CTE Department Staff:

• Monica Bentley | @email

• Department Chair: Nicholas Western | [email protected]

Business

Business and Information Technology is an elective program offered at all high schools. A college degree in business, which includes business administration, accounting, business management, management information systems, etc., can be explored and assisted by the many business and information technology course offerings.

Technology is utilized as a tool throughout all the business and information technology courses as well as a major emphasis in many of these courses. Students create multimedia presentations; design desktop published documents; learn integrated software; develop web pages; and program in Visual Basic. Several of these courses qualify students to receive advanced placement credit with Northern Virginia Community College.

Marketing

Marketing provides courses leading to various marketing career choices. Specialized training includes career preparation in such areas as advertising, entrepreneurship, fashion marketing, sports and entertainment marketing, hospitality management, mall marketing, and sales promotion.