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The fresh-off-the-line uni grads I talk to are still doing Office training as a first year course.
by denkmoon 4y ago
The fresh-off-the-line uni grads I talk to are still doing Office training as a first year course.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI have never heard of a college course about Microsoft Office at a university in the US. And I went to college in early to mid 2000s.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoColleges offer entire degree programs in using Microsoft Office software. You can get an Associate's degree just in that alone. I've never been to a college that didn't require one Office course for all graduates.
- dmd 4y agoI think maybe people are talking at cross purposes here and using the word 'college' differently, because I (in the USA) never even heard of a college that offers such a course, much less requires it.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoI am also in the US. I'd have to dig up details on the "Office class" I had to take, but for example, here's a two-year college in my area's Office program: https://cod.edu/academics/programs/ofti/index.aspx https://cod.edu/academics/programs/ofti/index.aspx
- denkmoon 4y agoFWIW, I'm Australian, and I'm talking about our local Universities. Doing a BSc myself, Msft Office training wasn't a requirement for my course, but many of the Bachelor of IT courses did have it as a requirement. Talking to my colleagues, they also had it as a requirement.
- shakna 4y agoFWIW, I'm Australian, and have never heard of such a requirement. Swinburne seems to offer such courses, but they're not credited, and not compulsary, and they're one day things designed for students who have never even turned on a computer before. They're definitely not part of a Bachelor of IT. MelbUni, VicUni and FedUni don't even offer anything like that, at all.
- dmd 4y agoI guess I’m talking about 4 year liberal arts colleges when I say or think “college”.