Business Education
BUSINESS Ms. Claudia Mossman
EDUCATION Contact Information :
DEPARTMENT HEAD cmossman@nwr7.org
SUPERVISOR 860.379.8525, ext. 2200
  100 Battistoni Drive, Winsted, CT
  06098
   
  BUSINESS EDUCATION FACULTY Ms. Kathy Deasy, kdeasy@nwr7.org
  Assistant Department Head
    Extension 3023
     
    Mrs. Deidre Cusati, dcusati@nwr7.org
    Extension 3016
     
    Mr. Paul Orrell, porrell@nwr7.org
    Extension 3020
     
 

No skills, no frills is the approach into the 21st century taken by the Business Education Department. The educational goals incorporate the skills required to function within a high performance workplace. Students will need to know how to use resources, interpersonal skills, information systems,and technology. The business courses we offer will give students the opportunity to learn workplace know-how!

 
Curriculum Update
 
The Business Education Department is the hub of technology-based learning.  Our educational goals incorporate the skills required to function within a high performance workplace.  This Department stays on top of the latest technology skills students will need, including Microsoft Office 2007 and Adobe InDesign CS3 software.  We also offer the first of its kind in Connecticut Honors Money, Banking and Business course where students train and work in a bank and take corresponding honors level course curriculum.  We have a fully functional branch of Northwest Community Bank in our high school which is run by students! 
 
We offer college credit in Accounting II, Economics, Computer Applications and Desktop Publishing.  Honors Challenge credit is available for students to elect in several courses (permission of instructor).
 
 
Courses Offered
 
Honors Money, Banking and Business I and II
Marketing/Sports & Entertainment Marketing
Intro to Business/Intro to Entrepreneurship
Accounting I and II
Yearbook
Computer Applications/Desktop Publishing
CWEDO
Applications in Finance (cotaught with Math Department)
Word Processing Applications
Business Law