Certificate in Clerical Office Assistant

This one-year program prepares men and women for basic office responsibilities. This is an especially good program for students with undefined career goals and/ or the need to enter the job market as soon as possible. Most credits can be transferred into the Office Information Technologies - Executive program.

Minimum English skills requirement: Students must place in ENGL-100 on the English placement test prior to registering for their first semester classes.


(CLER.CRT) Curriculum
Semester 1
No. Course Title Credits
OFFS-120 CUSTOMER RELATIONS 3
CMPA-116 DATA ENTRY KEYBOARD 3
CMPA-160 COMPUTER BASICS: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS 3
ENGL-100 ENGLISH COMPOSITION 1 3
PSYC-100 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY (or) 3
SOCL-100 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 3
Total: 15
Semester 2
No. Course Title Credits
CMPA-102 WORD PROCESSING 3
OFFS-105 COMMUNICATIONS/EDITING 3
OFFS-200 KEYBOARD SKILL BUILDING 1
ENGL-201 BUSINESS ENGLISH 3
ELINFT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ELECTIVE 3
ELGEN GENERAL ELECTIVE 3
Total: 16

Students having certain professional IT certifications may be able to receive college credit for one or more courses in this program. For information, please see http://www.stcc.edu/academics/itcert.asp and your academic advisor.

Upon the successful completion of requirements of this program, a Certificate in Clerical Office Assistant will be awarded.


Department Personnel
Name Title Office Ext Email
Linda Belton Professor / Dept Chair, Office Information Technology / Interim Chair, Geographical Information Technologies 02/214A 4105 belton
Carole Farley Professor 02/237 4115 cfarley
M. Andree Fitzgerald Professor 02/235 4113 afitzgerald
Jo-Ann Nicoli Professor 02/231 4124 jnicoli