Business, Marketing, and Information Technology
Overview:
. . . Where students become business moguls!
It is the goal of the business faculty at Bryan to educate individuals FOR and ABOUT business. An integral part of the curriculum is to provide occupational competence which enables individuals to procure jobs for which they are qualified, to devise and implement a career development plan which is responsive to personal and technological changes, and to formulate plans to ensure continued formal and/or informal educational growth.
Business instruction is structured to help students achieve the following:
- Explore business-related careers in the following Career Clusters: (1) Marketing, Sales, and Service, (2) Business Management, and Administration, (3) Finance, and (4) Information Technology.
- Develop occupational competence, including technology applications, in one or more of these areas: basic business economics, marketing, accounting-finance, or administrative office support.
- Build a foundation for business-related programs of study at the post-secondary level.
- Prepare for organizing and managing a business.
- Strengthen basic skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and resource applications.
- Develop positive interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Develop and refine personal and business work ethics.
- Apply skills in communication, decision making, and critical thinking.
- Develop economic competence to be productive citizens and wise consumers.
- Strengthen the individual's self-concept and desire to succeed.
- Prepare for business activities that include contacts with others who have varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
- Learn how to read and utilize the stock market.
- Learn about high-tech jobs.
Instructors:
- Benjamin Brachle
- Joe Carnazzo
- Mike Gardner
- Jeremy Nielsen
- Kim Wyllie
Curriculum:
Academy of Finance Courses (AOF)
- Banking & Credit*/Banking & Credit (Honors)*
- Financial Planning/Financial Planning (Honors)
- Finance Internship
- International Finance/International Finance (Honors)
- Introduction to Business (Honors)
- Introduction to Financial Services/Introduction to Financial Services (Honors)
- Securities & Insurance*/Securities & Insurance (Honors)*
Business/Marketing and Information Technology Courses
- Accounting 1-2*/Accounting 1-2 (Honors)
- Accounting 3-4/Accounting 3-4 (Honors)*
- Business Communications
- Business and Consumer Law 1/Business and Consumer Law 1 (Honors)
- Business Internship
- Business Management and Technology 1-2*/Business Management and Technology 1-2 (Honors)*
- Computer Information Management 1
- Computer Information Management 2*
- C ++ 1-2 (Honors)
- Desktop Publishing
- Digital Media
- Entrepreneurship
- Fashion Merchandising 1-2*
- F.A.C.T.S. (Freshman, Academics, Careers, and Technology Skills)
- HTML/Web Design 1
- Java 1-2 (Honors)
- Marketing 1-2*/Marketing 1-2 (Honors)*
- Marketing 3-4 (Honors)*
- Marketing Internship
- Personal Finance*
- Visual Basic 1-2/Visual Basic 1-2 (Honors)
- Visual Basic 3-4 Honors
* Articulation agreement with Metropolitan Community College available
For a complete description of Business, Marketing, Information Technology, and Academy of Finance (AOF) courses, see pages 25-32 of the Bryan High Curriculum Handbook, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file [1,237 kb file size].
For a complete list of content standards for Business, Marketing, Information Technology, and AOF courses, go to http://info2.ops.org/contentstandards/ and select Business & Marketing, and then select the desired course.
CoCurricular Activities:
DECA Kim Wyllie
FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Mike Gardner
AOF (Academy of Finance) Joe Carnazzo
Internships:
Marketing Internship: Kim Wyllie - Hotline - (402) 557-3137