This curriculum is designed to provide elective courses in business for academic track high school students in Connecticut. The guide is organized in three sections. The first section introduces the concept of business education for nonvocational students, lists the objectives of the courses, describes the course structure, explains the idea of contract grading, and provides suggestions for audiovisual and software resources. The second section of the guide is an outline of the comprehensive business technology first-year curriculum. It contains units on the following topics: keyboarding, management, economics, communications, notetaking, accounting, information processing concepts, machine transcription, applying for a job, records management, automated equipment/software applications, and individualized special projects. The final section of the guide contains the curriculum for the second year of the program. Topics covered in this section are management, accounting, economics, keyboarding applications, advanced information concepts, advanced information applications, business law, personal finance, and communications. Each unit contains objectives, an outline of content, and a suggested time allotment. A list of materials and equipment is provided for each topic. (KC)