The Carmel High School business curriculum offers:
1) A variety of computer courses.
2) Recognized business electives for college-bound students.
3) Classroom training in entry-level occupational skills.
COLLEGE BOUND STUDIES - Top
Every student who enrolls in keyboarding and computer courses will be better prepared for the information society. Accounting, Business Law, Business Management, International Business, and Marketing also provide a background for the college business major.
CAREER EDUCATION - Top
Courses classified as "CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION" are vocationally accredited and funded as specified by the Indiana Department of Education. The general objective of vocational offerings is to prepare students for life by providing them with "marketable skills." Regardless of their career objectives, career education courses provide a base from which students can experience aspects of life as it will be after they complete their formal education.
Classification: Regular
Accounting is the most fundamental study preparing students to enter their personal and business financial worlds. Students will study basic bookkeeping concepts, analyze business and personal financial situations, and acquire a working knowledge of common financial practices and reports. Students will learn both manual and computerized accounting applications. Simulations will enhance the students' awareness of collegiate and business requirements and practices.
Accounting 1 begins with bookkeeping concepts and then bridges those skills into concepts and principles of accounting. Students are exposed to the accounting cycle and banking practices that require bookkeeping skills for a service oriented business. In Accounting 2 the student will study accounting and payroll systems and subsystems utilizing journals, ledgers, and financial statements for a merchandise business.
Accelerated ACCOUNTING 1-2 - Top Classification: Regular
This accelerated schedule is available allowing students to complete Accounting 1 and 2 during first semester while others are working at the traditional Accounting 1 pace. Students electing the accelerated pace will enroll in Accounting 3 during the 2nd semester if a minimum 80% accuracy average is maintained. Students may change levels before the end of the third week of school. Only Accounting 1 and 2 may be accelerated into one semester's work. All students contemplating a collegiate business major are urged to complete Accounting 3 (4 if possible).
Classification: Regular
In Accounting 3 various accounting options are introduced and compared as students further their understanding of assets, liabilities and equity. Depreciation, accrual concepts, inventory systems, notes, stocks and bonds are examples of course content. Students will create spreadsheets utilizing Excel. Students will also utilize Peachtree accounting software to complete many financial entries and create financial reports. Topics in Accounting 4 include budgeting, introduction to manufacturing and cost accounting, pricing factors and analysis, cash flow, and in-depth financial statement analysis is combined with computerized accounting practices. Computer usage in Accounting 4 is an integral part of this course. Students will use the computer on a daily basis as they learn advanced accounting concepts.
Classification: Regular
This is an introductory law course beginning with an overview of ethics and the need for law in our society and continuing with a comparison of criminal and tort law. A study of the court system and trial procedures in the United States is included. Contract law is emphasized as the basis for business law with related topics investigated including sales, credit, product-liability, employment, and consumer law.
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND MANAGEMENT - Top
Classification: Regular
This course is designed to give students a solid background in management and the entrepreneurial process. Special emphasis will be placed on small business management. Students will learn about economic forces and how they affect business decisions. Current case problems donated from area businesses will give the students challenging management problems to solve. Students may join the Achievers International-Indiana program that facilitates forming an International Trading Company and trading in the Global Market.
Classification: Regular
In Computer Applications 1 students use Microsoft Word and Excel in the Windows environment to create documents applicable to home and school. Students also learn appropriate and effective use of the Internet using Internet Explorer. These applications will also apply to future college and job tasks. This course helps students develop efficient and practical computer skills beyond the basics which they may have learned at home or in our middle schools. This course is offered both semesters.
Classification: Regular
In Computer Applications 2 students use Microsoft Access, PowerPoint and Publisher to strengthen their computer and problem solving skills. Students will prepare integrated reports and multumedia presentations using components from the Office 2000 Suite and the Internet. Students will use other peripheral devices such as scanners and cameras to integrate into presentation software. This course is offered only during the second semester.
