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Administrative Assistant Certificate of Achievement


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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.

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