Entry-level through management positions in today's job market require both a solid foundation of business courses and extensive business software knowledge.

This degree includes comprehensive courses on the Microsoft Office Suite and other commonly-used software.  This course includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.  It also includes Publisher and Crystal Reports.  Successful completion of this program leads to an Associate Science degree.

Program Outcomes
1.  Employ appropriate administrative office procedures and office management decision-making and problem-solving skills and techniques.
2.  Possess appropriate skills in the following software applications: operating system, word processing, spread-sheet, database management, integrated office applications, desktop publishing, presentation graphics, and other commonly used office software.
3.  Develop ad demonstrate leadership, interpersonal, and team participatory skills for effective interaction with co-workers and clients.
4.  Demonstrate a level of mathematical skill appropriate for employment in a business environment.
5.  Read, understand, and prepare standard types of documents with speed and accuracy.
6.  Compose business documents that are clear, concise, complete, and courteous.
7.  Understand and develop skills required in speed dictation of business correspondence, preparing forms, documents, and transcribed material.
8.  Display a positive "customer service" attitude when dealing with others regardless of status.
9.  Apply communications skills related to the occupation including, but not limited to, reading, writing, listening, verbal and nonverbal communication.
10. Demonstrates speed and accuracy in keyboarding skills.
11. Have gained appropriate cooperative education experience in this field.

Below is a list of courses required for this certificate or degree program. To print out a checklist of these courses to keep for future reference, click on the year you began your studies at NCC.

For example, if you are a new student, select 2004-2005. However, if you started your studies within this program in previous years, click on the appropriate year since requirements might have changed.

Note: You are only responsible for those course requirements in place at the time you started your studies.

Download Check Sheets:
2000-01 BOT Career
2002-03 BOT Career
2003-04 BOT Career
2004-05 BOT Career
2005-06 BOT Career

Freshman Courses 
 

ACC 113   Principles of  Financial Accounting               3
BBG 101   Introduction to Business
or
BU ___   Business Elective (except BBG 114)               3
ENG 101   Composition 3
ENG 102   Literature & Composition 3
MAT 136  Intermediate Algebra
or
MAT 121 Applications for Business, Other Careers or higher 3/4
Liberal Arts Elective 3
BOT 111 Keyboarding For Information Processing I             3
BOT 112 Keyboarding For Information Processing I I           3
BOT 161 Business Practices & Technology                        3
BOT 167 Business Computing Concepts                            3
                                                                                                Total 30-31

Sophomore Courses
STA 203  Speech Communication                                   3
Humanities *                                                              3
Science *                                                                  3-4
Social Science *                                                         3
Liberal Arts Elective                                                     3
Open General Elective **                                              3
BOT 264 Word for Business ***                                    3
BOT 265 Excel for Business ***                                    3
or
BOT 266 PowerPoint & Publisher for Business ***             3

BOT 267 Access and Crystal Reports for Business ***       3
BOT 269 Cooperative Work Experience 3
                                                                                                 Total 33-34

                                                                                             Grand Total 63-65

*One of which must be an interdisciplinary (IDS) course to meet Core Curriculum requirements

** With approval of Program Coordinator

*** Meets Computer requirements for Core Curriculum