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Business Studies

T.A.Blakelock High School Business courses prepare students for success in today’s dynamic economy. From entrepreneurship and marketing to finance and leadership, students gain practical skills and real-world experience.

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Business Studies Course Descriptions

Grades 9-12

This course introduces students to the world of business and what is required to be successful, ethical, and responsible in today’s economy. Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to be an entrepreneur who knows how to respond to local and global market opportunities. Throughout the course, students will explore and understand the responsibility of managing different functions of a business. This includes accounting, marketing, information and communication technology, financial management, human resources, and production.
Prerequisite: None

This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and procedures of accounting. Students will
develop financial analysis and decision-making skills that will assist them in future studies and/or career
opportunities in business. Students will acquire an understanding of accounting for a service and a
merchandising business, computerized accounting, financial analysis, and ethics and current issues in
accounting.

Prerequisite: None

This course introduces students to advanced accounting principles that will prepare them for
postsecondary studies in business. Students will learn about financial statements for various forms of
business ownership and how those statements are interpreted in making business decisions. This course
expands students’ knowledge of sources of financing, further develops accounting methods for assets, and
introduces accounting for partnerships and corporations.

Prerequisite: Financial Accounting Fundamentals, Grade 11, University/College Preparation

This course focuses on the ways in which entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas, and
organize resources to plan successful ventures that enable them to achieve their goals. Students will
create a venture plan for a school-based or student-run business. Through hands-on experiences,
students will have opportunities to develop the values, traits, and skills most often associated with
successful entrepreneurs.

Prerequisite: None

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of product marketing, which includes the marketing of
goods, services, and events. Students will examine how trends, issues, global economic changes, and
information technology influence consumer buying habits. Students will engage in marketing research,
develop marketing strategies, and produce a marketing plan for a product of their choice.

Prerequisite: None

This course focuses on the development of leadership skills used in managing a successful business.
Students will analyse the role of a leader in business, with a focus on decision making, management of
group dynamics, workplace stress and conflict, motivation of employees, and planning. Effective business
communication skills, ethics, and social responsibility are also emphasized.

Prerequisite: None

This course examines current Canadian and international economic issues, developments, policies, and practices from diverse perspectives. Students will explore the decisions that individuals and institutions, including governments, make in response to economic issues such as globalization, trade agreements, economic inequalities, regulation, and public spending. Students will apply the concepts of economic thinking and the economic inquiry process, as well as economic models and theories, to investigate, and develop informed opinions about, economic trade-offs, growth, and sustainability and related economic issues.
Prerequisite: Any university or university/college preparation course in Canadian and world studies, English, or social sciences and humanities  

This course explores issues and challenges facing the Canadian economy as well as the implications of various responses to them. Students will explore the economic role of firms, workers, and government as well as their own role as individual consumers and contributors, and how all of these roles contribute to stability and change in the Canadian economy. Students will apply the concepts of economic thinking and the economic inquiry process, including economic models, to investigate the impact of economic issues and decisions at the individual, regional, and national level.

Prerequisite: Canadian History since World War I, Grade 10, Academic or Applied