SMC Business Education
St. Mary Central High School offers a variety of courses to help prepare students to attain their goal of a career in business or technology. Over 40% of college students are business majors.
Our goal at St. Mary Central is to educate and train our students with current essential business and computer skills and knowledge to enhance their capacity to successfully compete in the business and technology field.
Courses Offered
- Accounting I & II
- Career Experience
- Entrepreneurship
- Introduction to Business
- Introduction to Marketing
- Personal Finances
- Software Applications I & II
- Sports and Entertainment Marketing
- Yearbook
Skills obtained through SMC's Business and IT Curriculum
In addition to proficient knowledge of the subject areas, the SMC curriculum emphasizes developing the following:
- Analytic and clerical skills
- Organizational skills
- The importance of being accurate
- Develop skills of persuasion
- Leadership skills
- Decision-making skills
- Effective verbal communication
- Social skills to work productively with others
- Team building skills
- Build self-confidence
- Develop enthusiasm
- Develop skills to be productive while working under pressure
- An understanding of competition
- Problem solving skills
- Develop the capacity to make decisions based on ethics
- Exceptional work ethic
- Effective money management skills
- Professionalism
