Business and Technology
Mrs. Jody Sandru
As you are planning your high school courses, check out the business courses offered at Twin Bridges High School.
Computer Applications
Length of Class: Year
Grade Level: 9 (required) transfer students 9, 10
This course explores the Microsoft Office Suite and teaches Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, and PowerPoint in a variety of projects. Students develop websites with HTML coding, and advance to java-based coding with a unit on games and animation. Students complete a career research unit and develop personal websites with their results. Students complete an extensive “Getting a Job Unit/Portfolio” preparing cover letters, resumes, job applications, mock interviews, thank you letters, resignation letters, and reference letters.
Multimedia/Marketing
Length of Class: Semester
Grade Level: 9,10,11, 12
This course is a project-based learning program where students create impactful videos, news stories, and learn the process of pre-production, production, and editing in Adobe Premiere CC. Students are part of the PBS Student Reporting Labs. Students learn proper techniques for videography and the importance of lighting and sound. Students create their own logos and graphic designs using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The semester culminates with a final marketing advertising plan for a business and students also enter the Montana Teenpreneur Competition where they pitch a business idea.
Personal Finance
Length of Class: Semester
Grade Level: 9,10,11,12
Students learn the importance and value of personal finance by learning how to manage money and build credit habits to become financially secure adults in the 'real world'. This course will cover the following topics: Career, Taxes, Checking, Saving, Paying for College, Types of Credit, Managing Credit, Investing, Insurance, and Budgeting. Students participate in a personal finance simulation that teaches teens money management skills. During the 10-week competition, students receive virtual paychecks and bills in real-time and are challenged to build a budget and make financial decisions that help them learn how to pay bills on time, manage a credit card balance, and save money for retirement in a 401(k).
Accounting
Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Accounting is the “language of business”. This course is an excellent introduction to any post-secondary business course. It includes the basics of bookkeeping, including journalizing, posting to ledgers, preparing financial statements, adjusting and closing entries for a sole proprietorship. Students will also use an automated accounting program and/or business simulations. Every adult should have a basic grasp of finances. A course in accounting at the high school level would certainly be an excellent foundation on which to build the skills and knowledge base necessary to carry through your adult life, whether you earn your living as a chef or a lawyer or an artist.
Advanced Accounting
Length of Class: Semester or Year
Prerequisite: Accounting
Grade Level: 11,12
Advanced accounting continues where Accounting I finished and teaches accounting principles and practices for a corporation. Students learn special journals, inventories and complete advanced simulations.
Entrepreneurship
Length of Class: Semester
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
This course brings business studies to life through experiential learning, executed in real, market-based scenarios and teaches students entrepreneurial, marketing, and economic principles built for prosperity. The curriculum of the Youth Entrepreneur program is different than most as it encourages choice, freedom, opportunity and experience. This is accomplished by focusing on eight Foundational values and creating a marketing in a number of different ways. Entrepreneurship is showing students ways to create value for themselves and others in all spheres of life. The course teaches students to think and act like an entrepreneur at all times. Marketing is more than just advertising and this course will help students through market research, product innovation and ideation as well as developing a marketing plan.
Street Law
Length of Class: Semester
Grade Level: 11,12
Street Law is a semester long elective that serves as an introductory course to law and legal systems in the United States. Units will include: Introduction to Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and the Criminal Justice Process, Civil Law (Torts, Contracts and Family Law.) This course will touch on broad and specific legal topics to give students a better understanding of law and how it affects you in real life. We will use case studies, individual research, group discussion/debate, guest speakers and mock trials throughout the course in order to reach our goal. We will also venture out to see law in action.
Career Planning
Length of Class: Semester
Grade Level: 11, 12
This semester long elective helps students prepare for careers and college by creating professional career portfolios including resumes and cover letters. It focuses on networking and interviewing. Students will research careers and pathways to reach their goals. It will also focus on soft skills for the 21st century. Students will also cover a unit on paying for college and future investments.
Digital Photography & Yearbook
Length of Class: Year
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Digital photography is booming with all of the devices that contain cameras these days, This class is about composition and fundamental design principles for creating artistic photographs. Students will then learn Photoshop and Lightroom for editing and being creative with their photographs. In addition, students will learn about digital photography, photographic terminology, editing images and graphics and copyright law and fair use guidelines. Students will create the high school yearbook throughout the year by covering events. They will learn about and perform better in caption writing, story writing, interviewing, picture taking, creating layouts, designs, and general computer use. Yearbook also helps students prepare for the real world. It is a great resume builder and students learn about publishing, journalism and selling advertisements. It will improve student’s skills in time management, work ethic, business, and project work.
Computer Science Principles
Length of Class: Yearlong
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Computer Science Principles is a one semester, introductory course that introduces students to the foundations of modern computing. The course covers a broad range of foundational topics such as programming, algorithms, the Internet, big data, digital privacy and security, societal impacts of computing, and the ways that digital information is encoded, represented and manipulated. Through this course, students will develop a well-rounded view about data in the world around them. Global issues such as public policy, law, ethics, and societal impact of technology will also be discussed. Students will create and se visualizations to identify patterns and trends using a variety of tools and widgets. This course could be taken simultaneously with the Intro to Computer Programming with Python and then Java and is available for dual credit with Montana Tech.
Back to Top