Human Resources Assistant

Effective: Fall 2020
Certificate of Achievement Program Map
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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 certificate of achievement in Human Resources Assistant program is designed to prepare you for an exciting entry-level career in human resources for profit, non-profit, or government organizations. You will perform paraprofessional administrative support work in a human resources area. The program is fast and flexible. It consists of only 6 classes. Required classes can be taken in any sequence; there are no prerequisites to begin the program. All classes are available online, so you can complete this program fully online. The goal of the certificate is immediate employment or promotion.

What can I do with this major?
Human resources assistants keep records of a company's employees. These records have facts, such as each worker's name, address, job title, pay, and health insurance benefits and other benefits. Every day, human resources assistants update information and answer questions about employees. They also may create reports for managers, help to hire workers, do research on the Internet to find qualified applicants for jobs, tell people about job openings, get information from job applicants about their education and work experience, give out tests and explain the company's rules, ask for references from present or past employers, call or write to applicants to tell them whether or not they got the job. Average salaries for Human Resource assistants in California are from $49,000 to $52,000 annually.

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Business, Economics & Information Technology

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education

Semester 1

12-13 units

Accounting course (Choose BUS 7 or BUS 1A)

3-4 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.
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BUS 1A
Financial Accounting

4 units
Explores financial accounting, its importance and how it is used by internal and external users as a decision-making tool. Covers accounting information systems; application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to value assets, liabilities, and equity; preparation, interpretation and analysis of financial statements. Includes topics on cash flow statement, cash and accrual accounting concepts, merchandising operation, internal controls and ethics, reporting and accounting for receivables, payables, long-term assets and liabilities, inventory, depreciation, stockholders’ equity, stocks and bonds.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 7

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 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

Computer course (Choose CAS 50, CAS 54 or CSCI 8)

3 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.
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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.
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    CSCI 8
    Computer Literacy

    3 units
    Introduction to computers including: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Multimedia, the internet, browsers, World Wide Web, an awareness of types of computer software in use including programming languages, electronic mail, computer-based careers and trends, and other computing issues in today’s society. No prior computer experience necessary. Course recommended for students of any major who want to learn about computers and how to use them. Hands-on laboratory experience reinforces lecture.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: MTH 55
      2. or
    2. Strongly Recommended: MTH 55A
      3. or
    3. Strongly Recommended: MTH 53
      4. or
    4. Strongly Recommended: MTH 53A
      5. or

    Semester 2

    9 units

    BUS 8
    Payroll Accounting

    3 units
    The laws, principles and procedures of payroll accounting in both manual and computerized environments. Concepts covered include preparation of payroll records and reports; payroll law and practices; computation of taxes, including Social Security, federal income tax, state income taxes, and unemployment taxes and voluntary withholdings.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 1A
      2. or
    2. Strongly Recommended: BUS 7

    BUS 21
    Human Resource Management

    3 units
    Introduction to the management of human resources and an understanding of the impact and accountability to the organization in terms of human resource activities. Global human resource strategies, social and organizational realities, legal implications affecting people at work, union/non-union practices, comparable work, employee compensations, benefits, and employee rights.
    Course Details:

    CAS 58
    Microsoft Access

    3 units
    This course covers Microsoft Access, which is a DBMS (also known as Database Management System) from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. Topics such as tables, queries, forms, reports and advanced functions will be covered. This course will prepare students to take the Microsoft Office Specialist Exam for Access.
    Course Details:
      Total Units: 21-22 units
      This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.