Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College: Distance Learning Programs

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ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Asheville, North Carolina
http://www.abtech.edu

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College was founded in 1959. It is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It first offered distance learning courses in 1999. In fall 2003, there were 680 students enrolled in distance learning courses. Institutionally administered financial aid is available to distance learners.

Services Distance learners have accessibility to academic advising, bookstore, campus computer network, e-mail services, library services.

Contact L. B. Holmes, Director of Distance Learning, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, 340 Victoria Road, Asheville, NC 28801. Telephone: 828-254-1921 Ext. 835. Fax: 828-281-9831. E-mail: [email protected].

DEGREES AND AWARDS

Programs offered do not lead to a degree or other formal award.

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS OFFERED OUTSIDE OF DEGREE PROGRAMS

Undergraduate— accounting; applied mathematics; biology, general; business administration and management; child care and guidance workers and managers; computer and information sciences, general; computer programming; data entry/microcomputer applications; economics; foreign languages and literatures; health and physical education/fitness; history; mathematical statistics; mathematics; philosophy and religion; psychology; sociology; speech and rhetorical studies.

Non-credit— business administration and management; business communications; computer programming; computer systems networking and telecommunications; construction management; data entry/microcomputer applications; entrepreneurship; family/consumer resource management; film/video and photographic arts; foreign languages and literatures; home/office products marketing; human resources management; individual and family development studies; legal studies; marketing management and research; quality control and safety technologies.

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