OIS 1A, KEYBOARDING IA ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Advisory: Eligibility for English 21A.
This course is intended for students without previous keyboarding
instruction. Emphasis is on keyboard mastery, correct keyboarding
techniques, and proofreading skills. This course is taught
on an open-entry, self-paced basis and may be completed in
six weeks.
OIS 1B, KEYBOARDING IB ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 1A.
. Advisory: Eligibility for English 21A.
Emphasis is on speed and accuracy development, correct keyboarding
techniques, and proofreading skills. Production work includes
business correspondence and tabulation. This course is taught
on an open-entry, self-paced basis and may be completed in
six weeks.
OIS 1C, KEYBOARDING IC ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 1B.
. Advisory: eligibility for English 21A.
Emphasis is on speed and accuracy development, correct keyboarding
techniques, and proofreading skills. Production work includes
business correspondence, tabulation, and reports. This course
is taught on an open-entry, self-paced basis.
OIS 2A, KEYBOARDING IIA ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 1C.
Skills developed include refinement of keyboarding techniques,
improvement of speed and accuracy, and proofreading. Letter
styles, simple tabulations, and business reports are stressed.
This course is taught on an open-entry, self-paced basis and
may be completed in six weeks.
OIS 2B, KEYBOARDING IIB ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 2A.
Skills developed include improvement of speed, accuracy, and
proofreading. Business forms, reports, bibliographies, and
various letter arrangements are stressed. This course is taught
on an open-entry, self-paced basis and may be completed in
six weeks.
OIS 2C, KEYBOARDING IIC ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 2B.
Skills developed include improvement of speed, accuracy, and
proofreading. Memoranda, tabulations with special features,
complicated business reports, employment communications, and
original compositions are stressed. This course is taught
on an open-entry, self-paced basis and may be completed in
six weeks.
OIS 3, ADVANCED DOCUMENT PROCESSING (
3 UNITS )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 2C.
This course is taught on an open entry, self-paced basis,
emphasizing keyboarding production rate and acceptable office
standards. Students develop skills and achieve goals at their
own pace while following suggested guidelines in order to
complete the course in one semester.
OIS 4, LEGAL TERMINOLOGY
( 2 UNITS )
. Prerequisite:
OIS 2.
. Advisory: 45 wpm and Business 31.
This course is designed to provide an understanding of terms
commonly used in the legal profession. Emphasis is placed
on spelling, punctuation, definitions, and usage. This course
is taught on an open-entry, self-paced basis.
OIS 5A, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION ( 1 UNIT
)
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: None.
This course is designed to review principles of grammar and
punctuation. The course is taught on an open-entry, self-paced
basis and may be completed in five weeks.
OIS 5B, SPELLING AND VOCABULARY ( 1 UNIT
)
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: None.
This course is designed to review spelling and vocabulary.
Topics include prefixes, suffixes, homonyms, specialized vocabularies,
and spelling guides. The course is taught on an open-entry,
self-paced basis and may be completed in five weeks.
OIS 5C,
PROOFREADING ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: None.
This course is designed to develop proofreading skills. Emphasis
is placed on improving skills in the following areas: keyboarding,
word division, format, grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
word confusions, and content. The course is taught on an open-entry,
self-paced basis and may be completed in five weeks.
OIS 5C, PROOFREADING ( 1 UNIT )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: None.
This course is designed to develop proofreading skills. Emphasis
is placed on improving skills in the following areas: keyboarding,
word division, format, grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
word confusions, and content. The course is taught on an open-entry,
self-paced basis and may be completed in five weeks.
OIS 7A, MACHINE TRANSCRIPTION I
( 1 UNIT )
. Prerequisite: OIS 1B.
An introductory course in operating transcribing machines
in order to produce mailable business documents at a minimum
rate of 13 words a minute. Emphasis is placed on developing
correct grammar and punctuation, spelling, formatting, and
proofreading. This course is taught on an open-entry, self-paced
basis and may be completed in six weeks.
OIS 7B, MACHINE TRANSCRIPTION II
( 1 UNIT )
.
Prerequisite: OIS 7A.
An intermediate course in operating transcribing machines
in order to produce mailable business documents at a minimum
rate of 18 words a minute. Emphasis is placed on developing
correct grammar and punctuation, spelling, formatting, and
proofreading. This course is taught on an open-entry, self-paced
basis and may be completed in six weeks.
OIS 7C, MACHINE TRANSCRIPTION III
( 1 UNIT )
.
Prerequisite: OIS 7B.
An advanced course developing proficiency in machine transcription
in order to produce mailable business documents at a minimum
rate of 23 words a minute. Emphasis is placed on proper grammar
usage, spelling, punctuation, formatting, proofreading, and
original composition.
OIS 7D, LEGAL MACHINE TRANSCRIPTION
I ( 1 UNIT )
.
Prerequisite: OIS 7A.
This is an introductory course in operating transcribing machines
in order to produce mailable legal documents. Emphasis is
placed on spelling and understanding legal terms; formatting;
and principles related to grammar, word division, capitalization,
number usage, punctuation, and proofreading. This course is
taught on an open-entry, self-paced basis and may be completed
in six weeks.
OIS 9, KEYBOARDING IMPROVEMENT ( 1 UNIT
)
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 1A.
Emphasis is on speed and accuracy development, keyboarding
technique, and proofreading skills. This course is taught
on an open-entry, self-paced basis.
OIS 12, SHORTHAND III ( 5 UNITS )
Transfer: CSU
. Prerequisite: OIS 11 and OIS 2
. Advisory: 45 wpm and English 1 or Business 31.
Emphasis is placed on developing increased skills in taking
dictation, in transcribing, and in vocabulary building. This
course is taught on a self-paced basis. It is recommended
that this course be taken the last semester of school. May
be repeated 3 times for speed building.
OIS 30,
INTRODUCTION TO CALCULATING MACHINES ( 2 UNITS )
Transfer: CSU
This course acquaints students with the functions of electronic
calculating machines. Touch addition is acquired. Basic operations
in the four arithmetic processes are combined with business
applications. This course is taught on a self-paced basis
OIS 31, COMPUTER CALCULATOR ( 1
UNIT )
. Prerequisite: None.
This introductory course acquaints the students with the ten-key
pad of the computer. Touch operation acquired. Speed and accuracy
are developed. This course is essentially for the development
of numeric data entry skills |
