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Westwood High School provides a robust selection of business administration and management courses, including Information Management, Business Administration and Management, Business Law, Entrepreneurship, Economics, and Management and Leadership.
These courses provide practical preparation for the business world.
Information Management
Focuses on employability skills and developing competencies in Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop.
Business Administration and Management
Allows students the flexibility to work on individual plans to complete projects in a variety of job-related applications and will employ information techniques to assist in decision making and will access, process and evaluate information.
Business Law
Allows students to achieve an understanding of legal principles that may be used throughout life, and will learn how business has a responsibility to know, abide by, and enforce laws and regulations that affect business operations and transactions.
Entrepreneurship
Designed to allow students the opportunity to begin preparing for careers in management, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
Economics
Allows students the chance to discover the role of economics in their personal lives and in domestic and global economies.
Management and Leadership
Fosters skills for effective communication and decision making, develops teamwork skills, as well as responsibility, dependability, planning, and organizational skills, which are invaluable for transition from school to the world of work.
Students enrolled in this program have the opportunity to compete at the regional, state and national levels in Business Professionals of America (BPA), which allows them to compete in contests such as Integrated Office Applications, Advanced Office Systems and Procedures, Legal Office Procedures, Medical Office Procedures, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, Economic Research Individual, among others, as well as to attend workshops, network with business students from around the country, and experience travel. Many WHS students have achieved national recognition in BPA.
The courses in this program are available to students in grades 10-12.
Prerequisites: All students must successfully complete an Information Management course.
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College Credit
College credit(s) possible (CLEP Test required)
- Students have the potential of earning college credits by achieving satisfactory scores on the College Level Examination Program exam (CLEP)
- Each college reserves the right to set its own credit-granting policy
- Contact your college(s) to find out the score it requires to grant credit, the number of credit hours granted, and the course(s) that can be bypassed with a satisfactory score
National College Credit Recommendation (Test required)
- Students have the potential of earning college credits by scoring 70% or better on the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) assessment for General Management
- Test is administered in the classroom during mid-spring semester to students at the end of their Finance and/or Business programs
- Over 1,500 colleges and universities accept NOCTI credit recommendations
Industry Certification
Industry-recognized Microsoft Office and Adobe Certification (Test required)
- Microsoft Office Specialist 2016 - Access 2016, Excel and Excel Expert 2016, Word and Word Expert 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Outlook 2016, and Microsoft Office Master Specialist certifications
- Microsoft Technology Associate - Software Development Fundamentals, HTML5 Application Development Fundamentals, Introduction to Programming with Block-Based Programming Languages, Windows OS Fundamentals, Networking Fundamentals, Security Fundamentals, Mobility and Devices Fundamentals, Cloud Fundamentals, Database Fundamentals
- Testing in high school classroom via Certiport.com* - currently available at no cost to the student
*Credentials are nationally recognized, portable and stackable, which means students have the option of attaining more advanced credentials in the future
- Potentially earn college credit for Microsoft Certifications
Success Story
Westwood students prepare for national Business Professionals competition
A group of Westwood High School students are gearing up to compete at the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference at the end of the month!
In March, 31 students from Westwood High School competed at the Michigan Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference. During the competition they took part in events that tested their skills with office systems, accounting, administrative concepts and even word processing.
Of those 31, 13 were chosen to advance to the National Conference in Anaheim, California!
Read more about Westwood students prepare for national Business Professionals competition
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