Secretarial Certificate

This 28 credit-hour certificate program gives experience, training and development in secretarial skills in order to obtain entry-level secretarial employment, be promoted into a secretarial position or to expand and update one's secretarial/office skills. Students may apply this entire program toward the two-year Executive Assistant degree program.

A combination of 28 credit hours is required for this certificate with the approval of the coordinator or Student Development faculty member.

Required:
OFC 104 Introduction to Office Careers 1
OFC 105 Human Relations for Office Careers 1
OFC 106 Time Management for Office Careers 1
OFC 133 Word Processing Software I 2
OFC 201 Advanced Features in Word Processing 2
OFC 220 Automated Office Practices 4
OFC 228 Records Control for the Office 1
OFC 229 Meeting and Conference Planning 1
OFC 230 Executive Machine Transcription 2
OFC 237 Secretarial Seminar and Internship I 3
Electives:Select at least 10 credit hours from the following courses:
CIS 121 General Accounting Applications for Micros 1
CIS 122 Data Base for Micros 1
CIS 123 Spreadsheet/Budgeting for Micros 1
CIS 124 Advanced Spreadsheet for Micros 1
ENG 130 Business Writing 3
OFC 107 Internet Applications 1
OFC 113 Keyboarding IV (1) 3
OFC 202 Desktop Publishing Using Word Processing 2
OFC 203 Proofreading and Editing 2
OFC 204 Macros for Word Processing 2
OFC 205 Using Tables in Word Processing 2
OFC 206 Using Merges in Word Processing 2
OFC 225 Topics in Office Careers 1-6
OFC 227 Business Presentations 1
OFC 250 Records Management Basics 3
OFC 251 Records & Information Management I 3
OFC 252 Records & Information Management II 3
SPE 101 Fundamentals of Speech Communication 3

  1. Placement into courses contingent upon previous training.