Keyboard Applications BUS6152 — Keyboarding Applications prepares students for careers in the business and information services industry. Students enhance touch skills for entering alphabetic, numeric, and symbol information on a keyboard. Students compose and produce a variety of personal, educational, and professional documents.

Specific Objectives
Learning computer components
Mastering keyboarding techniques
Mastering proofreading skills
Developing a better understanding of language skills
Learning to produce business and professional documents
Mastering business skills using simulations
Developing employability skills (resumes, application forms, portfolios)
Participating in club activities

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Notetaking/Keyboarding Applications BUS6241— Students apply keyboarding skills to produce a variety of personal and business documents. Students learn an easy, abbreviated writing system of notetaking that enables them to take and transcribe notes for educational, business, or personal use. Students explore reason for taking notes, ways to listen effectively, and strategies for imposing communication and study skills for academic success.

Specific Objectives
Format letters with special features showing understanding of two styles and punctuation
Format manuscripts in bound and unbound format with internal citations and footnotes
Format formal and simplified memorandums, news releases, and telegraphic messages
Complete merges, and format outlines
Use appropriate judgment regarding format when specific directions are omitted
Develop writing principles of abbreviated writing system
Read text from an principles of abbreviated writing system
Build speed on dictation
Transcribe notes into usable copy
Illustrated practical applications of notetaking skills

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Word Processing BUS — Students develop intermediate to advanced level word processing skills using a variety of software functions, including graphics and desktop publishing. Students gain competence activities. Classroom experiences also provide for skill development in communication. They work individually and in groups to explore computer concepts, operating systems, and emerging technologies.

Specific Objectives
Handling Systems Operation Procedures
Creating, Formatting, and editing Documents
Using Desktop Publishing Features
Communicating Electronically
Applying Ethics to Word Processing
Developing Employability Skills
Participating in an integral, co-curricular club--Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

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