Business & Technology

Prerequisites: Open to students with Junior or Senior standing.

Living On Your Own stresses the financial aspects of living on one’s own after high school. The many subjects to be covered include: budgeting, banking, investing, wise shopping habits, interpreting labels, housing, transportation, insurance, and protecting one’s ID. Consumer topics such as purchasing food and clothing and managing a household will also be included.

Prerequisites: Open to students with a Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing.

This is an introductory course to learn about the creative process associated with creating a variety of digital media. This course will help students become familiar with a variety of software for creating visual art, film, as well as audio recording. Students will work individually as well as in small groups to learn techniques and gain a deeper understanding of digital art history and the emerging trends in digital media.

Prerequisites: Digital Arts 1 and permission of instructor.

This advanced course will focus more on specific technical aspects of those learned in Digital Arts 1. Special emphasis on process, techniques, and trends in the area of digital media.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Geometry.

This semester long, introductory survey course based on the UC Berkeley CS10 course offers students a hands-on introduction to computer science that surrounds us every day. The course is far more than just learning to program. We’ll focus on some of the “Big Ideas” in computing such as abstraction, design, recursion, concurrency, simulation, and the limits of computation. We’ll show some applications of computing that have changed the world, talk about the history of computing, and where it will go in the future.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Computer Science course and teacher recommendation.

The AP Computer Science Principles course centers on computational thinking such as creating computational artifacts, analyzing problems, and abstracting; along with big ideas like creativity, data information, algorithms, and programming. Class is dependent on enrollment and instructor availability.

This course will help students understand the design, engineering, and programming of robots. Students will work collaboratively, use teamwork, and refine critical thinking skills in this multidisciplinary field. This course provides opportunities to learn coding basics and compete in the classroom.

Prerequisites: Introduction to Robotics

This course continues work began in Introduction to Robotics including design, engineering, and programming robots. Students work collaboratively to 'work the problem' and creatively come to solutions. The opportunity to compete with other schools in the community and elsewhere is available. Class is dependent on enrollment and instructor availability.

This course will provide students with an understanding of the principles of marketing and the opportunity to participate in Kennedy Catholic’s DECA program. Students will explore marketing concepts, terminology, and practices, and apply them to real-world marketing situations. Topics will include consumer, service, and business marketing; target markets; product planning, pricing, distribution and promotion; and the integration of marketing with other business activities. This course will prepare students for DECA competitions.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Marketing

This course continues the concepts first introduced in Introduction to Marketing while focusing on DECA competitions and entrepreneurship opportunities at Kennedy Catholic. Outside of class participation in DECA competitions required.

This course is designed to help students develop a better understanding of the nature and practices of our economic system

Prerequisites: Open to students with Junior or Senior standing.

This course deals primarily with contract law and its application to business and everyday life. This course is recommended for students who will be pursuing a business major in college.

Prerequisites: Open to students with Junior or Senior standing.

Course curriculum is designed to provide students a strong foundation in accounting principles. Students will learn what business transactions are and how accountants use a double-entry system (debits and credits) to keep track of these transactions. Next, students will study the complete accounting cycle of recording transactions, preparing financial statements, and “closing the books” for small, single-owner service and merchandising businesses. This course prepares students for post-secondary accounting courses.

Prerequisites: Professional attitude and work ethic required. Open to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing.

Students will learn how to turn their ideas into fully rendered computer images. Throughout this course, students will be given various problems to solve/develop using the principles of design and be expected to transform their ideas into 3-dimensional rendered images using Rhinoceros. Supporting CAD programs will introduce advanced rendering elements and animation.

Prerequisites: Open to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing. B or above grade in Algebra 1 and Geometry or concurrent enrollment in Geometry.

This course is geared toward students with an interest in engineering. Software used will be Solid Works.