Office Management - Associate Degree

Students gain skills that lead to success in college and employment. This course encourages students to develop a growth mindset and make wise choices. Students should take this course in their first semester. (Pre-requisite: None.)

Develop grammar and proofreading skills to communicate professionally in writing. Focuses on the development of grammar, word usage, and punctuation, in order to compose and edit error-free business documents.

Students will explore technology that is used within offices including collaboration, networking, and cloud computing.

Creating and editing documents, formatting and customizing documents, collaborating with others and working with reports, using tables, columns, and graphics.

Typing skill and speed development on the alphabetic and numeric keyboards using analytic/diagnostic software. Basic document processing.

Developing a professional image and attitude, including study of business ethics and etiquette; goal setting; anger, stress, and time management; experiential learning model, career portfolio, and personal branding introduced.

Create and organize E-mail, schedule meetings, create tasks, and manage contacts.

Learners develop knowledge/skills in planning, organizing, writing, editing. Students will also analyze audience/purpose, use elements of research, format documents using standard guidelines, and develop critical reading skills. (Prerequisite: High school GPA greater/equal to 2.6; OR ACT Reading score greater/equal to 16 AND English greater/equal to 18; OR Next Gen Reading score greater/equal to 250 AND Writing score greater/equal to 260; OR "preparatory course(s)", contact academic advisor at 920-498-5444)

Creating worksheets; enter data, make modifications, work with formulas and functions, create and enhance charts, manage data, transform data, conditional formatting, importing/exporting data, introduction to PivotTables and PivotCharts.

Applying Windows and Word features to manage and format business documents while exercising decision-making, increasing efficiency, and enhancing keyboarding skills. (Prerequisite: 10-106-114, Keyboard-Speed Building, 10-103-121, MS Word Intro)

Students will learn to effectively work with customers on the phone and in-person. Students will develop effective and efficient telephone etiquette, messaging, and voicemail skills.

All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement. (Prerequisite: Next Gen Arith score greater/equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater/equal to 250; OR TABE A 9/10 Math greater/equal to 12.7 AND Rdg greater/equal to 8.8; OR TABE 11/12 Math greater/equal to 780 AND Rdg greater/equal to 567; OR ACT Math score greater/equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater/equal to 16; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444)

Will be creating slides, adding content, formatting presentations, managing and delivering presentations. (Co-req: 10-103-121, MS Word Intro)

Students will learn to manage processes for organization of information stored within an office, including rules for paper and electronic filing systems, retention schedules, control methods, information security, and databases.

Explore the role and responsibility of an office professional. Students will use effective written and verbal communication to create agendas, take meeting minutes, itineraries, letters, e-mails, and other business documents. (Prerequisites: 10-106-131, Business Grammar & Proofreading; 10-103-161 MS Outlook; Corequisite: 10-106-142, Software Projects)

Students will prepare and enhance documents in business-based scenarios. Advanced skills in word processing and spreadsheet software will be used. (Prerequisites: 10-103-121, MS Word Intro; 10-103-131, MS Excel Intro; Co-requisite: Software Projects, 10-106-142)

Create professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, understand interviewing techniques, participate in a mock interview, evaluate outcomes of interview, and prepare for Career Experience. (Prerequisites: 10-105-100, Careers in Business OR 10-107-117, Careers in IT OR 10-201-100, Careers In Digital Arts)

This course provides the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of the accounting cycle, recording business transactions, preparations of the financial statements, financial statement analysis, accrual accounting, accounting for cash and internal controls, and payroll.

Plan successful meetings and events utilizing planning tools, expense management, contracts, vendors, and travel while communicating effectively with all stakeholders. (Prerequisite: 10-106-127, Office Procedures OR 10-102-158, Business Principles)

Introduces all aspects of this messaging app including the workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, developing and presenting meetings, differing types of file sharing, and working productively with multiple applications.

The role of project management, developing a project proposal, demonstration of relevant software, working with project teams, sequencing tasks, charting progress, dealing with variations, budgets and resources, implementation, and assessment.

Survey of theoretical foundations of human behavior such as sensation and perception, motivation, emotions, learning, personality, psychological disorders, therapy, stress, and human diversity in personal, social and vocational settings. (Prerequisite: Cumulative GPA of 2.6 or greater OR satisfactory reading and writing assessment scores OR 10-831-107, College Reading and Writing 1 with "B" or better OR Corequisite: 10-831-102, English Comp Prep)

Impacts of EEOC, job analysis and descriptions, recruitment, selection, conducting job interviews, orientation, training and development, performance management, counseling and discipline, compensation, benefits, and global human resources.

Apply skills obtained throughout the Office Management program courses in a simulated business environment. (Prerequisites: 10-106-127, Office Procedures; 10-106-178, Applied Office Skills; 10-103-151, MS PowerPoint)

Principles of report writing and correspondence, proposals, feasibility reports, progress reports, investigation reports, evaluation reports, meeting reports, memos, and correspondence. (Prerequisite: 10-801-136, English Composition I OR 10-801-195, Written Communication with “C” or better)

Basic American values of justice and equality by teaching vocabulary, history of immigration/conquest, transcultural communication, legal liability, multicultural majority/minority relations, ageism, sexism, gender, sexual orientation, the disabled/ADA. (Prerequisite: Next Gen Rdg score greater/equal to 250 AND Writing score greater/equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater/equal to 16 AND English greater/equal to 15; OR 10-831-107, College Reading and Writing with a B or better.)

Students can select any hands-on experience related to: Internship, Field Research, Service Learning, Simulations, Capstone, Industry Related, or International. Instructor approval required. (Prerequisite: 10-105-103, Career Fundamentals; 10-106-127, Office Procedures; 10-106-178, Applied Office Skills)