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Associate in Arts/Science Degrees and Certificate Programs 65
GENERAL OFFICE
This degree or certificate is designed to train students to meet
the needs for qualified office staff skilled in office procedures
including filing and processing documents; writing and edit-
ing documents; communicating with employees and clients;
and working with office technologies and Windows OS system
software. Students must complete all required core courses for a
total of 28 units. Program Learning Outcomes: Upon completion
of this program, the student will be able to use a variety of office
procedures to perform such tasks as sorting mail and answering
telephones; filing and processing documents; edit and revise
memos, e-mails, letters and reports; the student will be able to
identify the personal traits that lead to effective human relation
skills in business and develop skills to work more effectively
with customers and other employees, including communicat-
ing with clients verbally face-to-face and over the telephone; the
student will be able to perform basic operations in Word, Excel,
Access, and PowerPoint; compose entry-level correspondence
using appropriate business language and cohesive, grammati-
cally correct sentences; become familiar with Global information
systems and be able to sign on to an account and use common
utilities including e-mail and Web browsers to search a variety of
databases for information; the student will be able to utilize the
Windows operating system and to understand basic computer
terminologies; and the student will be able to type by touch at a
minimum of thirty (30) words a minute and to create, edit, and
format advanced features for any business document includ-
ing forms, medical and legal forms, resumes, job applications,
bibliographies, footnotes/endnotes, newsletters.
REQUIRED COURSES: BUSAD 110; CABOT 101, 102, 103, 104, 105,
110, 208, 205, 260.
**A minimum speed is required for each individual certificate program. ested in computer science, either as a professional concentration,
2 0 2 0 – 2 0 2 1 C ATA L O G • G L E N DA L E C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E
COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
AS DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE
This degree or certificate is designed to prepare students for
employment in the IT workforce as entry-level Programmers,
entry-level Database Programmers, Application Analysts,
Programmer Analysts, Business Analysts, System Analysts,
PC Support Specialists, Technical Support, User Support Spe-
cialists and etc. Students will demonstrate their proficiency
through performance in laboratory exercises and objective
examinations. The student will analyze simple business or
technical problems relevant to programming, and prepare
solutions to them; implement a program in either C/C++ or
Java, using objects; and demonstrate an understanding of
the operations and processes of a computer relevant to pro-
gramming. Students must complete all required core courses
and select additional courses for a total of 32 units. Program
Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this program, the
student will analyze simple business or technical problems
relevant to programming, and prepare solutions to them;
implement a program in either C/C++ or Java, using objects;
and demonstrate an understanding of the operations and
processes of a computer relevant to programming.
REQUIRED COURSES: BUSAD 106 or ENGL 101, CS/IS 101,
112, 151 or 135, 172, 190, 260
Select at least eight units from the following: BUSAD 110;
CS/IS 130, 135, 137, 139, 174, 193, 234, 261, 262, CS/IS 50 (3 units);
ENTRE 101, 102
COMPUTER SCIENCE
AS DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE
This degree or certificate is designed for those students inter-
or for transfer to a four-year computer science program. Upon
completion of this certificate program, students will be able to
name the four basic parts of computer organization and have
a working knowledge of assembly language. Students will be
able to describe recursion, linked lists, queues, and stacks and
algorithm efficiency, as well as, procedural, functional, logic and
object-oriented programing languages. Students must complete
the required courses and choose additional courses to total a
minimum of 37 units. Program Learning Outcomes: Upon
completion of this program, students will prepare a software
project to implement a single scientific, mathematical, business,
or technical function.
REQUIRED COURSES: CS/IS 165, 166, 211, 212, 280.
ADDITIONAL COURSES: (20 units) CS/IS 101, 112, 125, 130,
135, 137, 139, 172, 174, 190; MATH 103, 104, 107; PHIL 123;
PHY 101.