Personal Finance – HTC330
12:30-2:00pm – Fall Semester During this semester course students will learn the basic understanding of personal financial management. Students study the fundamentals of economics and money systems. Students will use textbooks, online resources, simulations and instructional materials to gain an adult perspective on personal financial planning and decision-making. Students will explore the relationships between earning, budgeting, saving, investing, debt, insurance and retirement as part their own financial life cycle. During the semester, students will explore in depth financial planning for college in order to establish the value proposition inherent in this common first large personal financial decision. Students may elect for an extended version of this course as a Running Start college credit option in conjunction with LRCC, (FIN 180L). Enduring Understandings:
Accounting and Financial Management – HTC430
10:33-12:03pm – Fall Semester This course continues the topics introduced in Business I with a focus on financial management. The student is introduced to the procedures necessary to record, classify and summarize basic business transactions. The course will cover the accounting cycle for service and merchandising sole proprietorships, including preparing worksheets and financial statements. The course will involve using Excel spreadsheets to prepare accounting worksheets in preparation of closing activities and financial report generation. Enduring Understandings:
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Business Technology Essentials – HTC331
12:30-2:00pm – Spring Semester This course introduces students to Microsoft Office Business software applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The student will learn to effectively use the different business application software tools essential to success in a business environment. The course will prepare the student to sit for certification and credentialing as a Microsoft Office Specialist thereby demonstrating competency with these essential business technologies. Enduring Understandings:
Course Outcomes
Did you know that many colleges and companies use Microsoft online tools? While Google is most common at the K-12 level, you should expect to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint in college. Learn how to navigate these tools to make yourself more competitive!
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Marketing and Social Media Management – HTC431
10:33-12:03pm – Spring Semester
During this semester-long course, students will develop a basic understanding of Marketing and Social Media Marketing. Students study the principles of Marketing including the “4P’s”. Students will use textbooks, online resources, simulations and instructional materials to gain a perspective on Marketing for Manufacturing, Service and Non-profit businesses with emphasis on 21st century marketing strategies and tactics. During the semester, students will use simulation tools to plan, implement, deploy and measure digital and social media marketing strategies.
Enduring Understandings:
10:33-12:03pm – Spring Semester
During this semester-long course, students will develop a basic understanding of Marketing and Social Media Marketing. Students study the principles of Marketing including the “4P’s”. Students will use textbooks, online resources, simulations and instructional materials to gain a perspective on Marketing for Manufacturing, Service and Non-profit businesses with emphasis on 21st century marketing strategies and tactics. During the semester, students will use simulation tools to plan, implement, deploy and measure digital and social media marketing strategies.
Enduring Understandings:
- The role of marketing in everyday life and the marketing principles and practices at work in the real world and online.
- The fundamental difference between being a social media consumer and a social media creator.
- The power of digital and social media to level the competitive barriers to marketing for small/medium and large product, service or non-profit businesses.
- Identify and break down the rationale behind the Marketing 4P’s for a major national or global brand’s product or service?
- You’re an entrepreneur launching a new business, what are the essential first steps in your marketing plan?
- A family friend learns you are taking a course in Social Media Marketing and asks for your help in getting their business to appear as prominently as their local competition, what specifically will you do to help them?
- Explore the history and current practices of marketing for product, service and non-profit businesses.
- Understand the major social media platforms, their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities as part of a Marketing plan.
- Using simulation tools plan, deploy, measure and improve a social media marketing campaign
- Learn Social Media Marketing principles and practices from industry experts through guest speaker, field trip and project based activities.
- Participate in Student Business Enterprise learning to design and produce custom shirts and stickers with Adobe Illustrator and our line of printers and heat presses
- Understanding of Marketing fundamentals
- Skill in the application of Social and Digital Marketing for business success