Classification: Vocational
This course is designed to give students a background in beginning web page design. Students will understand the purpose of the Internet, the various services available and methods of accessing the Internet. Design features, functions and considerations in designing web pages will be introduced. By utilizing various web browsers and search engines, students will evaluate web pages for content and design. Various web page authoring software will be used as well as beginning HTML to create the web pages. This course would give students and advantage in the business world or college in designing web pages.
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 1/ WORLD GEOGRAPHY 1 - Top
Classification: Regular
Students who enroll in this two course block will use their computer skills to create work for the geography course. Unit one focuses on basic concepts of geography and will include detailed study of maps, charts, graphs, conservation of resources, population, and cultural components. Units two through four will include studies of the political, cultural, physical, and economical geography of Asia, Australia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Sahara Africa. Students will learn to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, and specialized map software. Students will produce maps, trip plans, collect and process data, and prepare both integrated reports and multimedia presentations using the computer and peripheral devices.
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 2/ WORLD GEOGRAPHY 2 - Top
Classification: Regular
Students will study the geography of the Western Hemisphere and Europe including a detailed study of the political, cultural, physical and economic geography of Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Students will learn more complex functions of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Publisher along with other specialized software. Students will use the computer as a tool to create various types of documents and presentations related to their study of geography including brochures, multimedia presentations, spreadsheets, and databases. Students will download information from the Internet as needed.
Classification: Regular
Computer Applications 3 is designed for students who have a desire to learn more advanced features of many commercial software packages including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access), Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier. Students will use the Internet throughout the semester. An integration project will demonstrate the students' knowledge and proficiency in the various programs. This course is offered only during the first semester.
ADVANCED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - Top
Classification: Regular
Students must complete applications for the program before enrolling. Students will use a variety of software in areas of animation, multimedia creation, and web page creation along with other available technology. Students are expected to investigate and explore computer applications in which they have had little previous experience, and they will be exempt from modules in which they are well trained. Students will monitor and update the Business Department home page on the World Wide Web. This course is offered only during the second semester.
Classification: Regular
This contextual, multimedia, economics curriculum combines videodisks, videocassettes, print, and computer software into a comprehensive one semester course. The five instructional modules are designed around the five major economic activities: producing, exchanging, consuming, saving, and investing. This course uses real-world examples and context-based learning activities to help students understand economic concepts necessary for participation in the American economy as informed citizens. (This course fulfills the graduation requirement for economics.)
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 1 - Top
Classification: Regular
This is an exploratory course where students will learn to make informed consumer decisions and manage their personal income. The course also explains the operations of our private enterprise system by emphasizing the business cycles and economic indicators. Lastly, students will explore different types of careers while using the decision-making model.
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 2 - Top
Classification: Regular
This is an exploratory course where students will learn about personal banking and using credit wisely, Students will participate in an extensive stock market simulation and study other forms of saving and investing. Students will also learn about insuring against a loss.
Classification: Regular
This course is designed with an emphasis on the effect of international trade in a global economy. Areas to be studied include the effects of multicultural societies on business markets; global exchange; export/import; and the international aspects of finance, management, marketing, communication, and technology. Instructional strategies may include usage of the Internet to communicate with international businesses and individual schools, job shadowing, field trips, guest speakers, computer/technology applications, and cooperative projects. Students may join the Achievers International-Indiana program that facilitates forming an International Trading Company and trading in the Global Market.
KEYBOARDING/FORMATTING 1 - Top
Classification: Regular
This course focuses on correct techniques as students develop their keyboarding skills. Microsoft Word in a Windows environment is used for document creation, formatting and processing. Reports, tables, and a variety of personal and business documents are part of the curriculum that also emphasizes good basic skill building. Students will manipulate data and text from multiple documents.
ACCELERATED KEYBOARDING/FORMATTING - Top
Classification: Regular
The design of this class is based on the premise that some students have acquired a limited keyboarding skill in middle school or at home; however, they have not obtained a skill level for producing and formatting documents quickly, accurately and efficiently. Students with an accurate keyboarding speed of approximately 30 words per minute without watching their hands may select this course and can expect to complete in one semester work comparable to a full year of keyboarding. Students will gain an extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Word in a Windows environment. Some Internet and e-mail work will be included.
