DIGITAL PATHWAYS – BU2201Length of Course:One SemesterCredit:.5 CreditGrade Placement: 9Prerequisite:NoneState Code:12001A001Course Description: The Digital Pathways team of teachers will use a variety of learning activities and technological applications to give students a concise overview of digital citizenship,21 st century skills, and career direction. Additionally, activities within each of the four content areas: Technology, Family and Consumer Sciences, Business, and the Visual Arts, will promotethe improvement of basic communication skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Students will gain an awareness of educational and personal requirements necessary to besuccessful at college and in the workplace. A foundation for lifelong learning will begin to build as students develop the competencies needed for success in their education, career, andcommunity life.ENTREPRENEURSHIP - TE1222Length of Course:One YearCredit:1.0 CreditGrade Placement: 10, 11, 12Prerequisite:NoneState Code:12053A001Course Description: Students will develop basic entrepreneurship skills, as well as production skills necessary for the actual small business run by the class, Signs of the Times. Thestudents will not only understand the needs of the entrepreneur-small business owner, but will also learn the application software and technical skills of a graphic design production lab. Thestudents will learn how to produce banners, special custom products, and vinyl stickers. The class requires the students to create a virtual small business, research well-known entrepreneurs,market their ideas, and complete written assignments and tests. This course provides students with a foundation of essential skills necessary to function in this rapidly changing digital worldof production.JAVA PROGRAMMING - BU1219Length of Course:One SemesterCredit:.5 CreditGrade Placement: 10, 11, 12Prerequisite: C or better in Integrated Math 1State Code:10152A001Course Description: JAVA programming will teach the students how to create Web pages using the JAVA script. The course content will include classes and class members, programstructures, event-driven programming, object-driven programming, specialization and inheritance, interfaces, arrays, and collections. Upon completion of the course, the students should beable to design, and code a JAVA-oriented application. This course is a prerequisite to the AP-Computer Science A (JAVA) Course.MARKETING – PRODUCT AND ADVERTISING - BU1222Length of Course:One SemesterCredit:.5 CreditGrade Placement: 10, 11, 12Prerequisite:NoneState Code:12164A001Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with the understanding of how companies generate products and the process of promoting them. Students will learn throughrealistic hands-on projects the importance of advertising to businesses and consumers. Topics of this course will include the value and purpose of advertising, basic planning, advertisingdesign, and design layouts.MARKETING - SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT - BU1225Length of Course:One SemesterCredit:.5 CreditGrade Placement: 10, 11, 12Prerequisite:NoneState Code:12152A001Course Description: This is a specialized marketing course that provides an opportunity to learn marketing principles in the field of sports, recreation, and entertainment. Emphasis is placedupon the marketing functions of financing, marketing-information management, pricing, product/service management, promotion, and selling. Units of study include the following: marketingproducts/services, endorsements, event planning, licensing & sponsoring, and ticket sales. The focus of this course is twofold: to provide students with a framework for understanding theunique dynamics, structure, delivery systems, and marketing and promotional strategies that shape the entertainment and sports industries; and to examine how organizations who do notdeliver entertainment as a core product, leverage sports and entertainment properties to advance separate and distinct marketing objectives.MICROSOFT EDGE – BU2238Length of Course:One SemesterCredit:.5 CreditGrade Placement: 9Prerequisite:NoneState Code:10004A001Course Description: This course is for all students who want to expand upon and refine their basic computer skills. Students will develop an in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel,Access and presentation software that can be transferred to other computer and academic courses, as well as personal and career areas of their lives. The Internet will be used as a learningtool in this course. The course will also explore current technologies and other software and applications utilized in today’s 21st century workplace.19
VISUAL BASIC .NET PROGRAMMING - BU1234Length of Course:One SemesterCredit:.5 CreditGrade Placement: 10, 11, 12Prerequisite:NoneState Code:10152A002Course Description: This course will teach students how to create Windows-oriented applications or programs using Visual Basic .NET as the programming language. The course contentwill include graphical user interfaces, forms, controls, properties, loops, events, and objects. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to design, code, test, and debug VisualBasic .NET language programs. Math skills and analytical thinking skills are emphasized and essential for the problem solving applications.20
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