Administrative Assistant

Effective: Fall 2020
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description
The two Administrative Assistant programs are stackable: you start with the Administrative Assistant certificate of achievement (21 units), then take 12 more units of major courses, the general education classes (15 units), and 12 units of electives (any courses) to graduate with the AS in Administrative Assistant (60 units). All classes in the major are available online, so you can complete these two diplomas fully online. The goal of both programs is immediate employment.

What can I do with this major?
By completing the Administrative Assistant certificate, you can obtain such positions as an Executive Assistant, Assistant Office Manager, Assistant to the Vice President or the President, Personal Assistant, Office Specialist. There are 8,663 new jobs open in this field in the Bay Area, including 1,607 new jobs in the East Bay. The median hourly wage is $30.57 for the Bay Area and $27.45 for East Bay. As you start growing in your career, you will continue your studies with the next level AS Administrative Assistant degree. After gaining some experience in the administrative assistant career, you will usually find more career options.

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Business, Economics & Information Technology

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Semester 1

12 units

CAS 50
Introduction to Computer Application Systems

3 units
Introduction to computer applications systems as it relates to business and home use. Course introduces software topics in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, internet, World Wide Web, electronic mail, file management, data communications and an introduction to basic computer programming. Hardware topics include PC system components and troubleshooting issues. Other topics include computer-based careers and trends, electronic computing issues, terminology, electronic communication skills, ethics, security, and netiquette in today’s business computing environment.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

CAS 71
Keyboarding & 10 Key

3 units
Students will master the touch operation on a computer keyboard and 10 key pad. Correct fingering by touch and good posturing techniques will be emphasized along with speed and accuracy. Students will use basic word processing functions on a variety of document types.
Course Details:

    BUS 14
    Business Communications

    3 units
    This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1

    Options Course

    3 units
    Choose one course from the list of options below
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    Semester 2

    9 units

    BUS 7
    Accounting for Small Business

    3 units
    Bookkeeping practices and accounting cycle for a service and merchandising sole proprietorship. Double-accounting entry system (debits and credits), journal, ledgers, adjusting and closing entries, income statement, balance sheet, and statement of owner’s equity, cash, banking activities, payroll, merchandising transactions.
    Course Details:

    CAS 88
    Microsoft Word

    3 units
    This course covers Microsoft Word in depth, teaching word processing creation, editing, and advanced features adding functionality to electronic documents. This course will prepare a student to sit for the Microsoft MOS Certification Exam.
    Course Details:

      CAS 54
      Microsoft Excel

      3 units
      This course covers an in depth look at Microsoft Excel, a widely used spreadsheet application program that allows users to complete advanced mathematical formulas and functions, display information through graphs and charts with the use a microcomputer. Students will be prepared to take the Microsoft Certification Exams.
      Course Details:

        Options Courses

        Choose one course from the following list of options (3 units)

        BUS 12
        Introduction to Business

        3 units
        Survey of the private enterprise system and basic business concepts, business economics, types of business ownership, ethics, globalization, and organizational functions (management, marketing, accounting, human resources, and finance). Provides a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to influence an organization's policies and practices within the U.S. and a global environments.
        Course Details:

        BUS 22
        Introduction to Management

        3 units
        Principles and concepts of traditional management tasks, contemporary management challenges including human relations, diversity, quality, social responsibility and ethics, the global environment, human resource management, business communications, competitiveness, motivation, leadership and teamwork.
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        BUS 28
        Human Relations in the Workplace

        3 units
        Business concepts of individual, group, and organizational human behavior as they affect human relations, performance, and productivity within the workplace. Strategies and techniques that influence communications, employee leadership and interactions among people—including cultural diversity and its impact—are explored.
        Course Details:
        Total Units: 21 units
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