KEYBOARDING/FORMATTING 2 - Top
Classification: Regular
Microsoft Word proficiency is stressed throughout this course that is designed to improve a student's skill in formatting documents quickly, accurately, and efficiently. This course gives the student a solid base in Microsoft Word for personal use, college, or the world of work.Advanced formatting techniques are developed in business and personal documents, including tables, mail merge, academic reports, newsletters, resumes and letters of application, editing, and language arts.
KEYBOARDING/FORMATTING SUCCESS SKILLS 1-2 - Top
Classification: Regular
This freshman only course combines keyboarding and an orientation to Carmel High School in one year-long course. Much time is spent at the beginning of the semester orienting incoming freshmen to the CHS facility, policies and procedures, staff, and skills needed to have a successful high school experience. Students will also learn listening, study, notetaking and test taking skills along with problem solving, conflict resolution and organizational skills. An emphasis will also be placed on career opportunities, workforce needs, assessment of career interest and abilities and the planning of a high school program to help the students reach career goals. Throughout the year, the students will also learn to keyboard and use Microsoft Word to create correctly formatted word processing documents such as reports, tables, letters, and outlines.
Classification: Regular
Students will use Pagemaker along with peripheral devices such as scanners and cameras. They will learn basic design principles and the use of the software early in the semester. The class will then be prject oriented with the designing and producing documents which demonstrate various capabilities of the software and designated design principles.
COLLEGE PREP KEYBOARDING - Top
Classification: Regular
This specially designed course for college-bound seniors who have not had a keyboarding class emphasizes correct techniques and building skill which will enable students to develop proper keystroking patterns and speed by using touch keyboarding. Students will use Microsoft Word in a Windows environment. Course work includes skill building and formatting of lists, tables, outlines, reports with works cited, footnotes, and endnotes, personal correspondence, and the use of the Internet and e-mail.
Classification: Career Education
This course is an introduction to marketing and an exploration of career opportunities in the field. Units of study include: salesmanship, advertising, display, communications, and job interview. Students also study retailing, product packaging, business ownership, pricing and market research. Competitive activities are provided for students to exercise skills and knowledge gained in the program through the co-curricular organization DECA. This course is a requirement for students enrolling in Marketing Education 3-4. Students are expected to participate in DECA.
Classification: Career Education
Students must complete applications for the program after completing Marketing Education 1-2 or Fashion Merchandising 1-2 and be interviewed by the coordinator before enrolling. This course is designed for students who wish to pursue careers in marketing, management, merchandising, entrepreneurship, or other distributive areas or who plan to major in some phase of business in college. Students selected will receive on-the-job training in areas related to their career choices. Classroom instruction is directly related to the job and includes study in the areas of psychology and human relations, merchandising, management, equipment and layout, credit, taxes, and financing a business. Practical experience in store organization is gained through the actual operation of school stores. Students are expected to participate in DECA.
FASHION MERCHANDISING 1-2 - Top
Classification: Career Education
This course is designed to develop or enhance competencies related to marketing functions and tasks performed by employees in retail establishments primarily engaged in marketing clothing of all kinds. Emphasis is placed on apparel and accessories careers, buying, selling, sales promotion, merchandising, fashion cycles, and fashion theories. Students are expected to participate in DECA. This course may be taken in place of Marketing Education 1-2 to prepare for Marketing Education 3-4.
Classification: Regular
Students will spend approximately 70% of their class time learning an abbreviated writing system to increase speed while taking extensive lecture notes. Additional topics include: organization and effective study habits, goal setting and self-motivation, reading for comprehension, stress management, memory techniques, creative thinking, effec-tive listening, study setting, and time management.
Classification: Regular
This course will allow students to participate in their community through volunteerism. Interest assessment, types of business and business relationships in communities, work of volunteer and civic groups, and understanding of need for volunteers in communities will be emphasized. Each student will volunteer to work on a community project in a local organization and will be released from class to fulfill his/her commitments.
