It is strongly suggested that students with little or no experience keyboarding or using computers enroll the following courses in their first semester.

Required courses will be offered according to the following schedule. Please see the Schedule of Courses for dates and times. Please note that the CAT 40 and 61 courses will be offered once per academic year in the Fall.

	FALL	SPRING
Year 01	CAT 1A-Business Etiquette CAT 61-Professional Office Procedures	CAT 3-Computer Applications Wkg Prof CAT 30-Business English*
Year 02	CAT 40-Administrative Office Mgmt CAT 55-Applied ccounting/Bookkeeping CAT 62-Records Management	CAT 31-Business Communications CAT 80-Word Processing: Word** CAT 90-Microsoft Outlook
Year 03	CAT 51- Document Formatting CAT 98A-Introduction to Excel CAT 98B-Advanced Excel

It is strongly recommended that students who do not have previous keyboarding experience enroll in CAT 50-Document Processing in their first semester and prior to completing CAT 51-Intermediate Document Processing.

*Students may request to substitute successful completion of the campus-based CAT 30A, B, and C courses for CAT 30. Please contact janet.lehr@rcc.edu for more information.

**If CAT 80 is used as a required course then CAT 84 may be used as an elective. If CAT 84 is used as a required course then CAT 80 may be used as an elective.

This Executive Office Management Certificate may also be obtained by completing the short –term Office Assistant, Administrative Office Professional, and Executive Office Professional certificatesin the sequence listed below. It is suggested that each of these smaller occupational certificates be completed in the recommended order. The skills obtained in the recommended order build to from entry-level to advanced-level skills.

1. Office Assistant
2. Administrative Office Professional
3. Executive Office Professional