PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
KATC Business classes are designed to provide students with a basic understanding of business concepts.  Successful completion will prepare students to further their education in a business-related field.  Coursework will address life skills and the soft skills needed to be successful in life. 

​Students are also eligible to join FBLA, the internationally recognized organization for business students.  Through FBLA, students have the opportunity to compete at the district, state and national level, gain leadership skills, and participate in service projects.  For more information on FBLA, see our "Student Life" tab.

​BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES  (*Not all classes are offered every year)

​Accounting 1
Credit: 1.0   Grade Level: 10-12
This is NOT a math class!  Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are what it takes to be successful in the accounting world.  Accounting is the language of business. You will learn this language in an easy-to-understand format. Learn where business transactions come from, the patterns involved with everyday transactions, how to submit those transactions into their respective ledgers, and how to finalize the ledgers. You will work with your peers and grow in your problem solving and communications skills as you all use the materials provided and each other to handle the transactions properly. Accounting software and Excel are utilized in completing the accounting problems. All students enrolled in Business classes are required to join FBLA. The student's grade is NOT tied to the activities that take place out of school. FBLA is intra-curricular, therefore FBLA is taught within the classroom. 

Accounting 2
Credit: 1.0     Grade Level: 11-12
Prerequisite: Accounting 1. Students will build upon skills learned in Accounting 1.
Accounting 2 is an independent study class where students use the textbook and resources to complete online assignments at a reasonable pace assigned by the teacher.  A work study internship for a local accounting firm may be an option for students, as approved by the teacher. Students will complete the textbook which may make them eligible for college credit. All students enrolled in Business classes are required to join FBLA. The student's grade is NOT tied to the activities that take place out of school. FBLA is intra-curricular, therefore FBLA is taught within the classroom.

​Digital Photography 1
Credit: 0.5     Grade Level: 10-12
Digital photography covers a brief history of photography, vocabulary, and techniques for recognizing and taking better photographs.  Students will use Adobe CC Photoshop and Lightroom to edit and manipulate their own images in a variety of projects.  Students are taught how to plan, critique, and reflect on their work through a series of written assignments.  Classroom cameras are provided.

Digital Photography 2
Credit: 0.5     Grade Level: 10-12
Prerequisite: Digital Photography 1 and teacher recommendation.
This photography course provides students the opportunity to expand their Photoshop skills and develop their personal aesthetic through the guidance of the photography teacher.  Using creative and systematic investigation of formal and conceptual issues, students will brainstorm, plan, execute, and reflect on a series of projects.  Students will be expected to present a final portfolio and artist statement at the end of the course.

​Entrepreneurship
Credit: 1.0     Grade Level:11-12
Have you ever thought about starting your own business?  Entrepreneurship is a business course designed to help students develop the skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for successful entrepreneurs. Students enrolled in the class will manage and run the KATC School Store. All students enrolled in Business classes are required to join FBLA. The student's grade is NOT tied to the activities that take place out of school. FBLA is intra-curricular, therefore FBLA is taught within the classroom. Potentially for dual credit. 

Introduction to Business
Credit: 0.5     Grade Level: 9-12     Dual Credit
Introduction to Business is designed to expose interested students to many functions of modern business. Students will be required to join Future Business Leaders of America. This course shows the student how a business exists in a changing society and the type of decisions which must be made within that environment. The course is also designed to expose the student to the multitude of career fields in the areas of business. The importance of business in modern society is also stressed throughout the course. Topics such as entrepreneurship, business environment, management, organization, marketing, finance, and accounting are discussed in an introductory manner.  Guest speakers, leadership conferences, service projects, field trips, and fundraising are all added benefits of this class. All students enrolled in Business classes are required to join FBLA. The student's grade is NOT tied to the activities that take place out of school. FBLA is intra-curricular, therefore FBLA is taught within the classroom.

​Personal Finance
Credit: 0.5     Grade Level: 11-12
Required for all graduates. Americans are more burdened with student loan and credit card debt than ever before. Don’t be a statistic! Learn to manage your money and make good financial decisions.

