- Dr. Joaquín García High School
- Brief Overview About Our Program Offerings
- Business and Information Technology
Business and Information Technology
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The Business and Information Technology Program at Dr. Garcia High School offers a three pronged approach that allows an immersive hands-on experience that prepares students for working in business or owning their own business. Students will be exposed to all aspects of business with opportunities to collaborate with their peers developing real world skills.
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Electronic Business Enterprise
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Business Management and Administration career.
Level 1: Digital Information Technology (8207310)
This core course is designed to provide a basic overview of current business and information systems and trends, and to introduce students to fundamental skills required for today's business and academic environments. Emphasis is placed on developing fundamental computer skills.Level 2: Introduction to E-Commerce (8200340)
This course is designed to provide an introduction to Electronic-Commerce (E-Commerce). This course covers topics such as history and evolution of e-commerce; e-commerce business models; impact of e-commerce in the world economy; security and tax issues in e-commerce; and e-commerce web site design, development and maintenance.
Industry Certification: Entrepreneurship & Small Business: INTUT002Level 3: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship (8200350)
This course is designed to provide an introduction to Electronic-Commerce (E-Commerce). This course covers topics such as history and evolution of e-commerce; e-commerce business models; impact of e-commerce in the world economy; security and tax issues in e-commerce; and e-commerce web site design, development and maintenance.
Industry Certification: PMI Project Management Ready: PRMIN004Level 4: E-Commerce Systems Analysis and Design (8200360)
This course is designed to provide a systematic overview of analysis and design factors, as well as trends and issues impacting the effectiveness, efficiency and profitability of e-commerce web sites.
Industry Certification: CIW Social Media Strategist: PROSO031Included elective 11th or 12th grade-Personal Financial Literacy
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Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurial Principles
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Marketing, Sales and Service career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills and occupation-specific skills and knowledge of all aspects of the Marketing, Sales and Service career cluster.
Level 1: Marketing Essentials (8827110)
Marketing Essentials blends theory and practice to facilitate immediate implementation and impact. Students will learn to develop strategic marketing with sales and customer plans. A review of the marketing environment is used to help develop the segmentation, targeting and market positioning strategy for implementation along with the marketing mix (product, price, place and promotion). The goal is the identification and delivery of organizational competitive advantage and customer satisfaction – key to long-term revenue growth, profitability and success.Level 2: Marketing Applications (8827120)
This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth study of marketing in a free enterprise society and includes advertising,
promotion, product development and branding, selling and marketing research. This course also includes the uses of technology and the electronic media in marketing, purchasing, retail positioning strategies and e-Commerce marketing.
Industry Certification: Entrepreneurship & Small Business: INTUT002Level 3: Marketing Management (8827130)
This course provides instruction for a career-sustaining level of employment in the industry. The content includes applied skills related to marketing functions, employment skills required for success in marketing and career planning as related to a marketing industry.
Industry Certification: PMI Project Management Ready: PRMIN004Level 4: Business Ownership (8812000)
The purpose of this course is to prepare students for careers as entrepreneurs, present entrepreneurship as a career path worthy of
consideration, provide students with the skills needed to realistically evaluate their potential as business owners and develop the
fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to start and operate a business.
Industry Certification: Certified Internet Web (CIW) Social Media Strategist Certification Partners PROS031Included elective 11th or 12th grade-Personal Financial Literacy
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Computer Science Principles
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers such as a Computer Users Support Specialists, Computer Programmer Assistants, Computer Network Architects, and Computer Systems Analysts in the Information Technology career cluster.
Level 1: Advanced Information Technology (9007610)
This course provides a basic overview of current business and information systems and their trends. Students gain fundamental knowledge and experience in computer technology that is required for today's business and academic environments.
Industry Certification: MTA Mobility & Devices MICRO002Level 2: Foundations of Programming (9007210)
This course introduces concepts, techniques, and processes associated with computer programming and software development.
Industry Certification: MTA Javascript MICRO104Level 3: AP Computer Science Principles (0200335)
This is an introductory college-level computing course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. They incorporate abstraction into programs and use data to discover new knowledge.
Industry Certification: MTA Python MICRO112Level 4: AP Computer Science A (0200320)
This is an introductory college-level computer science course. Students cultivate their understanding of coding through analyzing, writing, and testing code as they explore concepts like modularity, variables, and control structures. Focuses on computing skills related to programming in Java.
Industry Certification: MTA Java MICRO114