St.+Johns

Cluster: Architecture and Construction Major: Carpentry Description: The Carpentry program prepares individuals to use hand and power tools, to lay out, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures. The program includes instruction in framing, construction materials, estimating, and blueprint reading. The training program includes both classroom instruction with an emphasis on applied mathematics and comprehensive practical hands-on experiences.

Cluster: Hospitality and Tourism Major: Culinary Arts Description: Culinary Arts is designed to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills needed in a professional kitchen. These skills include kitchen safety and sanitation following ServSafe guidelines, food handling and storage techniques, and equipment operation and care. Basic knowledge taught will explore the role of nutrition in our diet; identify customer service duties and the concept of work ethics. More advanced culinary preparations, management skills, and menu planning including the costing out of recipes and calculating food cost percentages are also covered. The National Restaurant Association’s Level 1 and Level 2 ProStart curriculum may also be covered in this program. It “is a two-year industry based curriculum that prepares high school students for careers in the restaurant and food service industry. Students gain valuable restaurant and food service skills through their academic and workplace experiences.

__Cluster__: Finance __Major:__ Accounting: __Description__: The Accounting major is designed to help students develop the skills necessary for the highly technical interaction between accounting and business, to develop an understanding of the steps of the accounting cycle as applied to several different kinds of business operations, and to develop an understanding of accounting concepts, principles, practices, subsystems, and internal control procedures. The students develop an understanding of various methods in using subsidiary ledgers, in preparing financial statements, and in performing end-of-period procedures. Use of the computer in simulated activities gives the students an opportunity to see the advantages of technology in accounting procedures. Accounting provides students with entry-level skills in the accounting profession and/or a foundation for continued study in accounting or a related business field.

Cluster: Business, Management, and Administration Major: Operations Management Description: The Operations Management major is comprised of the virtual enterprise courses. Virtual Enterprise is part of a national curriculum called Virtual Enterprises International and the South Carolina Virtual Enterprise Network that allows students to experience in a simulated business environment all facets of being an employee in a firm. The program allows students to run simulated offices in their schools and engage in virtual trading with other practice firms. Currently, more than 3,600 virtual enterprises in over thirty-six countries are part of the International Practice Enterprise Network. The program provides student with interdisciplinary instruction and an in-school work experience to develop school-to-career skills.

Cluster: Marketing, Sales, and Service Major: Marketing Communications Description: The Marketing Communications major prepares students for careers in areas such as advertising, sales promotions, and market research. Through a sequence courses students will learn the marketing functions of selling, promotion, and distribution. Students will also be introduced to the concepts of advertising including budget development, media selection, design, and the preparation of ads for various media.

__Career Cluste__r: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources __Major__: Horticulture __Description__ The Horticulture major focuses on plant cultivation which includes preparing soil, growing of garden plants, vegetables, cut flowers, and potted flowering plants and of seedlings, cuttings and other propagative floriculture materials. Students majoring in Horticulture will learn all aspects of the industry from designing and installing landscapes to managing nurseries, greenhouses, and garden centers.

Cluster: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Major: Environmental and Natural Resources Management Description: Students majoring in Environmental and Natural Resources Management will learn how to develop, maintain and manage forests and natural environments. Through a sequence of courses, students will gain an understanding of and appreciation for nature and its habitats.