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BUSINESS CURRICULUM - CURRICULUM | BUSINESS FACULTY MEMBERS
The Business Department is dedicated to the education of the complete individual.
A core of electives provides students with opportunities to pursue college preparation,
career interests and life-long living skills. This department creates an environment
in which students develop abilities to analyze, compare, evaluate, problem solve,
and respect the opinion of others. Through specialized instruction in preparing
students for careers, through fundamental instruction to help students as consumers,
workers and citizens, through preparation of students for college, and continually
updating technology standards, the Business Department prepares students to find
proper roles in life.
ACCOUNTING I
Credit: 1 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course is a must for the college-bound business major. The first-year
course covers the complete accounting cycle theory for proprietorship
and partnership.
This is put into practice by the use of application to business situations.
Partnership and corporate accounting are introduced to the students.
HONORS ACCOUNTING II
Credit: 1 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisite: 80% in
Accounting I and consent of instructor
This course is a continuation of Accounting I and takes a more
intensified and in-depth study of partnership and corporation accounting
for the college
business
major. Inventory control, cost accounting, and managerial accounting are
also introduced in this course. Emphasis is placed on learning
problem solving strategies
and testing business applications using simulation techniques. Students gain
hands-on experience with computerized accounting methods.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to help students improve their verbal, nonverbal
and written communication skills. Areas of study include the following:
developing business presentations; conducting interviews; writing
business letters,
memos
and reports; effective listening skills; preparing visual aides; meeting
facilitation; and career selection and networking. Students will Microsoft
PowerPoint, a
presentation software, and prepare and present an original business plan.
BUSINESS LAW
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course in business and personal law helps students to study
the evolving set of rules that form our legal structure. The student's
attention is
focused on both the substance and the process of our legal system and
understanding legal issues in the core topics of business law, integrated
with the most
relevant personal law topics.
CONSUMER EDUCATION
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Sophomore Prerequisite:
Enrolled in Geometry and have a 2.5 GPA Junior/Senior Prerequisite:
None
This course is designed to give students a better understanding of
the role of consumers, industry, and government in our economic system.
Improving
the students'
decision making skills by developing their ability to judge consumer
situations and make educated decisions that best fit their needs is
one of the major
goals of the course.The students learn how to budget money wisely,
balance a check-book,
apply for credit, and shop for housing and furniture. Projects on careers,
personal budgeting, decision making, the stock market, and credit provide
in-depth study
oppor-tunities.
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces students to three different aspects of business:
marketing, management, and finance. This course is designed to show
students how businesses
market their products or services; how businesses manage their day-to-day
operations; and how businesses finance their operations and manage
their cash flow. Students
are ex-posed to simulation projects and software, and the Internet.
COMPUTER HARDWARE
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
Using PCs in hands-on labs, students learn to install, troubleshoot and maintain
Windows and common PC hardware components. Software installation and maintenance
topics include Windows, anti-virus, spyware, MS Office, utilities and home networking.
Hardware components include motherboards, hard drives, video, sound, memory,
laptops, printers, network cards and cabling. Upon completion, students are able
to assist others identify their needs when purchasing and maintaining a computer
system.
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisite: 76% in Word
Processing
This course gives students “hands-on” experience in desktop
publishing, database, and multi-media software packages for the business
environment. Through
a series of projects, students learn the concepts and steps used to create graphic
multi-media presentations, impressive brochures and business documents, and databases
which form the core of most business programs. Students learn to use hardware
such as digital cameras and scanners.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
This is a semester course in which students are introduced to the keyboard
by touch. Basic keyboarding techniques and skills are developed. Students
learn
how to use Microsoft Word, a word processing software, to format personal and
business letters, tables, and reports. Other areas of study include the basics
of hardware and software, Internet research, and computer ethics. This is a required
course for all freshmen.
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: 76% in
Word Processing
This self-directed course introduces students to basic and intermediate
features of Microsoft Office. This suite of programs contains word processing
software
(Word), presentation graphics software (PowerPoint), and spreadsheet software
(Excel). Students use practical computer skills combined with problem-solving,
critical-thinking and creative-thinking skills.
VISUAL BASIC
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: A good
attendance
record and a cumulative GPA of 3.4 or above.
This course introduces the students to the computer language used to program
Windows applications. Students learn how to design user interfaces, utilize event
procedures, connect subprograms, and manipulate programmed objects.
HONORS PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisites: A good
attendance record and cumulative GPA of 3.4 or above. Completion of
Visual Basic is strongly
recommended.
This course introduces the student to the computer language most commonly used
on the world wide web. Students learn the JAVA coding for constants, variables,
functions, loops, input/output, and computer designed objects.
WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Credit: .5 unit
Eligible Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Consent
of instructor.
This course allows students to create their own web pages and web sites
using Dreamweaver 4.0, a hypertext markup language (HTML) generator program.
Design
topics include table and frame layout, hyperlinks, interactive forms, images/
graphics, multimedia elements, and cascading style sheets. The development component
includes a brief introduction to HTML and elementary programming logic. Students
re-ceive “hands-on” experience in a lab setting, and have the opportunity
to participate in the design and maintenance of the St. Francis High School website.
OFFICE
AIDE FOR COMPUTER
Credit: None
Eligible Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisites: A good attendance
record and department chairperson consent.
The student will be assigned to the computer lab, rather than to a study hall,
and will be present to run messages, to watch over the computer lab, and assist
in hardware and software maintenance.
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT Department Chair: Barry Dalaba
BARRY DALABA
TEACHES: Accounting I, Honors Accounting II EXTRAS: Business Department Chair
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 9
YEARS
IN EDUCATION: 35
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1979, Doctor of Education, Northern Illinois University 1971, Master of Business Administration, Sam Houston State University 1970, Bachelor of Business Administration, California Baptist University
TOM CUSICK
TEACHES: Honors Programming in JAVA, Visual Basic, Web Design & Development
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 1
YEARS IN EDUCATION: 7
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1977, Master of Business Administration, Bradley University 1972 Bachelor of Science in Marketing, Northern Illinois University
SHAWN HEALY (1995)
TEACHES: Introduction to Computers, Business Communications (see English Department) EXTRAS: Coaching—Head Varsity Boys Basketball
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 5
YEARS IN EDUCATION: 5
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1999, Bachelor of Arts in Communications, DePaul University
RAEANN HUHN
TEACHES: Microsoft Office (see President’s Council and Principal’s Council)
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 22
YEARS IN EDUCATION: 24
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1995, Master of Science in Educational Administration, Northern Illinois University 1982, Bachelor of Science in Business Education, Eastern Illinois University
RICH JANOR
TEACHES: Introduction to Computers, Business Law
EXTRAS: Coaching –- Head Varsity Baseball
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 6
YEARS
IN EDUCATION: 6
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1999, Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Notre Dame
PAUL JOHNSON
TEACHES: Computer Hardware
EXTRAS: Assistant Director of Technology
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 5
YEARS
IN EDUCATION: 14
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1987, Bachelor of Arts, Governors State University , Illinois
MIKE LYNCH (1977)
TEACHES : Consumer Education, Marketing Management (see also Social Studies Department) EXTRAS: Head Intramural Moderator, Coaching—Head Varsity Boys Volleyball
YEARS AT ST. FRANCIS : 10 YEARS
IN EDUCATION: 10
DEGREE(S) EARNED: 1981, Bachelor of Science in Business/Finance, University of Illinois Champaign
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