Basic Secretarial Skills

Office Technology Diploma

The Basic Secretarial Diploma is designed to provide graduates with the competencies necessary to obtain secretarial employment which requires foundation-level skills.

Required Program of Study

Course Number	Terms	Course Title	Credits
BUS105	1st	Business English	3
BUS100		Keyboarding I	3
			6
OFT210	2nd	Speedwriting I	3
OFT111		Keyboarding II	3
			6
OFT120	3rd	Machine Dictation and Transcription	3
OFT112		Keyboarding III	3
			6
IFT110	4th	Microcomputer Applications	3
OFT211		Speedwriting II	3
			6
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED FOR THE PROGRAM			24

Upon successful completion of this program, the student should be able to:

• Apply basic language skills associated with the parts of speech, sentence formations, numerical expression, capitalization, punctuation, and word division rules to business correspondence.
• Demonstrate proficiency in keyboarding of business letters, memos, reports, and tables at a high degree of speed and accuracy.
• Demonstrate speed writing skills to take notes from oral dictation and produce mailable copy.
• Proofread and edit typed/keyed copy, including transcription of machine dictation, with a high degree of accuracy and correctness.
• Transcribe from various kinds of original communication, such as handwritten copy, printed copy, and voice-recorded dictation.
• Utilize a personal computer to prepare documents using word processing, spreadsheet and database software and the Internet.

Please note: These programs can be pursued on a part-time basis.
Appropriate placement test scores, or the completion of certain developmental courses, are required for all programs of study. Additional prerequisites may be necessary for some courses and can be found in the course descriptions section of the catalog.
It is recommended that students confer with their advisor when selecting electives.