Business Courses
Students taking Business courses may join Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA).
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- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Understand the basic elements and concepts of accounting with emphasis on the procedures used for maintaining journals, ledgers, and other related records.
- Prepare accounting reports for sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.
- Use a computerized accounting system.
- Berthoud High School
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Understand the basic elements and concepts of accounting with emphasis on the procedures used for maintaining journals, ledgers, and other related records.
- Prepare accounting reports for sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.
- Use a computerized accounting system.
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Accounting 1
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Understand the theory and logic that underlie accounting principles.
- Study the accounting cycle for service and merchandising companies, special journals and subsidiary ledgers, internal control principles and practices, notes and interest, inventory systems and costing, plant assets and intangible asset accounting, and depreciation methods and practices.
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Cover the foundations of the legal system as it applies to business and personal issues.
- Understand the basic elements of crime and tort law, contracts, ethics and the law, cyber law, property law, and employment law.
- Participate in case studies and mock trials.
- Berthoud High School
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts / CTE
Fee: $5 per semester
Pathway: Business - Business, Marketing and Public Administration
In Business Leadership, students will
- Develop understanding and skills in such areas as communication skills, emotional intelligence, operations, and professional development.
- Acquire an understanding of leadership skills
- Implement leadership skills
- Develop an ongoing service-learning project based on the needs of their community/school
- Loveland High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE - Class
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Learn new developments, technology, and procedures used in effective office management.
- Apply decision-making and administrative skills related to their educational program and career objectives.
- Work under the immediate supervision of experienced personnel at the business location and with the direct guidance of the instructor/coordinator.
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 2.0 Applied Arts/CTE - Internship
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Learn new developments, technology, and procedures used in effective office management.
- Apply decision-making and administrative skills related to their educational program and career objectives.
- Work under the immediate supervision of experienced personnel at the business location and with the direct guidance of the instructor/coordinator.
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
Grades 11, 12
- Learn how to market themselves to employers.
- Receive information about financial aid and how to apply for scholarships.
- Gain employability skills (resumes, interviewing, and professional appearance) and skills for personal success (professional behavior and attitude).
- Participate in a simulated interview.
- Complete an employment portfolio for workforce and/or college.
- Berthoud High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Learn how to market themselves to employers.
- Receive information about financial aid and how to apply for scholarships.
- Gain employability skills (resumes, interviewing, and professional appearance) and skills for personal success (professional behavior and attitude).
- Participate in a simulated interview.
- Complete an employment portfolio for workforce and/or college.
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Learn the Microsoft Office Suite applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Explore and create documents and projects for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Computer Applications
Fee: $5.00 per semester
Dual college credit may be available – see your school counselor for more information.
- Explore advanced features of the Microsoft Office Suite applications.
- Integrate graphic presentation materials including graphs, charts, illustrations, diagrams, and merge functions in Word.
- Apply calculations, built-in functions, and spreadsheet design in Excel.
- Emphasize effective communication through computerized presentations in PowerPoint.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $15.00 per semester
- Explore basic concepts used in graphic design with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Apply design principles to create original graphics.
- Be proficient in visual communication and personal expression.
- Focus on media literacy.
- Learn about advertising, copyright, and career opportunities.
- Create a project in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to add to a portfolio.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Computer Graphics Business 1
Fee: $15.00 per semester
- Increase and compile their portfolio.
- Understand the process of completing a product with client input.
- Focus on the career aspect of graphic design.
- Increase their skill and technical abilities in computer use and software.
- Understand the various aspects of art and design.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Computer Graphics Business 1 and 2
Fee: $15.00 per semester
Grades 10, 11, 12
- Explore basic concepts and techniques used in graphic design.
- Apply design principles to create original graphics on the computer.
- Develop knowledge of visual communication and personal expression.
- Focus on media literacy and its impact on society.
- Become proficient at Adobe Creative Suite 6, Flash, and Fireworks, and incorporate the use of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Unity 3D.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Computer Graphics Business 1 and 2
Fee: $15.00 per semester
Grades 10, 11, 12
- Explore basic concepts and techniques used in graphic design.
- Apply design principles to create original graphics on the computer.
- Develop knowledge of visual communication and personal expression.
- Focus on media literacy and its impact on society.
- Become proficient at Adobe Creative Suite 6, Flash, and Fireworks, and incorporate the use of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Unity 3D.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
- Business and Marketing – Computer and Digital Technologies
- Computer and Information Sciences
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Completion of Algebra 1 with a C or higher or teacher approval
Grades 10, 11, 12 at Thompson Valley High School
- Introduce students to computer science with fundamental topics that include problem solving, design strategies and methodologies, organization of data (data structures), approaches to processing data (algorithms), analysis of potential solutions, and the ethical and social implications of computing.
- Embrace problem-solving, hardware, algorithms, and perspectives that help people utilize computers to address real-world problems in contemporary life.
- Engage and understand the importance of communicating solutions appropriately and in ways that are relevant to current societal needs.
- Berthoud High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
- Business and Marketing – Computer and Digital Technologies
- Computer and Information Sciences
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Completion of Algebra 1 with a C or higher
- Be introduced to the central ideas of computer science, instilling the ideas and practices of computational thinking and inviting students to understand how computing changes the world.
