Five-Week Courses (approximately 6 hrs./week in the lab)

INFT 115—Intro to the World Wide Web (1 credit): This course teaches students to browse a variety of Web sites using Internet Explorer. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Personal Computing or consent of instructor or student meets computer background criteria.)

INFT 131—Beginning Word (1 credit): This course teaches students to create and edit documents using Microsoft Word. It is a "hands-on" word processing course that reinforces basic Microsoft Word functions including creating a document, editing and formatting a document, creating a multiple-page report, and using desktop publishing features. (Prerequisite: Basic Keyboarding or Keyboarding/Formatting I or consent of instructor.)

INFT 132—Intermediate Word (1 credit): This course is designed for the student who already uses Word. Advanced tips and features are introduced including styles, outlines, tables, table of contents, and creating form letters and mailing labels. (Prerequisite: Beginning Word or consent of instructor.)

INFT 135—PowerPoint (1 credit): This is a "hands-on" course that introduces students to PowerPoint, Microsoft’s graphics presentation software package. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Personal Computing or consent of instructor.)

ITHC 101 & NURS 100——Medical Terminology I (1 credit): This course covers the fundamentals of medical terminology and builds upon these fundamentals. The course is designed for people who are pursuing careers that require an understanding of medical terms.

ITHC 102 & NURS 102—Medical Terminology II (1 credit): This course allows students to build upon the fundamentals of Medical Terminology I and is designed for the application of medical terminology in a variety of health fields. (Prerequisite: Medical Terminology I.)

ITHC 103 & NURS 102—Medical Terminology III (1 credit): This course allows students to build upon the fundamentals of Medical Terminology I & II. The course is designed to develop an understanding of the terms related to anatomical systems, looking at both structure and function. (Prerequisite: Medical Terminology II.)

Eight-Week Courses (approximately 4 hrs./week in the lab)

BMAC 142—Electronic Calculator (1 credit): This course teaches students to solve business math problems such as percentages, discounts and net amounts, merchandising, rate of increase, decrease, interest, insurance, and invoicing using electronic calculators. Business Math will help to prepare for this class. (Prerequisite: Arithmetic Skills or placement into Basic Algebra.)

INFT 105—Basic Keyboarding (1 or 2 credits): This course teaches touch keyboarding on the personal computer. Students will learn proper keyboarding techniques and develop speed and accuracy.

INFT 122—Intro to Windows (1 credit): This course introduces students to the Windows graphical user interface (GUI) software. Students will learn how to work with Windows programs, manage files using My Computer and Windows Explorer, customize Windows, and share information between programs. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Personal Computing or consent of instructor or student meets computer background criteria.)

Sixteen-Week Courses (approximately 2 hrs./week per credit hour in the lab)

ITHC 155—Medical Transcription (2 credits): This course concentrates on medical transcription, emphasizing medical terminology and procedures by keying various medical forms and reports using a dictation machine. Students will use Word. (Prerequisite: Keyboarding/Formatting I and Machine Transcription and Medical Terminology I, II, III or concurrent enrollment or consent of instructor.)

ITHC 157—Advanced Medical Transcription (1, 2, or 3 credits): This course emphasizes medical transcription using realistic medical dictation with background noises and foreign accents. Students will use Word. (Prerequisite: Medical Transcription.)

OFFT 151—Keyboarding/Formatting I (4 credits): This course teaches touch keyboarding techniques. In addition to building keyboarding speed and accuracy, students will learn how to format a variety of documents using Word.

OFFT 152—Keyboarding/Formatting II (3 credits): Students will learn advanced formatting techniques using Word. (Prerequisite: Grade of "C" in Keyboarding/Formatting I or consent of instructor.)

OFFT 156—Keyboarding Speed and Accuracy Development (1 credit): This course is designed to improve keyboarding speed and accuracy. A series of computerized timed writings and drills will be available to students. (Prerequisite: an HCC keyboarding course or keyboarding experience or consent of instructor.)

OFFT 158—Legal Terminology/Transcription (1, 2, or 3 credits): This course introduces legal transcription and emphasizes legal terminology and procedures. Various legal forms and reports are transcribed. (Prerequisite: Machine Transcription or consent of instructor.)

