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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to give the school secretary and the prospective school secretary an over-all view of education- its philosophy, its function, and its techniques. This course will include background material on educational developments in the United States, current trends in education in general, and current trends in the New York City school system in particular. The focus is on the role of the school secretary within the school system. The course includes classroom lectures, prepared reports delivered to the class by individual students, class discussion of relevant current events, as well as assigned readings and a written report.
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2.00 Credits
This course concentrates on students producing legal documents and legal letters on the word processing equipment. Varied applications, as relates to keyboarding and setup of legal materials, including editing, merged documents, tabulation, enumeration, global operations, headers, footers, dual column, super copy/move, multi-page reports, tables, invoices, citations, footnotes, endorsements, and the brief are taught. Required speed is 60-80 words per minute and timed production. At registration, students are assigned a two-hour per week laboratory space in order to facilitate completion of homework assignments.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: OFF 220
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to teach alternative software programs utilized for processing documents in today’s electronic office. Speed requirements are 60-80 words per minute. At registration, students are assigned a twohour per week laboratory space in order to facilitate the completion of homework assignments.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: OFF 320 or departmental approval
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to train students to operate and supervise an electronic office system that uses OIS software. The operating procedures of the DOS (disc operating system)-supervisory functions, file utilities, volume utilities, and control functions-are taught. In addition, systems installation procedures and system management are taught. At registration, students are assigned a two-hour per week laboratory space in order to facilitate completion of homework assignments.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: OFF 320
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2.00 Credits
This course concentrates on preparing students for the exact work required in a legal office, with emphasis on developing skills in taking legal machine dictation and the timed transcription of basic litigation and non-litigation documents and legal letters. At registration, students are assigned a two-hour per week laboratory space in order to facilitate completion of homework assignments.
Prerequisite:
OFF 210, OFF 301
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to basic legal vocabulary, legal office procedures, operations, and administration. Included are a study of the courts and the court system, procedure, basic litigation and non-litigation documents. Previewed legal documents and materials are presented, analyzed-as to background, handling, spellings, compounds, legal phrases, punctuation, abbreviations, comprehension, etymological derivation, so as to ease skill development in preparation and procedure for basic legal documents and materials.
Prerequisite:
OFF 101, OFF 200, OFF 210
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide preparation for the school secretary and the prospective school secretary in basic educational principles and practices. The course includes classroom lectures, prepared reports delivered to the class by individual students, and case studies of school problems and their solutions.
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Prerequisite: OFF 370
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2.00 Credits
This course is required for the School Secretary License of the New York City Board of Education. This course is designed to instruct students in the competencies of New York City school records, and accounts, and administrative procedures.
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3.00 Credits
The study of philosophy helps students develop analytic skills and gain an appreciation of the general philosophical problems with which human beings have grappled throughout Western civilization. Basic philosophic problems such as free will and determinism, the criteria which justify ethical evaluations, the philosophical considerations which are relevant to belief or disbelief in God, and knowledge and illusion are examined during this course.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on principles of sound thinking and valid argument in order to develop skills in analysis and evaluation of inductive and deductive reasoning. Students learn to discriminate between valid and invalid argument, using as tools the techniques of formal and symbolic logic. Cultural and Ethical Issues
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