Office Technology (OE)

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IO = Infrequently Offered Course
OE 0002	Medical Document Formatting					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:					Formatting 0588 or one or more units of typewriting in high school and Medical Terminology 5231
This course is designed to expand the students’ skill, proficiency and accuracy in the production of medical documents. Production activities include the keying of medical letter, memos, reports, tables, and forms. Emphasis is placed on correct techniques, efficient organization of work, proofreading, neatness and speed. The student will use Microsoft Word 2003 in this course.
OE 0003	Advanced Medical Transcription					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:			Medical Transcription 0670 & Medical Terminology 5231
This course will build on the knowledge and expertise gained in the previous Medical Transcription course. This course will further the student’s ability to perform medical transcription by increasing their knowledge of medical terminology, use of appropriate formatting and application of specialized rules of grammar and punctuation seen in transcribed medical reports. This course will focus on using medical terminology in the proper context, recognizing the appropriate drugs for the established disease process as well as increasing transcription speed and accuracy.
OE 0004	Career Portfolio					2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:					None
This course is designed to offer the student the opportunity to organize and collect materials in a visual format that tell others about themselves and showcase their skills, experiences, and abilities through the creation of a career portfolio.
OE 0502	Human Relations in Business					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				None
A behavioral science course designed to provide development of concepts and strategies about the behavior of workers and managers in an organizational environment.
OE 0507	Business English (IO)					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				None
Study of principles of effective business communications. Provides units in punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, number-expressing principles, word division, and other aspects of word usage.
OE 0523	Business Accounting					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				None
Elementary accounting procedures including theory and practice associated with double-entry bookkeeping are introduced. Special emphasis is placed on the use of journal entries, accounting for and control of cash, and payroll accounting.
OE 0530	Business Math					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				Placement test recommendation equivalent to MA 1707 Applied Mathematics
Business decision-making usually involves business math. Business Math provides a background of general and specific knowledge of business math concepts for those students who plan to enter business programs.
OE 0533	Keyboarding					1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite:				None
This course is designed to develop the basic keyboarding skills of fluency and speed that will enable the students to process and obtain information on the computer. The students will learn the computer keyboard and the ten-key numeric keyboard by touch. Correct techniques of keyboarding are stressed throughout the course.
OE 0536	Coordinated Office Training I					1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				Enrollment in an Office Technology Program or permission of instructor
This course is designed to offer the student the opportunity to receive on-the-job training in office-related career occupations. Students may receive training through paid employment (part-time or full-time), or an unpaid internship.
OE 0537	Coordinated Office Training II					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				Enrollment in an Office Technology Program or permission of instructor
This course is designed to offer the student the opportunity to receive on-the-job training in office-related career occupations. Students may receive training through paid employment (part-time or full-time), or an unpaid internship.
OE 0551	Records Management					2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				None
This course is designed to present knowledge and skills that are needed in records management work. This course emphasizes the basic principles and procedures used in alphabetic, geographic, numeric, and subject filing methods for manual and automated records systems. Practice in application of filing rules is provided through the use of records management projects.
OE 0557	Office Procedures					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0587 College Keyboarding
This course is the study and development of personal qualities, skills, and knowledge needed for success in clerical occupations, including how to find and “land” the right office position, writing letters, using postal and shipping services, handling mail, filing, using the telephone, transmitting business messages, using banking and credit services, and handling financial transactions.
OE 0565	Office Applications - Clerical Assistant					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0588 Formatting
Through a realistic job simulation, the student is introduced to clerical duties performed by a receptionist. The student will perform various duties: answer telephone calls, greet customers, make decisions and set priorities, proofread and edit copy, and complete forms. In addition, the student will be asked to prepare a formal job description of a receptionist.
OE 0574	Office Applications - Administrative Assistant					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0588 Formatting
Through a realistic job simulation, the student is introduced to secretarial duties performed as an administrative assistant to a top executive. The student will make decisions, set priorities, maintain a tickler file, prepare tables and graphs, and compose correspondence. In addition, the student will be asked to prepare a formal job description of an executive secretary.
OE 0575	Office Applications - Legal					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0588 Formatting
Through a realistic job simulation, the student is introduced to secretarial duties performed in a small law firm. The student will produce and format various legal documents, become familiar with terminology used in the legal profession, machine transcribe legal correspondence, and get an overall view of the day-to-day operating procedures of a legal office. In addition, the student will be asked to prepare a formal job description of a legal secretary.
