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Austin, Texas 78752-4390
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Flex-Entry Prerequisites
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Students taking flex-entry courses have to meet a minimum typing speed in order to receive their course materials. POFT 1127 Introduction to Keyboarding and POFI 1204 Computer Fundamentals: MS Windows/Outlook are the only courses that do not have a typing prerequisite. Typing prerequisites for other courses are as follows:

POFT 1371
Access
30 WPM
POFT 1231
Business Machine Applications
30 WPM
ITSW 1310
PowerPoint
30 WPM
POFI 2301
Word Processing (Word I)
30 WPM
POFI 2340
Advanced Word Processing (Word II)
35 WPM
POFT 2203
Speed and Accuracy Building
45 WPM

Students who cannot meet their prerequisite timings during the semester's Add/Drop period should consider taking keyboarding to improve their typing speed or register for a later session, which gives them more time to meet the prerequisite.

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