OFFT 161—Proofreading (1 credit): This course develops the student’s ability to locate errors commonly made in spelling, word division, capitalization, number usage, word usage, grammar, and punctuation. (Prerequisite: Beginning Word or concurrent enrollment or consent of instructor.)

OFFT 162—Pre-Transcription Skills (1 credit): This course is designed to improve punctuation, spelling, capitalization, number usage, and abbreviation style. (Prerequisite: Preface to Rhetoric or placement into Rhetoric and Composition I.)

OFFT 163—Machine Transcription (1 or 2 credits): This course emphasizes a high degree of skill and speed in transcribing business documents. Transcription is developed by keying prepared, dictated material. (Prerequisite: Keyboarding/Formatting I and Pre-Transcription Skills or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.)

The following traditional courses are offered in the Office/Information Technology Department. Please refer to a current schedule for the times/dates/instructors of the courses.

INFT 110—Introduction to Personal Computing (1 credit): This course provides an overview of computers, including terminology, operating a computer in the Windows environment, word processing, spreadsheets, and e-mail. It is designed for those with little or no previous computer experience.

INFT 133—Advanced Word (1 credit): This "hands-on" word processing course teaches advanced Word functions including customization of Word, creating on-screen forms, and managing long documents. (Prerequisite: Intermediate Word.)

INFT 137—Desktop Publishing (3 credits): This course teaches students to produce professional publications on the computer. Basic desktop publishing and design procedures will teach students to mix text and graphics on documents.  (Prerequisite: Keyboarding/Formatting I or equivalent and Beginning Word or consent of instructor.)

INFT 140—Beginning Excel (1 credit): This course provides an introduction to the basic spreadsheet topics, including design, formulas, functions, charting, and managing lists of data. (Prerequisite: Basic Keyboarding or consent of instructor.)

INFT 142—Advanced Excel (1 credit): This course introduces students to macros, working with multiple worksheets, look-up tables, data tables, queries, pivot tables, and advanced techniques to solve problems with spreadsheets. (Prerequisite: Beginning Excel or consent of instructor.)

INFT 145—Beginning Access (1 credit): This course provides an introduction to database management using a relational database software package. The topics of creating a database, storing, sorting, and retrieving data, and creating forms and reports will be covered. Students will learn the basics of queries. (Prerequisite: Basic Keyboarding or consent of instructor.)

INFT 147—Advanced Access (1 credit): This course introduces the student to macros, advanced reports and queries, and Visual BASIC code as it relates to a database. (Prerequisite: Beginning Access.)

INFT 150—Microsoft Office Integration (1 credit): This course is designed for students with Microsoft Office experience. Students will learn how to combine information by integrating data from multiple programs. Students will learn how to import, export, link, and embed while using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access. (Prerequisite: Beginning Excel, Beginning Access, Beginning Word, and PowerPoint or consent of instructor.)

ITHC 201—Medical Coding (8 credits): This course is a medical coding certification preparation class for the CPC board exam. It focuses on physician-based medical coding. Successful completion of this program allows you to enter the medical coding profession and earn academic credit toward an ITHC degree or certificate. (Prerequisite: Anatomy for Info Tech, Medical Terminology I, Medical Terminology II, Medical Terminology III.)

ITHC 205—Advanced Medical Coding (2 credits): This course is a medical coding certification preparation class for the CPC-H board exam. It focuses on coding for in-patient and out-patient hospital cases. (Prerequisite: Medical Coding.)

ITHC 220—Anatomy for Info Tech (3 credits): This course is designed to introduce the student to the structure and function of the human body. The integumentary, skeletal, muscle, and nervous systems are studied down to the cellular and molecular levels. (Prerequisite: Medical Terminology I, Medical Terminology II, Medical Terminology III.)

OFFT 154—Office Professionalism Seminar (1 credit): This seminar introduces topics that are important to success in office careers including attitude, team building, supervisory skills, ethics, business professionalism, and etiquette.

OFFT 255—Office Procedures (4 credits): This course is designed to give students an understanding of business from the standpoint of the secretary and to study office procedures connected with correspondence, telephone, filing, mail, reference books, and office relationships such as the secretary’s role in management. (Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent enrollment in Keyboarding/Formatting I or consent of instructor.)