Students learn how to create photos with Color Block effects. Check out a sampling of our students' Photoshopped designs:

Students in the Introduction to Business course learn all about brand identity. One assignment asked them to represent a brand without using it's name or logo. 

This course focuses on the basic principles of accounting, including the accounting cycle as it applies to a sole proprietorship, by teaching the principles of accounting and the financial operations of a business. Emphasis is placed on the accounting cycle including the recording process, determining income, analyzing, and communicating financial information. 

* Note: Senior students may choose to take Financial Literacy & Accounting in order to fulfill their required senior-year math credit.

Develop the “entrepreneurial mindset” by encouraging creativity, innovation, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Through a research-driven approach, as well as strategic collaborations, students explore an entrepreneurial culture which enhances economic development. This course will include idea generation, market research, marketing, feasibility and risk assessment, customer service and financial projections.
* Students can register to earn 3 college credits from the University of Iowa.
* Prerequisites: 85 overall average and approval from the department chair.

This course emphasizes the knowledge and skills required to handle personal finances. Topics include budget analysis, banking, insurance, credit, taxes, real estate, and investments. Students work with the online simulation that incorporates real-world money management skills including paying bills, managing expenses, saving money, and investing in retirement. Students learn the fundamentals of managing financial resources to achieve financial wellbeing.

* Note: Senior students may choose to take Financial Literacy & Accounting in order to fulfill their required senior-year math credit.

This course exposes students to the unique challenges facing international firms and to the potential opportunities and markets that are lost to firms that choose not to operate in the global market. International Business broadens student understanding of how businesses operate, grow, and thrive in the ever-changing world.

This course is for students who want to learn graphic design using Adobe CC Suite software and Canva. While exploring visual aesthetics, such as the elements and principles of design, students will practice retouching, digital collaging, and design through individual projects.

* This course satisfies both a Business and Fine Arts credit.

This course studies the scope and significance of marketing in the American business world with an emphasis on marketing consumer goods. Topics include the development of the marketing mix, marketing-information management, product/service management, and sales.

This course explores the sports industry and introduces classic business and management concepts as they apply in this setting. Students are exposed to planning, organizing, leading, and controlling strategies and skills with special emphasis on how they are applied in an organization operating within the demanding context of modern sports industry. Focuses include managing sporting events, sport marketing, sport in society and sport law.

A broad-based introductory course designed to give the student exploratory experiences as they relate to the world of business. Students will explore all aspects of business through problem solving, social responsibility, critical thinking, and the development of projects and activities.