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The Office Management program provides students with the tools for highly skilled management capabilities in a diverse and progressive work environment. The program trains students to organize, manage, and distribute information in today’s fast-paced business world. The curriculum includes basic business courses, personnel management, technology, and accounting. Program graduates seek employment opportunities in diverse sectors including business, banking, education, public relations, law, government, and accounting.

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The field of records and information management is extremely important in business. Students will learn the skills applicable to the management of records in all fields, including those in specialized areas; medical, legal, financial, and archived records management, as well as records center and depository management and records management consulting.

A survey of the basic business principles is covered. Some of the units studied are business in the economy, making firms successful, marketing strategy, sources of financing, using information systems, personnel management, labor problems, government and business relations.

A study of computer concepts, including the information processing cycle, file organization, data communications and operating systems and systems software. Applications software, including spreadsheets, database, word processing, presentation software, computer communications, operating systems, and Internet access and use with business-oriented computer hardware and software concepts emphasis. PREREQUISITE: Recommended one semester of typing.

This course is designed for those who wish to develop and improve keyboarding speed as well as learn to format basic business documents. Speed for preparation of documents will also be considered. Basic word processing skills will also be covered. PREREQUISITE: Knowledge of the keyboard or BOC 1201 Beginning Keyboarding.

Short informative and persuasive speeches are prepared and presented. This course places emphasis on selection and organization of materials, methods of securing interest and attention, and elements of delivery as well as characteristics of effective criticism and listening.

The basic concepts of statistical analysis used in business decision making, including probability and how uncertainty is dealt with in real life. The following concepts and statistical techniques are included: measures of central tendency and variability; random variables and probability distributions; binomial, normal, and sampling distributions; estimation; tests of hypothesis; chi-square tests; linear regression and correlation; and one-way analysis of variance. PREREQUISITE: MTH 1102 College Algebra.

This course will consist of the study of design principles for business presentations and documents, and the use of these principles in developing promotional materials for a business. Development of illustration skills to effectively use graphics will be covered. Limited photo editing (in PowerPoint) for restoration, enhancement, and creation of digital images will also be introduced.

This is an introductory course in which students will learn techniques of input, editing, and output specific to Word or another electronic word processor. PREREQUISITE: Previous keyboarding experience required.

This course is an introduction to aggregate aspects of economics. Subject matter includes an introduction to the sectors of the American economy, business, households, government, the theory of supply and demand, national income accounts, the business cycle, inflation, unemployment, Keynesian theory, the Federal Reserve System and uses of money, international trade, balance of trade, balance of payments, exchange rate systems, and economics of developing countries.

A survey of the study of human and animal behavior with emphasis on the scientific nature of contemporary psychological investigation. Topics may include the biology of behavior, sensation, motivation, emotion, life-span development, personality, abnormal behavior and its therapies, social behavior, and individual differences. NO PREREQUISITE.

This is a preliminary course in theory and practice of business accounting (for service and merchandise businesses). Major topics covered are accounting procedures, special journals, payroll accounting, accrued basis, and periodic summary.

A survey of the field of the four functions of: price, product, promotion, and distribution. The course emphasizes the changing field of marketing as a facilitation of the flow of goods, services and ideas from producers to consumers. Focus is placed on customer relationships by understanding skills necessary to develop a customer focused organization. Integrated throughout the course is the importance of determining and fulfilling customer needs and expectations while managing quality and maintaining a profitable organization. Throughout the course students will consider the role of marketing in business, non-business and personal applications.

Concepts, principles and practices of human resource management. Includes supervisory functions of recruitment and selection, compensation, training, job analysis, job evaluation, compensation and benefits, performance appraisal and employee relations. Conceptual skills for managerial effectiveness are identified, analyzed and developed. The course surveys managerial processes, philosophies and trends with an emphasis on application to actual managerial experiences of the student.

This course is designed to broaden a user's knowledge of Excel or other spreadsheet program. The course will focus on various calculation functions, customizing tables, plotting charts, and filtering records.

Composition I is an introductory course in composition and rhetoric emphasizing expository prose. Major focus is on organization, paragraph structure, and elimination of mechanical errors. The writing course sequence will (1) develop awareness of the writing process; (2) provide inventional, organizational, and editorial strategies; (3) stress the variety of uses for writing; and (4) emphasize critical skills in reading, thinking, and writing. Grade of C or better is required for IAI transfer credit.

The coordinator and the training supervisor work together in establishing goals and work experiences for the student. One credit hour is equivalent to a minimum of 75 hours of supervised work experience. PREREQUISITE: Student must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in 12 semester hours of credit in the corresponding discipline.

This is a survey course that covers many topics including: telephone handling techniques, team building, meeting management/planning, building a winning attitude, proving your dependability, professional dress, working with office technologies, filing, and other skills which directly relate to office work are practiced. Professional organizations will be discussed with an emphasis on students joining. PREREQUISITE: Must be taken in sequence and concurrently with BOC 2218 Office Admin Internship.

This course introduces the use of Access or another packaged database program. The course will include an introduction to database usage. Course content will vary from course to course depending on the company need and will be offered for variable credit to meet the training needs of individual organizations.

Students use tools and techniques to organize, plan, implement, manage and evaluate short and long-term projects. Topics include: an introduction to project management; project mission and objectives; work breakdown; scheduling resources; resource allocation and constraints; capacity planning; organization and staffing; and project management software.

This course is designed to develop fundamental accounting concepts and principles through the use of QuickBooks. The course prepares students to use QuickBooks software on the job by hands-on training of basic functions of the program. The course will demonstrate initial company setup and creation of other core components of computerized accounting. Students will create financial statements, purchase orders, sales invoices, budgets, receivables and payables, adjusting and closing entries, banking, reports, and other areas of the QuickBooks program.

This course presents accounting as an information system that produces summary financial statements, primarily for users external to a business or other enterprise. Students study the forms of business organization and the common transactions entered into by businesses. The emphasis is on understanding and applying basic accounting principles and other concepts that guide the reporting of the effect of transactions and other economic events on the financial condition and operating results of a business. How to analyze and interpret historical financial statements and the limitations of using these in making forward-looking business decisions is included. The primary concept emphasis will be accounting for current assets and liabilities, long-term assets and liabilities, stockholder equity, corporations' cash flow statements, and financial statement analyses.

This course presents accounting as a system of producing information for use in internally managing a business. The course emphasizes the identification, accumulation, and interpretation of information for planning, controlling, and evaluating the performance of the separate components of a business. Included is the identification and measurement of the costs of producing goods or services and how to analyze and control these costs. Decision models commonly used in making specific short- and long-term business decisions also are included. PREREQUISITE: ACC 2101 Financial Accounting or equivalent.

Introduction to the legal system as it affects business activity. Areas of concentration include formation and nature of contracts, the agency relationships, and the Uniform Commercial Code Law of Sales and Commercial Paper.

This course introduces students to principles of business management and develops skills needed to manage people and resources. Objectives, strategies, leadership, organization structure, motivation, quality, teaming, change and operational procedures are covered.

A study of the principal ethical theories and concepts of human conduct and character, as well as a critical evaluation of these theories and concepts as they apply to particular moral problems and decisions. Transfer students will continue to take PHI 2101 as an IAI GECC articulated three credit hour course.

We recommend that you contact an advisor before enrolling in any degree, certificate, or transfer program to ensure all requirements are met including total hours associated with transfer courses.

This is a General Education or Elective course to be selected and therefore has no schedule link.