TASK 145 Records Management

While designed for business majors, Records Management is appropriate in other disciplines as well as in students’ personal lives. After successfully completing this course, students will apply the general filing rules under the American Records Management Association to documents. Utilizing a simulation kit, students will complete a filing cycle: set up a filing system and code, file, retrieve, archive, and purge documents. The filing systems covered include alphabetic, subject, numeric, and geographic. Other topics covered include privacy and copyright laws and the importance of file security and confidentiality.