Administration and Information Technology

Businesses and other organisations rely upon people with good skills in administration and information technology. This more advanced course can help your career by providing you with the high level of practical and problem solving skills you need to improve your job prospects.

Module outline

Year 1 - HNC

Year 1 of the HND is HNC Administration and Information Technology or HNC Administration and Digital Business Technologies

Year 2 - HND

Mandatory units are:

• Communication: business communication

• Developing the individual within a team

• Digital technologies for administrators

• Graded Unit I: administration and information technology

• Graded Unit II: administration and information technology

• Graded Unit III: administration and information technology

• Information and communication technology in business

• IT in business - databases, advanced databases

• IT in business - spreadsheets, advanced spreadsheets

• IT in business - word processing, presentation applications, advanced word processing

• Office administration

• Office management

• Presentation skills

• Personal development planning

• Recording financial transactions

Optional units may include:

• Administrative procedures

• Behavioural skills for business

• Business accounting

• Business contractual relationships

• Business culture and strategy

• Business law: an introduction

• Creating a culture of customer care

• Digital marketing communications: an introduction

• Economic issues: an introduction

• Getting started in business

• Hospital patient administration

• Human resource management: an introduction

• Human resource management: core activities

• IT in business - word processing, spreadsheets and databases: an introduction

• Managing people and organisations

• Marketing: an introduction

• Medical terminology for administration staff

• Payroll

• Personal enterprise skills

• Publishing on the internet

• Research skills

• Statistics for business

• Using financial accounting software

• Visual communications: social media

• Work experience

Option units available may vary depending on study location, for more information contact your chosen campus.

This outline reflects the modules as currently delivered and is subject to change.