- Promote deep learning of computational thinking skills and engage students in the creative aspects of the field.
- Cover a broad array of topics normally taught in an Introduction to Computer Science course in college. These topics will include, but are not limited to: The Internet/Networking, Digital Information, Algorithms/Programming, Data/Privacy, and Building Applications.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: 1 year of business classes and teacher approval
Fee: $15.00 per semester
- Develop, test, create, and pitch a business of their own to Loveland community members and potential investors.
- Work in a team-based environment for the entire year.
- Teams will learn about marketing, financial analysis, and the legal environment of running a business.
- Conduct interviews and orally present business concepts.
- Work with community mentors and coaches in and out of the classroom.
- Give and receive constructive criticism to/from peers.
- Meet the Capstone/Community service requirement.
- Berthoud High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: 1 year of business classes and teacher approval
Fee: $15.00 per semester
Grades 10, 11, 12)
- Develop, test, create, and pitch a business of their own to Loveland community members and potential investors.
- Work in a team-based environment for the entire year.
- Teams will learn about marketing, financial analysis, and the legal environment of running a business.
- Conduct interviews and orally present business concepts.
- Work with community mentors and coaches in and out of the classroom.
- Give and receive constructive criticism to/from peers.
- Meet the Capstone/Community service requirement.
- Loveland High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
- Marketing
Credit: 0.25 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: 1 year of business classes and teacher approval
Fee: $7.50 per quarter
- Develop, test, create, and pitch a business of their own to Loveland community members and potential investors.
- Work in a team-based environment for the entire year.
- Teams will learn about marketing, financial analysis, and the legal environment of running a business.
- Conduct interviews and orally present business concepts.
- Work with community mentors and coaches in and out of the classroom.
- Give and receive constructive criticism to/from peers.
- Meet the Capstone/Community service requirement.
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
Recommended: Entrepreneurship 2 and teacher approval
Fee: $15.00 per semester
- Continue to develop, test, create, and pitch a business of their own to Loveland community members and potential investors.
- Continue to work in a team-based environment for the entire year.
- Teams will continue to learn about marketing, financial analysis, and the legal environment of running a business.
- Conduct interviews and orally present business concepts.
- Work with community mentors and coaches in and out of the classroom.
- Give and receive constructive criticism to/from peers.
- Meet the Capstone/Community service requirement.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
- IB Diploma Programme (DP)
Credit: 1.0 Applied Arts/CTE
This class may be scheduled outside the normal school day.
- Explore the ethics and phases of the business process.
- Explore internet use and applications in business.
- Choose to focus on web-based projects.
- Choose to focus on management skills.
- Loveland High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Survey the basic personal financial needs of most individuals.
- Emphasize the basics of budgeting and buying, saving and borrowing money, the intricacies of home ownership, income tax and investments, and the wise use of insurance, wills, and trusts.
- Play a stock market simulation game and a personal finance simulation.
- Berthoud High School
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
- Focus on the operation of the American Business System.
- Develop a basic understanding of the fundamentals of the economy, threats and opportunities, marketing management, production, governmental regulations, tools of business, and social responsibilities.
- Berthoud High School
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
Grades 11, 12
- Survey the principles of management.
- Study the primary functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling with a balance between the behavioral, quantitative, and operational approaches.
- Play a management simulation game.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Survey the principles of management.
- Study the primary functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling with a balance between the behavioral, quantitative, and operational approaches.
- Play a management simulation game.
- Harold Ferguson High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Plan and prepare multimedia business presentations utilizing computer, audiovisual techniques, and proper presentation techniques.
- Learn to operate digital cameras, video camcorders, and sound equipment, and to extract digital recordings.
- Understand the functions of multimedia software applications and operate these programs on the computer.
- Examine the principles of visual organization of digital images and motion graphic elements, typography, storyboarding, flow charting, and choices of technological options.
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Learn to provide a practical introduction to the work environment through direct contact with professionals in the community. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following: discussion of professional job requirements, awareness and knowledge of career opportunities, building vocabulary apocopate to the area of professional interest, development of decision-making skills, and development of personal and educational job-related skills.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Computer and Digital Technologies
- Industrial Technology – Engineering Technology
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Evaluate and discuss career opportunities in computer programming.
- Develop proficiency in a computer language chosen from a menu of languages.
- Learn about program structure, syntax, commenting, and programming constructs.
- Learn about and design an appropriate programming project which includes goals, project milestones, and evaluation standards.
- Collaborate with other students, mentors, and the instructor to formulate ideas, solve problems, and critique progress.
- Berthoud High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Business
Credit: .50 Applied Arts / CTE
Fee: $5 per semester
Pathway: Business Information Technology - Business, Marketing and Public Administration
- Loveland High School
- Business
- Business and Marketing – Business Information Technology
- Business and Marketing – Business Management and Administration, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
- Business and Marketing – Marketing
Credit: 0.5 Applied Arts/CTE
Fee: $5.00 per semester
- Learn about technology and software requirements, security issues, electronic payments, and marketing strategies.
- Stress the fundamentals of HTML syntax using a text editor to develop interactive websites.
- Explore web-safe colors and graphic editors.
- Study web aesthetics and intuitive interface design.
- Emphasize file organization and layout.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School