Course Catalog

Official Course Information

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Office Technology/Secretarial Courses:

OFT101 - Keyboarding
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Develops personal computer and keyboarding skills through an individual program of instruction using computer software, including frequent drills to increase speed and accuracy. Introduces simple letters, tabulations, vertical and horizontal centering, and one-page reports. Requires a minimum level of proficiency of 35 words per minute (wpm). full catalog description »

OFT101 - Keyboarding

Credits: 3

Catalog Description: Develops personal computer and keyboarding skills through an individual program of instruction using computer software, including frequent drills to increase speed and accuracy. Introduces simple letters, tabulations, vertical and horizontal centering, and one-page reports. Requires a minimum level of proficiency of 35 words per minute (wpm).

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OFT102 - Intermediate Keyboarding
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Increases keyboarding techniques. Includes production using word processing software of two-page letters, two-page reports, two-page memos, tables, envelopes, and mail merges. Requires a minimum level of proficiency of 45 words per minute (wpm). Prerequisite: OFT101. full catalog description »

OFT116 - Medical Terminology
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Analyzes and applies comprehensive study of medical word to the continual learning of new terminology. Includes root words, prefixes, suffixes, and emphasis on the newly learned words in a variety of exercise formats. Medical terminology skills may be applied to various allied health fields. full catalog description »

OFT135 - Medical Forms and Billing
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Topics include medical billing and insurance terminology, procedure coding, diagnosis coding and preparation of insurance claims. Uses patient accounting software to simulate medical office situation. Includes patient information input, billing operations, and document production. full catalog description »

OFT201 - Production Keyboarding
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Prepares students to enter the workforce as valuable contributors to their organizations' growth. Includes business simulations using word processing, database, presentation, and spreadsheet software. Continues speed-building techniques. Requires minimum level of proficiency of 55 words per minute Prerequisite: OFT101, OFT102, and CIS116. full catalog description »

OFT201 - Production Keyboarding

Credits: 3

Catalog Description: Prepares students to enter the workforce as valuable contributors to their organizations' growth. Includes business simulations using word processing, database, presentation, and spreadsheet software. Continues speed-building techniques. Requires minimum level of proficiency of 55 words per minute Prerequisite: OFT101, OFT102, and CIS116.

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OFT205 - Transcription
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Builds the skills necessary to produce high quality correspondence and reports from dictated materials using word processing software. Emphasizes punctuation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary and efficiency. Two class hours, two laboratory hours. Prerequisites: OFT102. full catalog description »

OFT210 - Medical Transcription
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Builds the skills necessary to produce accurate medical records and correspondence from dictated materials. Emphasizes punctuation, spelling, grammar, medical vocabulary, and efficiency. Prerequisites: OFT116 and OFT101. full catalog description »

OFT240 - Administrative Office Systems
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Focuses on improving office productivity by analyzing office system modules such as filing, telephone techniques, receptionist duties, mail processing, and office communications. Corequisite: OFT101 or permission of instructor. full catalog description »

OFT244 - Medical Office Procedures
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Examines responsibilities and duties of the medical office assistant through the use of projects and simulations that include medical law and ethics, preparation of records and records management, telephone procedures and appointment scheduling, health insurance and billing, office management, professional reports, and medical meetings. Prerequisites: None. full catalog description »

OFT244 - Medical Office Procedures

Credits: 3

Catalog Description: Examines responsibilities and duties of the medical office assistant through the use of projects and simulations that include medical law and ethics, preparation of records and records management, telephone procedures and appointment scheduling, health insurance and billing, office management, professional reports, and medical meetings. Prerequisites: None.

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OFT251 - Processing Legal Documents
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Introduces legal terminology, procedures, and documents. Develops legal vocabulary, ability to perform legal office procedures, and ability to prepare various legal documents and instruments. Prerequisite: OFT101 or equivalent. full catalog description »

OFT260 - Desktop Publishing
Credits: 3 Catalog Description: Introduces desktop publishing including creating and editing single-page and multi-page publications, using wizards, commercial printing considerations, editing text colors and design objects, personal information sets, logos, to create flyers, newsletters, brochures, logs, calendars, and web pages. Covers business forms, business cards, invoices, fax covers, tables, web forms for e-commerce, and object linking and embedding. Three class hours. Prerequisites: OFT102 and CIS116. full catalog description »

OFT260 - Desktop Publishing

Credits: 3

Catalog Description: Introduces desktop publishing including creating and editing single-page and multi-page publications, using wizards, commercial printing considerations, editing text colors and design objects, personal information sets, logos, to create flyers, newsletters, brochures, logs, calendars, and web pages. Covers business forms, business cards, invoices, fax covers, tables, web forms for e-commerce, and object linking and embedding. Three class hours. Prerequisites: OFT102 and CIS116.

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