Class Level: 10-12

English Publications is an exciting course in which students create desktop-published materials while learning to write like journalists. Students compose feature stories, editorials, news articles, and advertisements and create newsletters and brochures. Students also create persuasive audio-visual presentations on careers and colleges. Emphasis is placed on mastering writing skills needed in college and in the workplace. Grades are based mainly on individual products, but also on at least one collaborative project.

This course is designed for those students who desire additional keyboarding skill enhancement. Students will use proper technique to learn the correct keyboard fingering in order to improve speed and accuracy. Business correspondence and report and table formatting will be emphasized.

This course is designed to help students further develop speed and accuracy on the keyboard using proper technique. Students will also learn correct formatting for a variety of business-style documents and practice their skills in a business simulation.

Virtually every economic, social, and public activity uses marketing, which is the process of planning, pricing, promoting, and distributing the products that we use each day. Marketing involves information gathering, recruiting, image building, training, campaigning, financing, and communicating. Students will apply basic marketing strategies while having fun participating in computer simulations. They will also learn how to market themselves as well as participate in a sales presentation. Principles of Marketing is for students who are interested in a business major in college and/or marketing as a career.

Law for Business and Personal Use will introduce students to many facets of law. You will understand rights for arrest, search and seizure, and other personal rights granted by the Constitution. This will be followed with an in-depth study of contract law and the determination of what constitutes a legally binding contract. Property law, rental agreements, employment law, and finance law are some of the topics that will be studied.

This course allows students to explore the exciting world of the web page design. In the rapidly growing area of web page design, students will learn to plan, create and maintain a personal and business web page. This course does not require extensive knowledge of programming, but an understanding of software packages is essential. Students will use the software packages to create web designs. Students will use web authoring software to create web designs. Students who wish to pursue a career in web design should consider this course.

A computer is one of the most flexible machines ever built. Its ability to switch from one purpose to another is easily accomplished through computer programming. You will learn how to create computer-based graphics including computer mouse event movements, and solve mathematical problems. In addition, you will continually improve your problem solving ability. This course will satisfy a ½ unit Math credit.

This course allows students to work with the up and coming object oriented computer programming language named Java. Students will explore and program with Java’s unique features including easily completed graphics capabilities and insertions for web page design. This will be the first term of 2 terms necessary to prepare for the Advanced Placement Computer Science examination.

This is a course that will apply and enhance the concepts introduced in Java AP Programming. A unique graphics based case study is used to allow students to assimilate programming principles. Upon completion of this course, a student may (but not required) take the Advanced Placement Computer Science examination.