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Accounting 1
Do you like money? Learn how to record business transactions by using online, automated software and simulations. Introduction to accounting concepts through sole proprietorship, partnerships and corporations. Record business transactions; prepare financial records for small business; learn business foundations for professional or personal use.
Accounting 2
Do you want to be the leader in how a business makes a profit? Generate online, automated computerized simulations and Quickbooks reports for detailed payroll records, uncollectible accounts, depreciation, accrued income and expenses, prepaid income and prepaid expenses, record departmental transactions; corporation, partnership, not for profit organization accounting, demonstrate knowledge of cost accounting, managerial accounting and manufacturing accounting.
Personal Finance
Prepares students to make sound financial decisions by researching, evaluating, and analyzing real-world financial situations in order to achieve realistic short-term and long-term goals. Students will utilize decision-making skills and relevant resources regarding careers, financial planning, maintaining financial records, spending, saving and investing while realizing the consequences of credit, debit, identity theft, and the impact of taxes, insurance, and loan options and choices.
Personal & Business Law
Personal and Business Law will focus on an understanding of the court system at the local, state, and national level. Students will gain an understanding of contract law, their rights and responsibilities as citizens, utilization of financial transactions, employment and agency relationships, and the understanding of the regulations governing different types of business organizations.
Marketing Education 1
Develop skills in the operation of the school store business; develop job-seeking skills through completion of a letter of application, resume, application forms, and practicing interviewing techniques; study marketing and business concepts including management, production, accounting, ownership, and the relationship of business and society; apply basic concepts of economics to school store including goods and services, resources, price, supply and demand.
Marketing Education 2
Explain the role of promotion; study marketing and business concepts and marketing functions and strategies, market identification and demonstrate the process and techniques of selling. Understand risk management including types of business risk, security, safety and accidents; explore the importance of credit and identify importance of marketing information management and product service planning.
Marketing Education 3
Oversee the operation and the management of the school store by scheduling employees, ordering merchandise, making deposits, and receiving merchandise; review marketing and business concepts; describe inventory counts and levels, inventory control systems, inventory shrinkage and apply them to the school store; determine types of promotion; explain and demonstrate promotional mix in the operation of the school store; develop management skills in marketing and business including overhead/operating costs and the employee’s role in expense control; develop management skills in human resources including orientation of new employees, employee complaints and morale, training and development.
Marketing Education 4
Understand economic systems including government and business, private enterprise, profit, risk, competition, productivity, and international trade; utilize marketing/information management including research, data, and forecasts; develop product knowledge.
Marketing Internship Co-Op 1
Students will be employed in the community learning to accept responsibility, completing assigned tasks, gaining work experience, and developing employment skills.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Entrepreneurial Mindset can empower ordinary people to accomplish the extraordinary. In class we use: The Ice House Student Success Program. It is designed to equip you with the perseverance and determination of an entrepreneurial mindset at the onset of your academic journey. It will empower you to take ownership of your future while helping you develop the attitudes, skills, and behaviors that will enable you to succeed in college and in life. As part of this course you will meet and connect with entrepreneurs in and around Sioux Falls. As part of these discussions you will be able to ask questions and hear from the entrepreneurs how they have been successful in starting their businesses and how having an entrepreneurial mindset has assisted in their success.
Marketing Internship Co-Ip 1
Students will be employed in the community learning to accept responsibility, completing assigned tasks, gaining work experience, and developing employment skills.
Marketing Internship Co-Op 2
Students will be employed in the community learning to accept responsibility, completing assigned tasks, gaining work experience, and developing employment skills.
Video Production & Design
Experience the changing world of online and broadcast media. Learn basic computer and public relations skills relating to the schools’ new display scoreboard systems, message board technology, internet web sites, preparation of online and /or printed roster/programs for sporting and other events. Help with the online streaming of athletic and fine arts events, preparation of the school video news program and other related projects. Students who enjoy this class would also enjoy moving on to Media Production and/or Advanced Journalism classes.
Family & Consumer Science
Child Development 1
Students will explore human development from conception to age three and develop a greater understanding of choices related to human sexuality, caregiving, and parenting. Students will have the opportunity to care for an infant simulator to learn the responsibilities and challenges of parenting.
Child Development 2
This course will focus on professional practices related to working with young children. Students will implement an on-site playschool using age appropriate sensory experiences, communication skills, discipline techniques, toy and educational mediums, and health/safety practices.
Single Survival
Single Survival is designed to prepare the student for life after high school. This course will assist students in meeting the challenges of balancing family, work, and community responsibilities as an adult. This class includes: careers, transportation, clothing, healthy living, insurance, finances, and housing options.
General Foods
Students will study food preparation techniques, safety and sanitation standards, and life-long nutrition through participation in a variety of projects and food laboratory experiences.
