Elementry Level Secretarial Course - 3 Months Intermediate Level Secretarial Course - 6 Months Advanced Level Secretarial Course - 9 Months
Secretarial Studies Courses offered at the College of Central London is designed to teach students how to handle the requirements of a modern commercial office enviroment. Students take examinations with Pitman Qualifications for the core secretarial subjects, the Institute of Export for Global market place and International Business Principles, LCCI for Public Relations and BTEC for Administrative Systems
Entry Qualifications
A reasonable standard of English
No other formal qualifications are necessary
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The main intake of students is in September with other intakes in January and April.
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DEPARTMENT OF SECRETARIAL STUDIES : SYLLABUS 1. TYPEWRITING Typewriting examinations are available at three levels; Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced.
The course will prepare students for all these levels with Elementary held in December, Intermediate in March and Advanced in June each year.
Students will be required to demonstrate that they can type and display; letters, manuscripts, memoranda, altered typescripts, forms, display material, statistics, invoices, statements and reports. Pitman; Elementary 25 wpm, Intermediate 35 wpm, Advanced 50wpm.
To obtain a First Class Pass students will need in accuracy of 98% and above. 2. OFFICE PROCEDURES The office - Services Staff Health & Safety Communications - Oral and written Telecommunications Systems Procedures - Mail Handling Stationary stock Purchase and sale of goods Petty cash - Filing & Indexing - Methods of classification Rules Equipment and Storage Office Support and Equipment - Text production Reprography Mail Room equipment 3. ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS Level 1 & 2 This subject prepares students to write simple business correspondence in English. Reading comprehension, memos, internal written telephone messages, writing skills, write simple courtesy letters, simple memos, draft fax communications. - In addition to the above, students will need to demonstrate achievement in: Reading comprehension - extract business documents (i.e. paraphrasing)
- writing skills - (i.e. drafts and short information report)
4. OFFICE TECHNOLOGY & INFORMATION PROCESSING The programme for this module will be developed through practically based activities with a clear business context and focus and should encourage the view of information technology as a tool for the achievement of business objectives rather than an end in itself. Practical Word Processing - create documents, edit documents, amend layout, complete standard document, proof reading and correcting, printing
Word Processing - prepare system, create documents, Edit documents, set/ amend layout, assemble and/or complete standard documents, proof read documents and correct, save work, print documents.
Practical spreadsheet processing - intermediate-construct spreadsheet and design it in such a way to produce accurate answers, manipulate the spreadsheet using features of the package, print and correct spreadsheet in response to specific requests.
OPTION MODULES PUBLIC RELATIONS Introduction to Public Relations, The Media, Researching and Writing material for the Media. Developing and Managing Public Relations Campaigns, Running a Public Relations Organisation (Consultancy/In-House) Public Relations in Commercial/Industrial Organisations, Public Relations as a Marketing Tool Public Relations in the Marketing and Promotional Mix (with reference to multimedia campaigns) Special Events (such as press conferences, seminars, exhibitions and trade fairs), Promotion in Export Markets, Presentation (for students to put over themselves and their ideas effectively), Public Relations in a crisis (handling communications in a disaster), How to get into Public Relations as a career. DESKTOP PUBLISHING The aim is to test students to produce multi-page, multi-column documents and use the design features of the software in a systematic and professional manner. The software package used is MS PowerPoint. Prepare and save multi-page documents, Use headers and footers, Import Graphics. Observe typing conventions, Display to the best effect. Note:
The syllabus for the additional modules 'Global Market Place and International Business Principles' can be referred to on under the contents of the CIT syllabus in the Business section. | 
