Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

• 05 - Business, management and public administration
• 52. - Business, management, marketing and related support services
• 52.04 - Business operations support and assistant services

52.0401 - Administrative assistant and secretarial science, general

This instructional program class comprises any program that generally prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. These programs include courses in business communications, principles of business law, word processing and data entry, office machines operation and maintenance, office procedures, public relations, secretarial accounting, filing systems and records management, and report preparation.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • administrative assistant
  • bilingual secretary
  • general secretarial
  • office administration
  • secretarial arts
  • secretarial science
  • secretarial studies
  • secretary
  • secretary-receptionist

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • administrative clerk(52.0408)
  • executive secretary(52.0402)
  • legal secretary(22.0301)
  • medical secretary(51.0716)
  • office management(52.0204)
  • receptionist(52.0406)
  • word processing(11.0602)