My name is Doug Wuethrich: I am one of the business and technology teachers here at EPG. I have been a teacher for 12 years, 10 years at EPG, and 2 years in Naperville, in the Indian Prairie school district. I graduated from Bradley University with a B.S. degree in marketing. I am the high school yearbook advisor, PCCS vocational coordinator, and serve on the Building leadership Committee. One of the joys of teaching for me is seeing how students learn, develop, and mature throughout their high school careers. I enjoy teaching classes about business and technology because I can help students learn about things that will be relevant to their lives in and out of the classroom environment.
My name is Dave Svehla, and I am one of the business and technology teachers at EPG. I have been a teacher for 14 years. This is my first year at EPG, after having taught a year in Minneapolis, MN, three years at Raymond Central High School in Nebraska, and nine years at Lincoln Northeast High School in Nebraska. I graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management. After working in business for a couple of years, I went back to school and received my Master’s Degree in Business Education from the University of Minnesota. Besides teaching at EPG, I help coach the varsity football team, and am a member of the high school’s Building Leadership Committee. The best part about being a teacher for me is getting to know the students beyond the classroom. I enjoy teaching in the EPG school district because of the friendly and supportive staff and administration.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: 1
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: None
General Description: This orientation level course will provide an overview of all aspects of business marketing and management, including the concepts, functions, and skills required for meeting the challenges of operating a business in a global economy. Topics covered will include the various forms of business ownership, including entrepreneurship, as well as the basic functional areas of business (finance, management, marketing, administration and production). Business computations regarding checkbooks, salaries, sales, credit, interest, taxes, and insurance expenses are studied as well. Students will be introduced to a wide range of careers in fields such as accounting, financial services, information technology, marketing, and management. Emphasis will be placed on using the computer while studying applications in these careers along with communication skills (thinking, listening, composing, revising, editing, and speaking), Math and problem solving. Business ethics as well as other workplace skills will be taught and integrated within this course. Successful completion of this course satisfies the Consumer Education graduation requirement.
Course Length: Full Year
Credits Generated: 1
Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: None
General Description: Accounting I is a skill level course that is of value to all students pursuing a strong background in business, marketing, and management. This course includes planned learning experiences that develop initial and basic skills used in systematically computing, classifying, recording, verifying and maintaining numerical data involved in financial and product control records including the paying and receiving of money. Instruction includes information n keeping financial records, summarizing them for convenient interpretation, and analyzing them to provide assistance to management for decision making. Accounting computer applications should be integrated throughout the course where applicable. In addition to stressing the basic fundamentals and terminology of accounting, instruction should provide initial understanding of the preparation of budgets and financial reports, operation of related business machines and equipment, and career opportunities in the accounting field. Processing employee benefits may also be included. Practice sets with business papers may be used to emphasize actual business records management.
Course Length: Full Year
Credits Generated: 1
Grade Level: 12
Prerequisite for Course: Accounting I
General Description: Accounting II will expand on many of the basic concepts introduced in Accounting I. Inventory methods and depreciation methods will be studied in depth. Special issues regarding corporate accounting and shareholder's annual reports will also be addressed. Automated accounting will be applied to all concepts.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: ½
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: Keyboarding, Computer Concepts or Passing a Proficiency Test
General Description: Computer Applications I is a skill-level course that includes the concepts and terminology related to the people, equipment, and procedures of information processing as well as skill development in the use of information processing equipment. Students will operate computer equipment to create a variety of word processing documents, using such functions as tabs, indents, bullets, numbering, and tables. Students will create, input, and update databases and spreadsheets. Students will create data directories; copy, rename, move and delete files, and perform backup procedures. In addition, students will prepare files to merge, as well as create mailing labels and envelopes from merge files. Students will learn to locate and retrieve information from hard copy and electronic sources, and prepare masters for a presentation using presentation software. Students will apply grammar, punctuation, spelling, and proofreading practices. Accuracy will be emphasized. Workplace skills as well as communication skills (thinking, listening, composing, revising, editing, and speaking) will be taught and integrated throughout this course. Students will use desktop publishing to create newsletters, brochures, and cards. Students will be introduced to digital photography software, which they will use to edit and manipulate digital photos and graphics.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: ½
Grade Level: 9, 10
Prerequisite for Course: None
General Description: Keyboarding is a course designed to develop basic skills in touch keyboarding techniques for entering alphabetic, numeric, and symbol information found on computers and terminals. Students will learn to edit and format text and paragraphs, change fonts, work with headers and footers, cut and paste text, create and use tab keys, create labels, and work with multiple windows. Students will format documents such as letters, envelopes, and memorandums, reports, and tables for personal, educational, and business uses. During the second half of the course, major emphasis is placed on formatting documents, improving proofreading skills, and increasing speed and accuracy.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: .5
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: Keyboarding Skills
General Description: Electronic-commerce, or E-commerce as it is better known, has had a major impact on the business world. This orientation-level course will provide an overview of all aspects of business marketing and management concepts including the impact of computers and technology in business today. Students will become more acquainted with how business functions in the economy. Additional emphasis will be placed on developing familiarity with communications skills on career development will be part of this program. The course will incorporate thinking, listening, composition, revision, editing, speaking, math, and problem solving skills. Business ethics and other workplace skills will be integrated within this course.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: 1/2
Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: None
General Description: This course will orient the student with a basic knowledge of personal and business law. Topics covered include our legal system, the constitution, and the difference between criminal and personal law. The class will also look into the basic legal aspects of contracts, sales, property dealing, labor relations, finance, and running a business. The objectives of this class will be met by using reading, writing, and critical thinking activities.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: .5
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: C or above in Keyboarding or Computer Concepts, or with instructor approval
General Description: Business Graphic and Web Design 1 is a skill-level course designed to prepare students to plan, design, create, and maintain web pages and sites. This course will use Adobe software to develop product logos and designs for use commercially as well as websites. Students will learn the fundamentals of web page design using HTML, HTML editors, and graphic editors as well as programming tools such as JavaScript, as time will allow. Students will work in a project-based environment to create a working website. Students will learn to create pages, add hyperlinks, make tables and frames, create forms, integrate images, and set styles. Students will use image-editing program to manipulate scanned images. Computer graphics and original; are work. Instruction will include creating graphical headers, interactive menus and buttons and visually appealing backgrounds.
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: .5
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite for Course: Business Graphic and Web Design I, or with instructor approval
General Description: This one semester course will continue to develop students’ knowledge and understanding of we design, web construction, and web programming. Students will study website design and what makes effective and ineffective websites. As a requirement of this course students will create and maintain high school websites, as well as assist with business-related websites. As time permits, students will use hardware and software to capture, edit create, and compress audio and video clips
Course Length: 1 Semester
Credits Generated: ½
Grade Level: 9, 10
Prerequisite for Course: Keyboarding