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Practicum (Administrative Skills)
Students complete a 3-week workplace practicum to apply learned skills in a real administrative environment. With reflective support, students demonstrate professionalism, document handling, technology use, and client interaction in alignment with all program learning outcomes.
Career Prep Essentials
This course supports students in preparing for practicum and career entry. Students build resumes, cover letters, and online profiles, practice interviews, and explore career pathways. Wellness strategies for stress, goal setting, and professional growth are emphasized.
Client & Customer Service
This course prepares students to respond professionally to client inquiries, resolve service challenges, and manage difficult interactions with empathy and professionalism. Students practice active listening, problem-solving, and conflict resolution.
Financial Procedures & Records
This course introduces financial recordkeeping and transaction processing. Students learn to process invoices, manage petty cash, enter payroll data, and support basic bookkeeping using digital tools. Emphasis is placed on confidentiality and compliance.
Elementary Statistics for Application
An introduction to statistical methods; descriptive statistics; the normal distribution; basic techniques of statistical inference; confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for population means and proportions; simple linear regression; and one-way analysis of variance.
Basic Nutrition
An introduction to nutrition and health. The concepts of recommended nutrient intakes and dietary guidelines are introduced. The major nutrients and their functions in the body are outlined. Nutrition issues facing the general public are presented.
Foundations in Sociology - Social Construction of Everyday Life
One part of a two-part introduction to the discipline of sociology, the study of society. It examines how we come to understand and experience ourselves and the world around us and how we create culture. Students will be introduced to the study of culture, socialization, social interaction, identity formation and self-fashioning, the social construction of class, gender and race, age, deviance, and other social phenomena.