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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE TECHNOLOGY
Curriculum | Course Descriptions

Karla Weaver, AOT Program Coordinator
PH 770-233-6195
e-mail: kweaver@griffintech.edu

The two-year (full-time) Administrative Office Technology degree program is designed to prepare students for employment in a variety of positions in today's administrative and business fields.  The Administrative Office Technology program provides learning opportunities which introduce, develop, and reinforce academic and occupational knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for job acquisition, retention, and advancement. The program emphasizes the use of the keyboard and applications software.  Students are also introduced to accounting, database, and spreadsheet fundamentals.  Additionally, the program provides opportunities to upgrade present knowledge and skills or to retrain in the area of administrative office technology.

Program graduates receive an Associate of Applied Technology degree.


Curriculum

NAME
NO.
ESSENTIAL CORE COURSES
CREDIT
ENG 191 Composition and Rhetoric
5
ENG 193 Literature and Composition
5
   
OR
 
HUM 191 Introduction to Humanities
5
SPC 191 Fundamentals of Speech
5
PSY 191 Introductory Psychology
5
ECO 191 Principles of Economics
5
MAT 190 Contemporary Mathematics
5
   
OR
 
MAT 191 College Algebra
5

NAME
NO.
TECHNICAL COURSES
CREDIT
ACC 101 Principles of Accounting I
6
ACC 102 Principles of Accounting II
6
ACC 155 Legal Environment of Business
5
BUS 101 Beginning Document Processing
5
BUS 102 Intermediate Document Processing
5
BUS 103 Advanced Document Processing
5
BUS 105 Database Fundamentals
3
BUS 106 Office Procedures
5
BUS 107 Machine Transcription
3
BUS 108 Word Processing
7
BUS 201 Advanced Word Processing
3
BUS 202 Spreadsheet Fundamentals
3
MSD 100 Management Principles
5
SCT 100 Introduction to Microcomputers
3
    Electives
6