Business Education & Computer Studies

Business is for everyone!

Computing is for everyone!

The purpose of Business Education is to assist young people in their understanding of business and its impact on them and their community. Everyone needs business skills in their personal lives and for employment in any occupation: employees, members of organizations, consumers or employers running their own business. This will assist students to meet the challenge of interacting successfully with the business environment.

Computer Studies is now more commonly known as Information and Communication Education. In this rapidly changing technological world, it is important to learn and keep up with the pace of change. Students learn current technologies but also will be encouraged to develop strategies to “learn and adapt to changes in this field”.

Overview

Technology – Business Education and Computer Studies. Both courses aim to:

· give students the opportunity to learn about business, the world and themselves with a futures perspective

· assist in developing students as ‘enterprising individuals’ who are positive, flexible, creative, co-operative, innovative and are able to work effectively and collaboratively as team members or individuals

· provide students with opportunities to learn knowledge and skills and to develop dispositions to lifelong learning of computer technology and its impact on society

· equip students with skills to progress to senior subjects and tertiary courses and to take their place in the workforce.

Students are able to select units which cover a wide range of business and computing concepts and develop practical skills including:

· basic bookkeeping, accounting money and finances, marketing and communications

· suite of computer software applications – word processing, spreadsheets, database, desktop publishing, web design, internet research skills, graphics and animations, programming, PowerPoint presentations. (Many of these applications can also be utilized by students to enhance their work in other units being studied).

Explanatory notes

All students begin Year 8 with the mandatory unit TCS401 “Introduction to Computers”. They then select from a range of units involving computer skills or business applications. They are able to choose as many of these units as they wish over the next two years and can choose more than one unit in this area every semester.

Some units are also recommended for students wishing to study specific subjects in Year 11 and 12.

Senior School Recommendations

In the Senior School the subjects listed below are offered in the Business and IT Faculty. While there are no prerequisite units for these subjects, the following units would be a good foundation.