Business Department

Accounting 1a & 1b (5621-5622)

Course Descriptio

Accounting 1 is a beginning level business finance course. It introduces accounting principles and procedures for proprietorships, partnerskips, and coroporations. If you like to work with numbers and are interested in learning about managing money, you will like accounting. Not only is this pratical for your personal life, but this class will give you the skills for certain types of office and management work. This course will prepare you to study any area of business in college or technical school after high school. Accounting is the heartbeat of business--any business. You will simulate handling the entire financial record keeping system for a small business as well as learn computer entries. This course is recommended for students who are pursuing careers in accounting, finance, business management, law, marketing, and the secretarial area.

Business Foundation 1 & 2 (5661-5662)

Course Description

Learn to file your own taxes. Know how to spend your money wisely. Test your aptitude as a business owner. Find out how business is organized and how our economy works. Practice finding a job opportunity, filling out an application, being prepared for tough interview questions you might be asked and leaning how to get along with your co-workers. Become acquainted with some of the great business leaders of the past and present. Investigate your career options in business. These are just some of the opportunities offered to the student who enrolls in Into to Business. This is an excellent class for students who are considering Marketing Field Experiences Job Training or Business Cooperative Experiences.

Business and Personal Law 1 & 2 (5671-5672)

Course Description

The Business and Personal Law course provides and exciting perspective of legal system by providing case analysis, case discussion, class debate, and mock trial. The first semester of the course covers criminal and civil law; the second semester covers contract law. Instructional strategies may include field trips, guest speakers, and use of community law libraries.

Computer Applications 1 & 2 (5760-5761)

Course Description

Computer Applications is a one-year course designed to provide the student fundamental computer concepts and in-depth software knowledge. The student will receive hands-on training on state-of-the-art software and computer harware and periphals such as digital cameras and scanners. Computer software taught in teh class will reflect that used by the employing community. Most software applications taught will be part of the Microsoft Offices suite and will be WIndows based. However, students will also be introduced to the Macintosh as well as other Windows and Macintosh applications. Spreadsheets and graphs will be taught using Excel; database management will use Access; word processing/desktop publishins will use Word; and presentation sofware and multimedia will be taught using HyperStudio and PowerPoint. Graphis units also will be incorporated. Students will receive extensive training on teh Internet and be exposed to future technology trends. Any student planning on attending college or who wants a career in business or computers should take this course.

PREREQUSITE: Computer Keyboarding/ Document Formatting

Computer Keyboarding/ Document Formatting 1&2 (5521-5222)

Course Description

Computer Keyboarding is a necessary life skill needed by almost everyone today. Have fun learning how to use the IBM compatible computers using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect for Windows. Students will develop touch keyboarding skills and strive for speed and accuracy. Communication skills will be ceveloped adn enhanced through preparation and formating of documents. Functions of the software being used will be taught. English skills will be reviewed. This course will be helpful to students who have a career interest in working in an office setting and to students who are college bound and want to become proficient in typing letters, tables, memorandums, outlines, forms, reports, and term papers. Some Schools will be coordinating selected assignments with the English Department. This course meets the state computer literacy requirement as well as meeting Tech Prep standards for Business Career Cluster.

PREREQUSITE: None (Middle School Keyboarding is helpful but not required)

Marketing Foundations 1 & 2 (5951-5952)

Course Description

If you are either college or non-college bound and interested in a career in marketing, management, sales or you have thought about owning your own business after graduation from high school, you should take marketing. Marketing Foundation is a course which will provide a basic introduction to the scope and importance of marketing in the global economy. This course is based upon the national Marketing Education Framework which includes economic, human resources, abd marketing and business foundations. Emphasis will be placed on oral and written communications, mathematic applications, problem solving, and critical thinking skills as they can relate to selling, promotion, pricing, purchasing, marketing information management, product/service planing

A+ Support and Service Technology

Course Description

A+ Support and Service Technology is an Information Technology class based on the CompTIA A+ program. Students learn from a combination of the books and videos of world famous technician Mike Myers, a lab simulation program called LabSim, over 100 physical labs, and of course the personal experiences of teacher and very successful technician, Walter Jaqua. The class is a 3-hour block every Monday thru Friday. It is the first year class, followed by Network+ and Security+ the second year. Students that complete the class have an opportunity to get dual credits at Vincennes University, which can transfer over to participating colleges and universities. Students that qualify for the end-of-the-year test will take the CompTIA A+ Certification exam free of charge for their first attempt. Every student that passes the test will become an official certified computer technician by CompTIA.

Course Description

Network+ is the second year class of the CompTIA program. It is a one-semester class, with the second semester being Security+. If you take the Network+ certification exam and pass, you can be certified by the end of the first semester. As with the A+ class, students receive college credits at Vincennes, which can be transferred, depending on how they do that semester. The class is heavily based around Mike Myer's video lessons, his texbook, and labs that he has made. The class is also primarily lectures, with about an hour of the class spent on reviewing/learning about the current chapter. This class, like the A+, is 18 chapters long, but is one semester instead of two, so students are required to work a lot harder to acheive their certification.

Course Description

The second-year CompTIA course taught by Mr. Jaqua in the Riley CTE Program. This is one of the few Security+ courses that is taught in High School in the country. This is the third certification that students will get it they pass all of the certification exams up to this point. The class is also based on Mike Myer's textbook and lab book. The class also utilizes the programs LabSim and LearnSmart for video lessons and virtual labs and practice tests. This is the most rigorous course of the three CompTIA courses taught at Riley High School.