Junior High Business Course

• 8th Grade: 8th Personal Finance + Careers - 1 Sem
  • This course covers all the essential personal finance topics necessary to become a financially capable student. Topics include consumer skills, budgeting, credit, saving, investing, protecting oneself, and career components.

• Business Law - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 11th-12th
  • The Business Law course covers all of the essential law topics necessary to become a legally informed student. Topics include the foundations of law, criminal law, civil law, and our human rights and freedoms.
• Entrepreneurship - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 9th-10th
  • The Entrepreneurship course is a project-based course that serves the purpose of an intro to business class through the lens of business creation. Students will spend the semester learning about all aspects of how a business is run by creating their own hypothetical business. Using creative structures and vision, students will create businesses from the beginning stages, through product selection, location selection and design, marketing, and financials.
• Marketing - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 9th-12th
  • The Marketing course is a project-based course focusing on real-life case studies and scenarios, examining marketing through current events and simulations. The class will be taught using a variety of lenses such as sports and entertainment, fashion, travel and tourism, and food and restaurant management.
• Personal Finance I - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 11th-12th
  • The Personal Finance I course covers all of the essential personal finance topics necessary to become a financially capable student. Topics include behavioral finance, checking, saving, credit, budgeting, and more.
• Personal Finance II - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 11th-12th
  • The Personal Finance II course covers all of the essential personal finance topics necessary to become a financially capable student. Topics include paying for college, alternatives to college, taxes, investing, insurance, career and more.
• Social Media Marketing - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 10th-12th
  • Social media has become a crucial component of our modern digital lives, transforming the way we connect, communicate, and learn about the world. Businesses have begun using these social media platforms to interact with customers in new ways. Possessing a basic understanding of how social media marketing works can help make informed choices as a consumer, as well as plan for future careers in business and marketing.
• Web Design - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 9th-12th
  • The Web Design course is an introductory computer science course that empowers students to create authentic artifacts and engage with computer science as a medium for creativity, communication, problem solving, and fun.

• Leadership - 1 Sem - 1 Credit - 10th-12th
  • The Leadership course is an experiential dive into Leadership at both the school level and throughout life. Students will have thoughtful discussions on a variety of leadership topics, and experience leadership through film, ethical dilemmas, guest speakers, book text, and activities.