Full Time Curriculum: Part Time Curriculum: 10-106-6 Administrative Professional Full-Time 2024-2025 Curriculum Sheet.pdf
10-106-6 Administrative Professional Part-Time 2024-2025 Curriculum Sheet.pdf
Course Number: 106-021 Credits: 3.00 This course presents a general orientation to the business world geared toward the office worker. Studies include exploring global and domestic business offices, investigating business functions and learning how departments fit together for one common mission of the organization. Course Number: 801-136 Credits: 3.00 This course is designed for learners to develop knowledge and skills in all aspects of the writing process. Planning, organizing, writing, editing and revising are applied through a variety of activities. Students will analyze audience and purpose, use elements of research, and format documents using standard guidelines. Individuals will develop critical reading skills through analysis of various written documents. Course Number: 890-155 Credits: 1.00 In this course, students explore the Gateway Technical College community. They examine college resources and services, investigate skills that lead to academic success, and identify strategies for achieving educational and personal goals. Course Number: 106-137 Credits: 3.00 Learner will develop keyboarding skills and basic document formatting skills using word processing software. Course Number: 106-028 Credits: 3.00 This course is an introduction to the computer system unit, the Internet and social Web, hardware and software, system software, Google applications and emerging office technology. Course Number: 106-019 Credits: 1.00 Students will be required to complete 36 hours of an on the job work experience. Students will also spend time in the classroom enhancing their employability skills. Course Number: 106-026 Credits: 3.00 In the course, students will create print-ready newsletters, brochures, flyers, forms business cards, and other business publications using current publishing software including MS Publisher, MS Word, and Adobe. Course Number: 106-024 Credits: 3.00 This course prepares the learner for job search as they near graduation. Topics covered will include; resume and portfolio preparation, interviewing skills, and dressing for success. An emphasis will also be placed on the soft skills necessary in today's business world. Course Number: 804-135 Credits: 3.00 This course is intended to develop analytic reasoning and the ability to solve quantitative problems. Topics to be covered may include: construction & interpretation of graphs; descriptive statistics; geometry & spatial visualizations; math of finance; functions and modeling; probability; and logic. Appropriate use of units and dimensions, estimates, mathematical notation, and available technology will be emphasized throughout the course. Course Number: 106-025 Credits: 3.00 This course prepares the learner to utilize a variety of spreadsheet software in business. While an emphasis will be placed on Microsoft Excel, other current spreadsheet software will be covered. Course Number: 106-030 Credits: 3.00 This course covers an intermediate level of word processing skills. Proofreading and language skills will be developed through the production of business documents including business letters and reports. Advanced formatting features will be used in MS Word. Course Number: OPTION-ACCT.1A Credits: 3.00 Please complete 101-112 Accounting for Business or 101-114 Accounting Principles. This is for informational purposes only. Once you register for your course, you can delete this block from your timeline. Course Number: 801-196 Credits: 3.00 This course focuses upon developing speaking, verbal and nonverbal communication, and listening skills through individual presentations, group activities, and other projects. Course Number: 106-190 Credits: 3.00 This course will develop professional skills and attitudes needed in today's global business environment. Topics include making ethical decisions, working independently and as a team member, and managing time. Telecommunications, mail processing, travel arrangements and conferences, public relations, and ergonomics will be included. Course Number: 809-172 Credits: 3.00 Race, Ethnic, and Diversity Studies is a course that draws from several disciplines to reaffirm the basic American values of justice and equality by teaching a basic vocabulary, a basic history of immigration and conquest, principles of transcultural communication, legal liability, and the value of aesthetic production to increase the probability of respectful encounters among people. In addition to an analysis of majority/minority relations in a multicultural context, the topics of ageism, sexism, gender differences, sexual orientation, people with disabilities, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are explored. Ethnic relations are studied in global and comparative perspectives. Course Number: 106-022 Credits: 3.00 This course will prepare students to manage records in business in paper and electronic form. Topics covered will include basic database terminology and design concepts, creating and modifying table structures; adding, changing, and deleting records; and creating queries to find, display, and print records. The ARMA rules for records management will also be covered. Course Number: 106-029 Credits: 3.00 This course prepares the learner to utilize a variety of presentation software in business. While an emphasis will be placed on MS PowerPOint, other current presentation software will be addressed. Course Number: 106-020 Credits: 1.00 Students will be required to complete 36 hours of an on the job work experience. Students will also spend time in the classroom enhancing their employability skills. Course Number: 106-006 Credits: 3.00 Effective written business communication principles are discussed and applied to the composition of routine business correspondence and reports. Oral communication presentations will be used to enhance the student's understanding of effective communication principles. Proper communication techniques for telephone use will be demonstrated. Course Number: 106-027 Credits: 3.00 In this course students complete scenario-based activities using business productivity software skills. Students will apply software and document processing skills to create solutions to common business information needs. Using a case study approach, students will develop communication, Internet research, teamwork, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Upon completion of this course, students will use MS Office Suite to integrate and present data with skill. Course Number: 106-023 Credits: 3.00 This course will orient the learner to the function of management in an office. Topics related to managing office operations and procedures, budgeting, interviewing others, assigning and monitoring clerical functions, training and business ethics will be included. Course Number: 809-198 Credits: 3.00 This course introduces students to some of the major theories and topics of psychology, including the physiological basis of behavior, personality and learning theories, memory, states of consciousness, stress, research methods, intelligence, human development, psychopathology, and social behavior. Business Office Fundamentals
English Composition 1
Gateway to Success
Keyboarding Applications
Office Technologies Essentials
Administrative Service Internship 1
Business Publication
Professionalism in Business
Quantitative Reasoning
Spreadsheets in Business
Word Processing for Business
Accounting Requirement
Oral/Interpersonal Communication
Administrative Office Procedures
Diversity Studies, Introduction to
Information Management for Business
Presentations for Business
Administrative Service Internship 2
Business Communication Skills
Integrated Business Projects
Office Management
Psychology, Introduction to