Administrative Assistant

Associate in Applied Science

The two-year Administrative Assistant major prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and receptionists for business executives and top management. Instructional components include written, oral and electronic communications and presentations; desktop publishing; public relations; word processing and document production; office management procedures; creating and editing spreadsheets; creating and maintaining databases; records management; legal issues and cooperative work experience.

Curriculum: The program curriculum is listed below.

Courses offered by MSU-Bottineau are linked to pages providing additional information about the courses such as prerequisites, course objectives, semesters offered, etc.
 

Course Number	Course Title	SH	Semester	Campus
ASC 087	*College Writing Preparation	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
ENGL 110	College Composition I	3	Fall, Spring, Summer	MSU-B
BOTE 108	Business Math	3		MSU-B
BOTE 152	Keyboarding II	3	Fall, Spring, Summer	MSU-B
BOTE 217	Records Management	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
CSCI 101	Introduction to Computers	3	Spring	MSU-B
Wellness Elective	HPER 100: Concepts of Wellness & Fitness	2		MSU-B
BOTE 147	Word Processing	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
COMM 110	Fundamentals of Public Speaking	3	Fall, Spring	ACCESS
PSYC 100	Human Relations in Organizations	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
BOTE 210	Business Communications	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
**Business/Technology Elective		3		MSU-B
BOTE 209	Office Management	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
ACCT 200	Elements of Accounting I	4	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
BOTE  257	Database Management	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B
BOTE  297	Cooperative Education	1-6	Fall, Spring, Summer	MSU-B
**Business Electives		6		ACCESS
BOTE 218	Desktop Publishing	3		ACCESS
**Business Elective		3		MSU-B, ACCESS
**Technology Elective		3		ACCESS
	**Arts/Humanities/Social Science Elective	3		MSU-B
BOTE 247	Spreadsheet Applications	3	Fall, Spring	MSU-B

          * waived by scoring high enough on the ACT 

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