Administrative Assistant

AAS — Administrative Assistant

With all types of companies needing administrative support, graduates who obtain their Administrative Associate AAS degree will have a wide variety of career opportunities to which they can match their personal interests and talents.

The Administrative Assistant degree at Northwest Technical College will provide students with the computer knowledge, bookkeeping, business communication and secretarial skills they will need to succeed as an administrative assistant, executive secretary or office assistant.

Employment

Administrative assistant and associate positions — secretaries, receptionists, office assistant and office managers — are available in a wide variety of business, educational and governmental offices and often offer advancement opportunities into supervisory and management roles.

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Next Steps

The Administrative Associate AAS is transferable in part toward the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Administration at Bemidji State University and in full to Mayville (N.D.) State University.

Degree Requirements

Course #	Course Name	Credit
ADMS 1100	Keyboarding I	3.00
ADMS 1102	Keyboarding II	3.00
ADMS 1112	Desktop Publishing/Presentation Graphics	3.00
ADMS 1126	Business Office Management	3.00
ADMS 2124	Advanced Microcomputer Technology	3.00
CPTR 1104	Computerized Business Applications	3.00
ACCT 1100	Principles of Bookkeeping	3.00
CRLT 1102	Contemporary Career Search	1.00
MKTG 1108	Customer Relations Mgmt	3.00
ADMS 1116	Business Communications	3.00
SUPL 1120	Supervisory Leadership	3.00
ECON 2204	Markets & Resource Allocation	3.00
ENGL 1111	College Writing I	3.00
PHIL 1201	Ethics	3.00
PSYC 1105	General Psychology	3.00
SPCH 1110	Intro to Public Speaking	3.00
	Technical Electives	8
Total Credits		60