Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship
Launch of our New Business & Entrepreneur Curriculum

Managers play a critical role in shaping America's future. Businesses need managers who are effective, creative, disciplined and well educated. The Business Management career choices gives students the career skills to gain a understanding in the many areas of business. Career opportunities include management positions in manufacturing companies, business and management consulting, financial planning and banking, sales management, marketing and personnel administration.

Business Ownership 1.0 Credit The purpose of this course is to prepare students as entrepreneurs, present entrepreneurship as a career path that is worth consideration, provide students with the skills needed to realistically evaluate their potential as a business owner, and develop the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to start and operate a business.

Business Management and the Law 1.0 Credit This course is designed to provide an introduction to business management techniques. Topics include human relations, decision making, communication techniques, business law concepts, and characteristics of the American enterprise system.

Principles of Entrepreneurship 1.0 Credit This course provides instruction in the basic principles of entrepreneurship including the role of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship as a career, ethics in business, and the principles of marketing, financing, and managing a business.

Marketing Essentials 1.0 Credit This course is designed to prepare students for employment in various sales, customer service, advertising and promotion, and first line supervisory positions in wholesale, retail and service areas. Students will prepare to perform marketing and management functions and tasks as they relate to selling and retailing, e-commerce, sports and entertainment, and hospitality and tourism industries. Students will experience application of the following Florida Math Standards: number sense data analysis and probability, patterns and algebra, discrete math, and logic.

Business Law 1.0 Credit This course involves the study of how our nation's laws were formed, the ethics behind our laws, our kinds of law, how laws are enforced, and the difference between crimes and torts. Laws for minors, families, and consumers will also be studied. However, the main emphasis of this course will be the study of contracts--different types, how they are formed and ended, and damages.

Marketing Operations 1.0 Credit The purpose of this course is to develop the competencies essential to marketing. These competencies include human relations, employability, communication, math, and economic skills. The fundamentals of marketing and selling are also included.

International Marketing 1.0 Credit The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the basics of international marketing. These competencies include an understanding of import and export basics.

Marketing Applications 1.0 Credit This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth study of marketing in a free enterprise society and provide the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for employment in a wide variety of marketing occupations.

E-Commerce Marketing 1.0 Credit This course is designed to provide students with general knowledge of the use of the World Wide Web as a marketing tool including the development of a web site and supporting marketing activities including the management of an internet marketing campaign.

Marketing Management 1.0 Credit This course provides instruction for career sustaining level employment in the industry. The content includes applied skills related to the marketing functions including employment skills required for success in marketing and career planning as related to a marketing industry.

The mission of Crescent Preparatory High School - Home School is to provide students with a rigorous and flexible education that will prepare them for post-secondary opportunities. We offer a full range of programs from technical to academic. Our Online High School - Home School offers web-based courses that bridge the barriers of time and distance and create opportunities for students to achieve access, excellence, and equity in education.

Goals for Success

* To provide collaborative leadership style educational programs
* To provide a quality online education
* To supplement curricula with proven learning materials and strategies
* To provide one-on-one mentoring and tutoring to all of our students.
* To constantly promote a "you can" attitude so all students are given a chance to succeed.

American History 1.0 Credit Students in American History are given an opportunity to:
1.) Gain a basic knowledge of events and facts of National and State History from earliest cultures to the present,
2.) Become familiar with the literature of American History
3.) Develop social studies skills such as map and graph interpretation,
4.) Develop skills in interpretation and analysis of both primary and secondary documents or sources,
5.) Develop historical writing skills.

World History/Geography 1.0 Credit. World History/Geography is a required course for sophomores concerning the nations and peoples of the world. Included with the history and geography are cultural development, political and economic systems and social structures. The student will be challenged to think critically about international relations, human commonalities and differences and their impact on the student's own life.

World Geography 1.0 Credit. World Geography encompasses both the physical and cultural aspects of the discipline. Early emphasis is placed on the development and appreciation of physical geographic knowledge including meteorology, geomorphology and cartography. These skills having been mastered, a cultural approach to the world/s various ethnic regions is addressed during the remainder of the year. Elements including political ideologies, religious beliefs, and unique cultural practices, as well as current situations of the world's major ethnic regions, are discussed.

American Government 0.5 Credit. This course is designed to provide students with a basic knowledge of the purpose, structure, and operation of the national and state governmental systems. The primary content of study is the Federal system and its underlying principles as they are related on National, State, and local levels.

Economics 0.5 Credit. This course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the important relationships of economics to our social and political problems. The course emphasizes the philosophy, development, and operation of our American economic system and its important influence upon the individual and society.

Sociology 0.5 Credit. Sociology is an elective course designed to familiarize students with various cultures and the problems resulting from people living in groups. This course covers such topics as culture, sub-cultures, social institutions, collective behavior, social change, social deviation, the family, religion, racial and ethnic minorities, poverty, and crime. The latter portion of this course deals specifically with the pressing problems of our society, their causes, and possible solutions.

Psychology 0.5 Credit This course focuses on the study of human behavior. As an introduction to the field of psychology, this course includes consideration of psychological principles, terminology, major theories, careers, methods of experimentation, and practical applications. Special topics include personality development, problem solving, group dynamics, and motivation.

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