Administrative Assistant Certificate of Achievement

The Administrative Assistant program prepares individuals for employment in key staff positions or enhances existing skills of office assistants, office managers, and other professionals.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this program will be able to:

Demonstrate key skills for employment in the areas of Administrative Assistant and Executive Administrative Assistant.
Apply job skills in technical professional business environments.
Demonstrate comprehensive, broad range computer competencies targeting a diverse and multicultural workforce.

REQUIRED COURSES:

Course ID	Title	Units
BUS 103	Business English	3
CIM 1 or	Computer Information Systems	4
CIM 10 or	Introduction to information systems	3
CIM 112	Microsoft Office	3
CIMA 283B	Office Skills - Keyboarding	0.5
CIMA 102 +	Word Processing - Word	3
CIMA 104 +	Spreadsheets - Excel	3
CIMA 108	Business Presentations - Powerpoint	3
CIMN 100 +	Computer Operating Systems - Windows	3
	Restricted Electives	3
TOTAL UNITS FOR THE CERTIFICTE:		21.5-22.5
Restricted Electives: (3 units)
BUS 102	Oral Business Communications	3
BUS 104 *	Business Communication	3
BUS 125	Human Relations in Business	3
CIM 120	Computer Literacy	1.5
CIMA 106	Database - Access	3
CIMA 212	Managing Projects with Microsoft Project	3
CIMA 223A *	Computerized Accounting - Quickbooks–Beginning	1.5
CIMA 223B *	Computerized Accounting - Quickbooks–Advanced	1.5
CIMW 100 * +	Web Site Development - HTML	3
CIMW 140	CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) & RWD (Responsive Web Design)	3
CIMW 207	Social Media & Web Fundamentals	1.5

*Course has a prerequisite, corequisite, limitation, or recommended preparation; see course description.

+Completion of the A and B versions of this course can also be used to fulfill this requirement.

Administrative Assistant Certificate of Achievement

Program Student Learning Outcomes

TOTAL UNITS FOR THE CERTIFICTE:

21.5-22.5