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B.S. in Office Information Systems

Required Courses | Course Descriptions | Common Professional Component
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Office information systems and business education students develop interpersonal, decision making and analytical skills in dealing with office and business problems and situations. Additionally, education majors learn to motivate students to develop these same attributes. Students choosing a major in OIS must take the common professional component courses as well.

Required Courses for Office Information Systems

B.S. Degree; no minor required

Major Requirements

Course Number Course Name Hours
CSIS 44-211 Spreadsheet Applications 1
CSIS 44-212 Advanced Spreadsheets and Charting 1
CSIS 44-245 DigiTools 3
CSIS 44-320 Advanced Word Processing 1
CSIS 44-330 Presentation Graphics 1
CSIS 44-340 Digital Media     1
CSIS 44-343 Virtual Workplace 3
CSIS 44-344 Desktop Publishing 3
CSIS 44-346 Database Applications 1
Advisor-Approved Electives 3

Choose Six hours from One Emphasis

Interactive Digital Media Emphasis

44-333 Multimedia and Web Development     3
44-143 Script Programming     3

Management Emphasis

54-314 Human Resource Management     3
54-316 Org Behavior and Theory     3

*Based on 2008-2010 Undergraduate Catalog

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Course Descriptions

211 Spreadsheet Applications (1 hour)
A course on the intensive use of spreadsheets including features such as financial functions, querying a list, web queries for real-time data and what-if analysis.

212 Advanced Spreadsheets and Charting (1 hour)
A course on the intensive use of spreadsheet features such as using templates, data consolidation, macros, solver, scenarios, and pivot tables and charts.

245 DigiTools (3 hours)
Emphasis on proficient use of varied input technologies.  Students enter and manipulate text and data and prepare documents with handheld and tablet computers, speech recognition software, scanning, handwriting recognition and keyboarding.

320 Advanced Word Processing (1 hour)
The use of WordPerfect or Microsoft Word to create, format, and print documents. Basic concepts will emphasize the use of word processing to efficiently manipulate, organize, and enhance documents.

343 Virtual Workplace (3 hours)
A study of the functions that make up an office support or information processing system. Through applications, practice, and discussion, students will refine office skills, develop a business vocabulary, and perform a variety of office tasks to prepare for a career as an administrative assistant.

344 Desktop Publishing (3 hours)
Course will identify the concepts and applications of desktop publishing and develop competencies using a powerful computer language as a desktop publishing tool.

346 Database Applications (1 hour)
Applications of database management software for creating, querying and manipulating databases.

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Common Professional Component

Requirements for Accredited Business Programs

Applies to Management Information Systems, Office Information Systems and Business Education. To ensure a common professional component among the accredited business programs, all students majoring in business education, management information systems or office information systems are required to fulfill the following professional component requirements:

General Courses

  • General Statistics
  • Non-business courses
  • College Algebra
  • General Economics I
  • General Economics II
  • Computers & Information Technology 

Business Courses

  • Accounting I
  • Accounting II
  • Business Law I 
  • Fundamentals of Business Finance
  • Managerial Communication
  • Principles of Management
  • Operations Management
  • Organizational Policy and Decision-Making
  • Principles of Marketing
  • International Business
  • Management Information Systems

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Careers in Office Information Systems

Sites Where Our Graduates Have Been Hired

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