Personal Finance - Dual Credit
Credit: 0.5     Grade Level: 11-12     Dual Credit
Develop skills for solving “real world” problems. Identify the components and sources of income, money management, spending and credit, saving and investment. This class is taken as a dual credit class through MACC ACC 110. Textbook fees may apply.

​Sports & Entertainment Management
Credit: 0.5     Grade Level: 9-12     
Learn about what goes on behind the scenes of sports and entertainment. Examine athletic endorsements, event sponsorships, product promotion, event planning, and careers in the field of sports and entertainment marketing. All students enrolled in Business classes are required to join FBLA. The student's grade is NOT tied to the activities that take place out of school. FBLA is intra-curricular, therefore FBLA is taught within the classroom.

Supervised Business Experience
Credit: 0.5-1.0     Grade Level: 12
This course provides a supervised work and learning experience to students through cooperation between the school and local businesses.  Students have an opportunity to attend classes for part of each day and work in an occupation where they may apply vocational knowledge, skills, and techniques in a specific job situation. Supervised Business Experience students use their business skills in the community one or two hours during the school day. Students must obtain an approved job (on their own) before the first day of school or semester and maintain their job during the duration of the year. If an SBE participant becomes unemployed in excess of two weeks, he or she will be removed from the program and placed in alternate classes.  Students may enter or leave at semester. If the student does not meet the required hours of work, they will receive a letter grade of "F." Those interested must have the following: cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better, 90% attendance, and currently enrolled in at least one other business course.  

Yearbook 
Credit: 1.0     Grade Level: 11-12 
Prerequisite: Digital Photography 1 or Intro to Graphic Design, application can be found in the counselor’s office or online.
Yearbook is a production-based class that creates the Regit yearbook. For 72 years, the staff is solely responsible for the content, design, layout, and selling of advertising for the book. The benefit of this class is that students learn how to manage a full-scale, full-budget production that involves innovating, creating, editing, enhancing, advertising, selling, and distributing our very own book. Students learn the industry standard Adobe InDesign to create the signatures of the book and meet monthly with the publishers. This class may be repeated.

​​Careers & Technology Safety (CTS)
Credit: .50   Grade Level: 10-12
This requirement for sophomores is divided up into two nine-week blocks. The career portion is designed to provide students with an understanding of how to plan for and manage careers in a continuously changing workplace. Students will learn the importance of exploring multiple career paths and how to apply development strategies throughout their life. Instruction includes strategies for engaging in life-long learning, addressing the continuous process of learning new skills, adapting decision-making and problem-solving skills to changing conditions, managing work and family responsibility, and working with diverse populations.  The computer technology/internet safety portions increases the awareness of issues related to the use of the internet and electronic communications. This course provides the students with the strategies, skills and mindset needed to protect themselves, the computer, and their privacy when they connect to the internet. Students learn about legal and ethical issues, copyright law, internet safety, cyberbullying and acceptable use policies. Application of technology in the workplace is also emphasized.

​BUSINESS - COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES OFFERED

Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Computer Science Essentials
Credit: 1.0     Grade Level 9-12
In Computer Science Essentials, students will use visual, block-based programming and seamlessly transition to text-based programming with languages such as Python to create apps and develop websites, and learn how to make computers work together to put their design into practice. They’ll apply computational thinking practices, build their vocabulary, and collaborate just as computing professionals do to create products that address topics and problems important to them.

​Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Cybersecurity
Credit: 1.0     Grade Level 10-12
Prerequisites:  PLTW CSE.
Cybersecurity introduces the tools and concepts of cybersecurity and encourages students to create solutions that allow people to share computing resources while protecting privacy. Nationally, computational resources are vulnerable and frequently attacked; in Cybersecurity, students solve problems by understanding and closing these vulnerabilities. This course raises students’ knowledge of and commitment to ethical computing behavior. It also aims to develop students’ skills as consumers, friends, citizens, and employees who can effectively contribute to communities with a dependable cyber-infrastructure that moves and processes information safely.

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