Administrative Assistant Program Curriculum - College of Court Reporting

Upon successful completion of the administrative assistant curriculum, a student is educated to work as a business, legal, corporate, or executive secretary. Opportunities exist for advancement in office management. Students must take at least 12 credits each semester, but they may take as many as 17 credits. To be eligible for an administrative assistant certificate, a student must meet the following requirements:

Earn at least 36 hours in keyboarding, word processing, and other courses. The student must have a keyboarding speed of 60 net words per minute, be proficient in word processing, and successfully complete Communications, Foundations of Language and Writing, Machine Transcription Procedures, Advanced Word Processing, Procedures for the Administrative Assistant, and Microsoft Office.
Achieve an overall cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0 in all courses completed at the College of Court Reporting, Inc.

A sample schedule and recommended curriculum for the certificate for administrative assistant students is as follows:

Semester I
C100	Communications		3
C160	*Culture and Society		3
T110	Keyboarding/Introduction to Word Processing		3
TE100	Machine Transcription Procedures		3
		Semester Credits:	12

Semester II
C110	Foundations of Language and Writing		3
LT200	Foundations of Law		3
T130	**Medical Keyboarding		3
T140	Advance Word Processing		3
		Semester Credits:	12

Semester III
C140	Procedures for the Administrative Assistant		3
C210	Human Relations		3
MT100	*Medical Terminology/Related Anatomy		3
T240	Microsoft Office		3
		Semester Credits:	12

Total Certificate Program Credits: 36

*In place of the courses listed above, administrative assistant students may take the following:
T250	Office Management
C150	Vocabulary & Usage
C260	Modern History

**In place of the courses listed above, administrative assistant students may take the following:
T100	Fundamentals of Keyboarding