The purpose of this study is to develop general and core curriculum for secretarial and related department in college by using DACUM(Developing a Curriculum) method.
First, the nine DACUM workshop panels were selected with consideration of various ...
The purpose of this study is to develop general and core curriculum for secretarial and related department in college by using DACUM(Developing a Curriculum) method.
First, the nine DACUM workshop panels were selected with consideration of various levels of job representation and employers' size representation They are eight secretaries who have worked for one to ten years in the secretarial job, and who had studied at two-year college and four-year university and one supervisor in the Metropolitan area.
The panels agreed through several workshops that secretarial job consisted of 10 duties such as 1) processing calls, 2) managing visitors, 3) maintaining filing system, 4) handling documents, 5) maintaining schedules, 6) arranging travel, 7) coordinating meeting, 8) processing data and information, 9) performing administrative tasks, and 10) developing professional growth.
Also, they categorized the core curriculum for secretarial and related department as follows: 1) secretarial area, 2) business administrative area, 3) information managing area, 4) foreign language area, and 5) others(professional job ethics & attitude).
As a result of this study, it is recommended that more research should be performed in other specialized secretarial jobs or certain regional area to identify more specific DACUM chart and curriculum.