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Course content includes legal principles involving everyday activities such as: buying, selling, and using goods and services. Legal responsibilities and rights and how to protect and enforce legal rights are considered. Attention is given to laws essential in business relations including laws dealing with torts, contracts, agencies, employment, labor management, and insurance. Consideration is given to how public policy is constantly causing changes in our laws. This course meets the requirements for the fifth unit of Social Studies towards a local or Regents diploma. Business Law is recognized as an approved core course by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Assoc.)

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Accounting is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the double-entry system of accounting. The course covers the entire accounting cycle for both a service and a merchandising business. Students should be well qualified to accept any position in a proprietorship that might involve journalizing and posting in special journals and ledgers. Students will be introduced to automated accounting through hands-on use of the computer and general ledger software.

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A one-unit course designed for those students who plan to enter a post-secondary program of business study. Content of the course is intensive and demanding and will parallel Accounting at a college level. Students who pass will be eligible for up to 3 credits from Mercy College-School/College Program, if they apply for admission and pay a fee. Students who took Accounting (400) will find this course covers the procedures already learned in more rapid pace. New materials will be presented following the review of previously learned concepts.
Recommended: Students enrolled in College Accounting are encouraged to take Accounting CRS400, if they have not previously done so.

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This half year course will emphasize the business and economic system; including its characteristics, operations, structure, and evolving role within society. It is designed to help students develop fundamental concepts and skills in preparation for use in work or home responsibilities. Topics include: career planning, life goals, job searching, career resources and career planning, resumes, job applications, interviewing skills, skills for successful employment, job orientation skills, productivity, etc. This course is recommended for all business education students.

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This course is for students majoring in business education, particularly secretarial, office technology and word-processing. This course provides applied written business correspondence and verbal communication skills essential in office, word processing, administrative assistant and machine transcription careers. This course meets the requirements for the fourth or fifth unit of English.

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In this full year course, that meets every other day, students will develop the technical and conceptual skills needed for researching information on the Internet. They will be exposed to various search engines to research projects assigned to the class by the course instructor. In addition each student will develop his or her own individualized project. Students in the Business Academy will develop their individualized projects in accordance with each students Academy major: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, or Computer Programming.

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This course provides an opportunity for students to study and understand an entrepreneurial career. The goal is to promote an awareness of entrepreneurship by introducing the concept, presenting entrepreneurship as a possible career path and providing a realistic framework as well as develop a business plan for starting students' own business. A business plan project ties together the various segments of entrepreneurship and allows students to develop complete business plans for the enterprises. There is also an opportunity for an optional practicum, or internship.
*Special Note: This course is designed for those students who may be pursuing a post-secondary education in Business Management or Business Administration. College bound and non-business education sequence students are encouraged to enroll.

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This course is designed on an introductory level for students who have had little or no previous exposure to marketing. The content is broadly based so as to focus on the many different institutions that are involved in the marketing of goods and services. When students have successfully completed this course, they will have a good understanding of the principles and practices involved in the marketing process, as well as an understanding of the different types of career opportunities available to them in the field of marketing. Students also earn additional credit for participating in the Cooperative Work Experience Program through which they are employed in a course-related part time position.

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This course is designed for the student who has a genuine desire to explore professional opportunities in the field of marketing. Emphasis is upon full-time careers where the student may move into management positions and perhaps even ownership of a store of other type of merchandising business. Participating in the Cooperative Work Experience Program provides practical on-the-job training.


*Special Note: Students who have successfully completed Principles of Marketing 1 & 2 and have passed an Orange County Community College prepared and administered exam will be given credit for Principles of Retailing Course #55130.

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This course combines both technical and non-technical skills, which are integral to the successful operation of a business. The marketing merchandising and management skills that make up the course content are presented in a format that emphasizes the small business. Content within this course will provide students with a step-by-step approach to starting and operating a business. Student successfully completing this course will have a solid foundation in small Business Management, its concepts that may be applied to entry-level employment after high school or enrich post-secondary study.

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