14 courses with the subject AST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Teaches the alpha/numeric keyboard with emphasis on correct techniques, speed, and accuracy. Teaches formatting of basic personal and business correspondence, reports and tabulation. Lecture Hours 3 Note
Develops keyboarding and document production skills with emphasis on preparation of specialized business documents. Continues skill-building for speed and accuracy. Prerequisite AST 101 Lecture Hours 3 Note
Develops skills essential to creating and editing business documents. Covers grammar, spelling, diction, punctuation, capitalization, and other usage problems. Lecture Hours 3 Note
Teaches filing and records management procedures for hard copy, electronic, and micrographic systems. Identifies equipment, supplies, and solutions to records management problems. Lecture Hours 3 Note
Teaches creating and editing documents, including line and page layouts, columns, fonts, search/replace, cut/paste, spell/thesaurus, and advanced editing and formatting features of word processing software. Prerequisite AST 101 or equivalent Lecture Hours 3 Note
Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course’s viability as a permanent offering. Lecture Hours 3 Note
Teaches techniques of oral and written communications. Emphasizes writing and presenting business-related materials. Lecture Hours 3 Note
Develops decision-making skills, speed, and accuracy in preparation of medical documents with emphasis on meeting office requirements. Prerequisite AST 102 or AST 141 . Lecture Hours 3 Lab hours 0 Note
Teaches specialized integrated software application on the microcomputer. Emphasizes document production to meet business and industry standards.
Develops an understanding of the administrative support role and the skills necessary to provide organizational and technical support in a contemporary office setting. Emphasizes the development of critical-thinking, problem-solving, and job performance skills in a business office environment. Prerequisite AST 101, AST 141, and EDE 10 Lecture Hours 3 Note
Enhances skills necessary to provide organizational and technical support in a contemporary office setting. Emphasizes administrative and supervisory role of the office professional. Includes travel and meeting planning, office budgeting and financial procedures, international issues, and career development. Prerequisite AST 243 or equivalent Lecture Hours 3 Note
Introduces general office procedures used in law offices and courts. Corequisite AST 102 Lecture Hours 3 Note
Covers medical office procedures, records management, preparation of medical reports, and other medical documents. Prerequisite AST 102 or equivalent Lecture Hours 3 Note
Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial, or service firms coordinated by the college. Prerequisite Readiness for ENG 111 Lecture Hours 3 Note Credit/practice ratio maximum 1-5. Variable hours.
Source: Mountain Empire Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
