Welcome to Pebblebrook's Business & Information Technology Course Description Page. Course titles includes: Business Law, Computer Applications, Marketing Principles, Web Page Design, Business Documents, & Introduction to Information Technology
     
   
 Academy Of Information Technology

Introduction to Information Technology

Sidney Fair

This course covers career choices in the Information Technology field.  It introduces current and emerging technologies in computing.  This course also provides a demonstration of some of technology's uses in today's business and industry.

 Strategies for Success

Sidney Fair

This course will enable students  to plan for their futures while identifying and mastering the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to succeed in the workforce.

 Banking & Finance

Nga Warren

This class is designed to teach everyone how to set long- and short-term personal and financial goals, create and work with a personal budget, identify how and when to use credit, save and invest, and understand the basics of banking services.

 Business Documents

Carmen Conley

This course is designed to employ and integrate the basic skills of word processing, spreadsheet, database, multimedia presentation, and desktop publishing applications to business documents using advanced features.

 Business Law 

Coach Ivory Young

This course is designed to develop a basic knowledge of the legal system and how business law impacts commerce domestically and internationally. Areas of study include sources of the law and structure of the court system; ethics and the law; procedural law and substantive law; contract law; law of sales and consumer law; agency law and employment law; personal property and real property. Commercial paper, insurance, secured transactions and bankruptcy; wills and trusts; impact of technology; and environmental law and energy regulation.

 Computer Applications

Coach Ivory Young, Nga Warren, Kathryn Rathke, Pamela Williams, Sidney Fair and Carmen Conley

This course is designed to teach basic keyboarding skills and the Microsoft Office Suite. These applications include Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Students will learn the basic operations of all applications and should leave the class with a greater understanding of the capabilities. Students will have many opportunities to apply their knowledge through group activities and creative projects.

 Entrepreneurship

Kathryn Rathke

In this course, students will be able to understand the meaning of Entrepreneurship, to develop ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities, to gain understanding of operating and maintaining a business, to prepare a business plan using the basic functions of accounting, finance, marketing, and management, to understand the legal and economic environments in which a new venture operates, to Stimulate student interest in career development, to develop leadership skills through DECA-Distributive Education Clubs of America, and to successfully run a school based business through the school store.

 Logic for Programming

Sidney Fair

In this course students learn how to describe, analyze and solve programming problems, paying attention to details. These skills will be acquired while learning the syntax of the Scheme programming language. It is important to note here, however that learning programming skills, not this specific computer language, will be the main course objective.

 Marketing Principles

Kathryn Rathke

This course addresses the ways in which marketing satisfies consumer and organizational needs and wants for products and services. Students develop an understanding of basic marketing concepts to marketing, distribution and logistics, marketing information management, product/service planning, pricing mixes promotional strategies, and personal selling.

 Web Page Design  

Pamela Williams, Sidney Fair

This course is designed to learn basic Internet skills, web page design, and enhance Word processing skills. Students will be able to learn Internet fundamentals and  develop the ability to create and produce Web pages.