Business
Accounting
This first year accounting course will give students a background in the basic accounting procedures used to operate a business. The accounting procedures presented will also serve as a sound background for employment in office jobs and preparation for studying business concepts in college. This course is a study of the basic principles of recording financial information and the classification and interpretation of accounts, financial reports, and statements. An introduction into automated accounting is applied to each chapter. Students will select and apply appropriate solutions to problem solving and decision making situations. They will also analyze ethical dilemmas and decide on an appropriate course of action.
Business and Electronic Communications
This first year course focuses on the application of communication skills through a variety of business electronic practices. Technology will be used to create and deliver information to practice problem-solving situations, critical thinking and decision-making skills. This course will give the students the opportunity to identify and understand the concepts related to the Information Technology Career Cluster occupations. Students will examine and acquire knowledge of safe and secure work environments, determine ethics and social responsibilities in business practices and identify employability and personal skills needed to obtain a career and be successful in the workplace.
Business Law
This course provides students with detailed knowledge of the laws relating to contracts, commerce, property, sales, negotiable instruments, and employment. Students develop an awareness of business situations requiring legal counsel and a familiarization with the overall structure of the legal system. Class emphasis includes areas such as contract law, employment law, and the courts systems. In addition, emphasis is placed on preparing the students to become ethical and law abiding members of society.
Students will work on numerous projects, complete independent as well as group study units, and have exposure to the computer as it relates to business. In addition, students will have full access to guest speakers, field trips, such as but not limited to: the Bergen County Courthouse & Jail, and Mock Trial Competition.
Introduction to Coding
This course is a full-year introductory computer science course. The course will cover topics on problem solving, web development, programming interactive games and animations, and the use of the Internet in today’s society. Students will be empowered to create coding projects and engage with computer science as a medium for creativity, communication, problem solving, and engagement.
Introduction to Information Technology
This course focuses on computing tools, processes, and applications and their appropriate use in society. Topics include hardware, software, the Internet and web, communications and networking, and the effective use of related tools. Labs provide hands-on activities relating to the course content. Students also work in the online learning systems called SNAP and MOODLE.
This course is a dual enrollment course and can be taken for three credits through arrangement with Bergen Community College.
Multimedia and Web Design
This course connects the ever-changing landscape of technology to an even faster paced business environment. Complete curriculum coverage includes topics in graphics, digital still media, interactive media, web design, web publishing, social networking, and cloud computing.
Working in Adobe Photoshop, Expression Web/Google Sites and Movie-Maker will increase employability skills for students as businesses demand for providers familiar with electronic publishing, graphics, web design, multimedia production and social networking tools grows. Students will be given opportunities for completing industry certification requirements.
Co-op Work Seminar
Cooperative Education is an arrangement between the school and the business community to assist students in receiving work experience through an actual supervised “hands on” experience and related classroom instruction.
Students will attend school in the morning and go to regularly scheduled, paid, part-time employment in the afternoon.
The related class includes career planning in the development of office and marketing skills, human relations skills and those attitudes necessary to attain one's career goals and objectives. This course will also give the students the opportunity to use the concepts related to the Information Technology Career Cluster occupations
A.P. Computer Science Principles
AP Computer Science Principles is an introductory college-level computing course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. They incorporate abstraction into programs and use data to discover new knowledge. Students also explain how computing innovations and computing systems—including the internet—work, explore their potential impacts, and contribute to a computing culture that is collaborative and ethical.