BUSINESS/CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
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BUSINESS/CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Amherst Central High School has been approved to offer New York State Education Department’s prestigious Technical Endorsement for four sequences: Accounting, Marketing, Computer Information Sciences, and Hospitality/Tourism for both Regents and Advanced Regents Diploma bound students. The sequences offered appear on the next page.
The Career and Technical Education Department is organized to serve several vital roles:
- To provide a foundation for success in college.
- To provide an opportunity to obtain college credit while in high school.
- To develop the Career Development and Occupational Studies and Parenting NYS Learning Standards.
- To foster the development of learning experiences that will help students become informed citizens and consumers.
- To promote career exploration.
The courses offered are used to meet the 1 unit practical arts requirement for graduation. If a computer class is used to meet the computer requirement, it cannot also be used to meet the practical arts requirement.
“No student shall on the basis of gender, race, color, national origin, disability or age, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subject to unlawful discrimination under any career and technical education program or activity.”
COURSE OFFERINGS:
Department/Course
Length
Credit
Business:
Business & Financial Mathematics ***
40 weeks
1 unit
College Business Law
40 weeks
1 unit
Career & Financial Management
20 weeks
½ unit
College Accounting
40 weeks
1 unit
College Computer Applications **
20 weeks
½ unit
College Web Design & Visual Applications **
20 weeks
½ unit
iComp 1 **(Intro to Computers and Applications)
20 weeks
½ unit
iComp 2 **(Introduction to Computer Programming)
20 weeks
½ unit
Entrepreneurship
20 weeks
½ unit
Computer Science Principles**
40 weeks
1 unit
Internship
20-40 weeks
½ - 1 unit
Sports & Entertainment Marketing
40 weeks
1 unit
Game Design & Programming (GDP)
20 weeks
½ unit
Work Experience
20-80 weeks
½ - 2 units
Family and Consumer Sciences:
Foreign Foods
20 weeks
½ unit
Gourmet Foods
20 weeks
½ unit
Hospitality and Tourism
20 weeks
½ unit
Technology:
Design & Innovation for Industry (DDP)
40 weeks
1 unit
Advanced Innovation & Robotics
40 weeks
1 unit
Principles of Engineering
20 weeks
½ unit
Intro to Woodworking
20 weeks
½ unit
Advanced Woodworking
20 weeks
½ unit
Architectural Drawing
20 weeks
½ unit
** Meets computer requirement
*** May be used to fulfill 3rd unit of Math