2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 02, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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BTECA 104 Keyboard Development & Adv Bus Doc Formatting III (1 credit)



Course Description
This course assists students with continuous development of keyboard speed, accuracy and technique while simultaneously applying those skills to creating advanced business documents.

Course Content
A. Improvement of speed and acuracy
B. Optimal ergonomic body position
C. Type by touch with correct fingering
D. Prepare and edit advanced business documents
E. Document producing and scanning
F. Intermediate and Advanced Microsoft Word Tools

Student Outcomes
1.  Demonstrate typing at a minimum rate of 31 wpm with no more than 8 errors and a minimum typing speed increase of 1 wpm from previous personal benchmark.

2.  Key, format, proofread, and edit advanced business documents while while using intermediate to advanced MS Word tools.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Demonstrate proficiency in efficiently performing a variety of administrative tasks. (Including answering phones, managing schedules, handling correspondence using common office software such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and email/calendar management programs.) 

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.

Lecture Contact Hours 1
Lab Contact Hours 10
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10

Potential Methods
1. Discussion, in class or online
2. Instructor assessment
3. Objective test
4. Computerized test
5. Self-assessment
6. Completed lessons



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