OE 0576	Office Application - Medical					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0588 Formatting
Through a realistic job simulation, the student is introduced to the administrative routines of a doctor’s office and will perform various activities including preparing patients’ chars, taking telephone messages, scheduling appointments, organizing patient files, and transcribing medical tapes. In addition, the student will be asked to prepare a formal job description of a medical secretary.
OE 0587	College Keyboarding					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				None
This course is designed to develop machine control and mastery of the keyboard. The course emphasizes proper keyboarding techniques, accuracy, and speed, which can be applied to a variety of problems that the students are likely to meet in their personal life and/or in the business world.
OE 0588	Formatting					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0587 College Keyboarding or One or more units of keyboarding in high school
This course is designed to review business document formats, to build speed and accuracy, and to use decision-making skills to evaluate document formats and mailability. Applying written communication skills and demonstrating quality and efficiency in production are emphasized.
OE 0604	Office Machines (10 Key) (IO)					1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite:				None
Desk model electronic calculators along with computers are used to produce a variety of information used in business to perform day-to-day operations, make decisions, and solve problems. Every student concentrating in office technology should have the basic skills and knowledge necessary to compile data and information accurately and rapidly using office machines. Students will develop skill using a 10-key adding machine by touch and using the numeric keypad of a computer.
OE 0605	Legal Transcription					2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				English Placement Test Recommendation
Introduces students to the various legal documents utilized by law firms, which are filed with the municipal court, a state or federal district court, or with a state or federal appellate court. Will create legal documents to be utilized by individuals, corporations, and government.
OE 0606	Transcription Skills					1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite:				None
The purpose of this course is to prepare the student for transcribing documents. Students will need to take the English Placement Test before enrolling in this course. This course will review common problems encountered when transcribing documents: grammar rules, commonly misspelled words, and correct word usage. In addition, students will gain practice in transcribing sentences, proofreading documents, and meeting mailability standards. The students will be introduced to the mechanics of machine transcription. After passing this course, the student will be ready to enroll in OE 0605 Legal Transcription, OE 0607 Medical Transcription, or OE 0608 Word Processing Transcription.
OE 0607	Medical Transcription					2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0587 College Keyboarding
Provides an overview of the medical transcription environment, the responsibilities of the transcriptionist, and the skills required. Focuses on the mechanics of transcription including transcription tools, the style and form of the transcriptionist, the various formats for medical reports, and medical terminology.
OE 0608	Word Processing Transcription					2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0587 College Keyboarding
This course is designed to teach effective transcription techniques. Emphasis is placed on the proper use of transcription equipment, correct use of punctuation, correct spelling, proofreading, and editing. The goal is to transcribe mailable copy in an appropriate time frame from material dictated on media.
OE 0609	Medical Coding					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				HC 5231 Medical Terminology or Medical Training
This course is designed to study the basic concepts of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT Coding) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD 9). The student will gain an understanding of the wide variety of functions these coding methods serve in the medical community and in administrative management of healthcare.
OE 0610	Medical Coding II					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0609 Medical Coding or instructor permission
This course is designed to study the advanced concepts of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT Coding), International Classification of Diseases (ICD 9), and third party reimbursement. This course is designed to provide practical application of the coding process using health documentation from patient charts. The student will gain an in depth understanding of the wide variety of functions these coding methods serve in the medical community and in healthcare administration management care.
OE 0613	Pharmacology & Laboratory Medicine for Medical Transcription					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:			None.
This course is one of the increasingly important basic sciences of medicine and healthcare. A study of the principles and language of pharmacology and laboratory medicine, including drug classes, diagnostic test, indications, techniques, expressions of values and significance of findings. This course teaches students to use pharmaceutical references in the research of spelling, routes of administration, identification of generic versus brand names, and therapeutic action of drugs relating to the body systems presented.
OE 0739	Microcomputer Applications I					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				None
This course will teach the student specific areas of expertise in the computer area.
OE 0740	Microcomputer Applications II					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:				OE 0739 Microcomputer Applications I
This course will teach the student specific areas of expertise in the computer area.
OE 5232		Advanced Medical Terminology					3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite:			Medical Terminology 5231
This course will build on the knowledge gained in the previous Medical Terminology course. The course will again be outlined by body systems focusing on terminology associated with disease processes, related procedures and pharmaceutical treatment methods. Strong emphasis will be placed on the correct usage and spelling of terms. The student should already have a firm base knowledge of suffixes, prefixes and root words.

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