Sioux Central Community School District

High School Course Outline

Department: Business

Course Title: Business II

Grade Level: 9-12

Length of Course: Semester

Brief Course Description: This course will introduce students to additional business concepts to further their  knowledge of the business world. Real world concepts addressed in this course  include: payroll calculation, forms, and taxes; computation of income tax; stock market  principles and the relationships to the economy; and entrepreneurship. Students will work through the steps to create an individual business of their choosing while following  the proper procedures for starting a business. Students will understand the risks and rewards involved, market analysis, profit/loss, marketing strategies, writing a business plan, and presenting the final business plan to an audience.

Goals for Course/Essential Outcomes:

Communication Skills: Understands the concepts, strategies, and systems used to obtain and convey ideas and information. (Core Standard 2)

1. Interpret meaning from written material and to apply the information to a task.

2. Demonstrate active listening skills to determine meaning of what is being said.

3. Apply verbal skills to obtain and convey information.

4. Record information to maintain and present a report of business activity.

Customer Relations: Understands the techniques and strategies used to foster positive, ongoing relationships with customers. (Core Standard 3)

1. Foster positive relationships with customers to enhance company image.

Economics: Understands the economic principles and concepts fundamental to business operations. (Core Standard 4)

1. Understand fundamental economic concepts to obtain a foundation for employment in business.

2. Understand the nature of business to show its contributions to society

3. Understand economic systems to be able to recognize the environments in which businesses function.

Emotional Intelligence: Understands techniques, strategies, and systems used to foster self-understanding and enhance relationships with others. (Core Standard 5)

1. Apply ethics to demonstrate trustworthiness.

2. Exhibit techniques to manage emotional reactions to people and situations.

Information Management: Understands tools, strategies, and systems needed to access, process, maintain, evaluate, and disseminate information to assist business decision-making. (Core Standard 9)

1. Acquire a foundational knowledge of information management to understand its nature and scope.

Marketing: Understands the tools, techniques, and systems that businesses use to create exchanges and satisfy organizational objectives. (Core Standard 10)

1. Understand marketing's role and function in business to facilitate economic exchanges with customers.

Operations: Apply the processes and systems needed to monitor, plan, and control the day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning. (Core Standard 11)

1. Understand the operation's role and function in business to value its contribution to a company.

Strategic Management: Understands tools, techniques, and systems that affect a business’s ability to plan, control, and organize an organization/department. (Core Standard 13)

1. Recognize management's role to understand its contribution to business success.

Outline of Content for Major Areas of Study:

1. Explore the basics of the business world

2. Understand the basic concepts of business organizations.

3. Understand marketing and advertising’s role and function within business.

4. Learn how personal ethics and workplace ethics play a part in the business world.

5. Explain various factors of the economic business world.

Link to state website for business standards. 

Grading Configuration:

➢ Classroom participation, activities, and attendance = 60% of total grade

➢ Quizzes and/or Unit tests = 40% of total grade