Administrative Technology

This course will focus on intermediate word processing features as they apply to the tasks performed by administrative personnel in today's business office. Students will learn to format information in columns, tables, reports, and forms. Development of speed and accuracy will be monitored by individualized progress reports maintained by an individualized typing tutor, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.

The student reviews the basic rules of effective written communications through document editing and proofreading exercises. These skills will be integrated into the machine transcription process. Emphasis will be placed on the production of mailable business correspondence. Practice tapes introduce the student to many diverse business fields.

The course prepares the student for an office professional role in a modern electronic office. Students will learn the importance of soft skills such as human relations, office ethics, stress management, and team building. Daily office routines including records management, meeting and conference planning, scheduling with calendaring software, proper telephone techniques, and customer service will be covered. Students are required to research business topics and communicate the information in a multimedia presentation. This capstone course integrates the skills acquired in previous business classes in an office simulation. Guest speakers and field trips to business offices provide the student with current business information.

Students learn to design functional relational databases that facilitate the access of information. Users enter data using customized forms, retrieve data through select and crosstab queries, and print information using personalized reports.

This is a work-experience with employers in the business community supervised by a member of the Professional Studies Department.

This course is designed for those students who wish to pursue research in the area of the Professional Studies Department. This course may also be used to offer special topics not offered in the current catalog but of interest to both the student and instructor.