This course will prepare students to manage records in business in paper and electronic form. Topics covered will include basic database terminology and design concepts, creating and modifying table structures; adding, changing, and deleting records; and creating queries to find, display, and print records. The ARMA rules for records management will also be covered.

This course will develop professional skills and attitudes needed in today's global business environment. Topics include making ethical decisions, working independently and as a team member, and managing time. Telecommunications, mail processing, travel arrangements and conferences, public relations, and ergonomics will be included.

Race, Ethnic, and Diversity Studies is a course that draws from several disciplines to reaffirm the basic American values of justice and equality by teaching a basic vocabulary, a basic history of immigration and conquest, principles of transcultural communication, legal liability, and the value of aesthetic production to increase the probability of respectful encounters among people.

Effective written business communication principles are discussed and applied to the composition of routine business correspondence and reports. Oral communication presentations will be used to enhance the student's understanding of effective communication principles. Proper communication techniques for telephone use will be demonstrated.

Students will be required to complete 36 hours of an on the job work experience. Students will also spend time in the classroom enhancing their employability skills.

This course will orient the learner to the function of management in an office. Topics related to managing office operations and procedures, budgeting, interviewing others, assigning and monitoring clerical functions, training and business ethics will be included.

In this course students complete scenario-based activities using business productivity software skills. Students will apply software and document processing skills to create solutions to common business information needs. Using a case study approach, students will develop communication, Internet research, teamwork, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Upon completion of this course, students will use MS Office Suite to integrate and present data with skill.

In the course, students will create print-ready newsletters, brochures, flyers, forms business cards, and other business publications using current publishing software including MS Publisher, MS Word, and Adobe.

This course covers an intermediate level of word processing skills. Proofreading and language skills will be developed through the production of business documents including business letters and reports. Advanced formatting features will be used in MS Word.

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.