Legal Secretary, C.T.S.

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CERTIFICATE OF TECHNICAL STUDIES PROGRAM
DIVISION: BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY

The Legal Secretary Certificate Program is designed to provide students with the competencies necessary to obtain employment as legal secretaries or legal word-processing specialists. The Legal Secretary Certificate Program was organized by the New Orleans Chapters of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) and Legal Secretaries of New Orleans and the River Region (LSNORR) and Delgado Community College.

To be eligible to apply to the Legal Secretary Certificate program, students must demonstrate keyboarding proficiency of at least 35 wpm or have completed ADOT101 (Keyboarding I).

REQUIRED COURSES IN MAJOR

Required grade of “C” or higher.

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 101 - English Composition I 3

TOTAL CREDIT HOURS: 30

NOTE:

See Graduation Requirements .

Students planning to pursue a baccalaureate program should contact that receiving institution for determination of course transferability. A listing of Delgado courses can be found at Delgado Community College’s web site at http://www.dcc.edu/transfer/courselist.pdf