Administrative Assistant – Legal (AAS.AALEG)

Administrative Assistant - Legal (AAS.AALEG)

Associate in Applied Science Degree

Administrative Assistant - Legal AAS.AALEG - prepares the graduate for a career in private and corporate law offices, and in federal, state, or local courts. The graduate will be ready to perform receptionist duties and to prepare legal correspondence and documents using legal terminology. Students gain hands-on-experience through a five-hour internship.

First Year

1st Semester		Semester Hours
BUS 114*	Advanced Formatting	3
BUS 123	Notetaking	4
CIS 058	WordPerfect	2
BUS 200	Legal Environment of Business	3
ENG 095	Business English	3
SFS 101	Strategies for Success or
HED---	Health Elective or
PED---	P.E. Elective	2
	Total	17



2nd Semester		Semester Hours
BUS 115*	Processing Information	3
CIS 160*	Practical Software Applications	3
BUS 094	Business Mathematics	3
ENG 098	Communications I or
ENG 120	Composition I or
SPE 111	Introduction to Speech Communication	3
CIS 093	Access	2
BUS 061	Machine Transcription	1
	Total	15



Second Year

1st Semester		Semester Hours
BUS 095	Fundamentals of Accounting or
BUS 151*	Financial Accounting	3
CIS 056*	Advanced Software Applications	3
	Social Science Elective 1	3
BUS 141	Business Communications	3
BUS 201	Business Law or
CJS 150	Introduction to Criminal Justice	3
BUS 065	Legal Terminology	1
BUS 062*	Legal Machine Transcription	1
	Total	17

1)SOS 050 Human Relations and PSY 271 Introduction to Psychology cannot be used as a social science elective.



2nd Semester		Semester Hours
BUS 060*	Automated Office Procedures (Module 3)	3
BUS 079	Professional Development (Module 3)	3
PSY 271	Introduction to Psychology (Module 3)	3
BUS 081*	Office Technology Internship (Module 4)	5
BUS 080*	Office Technology Seminar (Module 4)	1
	Total	15

Academic Divisions

Agriculture
Allied Health
Business
Humanities and Communications
Technology
Math & Science
Social Science and Education

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Lake Land College
5001 Lake Land Blvd.
Mattoon, IL 61938
(217) 234-5253