For each unit of credit, a minimum of three hours per week with one of the hours for class and two hours for studying/preparation outside of class is expected.
The Business Administrative Technology program provides students the skills to be productive and successful working in an office environment.
Outcome #2: Communicate ideas clearly and proficiently in writing, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations.
Outcome #3: Communicate their ideas clearly and proficiently in speaking, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations
Upon acceptable completion of the course competencies and an average of 85 percent or higher on mastery tests, the student will be able to:
Know and effectively use different kinds of sentences
Identify and properly use the parts of speech
Recognize and proficiently use phrases and clauses
Know and correctly use punctuation marks and capital letters
Understand what constitutes well-constructed paragraphs and be able to skillfully use them
Write sentences and paragraphs that are grammatically correct and effectively communicate the intended meaning
Realize that a knowledge of English usage helps each learner to communicate more efficiently and effectively both orally and in written form, and prepares each learner for a successful entrance into other educational endeavors and the world of work
- Define and write different kinds of sentences to express a complete thought
- Identify and use nouns for clearer writing
- Apply plural and possessive rules to nouns
- Recognize and use pronouns in written and spoken language
- Use verbs, identify and use helping and linking verbs, and use verbs so that they agree with their subjects
- Recognize and use verb tense, person, number, and voice
- Use adjectives and adverbs to write descriptive sentences; use degrees of comparison
- Identify and use prepositions and their objects
- Identify and use the three types of conjunctions
- Recognize and use prepositional, infinitive, and participial phrases
- Recognize and use independent and subordinate clauses
- Punctuate using periods, exclamation marks, question marks, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, parentheses, apostrophes, quotation marks
- Identify and apply ten comma usage rules
- Express numbers correctly in sentences, reports, and technical writing
- Apply grammar rules for capitalizing words
- Demonstrate ability to correctly use frequently misused words in written and spoken language
- Write simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences
- Write topic sentences and use linking words and phrases to develop paragraphs
- Spell, define, and use words commonly found in the business world
Presentations/demonstration by the instructor
Discussions
Daily assignments
Textbook
Individual and work-together activities
Measurement of course outcomes achievement, as well as the student's grade, will be determined in the following manner:
Class participation and completion of daily assignments
Ability to define and use vocabulary on weekly assignments and tests
Ability to choose standard English conventions on objective tests
Measurement of SCCC Outcomes will be assessed as follows:
- (2 & 3) Assessed through assignments requiring oral and written answers
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Seward County Community College will make reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations. Students should identify themselves to the Mental Health Counselor at 620-417-1106 or go to the Student Success Center in the Hobble Academic building, room A149.