2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    May 17, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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BTECA 105 Keyboard Development & Adv Bus Doc Formatting IV (1 credit)



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

Course Content
A. Improvement of speed and accuracy
B. Optimal ergonomic body position
C. Type by touch with correct fingering
D. Prepare and edit advanced business documents
E. Document production and scanning

Student Outcomes
1.  Demonstrate typing at a minimum rate of 40 wpm with no more than 8 errors, and a minimum typing speed increase of 1 wpm from previous personal benchmark.

2.  Produce basic business documents to include keying, formatting, proofreading, and editing while using word processing tools.

Degree Outcomes
Degree 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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