Office Assistant

This program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop competencies needed for success in a beginning or re-entry office position. Graduates will be prepared for employment in a variety of office positions which require office technology skills.

Office Assistant Certificate Major (15 courses)
Credit hours: 35-36

Complete all three subrequirements:

Business courses - 22-23 credit hours
- ACCT 1413 - General Accounting or ACCT 1514 - Financial Accounting
- * BSNS 1023 - Word: Intermediate Document Production¹
- BSNS 2311 - Successful Customer Services
- BSNS 1312 - Proofreading & Editing
- * BSNS 1353 - Administrative Office Procedures
- * BSNS 1433 - Machine Transcription
- * BSNS 2033 - Word: Advanced Document Production
- BSNS 1603 - Business Communications
- * BSNS 1181 - Voice Recognition
Psychology/Business course - 3 credit hours
CHOOSE ONE course from the following three options:
- BSNS 2143 - Human Relations in Business
- * PSYC 1813 - Introduction to Psychology
Computer Science courses - 10 credit hours
- * COSC 1513 - Introduction to Information Processing
- * COSC 1172 - Introduction to the Internet
- * COSC 1341 - PowerPoint
- * COSC 1352 - Word
- * COSC 1372 - Excel

General Education (2 courses)
Credit hours: 6-7

* ENGL 1413 - Fundamentals of Writing3 or *ENGL 1613 - English I

* MATH 1213 - Applied Arithmetic or *MATH 1414 - Basic Algebra or higher level mathematics course

Minimum credit hours required for completion - 41

*Course has prerequisite.

¹Students who have completed at least one year of high school typing/keyboarding with a grade of C or better or who have completed BSNS 1411 with a grade of C or better will automatically be placed in BSNS 1023 - Word: Intermediate Document Production. Students with less typing/keyboarding background will need to take BSNS 1003 before enrolling in BSNS 1023 unless they demonstrate on a proficiency test that they have adequate skills to enter BSNS 1023.