Business Office Specialist, A.A.S.

Offered at Centerville and Main Campus

The Business Office Specialist program is an 18-month (six-term) program that prepares students for employment in various office positions. Students will learn to provide high-level administrative support by completing training on up-to-date software applications, demonstrating competency in accounting applications and performing administrative assistant functions such as preparing correspondence, scheduling meetings, transcribing dictation and demonstrating strong verbal and written communication skills.

To enroll, complete an application and attend any required academic orientation and information session. Students may enroll in this program at the beginning of fall term.

Students meeting all program and graduation requirements receive an Associate of Applied Science degree.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the importance of an office professional in today’s business environment.
2. Describe and demonstrate critical workplace soft skills.
3. Recognize and demonstrate the importance of diversity in the workplace.
4. Demonstrate effective written, verbal, and nonverbal communication.
5. Recognize the importance of ethical behavior in the business world.
6. Demonstrate the ability to correctly keyboard various business documents with the editing and proofreading skills needed to create the business document.
7. Utilize basic accounting principles.
8. Apply accounting principles utilizing accounting software.
9. Understand and use Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word).
10. Utilize business math functions.
11. Demonstrate job seeking skills.
12. Discover your personality type and develop a strategy for managing human relations in an organization.

Program Total: 78 Credits