Course Offerings:

Business Department

Management Support 

This is a required course for all students majoring in business and a prerequisite for accounting and the block classes. This is a comprehensive program for business courses at the high school. This course enables students to learn how the business economy operates and to help prepare the student for their career future related to the business and computer careers. The class focuses on teaching the student to be a responsible consumer, wage earner and citizen with their local economy, as well as the world around them. The program combines business, technology, economics, and marketing concepts with practical applications for the real world.

Major units include: Utilizing technology as a tool in all areas of their life, the global economy, how it affects their personal and business life, life skills, communication skills, technology skills, and employment skills. Student will learn to realize their individual talents and skills and how to apply these to career fields. They will continue to research their career future, update resumes, apply for a job and interview effectively. Leadership skills are integrated throughout this program and will be developed, as well as good work habits, employability skills, applied communications and making sound business decisions through the use of the computer and real life applications. As the student completes one unit they will advance to the next unit.

This course also includes advanced units in: personal and business finance, banking, career unit, medical and legal office, leadership skills, international business, information technology, database and spreadsheets and other specialty areas of interest to the student in the business area.

Management Support - Computers I

This course is a continuation of the management support cluster and is required for graduation. It is designed to provide an introduction to basic computer concepts using Microsoft Office Professional. Students will learn Microsoft Word and an introduction to Microsoft Excel. In today’s society, with its reliance on computer information processing, it is essential that students develop proficiency in the use of the major software programs. As students complete a unit, they will advance to the next unit.

Management Support - Computers II

This course is a continuation of the management support cluster. This course is the completion of Microsoft Office I. It begins at the point that Microsoft Office I concluded emphasizing the more advanced features of Excel. Access, the database program, used for organizing and sorting information, will be an important part of the course. PowerPoint, the presentation graphics program used for creating visual presentations, will be introduced. Typical business application will be given as projects. As the student completes one unit, s/he will advance to the next unit.

Management Support - Computers III

This course is a continuation of the management support cluster. This course will provide students with a proficiency in Corel WordPerfect, one of the most frequently used software programs used in colleges and businesses. In addition to learning the features of WordPerfect, the course is designed to give students experience in the types of applications that they will need in both business and educational environments. This course covers the word processing and an introduction to the spreadsheet (Quattro Pro) program included in this integrated software. (Paradox, the database program and Presentations, the graphics program, will have to be covered in a future course). This course will be advantageous for the college-bound students as well as business students. As the student completes one unit, she/he will advance to the next unit.

Multimedia

Prerequisite:  Management Support. Students will use publishing such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Image Ready, Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Word to create media. Media will include the High School Newspaper, desktop publishing projects for our high school and central office, animations for digital video or web pages, and digital video projects assigned by the instructor.

Adobe Web Design Fundamentals

Prerequisites: Basic computer literacy. Grades 10-12

This is a one-year, two-semester course. The primary objective of the course is to introduce the basic techniques and fundamentals of web page design using Adobe software. This includes Adobe Photoshop 6, Illustrator 9, Premier 6, and Go live 6. These Adobe programs are the standard for web graphic design and media development. The course has an online format. The lessons and tests will be presented and taken on the computer. (This is not a highly technical course. Only basic computer and Internet skills are needed.)

Accounting Assistant

This class is recommended for students in their junior year. This course is designed to provide students with the skills basic to the accounting department of small businesses. With the growth of small businesses which utilize internal accounting procedures, it is necessary that students be competent in basic accounting principles as they relate to proprietorship and partnerships. As even the smallest businesses utilize the computer for basic accounting, students must have an understanding of and experience in the use of computers in accounting.

Advanced Accounting/Finance Support

This class is a continuation of the Accounting Assistant (I and II) and includes a brief review of the accounting concepts. Partnerships, Corporations, and Cost Accounting will be introduced, along with new adjustments such as accruals, depreciations and prepaid expenses. Micro-computer, Automated Accounting and other software programs related to Accounting and Word Processing will be used extensively. Spreadsheets will be used to set up accounting statements. Co-op placement is also an option which gives the student and opportunity to have on-the-job training in a local business.

Advanced Information Technology

Students will progress through a series of tasks which are necessary to prepare them for a specific type of job. Job titles for which students may achieve Certificates of competency include Office Assistant, Office Specialist, Information Processing Assistant, Information Processing Specialist, Administrative Assistant, Administrative Specialist, Medical Office Assistant, or Legal Office Assistant. Computer skills, time management skills, decision-making skills, and organizational skills will be emphasized and utilized in a business atmosphere.

R.E.A.L. Entrepreneur

This class will guide students through the process of creating small businesses of their own design. The process includes: self assessment to determine students’ potential and existing marketable strengths, community analyses, to identify needs and trends in the local economy, research and writing of a comprehensive business plan for a student’s chosen enterprise. The students use their communities and businesses as "labs" to learn about entrepreneurship as a career option, develop skills and understanding necessary for successful employment and create job opportunities for themselves and others by starting or expanding viable enterprises. Through a partnership with the City of Ishpeming, the students have numerous projects to contribute to the enhancement and revitalization effort to our town. A school store is also operated by this class.

CO-OP Work Program (Cooperative Education) 

Students enrolled in a vocational business class may apply for the co-op program. This program is for the student who plans on working in the business area. The student will receive credit for working and will be paid wages by the employer. Job placement is dependent upon the availability of work stations, good school attendance, and two teacher recommendations. Students are also required to submit a typed resume' to the co-op director.

Internships

All candidates must complete an Application Form, Resume or Personal Data Sheet, and selection process. Good attendance will be a deciding factor. Internship is a unique vocational training opportunity for a limited number of senior level students to explore and experience career areas and gain skills for future jobs. Students are individually placed in a local business to learn about vocational careers not taught in current two-hour vocational high school or Jacobetti Center classes. This 10-hour (non-paid) per week class will be offered in career areas where students have both an interest and a desire to learn. Internships are limited by the training sites and occupations of the local community. Examples of past work sites are broadcasting, plumbing, fashion merchandising, food service, architecture, computers, etc