Advanced Foods
Students will prepare a variety of advanced cuisine with a special focus on regional and international food preparation techniques and skills. They will utilize advanced cooking techniques by participating in a variety of projects and food laboratory experiences.
Culinary Management 1 (Postart 1)
The ProStart Program is an industry-based program that prepares students for careers in the restaurant and foodservice industry. Students gain valuable skills through their academic, lab and workplace experiences, lab participation and guest chef demonstrations. ProStart I topics include: Food & Workplace Safety, Kitchen Equipment & Techniques, Stocks, Sauces, Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Pizza, Serving Your Guests, Building a Successful Career, Management Essentials, and an Introduction to Baking.
Culinary Management 2 (Postart 2)
The ProStart Program is an industry-based program that prepares students for careers in the restaurant and foodservice industry. Students gain valuable skills through their academic, lab and workplace experiences, lab participation in addition to guest chef demonstrations. ProStart II topics include: Breakfast Cookery, Meat, Poultry, Seafood, Desserts & Baked Goods, Nutrition, Marketing, and Restaurant Management Essentials.
Baking & Pastries
Students will gain the fundamental skills necessary to work in a commercial bakery as well as skills needed to help them become proficient home bakers while enrolled in Baking and Pastry class. Students will gain valuable knowledge about this career field through class work and hands-on lab based training. Students will also have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals through demonstrations, field experiences, and guest speakers. Area studies will include breads, pies, cakes, pastries, cookies and much more.
Fashion Design
This course allows students the opportunity to apply elements and principles of design to fashion. Students will produce illustrations of fashion design, research fashion trends, and examine career opportunities. Students have the opportunity to create a variety of products using basic sewing skills.
Interior Design
This course will focus on housing styles, and principles and elements of design. Students will apply basic space planning concepts, and furnishing and housing needs within set parameters. They will also explore career opportunities within the field of Interior Design.
Technology Education
Introduction to Vehicle Systems & Maintenance
Demonstrate safety in the shop and lab while obtaining skills for the career and hobby opportunities in the automotive field. Students will raise and support all vehicles, inspect fluid levels, perform an oil change and chassis lube service. Students will test, service, and inspect vehicle electrical, cooling, and chassis systems. Students will also perform services on tires, transmission, brakes, fuel system, and interior and exterior surfaces.
Business Ventures 1
Students will learn about the organization, management and planning necessary to open and operate a small business. This is a project-based class in which skills will be learned through student-created and developed business plans and projects. Students will learn business concepts through creating logos, commercials and other promotional materials for their own business idea as well as developing their own entrepreneurial idea into a business plan.
Business Ventures 2
Students will expand on their business model created in Business Ventures I. They will learn advanced concepts with group based business projects. By hands-on participation in these ventures, students will learn about: purchasing, profit calculation, marketing techniques, supply and demand, purchase negotiations, break-even point calculation, establishing and using credit, promotional methods, payroll, franchising and other advanced business concepts.
Graphic Design
Analyze and create graphic designs through primarily computer-based projects including photo editing, logos, package designs, posters, collages, vector illustrations, and animations. Students will incorporate typography guidelines and the elements and principles of design into their graphic designs. To create their designs, students will use the software programs Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Recommended for students with intermediate computer skills who know how to copy, cut, paste, change fonts, font styles and font sizes, edit and insert graphics.
Home Maintenance
Home maintenance will teach students how to improve, repair, maintain and enhance a residential structure and its systems through hands on projects. Students will learn through completing numerous activities such as home safety, use of tools, wall framing, plumbing, electrical, tiling, drywall installation and repair as well as other hands on activities.
Repairing Small Engines
Demonstrate safety in the shop and lab; identify and maintain tools and equipment; demonstrate accurate use of measuring tools; identify component parts and functional systems during overhaul of 4-cycle engines; know the basic principles of electricity and winterization/troubleshooting of engines.
Woodworking Technology 1
This course provides information in tools, machines, materials, and processes related to the broad field of woodworking. Complete an assigned project determined by the instructor; construct a student-planned project approved by the instructor; demonstrate safe work habits; identify different types of wood; identify and correctly apply finishes.
Woodworking Technology 2
Draw, plan and estimate the cost of materials for anticipated projects and make project from plan; use machines to their full capability.
Welding I
Demonstrate safety in the shop and lab; demonstrate and show proficiency in S.M.A.W. (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) and G.M.A.W. (Gas Metal Arc Welding), oxy-fuel welding, cutting and brazing; learn basic metallurgy concepts, such as shrinkage, warpage, and compatibility; use new technology in plasma cutting and wire feed welding. Welding guides you into career choices such as fabricated metal, product manufacturing, transportation, equipment and machinery manufacturing, and construction.