Accounting A & B

Do you want to become a stockbroker, financial analyst, or run your own business? This course consists of learning experiences designed to enable students to set up accounts and prepare qualitative records, auditing principles, budgets, and annual reports, using micro-computers for electronic spreadsheet and accounting simulations. Emphasis is placed on student interest and how accounting is conducted in our society. Students may receive credit for this course at Montgomery College.

Advanced Accounting A & B, Honors

Certified public account (CPA), financial analyst, stockbroker, e-commerce developer – these are just a few of the careers that require an accounting background. This course provides students with a more comprehensive study of accounting principles and the application of these principles to a wide range of business situations. Extended use of micro-computers is an essential component of this course. Students may receive credit for this course at Montgomery College. A lab fee may be required.

Communications Systems Technology A & B

This course is for students who enjoy the challenge of solving programs by using electronic and computer imaging, audi-video production, laser and fiber optics and satellite communications. Solutions to programs are constructed using different technology, use multimedia to manipulate and code information and solve programs dealing with communication and information technologies.

Computer Programming 1A & B

This course introduces the basic principles of structured programming, within the context of an object-oriented language. Topics covered include fundamentals of C++ programming language, simple and structured data types, control statements, functions, arrays, and classes. Emphasis is placed on developing effective problem-solving techniques through individual and team projects.

Computer Programming 2A & B

Using the Java language, students explore in-depth work with text.les and arrays, abstract data types, recursion searching and sorting algorithms, and program efficiency. Examination of specified class behaviors, inter-related objects, and object hierarchies are also studied. Students may elect to take the A version of the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam upon completion of this course.

Computer Programming 3A & B

Students will study programming methodology, the features of programming languages, primitive data types, dynamic allocation of memory, data structures, searching, sorting, and numeric algorithms, using the Java programming language. The topic of graphics is introduced through the Advanced Placement case study.

Cooperative Work Experience 1A & B

Students develop an employment portfolio, gain job-seeking and job-keeping skills, understand career pathways, and analyze the impact of technology in the workplace. The CWE program links students with industry professionals through on-the-job training to gain firsthand experience in a career area of their choice.

Discovering Programming Concepts A & B

This course is designed for students who have had little or no past programming experience, but may have an interest in computer science. Students explore fundamental computer science concepts such as algorithms, variables and constants, decision structures, looping structures, methods, arrays, and graphics using either the Visual BASIC or Visual Basic.NET programming language.

Entrepreneurship and Business Management 1A & B

Whether students’ dreams involve working at a fast moving entrepreneurial organization or running an existing company, in this foundational course they learn the necessary skills to understand business principles. Student entrepreneurs work in teams to investigate topics such as business opportunities, feasibility studies, business plan development, financing alternatives, marketing, and legal forms of organization.

Entrepreneurship and Business Management 2

Students who have experienced entrepreneurial thinking and entrepreneurship concepts in the Entrepreneurship and Businesses Management 1 course extend their business acumen in this course. They learn more about organizing, financing, establishing, operating, and managing their own small businesses. Small business owners and managers will be invited to share their experiences with the students. Students complete a comprehensive business plan by the end of this course.

Exploring Technology Concepts A & B

Students will develop an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology, the influence of technology on history, and the connections between technology and other fields of study. They will develop an understanding of the attributes of design; develop skills in using the design process to solve technological problems; develop a positive attitude about safety and skills through research, problem solving, prototyping, testing, and technical presentations while working collaboratively.

Financial Management

This course is designed for students who want to understand how business is conducted in other countries and who want to develop global business perspectives as well as sensitivities toward diverse cultures and customs. International marketing strategies, economic concepts, history, the role of geography in trade, monetary systems, trade agreements, and future trends will be some of the topics that students will investigate.

Hospitality & Tourism A & B

The National Academy of Hospitality and Tourism is a member program of the National Academy Foundation. This course provides an introduction to various components of this industry. Students are given an overview of aspects of business and marketing, opportunities to practice consumer service principles, and exposure to the various careers available in hospitality and tourism.

International Business

This course is designed for students who want to understand how business is conducted in other countries, and who want to develop global business perspectives as well as sensitivities toward diverse cultures and customs. International marketing strategies, economic concepts, history, the role of geography in trade, monetary systems, trade agreements, and future trends will be some of the topics that students will investigate.

On-the-Job Training (OJT) 1A & B

Students participate in a paid job in conjunction with the CWE class. They work directly with industry professionals in a career of interest, while refining career goals and post-secondary plans. Student work sites must be approved and supervised by the CWE teacher. OJT is provided during school hours; work-based learning must take place during school hours to allow for required work site supervision by the CWE teacher. Seventy-five hours of work experience required per semester.

Pre-Engineering A & B

This course provides orientation and exposure to engineering activities and applies scientific principles to the solution of practical problems. This experience-based course provides students the opportunity to apply the practices of designing, prototyping, analyzing, and improving new and use designs. Computer systems, testing devices and equipment, materials, engineering graphics, math, science, language arts, and social studies principles are used to solve practical problems in a lab-based setting.

Software Applications by Design A & B

The ability to use a computer effectively is essential for every career field. This course helps prepare students for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification core-level examination for Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point. Students design and compete word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheet, database, and multimedia projects that reinforce the MOS standards taught throughout this course.

Software Applications by Design A & B, Advanced

Building on knowledge and skills learned in the Software Applications by Design courses, students will use project-based learning to apply advance skills in Microsoft Word and Excel, along with the development of digital portfolios. Students may elect to take the Microsoft Office Specialist certification expert-level examination for Word and Excel at the conclusion of this course.

Website Development A & B

Students learn Web design from storyboard to a finished online Web page and develop actual sites from customers’ specifications using HTML, Java Script, Cold Fusion, Web composers, and object-oriented programming languages. Skills in streaming media and server applications and 3-D animation are developed. Project management provides students with skills to lead teams through projects from inception to completion.