Business and Computer Course Offerings

Office Technology

I. Course Title: Office Technology 2 Semesters 2 Credits

II. Course Description:

The course is centered on 29 units of study. The state required objectives are met in these units. The course is a general office setting, where everyone is doing something different.

III. Prerequisites: None

IV. Units/Lessons:

Access, Banking, Budgeting and Buying, Desktop Calculator, Desktop Publishing, Dynamics of Work, Word, Employment, Excel, Filing, Internet, Keyboarding, Loans and Credit, Machine Transcription, Mathematics, Office Manager, PowerPoint, Publisher.

Accounting I

I. Course Title: Accounting I 2 Semesters 2 Credits

II. Course Description:

This course uses double entry accounting to complete cycles in a proprietorship, partnership, and a corporation. The text has tremendous support materials and automated accounting in every chapter. Accounting practice sets are also available for student reinforcement.

III. Prerequisites: None

IV. Units/Lessons:

• Sole Proprietorship

• Partnership

• Corporation

Accounting II
I. Course Title: Accounting II 2 Semesters 2 Credits

II. Course Description:

Advanced Accounting is an independent course. The student will continue their work from where they left off in Accounting I. Besides finishing accounting for a corporation, students will learn departmentalized accounting, and accounting control systems.

III. Prerequisites: Accounting I

IV. Units/Lessons:

Units are learned through text, workbooks, automated accounting, reinforcement activities, and practice sets.

Computer Literacy I

I. Course Title: Computer Literacy I 2 Semesters 2 Credits

II. Course description:

Students will work extensively in the Microsoft Office program, which consists of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Publisher. A variety of daily assignments, presentations, and projects integrating each part of Microsoft Office will be used to measure proficiency. Student; will become proficient in using digital images in presentations, manipulating images, and creating images.

III. Prerequisites: Business Services and Technology (BST) (not mandatory, but would be a great jump start into this course)

IV. Units/Lessons:

· Microsoft Word (approx. 9 weeks)

· Microsoft Excel (approx. 9 weeks)

· Microsoft Access (approx. 2 weeks)

· Microsoft PowerPoint (approx 12 weeks)

· Microsoft Publisher (approx 2 weeks)

· Digital Camera/Media Technology (approx. 2 weeks)

Computer Science

I. Course Title: Computer Science 2 Semesters 2 Credits

II. Course Description:

In this course the students are in charge of creating, editing, and updating the Pittsford High School homepage. Students will be creating pages for teachers, sports teams, clubs and organizations of the high school, and adding other informative sites the school needs to have on its web site.

III. Prerequisites: Computer Literacy or Business Services and Technology (BST)

IV. Units/Lessons:

Students do not work on "units" or "lessons" in this class. The first couple of weeks of the year the students will be introduced to the web design programs we use, and they'll become familiar with them. The students will then pick or be assigned certain web pages to work on, and from there, they go about the business of making an aesthetically- pleasing, informative, professional web page at their own pace.