Specialized Associate Degree - Administrative Specialist

Empire College can help you expand your potential for assumption of supervisory or management responsibilities through this multi-disciplined program with concentrations in communications, projects and report preparation, accounting, and all office skills required of highly placed personnel.

Objective: This program is designed to produce an administrative specialist with a variety of computer and communications skills. The emphasis on executive office skills coupled with solid education in general education classes expands a student's potential for assumption of supervisory or management responsibilities within an organization.

This program concentrates on critical thinking and decision making, human relations, communications, event and meeting planning, word processing, computerized spreadsheets, project and report preparation, and other skills required of well-qualified office personnel. The program prepares students for certification as Microsoft Office Specialists in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. We focus on marketable skills.

Program Length: 7 quarters
Specialized (Occupational) Associate Degree awarded upon successful completion of all graduation requirements.

This program includes the following courses:

• Bookkeeping
• Various Computer, Internet and Microsoft courses
• Business and Financial Math
• Web Publishing
• Business English
• Management Communications
• Writing Skills for the Office Professional
• Dynamics of the Office Professional
• Records Management
• Professional Office Communications
• Meeting Planning
• Event Planning for the Wine Country
• Business Law
• Business Meeting and Travel Planning
• And many more comprehensive courses!

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