COLLEGE & CAREER READINESS 1 (CCR1)
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grade 9
Prerequisite:  None
Course Objectives:  This course will focus on building positive habits and creating positive paradigms that will lead to success as a high school student. Students will engage in career exploration, utilize computer technology and develop time management, learning strategies and study skills. Students will engage in personal inventories to discover their interests, skills and passions leading to potential career pathways. Students will be encouraged to pursue becoming the very best version of themselves they can be.

COLLEGE & CAREER READINESS 2 (CCR2)
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grade 11 
Prerequisite:  None
Course Objectives:  This course is designed to prepare students for post high school education as well as career readiness.  The ultimate goal is to graduate students who are college and career ready by underscoring the relevance between education and worth through early academic and career planning.  Students will develop skills to help them prepare for the pursuit of employment: resumes; cover letters; applications and mock interviews.  Students will research post-secondary educational opportunities by conducting college research; preparing college applications and scholarship research including essay writing.  Students will learn to create professional documents, spreadsheets and presentations though Microsoft Office.  Students will create a final portfolio and complete an exit interview highlighting the course elements completed in class. 

MARKETING 1 (HOSPITALITY AND RETAIL MARKETING)
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 
Prerequisite: None 
Course Description: Students will learn marketing concepts and practices with an emphasis on project based learning through the use of simulations and role plays. Students work through concepts with a focus on the restaurant, retail, and hospitality industries. A restaurant marketing simulation allows students to manage their own virtual restaurant making decisions on everything from advertising to staffing to menu development. DECA events are used to provide case studies and real examples allowing students to put concepts into practice.

BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 9, 10, 11 & 12
Course Objectives: This course is an introduction to the concepts of business. Students will explore the basics and key elements necessary for understanding the business world. Students will engage in two semester-long simulations. The “Classroom Economy” allows students to experience life in the real world as they have opportunities to earn money and then must budget that money to pay monthly bills, save and invest and purchase insurance to protect their assets. “Shark Tank” will allow students to move through the process of developing a product from start to finish when they present their idea to the Sharks after learning the concepts of marketing, finance, production, management, retailing, wholesaling, advertising, risk, pricing, personnel, and business environment. Business terminology and concepts are everywhere around us all the time. This course introduces you to these concepts and helps understand what it all means. For business concentrators, this class is the ideal “first course”.    

ACCOUNTING 1
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 11, 12
Prerequisite:  None 
Course Objectives:  Accounting, like learning a foreign language, is “the language of business”. Accounting professionals are the lifeblood of any organization. Despite tough economic times, with globalization, and a complex tax and regulatory environment, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects a continued strong demand for accountants and auditors. Accounting 1 is an introduction to financial accounting concepts. A study of the accounting cycles of service organizations and merchandisers emphasizing the recording of business transactions, and the preparation of financial statements for such organizations. Emphasis is also placed on the accounting relating to the measurement, valuation and reporting of assets, liabilities and equity, and related internal control considerations.

ACCOUNTING 2
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 11, 12
Prerequisite: Accounting 1 (C grade or better)
Course Objectives:  This is the second Accounting class in the sequence.  We will be using the second half of the book for this class and continue building upon the accounting theories and procedures learned in the first class, Accounting 1. This course will allow students to investigate the field of accounting deeper, including how it is impacted by industry standards as well as economic, financial, technological, international, social, legal, and ethical factors. Students reflect on this knowledge as they engage in the process of recording, classifying, summarizing, analyzing, and communicating accounting information. Students will begin to formulate and interpret financial information for use in management decision making.

ACCOUNTING 101 (ACTG_101) (Concurrent Enrollment Course)
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 11, 12
Required concurrent enrollment as a Running Start student in ACTG 101 at FVCC for 3 college credits.
Fees:  All FVCC Dual Credit fees (First 6 credits are free)
Prerequisite:  None
Course Objectives: Accounting is necessary for every business student because it is truly the language of business.  A good understanding of Accounting will help you in every business venture in which you participate. A practical course in the foundations of accounting emphasizes the complete accounting cycle for a sole-proprietorship, service business as well as the cycle for a merchandising firm. It covers receivables and payables as well as banking transactions and payroll. This course will give you the basic accounting functions to be able to do bookkeeping functions for any business. You will learn debits and credits, journalizing and posting, preparing the financial statements, and looking at ratios to know whether you have done well in your business. Accounting professionals are the lifeblood of any organization. Despite tough economic times, with globalization, and a complex tax and regulatory environment, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects a continued strong demand for accountants and auditors.

ACCOUNTING 2
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 11, 12
Required concurrent enrollment as a Running Start student in ACTG 102 at FVCC for 3 college credits.
Fees:  All FVCC Dual Credit fees (First 6 credits are free)
Prerequisite:  Accounting Procedures 101 (C grade or better)
Course Objectives: This is the second Accounting class in the sequence.  We will be using the second half of the book for this class and continue building upon the accounting theories and procedures learned in the first class, ACTG 101.  The course covers notes payable and receivable, valuation of receivables, inventories, plant and equipment, the voucher system, accounting for partnerships and corporations, financial statement analysis and cash flow statements. This course will provide a more in-depth explanation of some of the theories learned previously and introduce Partnerships and Corporations.

Professional Business Communications (BMGT_205C) (Concurrent Enrollment Course)
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 11, 12
Fees:  All FVCC Dual Credit fees (First 6 credits are free)
Prerequisite:  Required concurrent enrollment as a Running Start student in BMGT_205 at FVCC for 3 college credits.
Course Objectives:  This course will blend thinking, speaking, listening, and composition skills to understand their importance in business.  All of these components will be interwoven in a manner that will prepare the student for the world of work outside the classroom. We will review basic communication skills including grammar, punctuation.  We will study principles and techniques of written business communications and reports using the direct, indirect, and persuasive approaches to business writing as illustrated by routine requests, claim letters, persuasive letter, bad-news messages, application letters, memos, and short reports.  Some emphasis will be on oral communication, conducting meetings, intercultural communication, and business technology.  This course will recognize the importance of nonverbal communication as associated with intercultural communications.  This course also requires students to deliver an effective short oral report.

PERSONAL FINANCE
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite:  None
Course Objectives: Understanding and managing personal finances are key to one’s future financial success. This course will provide students with the essential knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about real world financial issues. Throughout the course, students will learn, through active engagement, about taxes, checking, saving, types of credit, managing credit, investing, insurance and budgeting. The course content is designed to help the learner make wise spending, saving, and credit decisions and to make effective use of income to achieve personal financial success.

YEARBOOK SEM 1/SEM 2
Credit 0.5; Semester; Grades 10, 11, 12 
Course Description: This course creates and captures the year to preserve memories for future enjoyment creating the GHS yearbook. Students in this course learn photography and journalistic skills, page layout and design skills and marketing skills to produce and sell the yearbook. Student objectives include taking photos, writing stories, and designing the pages that will document the school year. This production-based course requires both in-class and after-school time. All students are required to sell advertising as well as attend and photograph events through the semester.  Sign up by semester or sign up for both semesters to have it all year.