Advertising & Sales Promotion

Advertising & Sales Promotion

In the United States, companies spend approximately $200 billion a year promoting their products and services. Discover how marketing campaigns, ads, and commercials are conceived and brought to life, and even meet some of the creative folks who produce that memorable media. Learn about different career opportunities in the field and how you can be part of this exciting, fast-paced industry.

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Creative Writing

Creative Writing

For many hundreds of years, literature has been one of the most important human art forms. It allows us to give voice to our emotions, create imaginary worlds, express ideas, and escape the confines of material reality. Through creative writing, we can come to understand ourselves and our world a little bit better. This course provides students with a solid grounding in the writing process, from finding inspiration to building a basic story to using complicated literary techniques and creating strange hybrid forms of poetic prose and prose poetry. By the end of this course, students will learn how to discover their creative thoughts and turn those ideas into fully realized pieces of creative writing.

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Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Business

Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Business

Do you dream of owning your own business? Get a head start in learning about what you’ll need to own and operate a successful business. Learn how to create a business plan, finance a business, and price products and services.

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Foundations in Personal Finance

Foundations in Personal Finance

Personal finance refers to the financial decisions an individual or family makes in order to earn, budget, save, and spend money over time. These decisions are generally based on a variety of financial risks and planning for the future. This course will change your financial future and set you on a path to win with money, allowing you to change the way you look at money forever.

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Hospitality & Tourism

Hospitality & Tourism

Gain an introduction to this rapidly growing industry, including hotel and restaurant management, cruise ships, spas, resorts, theme parks, and more. Learn key hospitality issues, the development and management of tourist locations, event planning, marketing, and environmental issues related to leisure and travel.

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International Business

International Business

Global Commerce in the 21st Century:  Designed to help students develop appreciation, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to live and work in a global marketplace, this course provides a conceptual tool by which to understand how economic, social, cultural, political and legal factors influence domestic and cross-border business. You’ll cultivate a mindfulness of how history, geography, language, cultural studies, research skills, and continuing education are important to business activities and the 21st century.

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Introduction to Manufacturing

Introduction to Manufacturing

Learn about the types of manufacturing systems and processes used to create the products we buy every day, and discover various career opportunities in the manufacturing industry. As a culminating project, you’ll plan your own manufacturing process for a new product or invention.

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Leadership Skills Development

Leadership Skills Development

Leadership Skills Development takes students on a leadership journey, where they explore their own story and goals and learn how to achieve things they never thought possible. The course concludes with students researching, planning, and participating in a service project that will benefit their school and/or community.

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Public Speaking

Public Speaking

Examine the foundations of public speaking through Aristotle and Cicero’s views of rhetoric, then traces those foundations into the modern world. Learn theory as well as the practice of effective public speaking, including how to analyze the speeches of others, build a strong argument, and speak with confidence and flair.

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Restaurant Management

Restaurant Management

Discover what’s needed to run a successful restaurant, including ordering supplies, hiring quality workers, maintaining inventory, and managing a large staff. Understanding such concepts as food safety, hygiene, customer relations, marketing, and using a point-of-sale system is crucial to being an effective restaurateur.

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Social Media: Our Connected World

Social Media: Our Connected World

Learning how to interact on social media platforms is crucial to thriving in this age of digital communication. Explore the ins and outs of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, as well as how to use them to benefit personally, academically, and, professionally. This course will show you how to use these resources in powerful ways.

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Sports & Entertainment Marketing

Sports & Entertainment Marketing

Explore basic marketing principles and delve deeper into the multi-billion dollar sports and entertainment marketing industry. Learn how professional athletes, sports teams, and well-known entertainers are marketed as commodities and how some of them become billionaires as a result.

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