Classification: Regular
This program is designed to assist the student in exploring work experiences and in providing a better understanding of occupations of interest. In class the student will research and assess her/his own career interests through personality and career interest tests and job shadowing. Finally the student participates in an extended internship in an area derived from this exploration. Anticipated sites include, but are not limited to, health care, legal, business, communications, and engineering and may vary according to student interests.
BASIC VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 1-2 - Top
Classification: Career Education
This course will present an overview of basic skills required for entering the work force. Skills related to getting a job and keeping a job such as basic business practices, the job application and interview process, and business expectations of employers will be explored. Additionally, these students will be helped to assess their own strengths, weaknesses, and interests for career possibilities. The instructor will assist each student in developing an educational plan to help him/her reach his/her goals.
COMPUTER SCIENCE A 1-2, Advanced Placement - Top
Classification: Advanced Placement
This course assumes that the student has had prior experience using but not programming a computer. Students solve programming problems by planning, entering, and debugging solutions using the C++ language. Topics covered include syntax, methods, loops, functions, control structures, and simple data structures including arrays. The course follows the syllabus of the Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science A curriculum as prescribed by the AP Committee. Students may elect to take the AP Computer Science A Exam administered in May at their own cost.
COMPUTER SCIENCE AB 1-2, Advanced Placement - Top
Classification: Advanced Placement
This course assumes that a student has had prior experience programming a computer using the C++ language. Students solve programming problems using the C++ language. Topics covered include table creation, sorting, searching, and random access file manipulations. This course is provided for students who are seriously interested in developing programming skills or a career in computer science. The course follows the syllabus of the Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science AB curriculum as prescribed by the AP Committee. Students may elect to take either the AP Computer Science A Exam or the AP Computer Science AB Exam administered in May at their own cost.
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 1-2, Advanced Placement - Top
Classification: Advanced Placement
The course is provided for students who are seriously interested in developing programming skills or a career in computer science. Students, with the aid of the instructor, select topics to study. The emphasis is on programming projects, which require many weeks of planning, designing, and implementing. Student projects often become applications later used by the rest of the CHS staff. Students may elect to take either the AP Computer Science A Exam or the AP Computer Science AB Exam administered in May at their own cost.
CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMY - Top
Classification: Regular
The Cisco Networking Academy prepares students for 21st Century jobs by teaching them to design, build, and maintain computer networks. The skills that Academy students and graduates gain through the instructor-led, web-based curriculum and hands-on laboratory exercises are well recognized. Through Work Based Learning opportunities, students will augment their hands-on experience and receive valuable real-life skills as they prepare for possible careers as networking professionals. Work-based learning refers to learning experiences and activities that are based on, and take place in, some type of work setting or simulated work setting and may include apprenticeships, internships, formalized on-the-job training and supervised short term projects
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 10, 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Accounting 2
Open to: 10, 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Keyboarding 1 or instructor approval
Open to: 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Computer Applications 1 or instructor approval
Open to: 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Computer Applications 1
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None, Keyboarding recommended
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: Computer Applications 1/World Geography 1
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: Computer Applications 2
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Computer Applications 3 and instructor approval
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 9, 10, 11
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 9, 10, 11
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Keyboarding 1 or Accelerated Keyboarding
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 9
Credit: 2 or 1 + Keyboarding 1 credit
Prerequisite: Keyboarding 1
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 11
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: Marketing Education 2 or Fashion Merchandising 2 and instructor approval
Open to: 12
Credit: 6
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: None
Open to: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Application, interview, and teacher recommendation
Open to: 12
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Application and instructor approval
Open to: 12
Credit: 1
Selection of participants will be based on a combination of academic performance (3.0 minimum GPA or permission of the program director), attendance records, ability to follow school rules and community laws, and teacher recommendations. Each participant must provide transportation to and from the internship site.
Prerequisite: None
Open to: Non-College-Bound Special Students
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: Algebra I
Open to: 10, 11, 12
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Computer Science A 2, AP
Open to: 11, 12
Credit: 2
Prerequisite: Computer Science AB 2
Open to: 12
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Computer Science A 2, AP
Open to: 11, 12
Credits: 2