Business+Finance+Marketing+&+Essentials

//NEWARK HIGH SCHOOL// **//BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT //**

COURSE SYLLABUS
= COURSE: Business, Finance, & Marketing Essentials CREDIT: 1 credit = (1st Level course for Business, Finance & Marketing Pathways) **PREREQUISTE: **None **PHONE:** 631-4700 mailbox 14417 **INSTRUCTOR: ** Mrs. Oates - Wiley **GRADES:** 9-12 **E-MAIL: oates-wileyl **@christina.k12.de.us **DELAWARE **** CONTENT STANDARDS ADDRESSED: ** = Business, Finance and Marketing Essentials (CORE) -52.010111  =


 * Standard One: Students will utilize systems and technology that record, analyze, interpret, and communicate financial data.


 * Standard Two: Students will apply management theories, functions, and technological systems to achieve organizational goals.


 * Standard Three: Students will use marketing concepts, functions, theories, and computerized tools to analyze the ways in which economic, consumers, and environmental variables affect the marking process.


 * COURSE DESCRIPTION**

This core course is designed to give students a sampling of career options. This course combines business, management, and administrative theories and practices placing emphasis on the development and application of competencies required for effective leadership, communications, planning, organizational control, decision making, and teamwork.

Students will explore career options and solve problems typically faced by those working in the listed areas: law, economics, accounting, entrepreneurship, information technology, finance, credit, insurance, and human resources.


 * COURSE CONTENT: **

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Some of the topics that we will be discussing are listed below, but are not limited to this list. Changes may be implemented during the course. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> i. Learn computer applications to help perform specific tasks. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> ii. Understand that students are responsible for their own learning. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iii. Promote key ideas as enduring understanding of the material. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iv. Explain the answers to the following questions: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> i. Understand that marketing is the process of developing, promoting, and distributing products to satisfy the wants and needs of a customer. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> ii. Learn how marketing is a two-way street that connects the maker and the seller of a product with the customers. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iii. How marketing impacts our daily lives, our society, and the environment in many ways. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iv. Discuss the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion, and Place. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> v. Recognize the four stages of the product life cycle: Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> vi. Explain the answers to the following questions: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> i. Learn that economics is the study of how individuals and nations make choices about the use of scarce resources to fulfill their wants and needs. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> ii. Understand that the economic system is the way in which a nation goes about fulfilling its wants and needs by using its resources. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iii. Explain the four phases of the business cycle: Prosperity, recession, depression, and recovery. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iv. Comprehend that money is anything this is used as a medium of exchange, a unit of accounting, or a store of value. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> v. Explain the answers to the following questions: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> i. Realize managers greatly influence their business through the four functions of management. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> ii. Study the variety of skills and traits that make up successful managers. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iii. Discover the ethics and social responsibility in the workplace that are upheld by managers. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> iv. Unravel the importance of a business mission statement. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> v. Use a Gantt chart to schedule a project. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> vi. Discuss collective bargaining, unions, and human resource management when dealing with a labor contract. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> vii. Explain the answers to the following questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Business Center 21 Computer Modules
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Introduction
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What is business?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">How does business impact our lives?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Marketing
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What is marketing?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">How do businesses use marketing effectively?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Economics and Personal Finance
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What is economics?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Why is economics important to individual people?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Management
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What is management?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What skills must a successful manager have?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Business Structures
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Understand how ownership differs among sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Grasp the advantages and disadvantages of the three major types of business ownership.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Learn the five functions of managers.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Recognize three specialized forms of business organizations.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Planning a Career
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Explain career planning and list sources of career information.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Discuss approaches that can be taken to learn about values and abilities.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Describe five steps to follow when making career decisions.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Identify sources for financing additional education.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Develop habits of accuracy, neatness, independent thinking, promptness, and dependability.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Expand your business vocabulary.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Demonstrate a professional business-like attitude.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Improve proficiency of computer applications skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Prepare and present business projects towards a specific audience.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Understand the basics of marketing, economics and personal finance, management, business law, international business, accounting, and entrepreneurship from various computer modules and Internet web sites.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Describe the differences between sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations in terms of advantages and disadvantages of formation, operation, and purpose.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Explain the benefits and detriments, formation, operation, and purpose of business opportunities such as cooperatives and franchises.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Discuss approaches that can be taken to learn about your own values and abilities.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Explore different business occupations and understand the importance of a planned career selection process.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Understand the world of business to prepare you for a more meaningful and beneficial interaction with business and our economy.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Participate in Business Professionals of America (BPA).

Kleindl, Steven, Les R. Dlabay, James L. Burrow. Introduction to Business, 7E . South-Western Publishing Company, United States, 7th ed., 2009.
<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Selected Internet Web Sites <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Various Handouts and Work Packets **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES NEEDED BY STUDENTS: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">GRADING: ** __<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Each Marking Periods __ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">50% Classwork, Homework Assignments, Notebook, and Classroom Participation <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">30% Quizzes and Tests <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">20% Business Project
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">2” Binder with 5 dividers
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Lined Paper or Notebook (Composition)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Pen or Pencil
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Construction Paper


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