Principles of Marketing 

Duration: 1.0 credit

Prerequisite: Business Essentials recommended

This course develops student understanding and skills in such areas as channel management, marketing-information management, market planning, pricing, product/service management, promotion, and selling.

CN10290f                   CN10291s 

Business Law 

Duration: 0.5 credit 

Prerequisite: None

Business Law identifies and promotes the skills needed in law and law associated professions.  Topics include the origins, ethics, structures, and institutions of law.  It concentrates on several types of law including criminal, civil, consumer, contract, property, agency, employment, family and environmental law.  The intent of the class is to allow areas of concentration once all the competencies are met

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APPLICATION LEVEL 

Applied Business Development 

Duration: 1.0 credit

Prerequisite:  Grade 12 (At least 1 credit in Business pathway). 

Applied Business Development students will practice skills of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling functions of operating a business while assuming the responsibilities and risk involved.  Students will develop skills in enterprise development, market analysis and financial preparation.

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Business Management and Entrepreneurship Workplace

Duration: 1.0 credits

Prerequisites: Grade 12 at least 2 credits in pathway

Application Level: Business Management Workplace Experience courses provide students with work experience in fields related to business management. Goals are typically set cooperatively by the student, teacher, and employer (although students are not necessarily paid). These courses may include classroom activities as well, involving further study of the field or discussion regarding experiences that students encounter in the workplace. Students are able to take Business Management Workplace Experience as a .5 credit course or year-long 1 credit course for a more in-depth study of the business management industry

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