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| Course ID | Credits |
Grade |
| S702 Computer Concepts & Applications | 1/2 |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Computer Concepts & Applications is a half-year course designed to prepare all students for the world of computing. Students will be able to prepare professional looking documents with minimal effort by the end of the course. They will learn to use the features of Microsoft ® Office 2003 (Word, Excel and Power Point). Emphasis will be on computer terminology, basic concepts, and functions of the components. This course focuses on a “hands on” approach to word processing, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, presentation graphics, and Internet research skills. | ||
| 733 Accounting | 1 |
11, 12 |
| Accounting gives students an understanding of the fundamental principles and procedures involved in completing the accounting cycle. Students are instructed in journalizing, posting, preparing a worksheet with adjustments, preparing financial statements, closing entries and preparing a post-closing trial balance. Additional topics include cash control and payroll. A business simulation is used in the last quarter to reinforce all concepts presented. Computerized accounting is introduced. Personal traits of accuracy, neatness, honesty, and patience are stressed. | ||
| S744 Personal Finance | 1/2 |
11, 12 |
| Personal Finance is a half-year course that is an introduction
to the practice of personal financial management. It will teach students
how to manage their income and develop skills to retain some of that
income with which to build a personal asset base. It further explains
the major intricacies of the investment industry and educates the
student to understand the terminology of investment language. In addition
to the obvious investments in stocks and bonds, students learn of
other investment opportunities.
A strong focus will be placed on personal finance. They will learn
what to do with their money by learning about their financial options
and their responsibilities. They will learn about the consequences
of mismanaged fiances. Specific topics will include financial and
career planning, budgeting, consumer purchasing and protection,
banking credit, housing, saving, investing, stocks, bonds, mutual
funds, real estate, taxes, insurance, retirement and estate planning. |
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| S753 Web Page Design 1 | 1/2 |
11, 12 |
Web Page Design is a half-year course. The primary focus is creation of Web pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. In addition to learning how to use Dreamweaver MX 2004, the course will expose students to proper web site design and management techniques. The students will become familiar with procedures to create Web sites suitable for school, work and personal use. Macromedia Dreamweaver is known as the standard in visual authoring.
The students will create Web pages that will include links, images,
tables, forms, templates, style sheets, layers, image maps, navigation
bars, frames animations, behaviors and media objects. The course
work is exercise-oriented that allows learning by doing. They will
be maintaining and adding to six sites throughout the course including
one that is created entirely on their own. |
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| S783 Computer Science | 1/2 |
11, 12 |
| Computer Science is a half-year course. The primary focus is programming in the object-oriented/event-driven high-level computer programming language known as Visual Basic. Microsoft ® Visual Basic™ is one of the most exciting programming languages in use today. It is a software development tool that allows you to create programs. It combines a graphical interface with programming code. The course will introduce the students to Visual Basic and the basic features required to write useful Windows programs. In the first lesson, the students will play a game written in Visual Basic. In the last lesson, they will learn how to create the game they played in the first lesson. In the lessons in between they will be introduced to the fundamentals of programming in Visual Basic by creating multi-\disciplinary projects. This course will present the students with the programming environment, controls, properties of controls and necessary code syntax to complete projects of simple to moderate complexity. | ||