Academic Information
Business Education and Technology Department

The business education and technology program at Sydney Academy is designed to provide students with meaningful learning experiences that develop competencies, skills, and knowledge that can be applied to their personal and academic lives as well as providing practical skills for the job market

ACCOUNTING 11 - ACC 11 (Academic)
This is an introductory course that provides students with the necessary accounting skills and background to take the next level of accounting. Students are required to use analytical and problem solving skills as applied to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The students use accounting theories and practices that address everyday accounting situations. The content of this course includes the accounting period cycle, analyzing changes in the accounting equation, using accounts, analyzing transactions, preparing and interpreting financial statements, closing the ledger and completing the accounting cycle for both a service and merchandising business. It provides students interested in pursuing a business degree or diploma the opportunity to explore business career options.

It serves as a pre-requisite for an advanced high school accounting course. Students are given the opportunity to understand how accurate financial records can improve economic, personal, and financial decisions.

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 12 - BMAN 12 ACAD (Academic)
Business Management 12 is designed to reflect change in the economic and business environments and to develop students' analytical, problem solving, research, and communication skills through an understanding of how companies are managed from both employer and employee perspectives. The course focuses on developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to identify opportunities and meet the challenges of the business environment. The topics covered include the management environment (planning, organizing, leading & controlling), business and ethics, business organization, and competitive markets.

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY - BUS TEC 11 (Academic)
In Business Technology 11 students develop a basic proficiency in touch keyboarding. These keyboarding skills will be integrated and developed through the use of business productivity software (word processor, spreadsheet, and desktop publishing). Students will integrate touch keyboarding skills with skills in document production and design. This includes creating spreadsheets to manage data, applying principles and practices of desktop publishing to design and document production, and becoming confident and purposeful users of business productivity software. This course meets the technology compulsory credit requirement for graduation.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

DESIGN 11(Academic)
This is a full credit course on the introduction to Design. Topics include integrated software packages for designing and integrating word processing, data base, and spreadsheet; image design and editing; using HTML code and authoring programs to design a web site. Typing is not a prerequisite but a definite asset. Modules for this course include: Design Fundamentals; Communications Design; The Built Environment; Product Design and Independent Project.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP 12 - ENTREPR 12 (Academic)
Entrepreneurship 12 is both a theory and hands-on course with the teacher acting as a facilitator. It is designed to develop the kind of interests, values, attitudes, skills and characteristics that are essential to survive in an entrepreneurial culture. There are three components to the course which a student must do successfully in order to complete the course.
They are:

1. Theory Component: The students learn the specific knowledge associated with being an entrepreneur.
2. Action Component: This component is in the hands of the student. He/she decides what mini-ventures (small businesses) he/she will operate, how he/she will do it, (the teacher must agree) and then the student must prove that he/she has accomplished what he/she set out to accomplish. The students must earn 100 tokens to complete this component.>
3. Business Component: The students will be required to write three business plans by the end of the year. The first is a practice plan, the second is a plan for a venture they will put into action, and the third one is for a summer business. The third business plan will be submitted to the YES Program for evaluation.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY 10 - EXP TEC 10 (Open)
The Exploring Technology 10 curriculum is designed for all students at the grade 10 level. There are six possible modules that could be examined in the course: Introduction to Technology, Green Technology, Media Design Technology, Control Technology, Engineering Systems Technology, and Exploring Trades Technology.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 11 - COM TEC 11 (Open)
Each production technology course includes designing multi-media presentations using various media types and animation programs; advanced web site design and designing an electronic portfolio. Com Technology 12 students should have completed Com Tech 11 or Design 11 before taking Com Tech 12.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

LAW 12 (Academic)
The purpose of this course is to have the students acquire knowledge of their legal duties and responsibilities. Some topics covered are criminal law, civil law contracts, and wills. Methods of instruction include an in-depth study of modern law texts, films, guest lecturers, etc. A student learns to relate facts to principles through analysis of problems and case studies.

DATA PROCESSING 12 - DAT PRO 12 (Open)
In Data Processing 12 students will develop skills in creating, manipulating, organizing, and generating data through the use of computer software. In the process of learning the various programs, students will develop skills in communication, problem solving, research, and analysis. Learning experiences will involve not only individual but group collaborative assignments and projects. Through the process of researching, planning, and creating these assignments and projects students will develop the technical and critical thinking skills required for understanding and using technology. This course meets the technology compulsory credit requirement for graduation.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION 12 - FVP12 (Academic)
Prerequisite: Drama 11 or permission of instructor

This course involves students in the production of a film or video. Students work independently and as part of a production team to explore roles in the film industry, develop skills required in production roles, develop a critical awareness of historical and cultural aspects of film, and work through the process of producing a film or video from script development to final edit.
This course satisfies the requirements for a technology credit but not a fine art credit.
Requires instructor's signature.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 12 - COM TEC 12 (Open)
In Com Tech 12 we will use computers to support the implementation of entrepreneurship, using word processors, spreadsheets, and desktop publishing programs to facilitate the development and marketing of a product or service. We will also venture into the area of digitally recorded advertising and service announcement production. Time permitting; we will produce animated advertising to support the marketing of the entrepreneurial projects. As a result, Com Tech 12 is a project-based course of studies. This means that students are constantly working on tasks that support various outcomes and follow various timelines. While some of these projects may be completed in just one period, many others may take days, weeks, or even months to complete. As a result, assessment is on going and constant.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

MULTIMEDIA 12 (Academic)
Multimedia 12 provides learning opportunities through which students become skilled, critical creators and consumers of multimedia. Students will be expected to learn the basics of multimedia design starting with traditional methods as well as advanced methods which include the use of computer based programs. Students acquire an understanding of aesthetic/artistic implications of multimedia products, and apply the elements and principles of art and design to construct multimedia products. Using these ideas and concepts students must be able to communicate ideas effectively using many different types of media such as audio, visual and movement. Modules focus on image creation and manipulation, time-based images, sound, and multimedia authoring.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

WORD/INFORMATION PROCESSING 12 - W/INF P 12 (Open)
Word Information processing is designed to help students become proficient users of automated word-processing equipment. Modules include keyboarding, formatting, office organization, word processing concepts, and document production. The Word Information Processing students will create the yearbook. Word Information Processing can be counted as a technology credit to meet graduation requirements.

Note: This course requires access to the internet. Therefore, students must have passed in a completed Acceptable Use Policy before enrollment is permitted. This policy may be obtained from the school librarian or on our web site.

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