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0 pointsocdtrekkie4y ago0 comments

Colleges 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.

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dmd4y ago· 4 in thread

I 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.

ocdtrekkieOP4y ago

I 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

FWIW, 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.

shakna4y ago

FWIW, 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.

dmd4y ago

I guess I’m talking about 4 year liberal arts colleges when I say or think “college”.

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