SWTX - Business Office Technology

NEW for Fall 2026: POFI 2371 Applied Artificial Intelligence for Business! 🖥️⚡

Expected to fill fast! Learn how AI can boost workflows, productivity, and everyday business tasks. Gain practical, career-focused skills that make you stand out!

🚨 BIG BOT NEWS 🚨

Starting this fall, all BOT students will be required to pass a new course:
POFT 1310 – Advanced Office Telepathy 🧠✨

Students will learn how to:
• send emails with their minds
• format spreadsheets by blinking
• and sense when a printer is about to jam before it happens

Just kidding. 😄
But in BOT, you will learn the real-world tech and office skills that make you look like magic in the workplace.


Southwest Texas College

No classes on Monday, January 26th, 2026.

Southwest Texas College will open on a delayed schedule Monday due to weather.

All SWTX campuses and offices will remain closed Monday morning, and employees should report at 1 p.m. when campus reopens. Classes are canceled for Monday and will resume on a normal schedule Tuesday. Please continue to monitor your email, the college website, and official SWTX social media for any additional updates.

Business Office Technology: Your Path to a Better Future At Southwest Texas College, we believe it's never too late to transform your career and create the future you deserve.

On behalf of SWTX’s Business Office Technology program, our hearts are with the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas—our neighbors, colleagues, and friends—and with Eagle Pass, our own community, following this weekend’s tragedy at the casino. We hold our Kickapoo community especially close in prayer, asking for comfort, healing, and strength for every family. With deep gratitude to the first responders and medical teams caring for us all. 🕯️

This happened today! Community Health Development is a great supporter of the Business Office Technology program and often hires our graduates!

Never stop learning. Every new skill is a fresh super-power—one that opens doors you don’t even know exist yet. So take that course, read that book, ask that question. Your future self is cheering you on! 🚀

🎥 From “too shy to order pizza” to the first female GM of a Triple-A baseball team… Emily Jaenson proves that confidence is a skill we can all build—one behavior at a time. In her TEDx talk she breaks down six simple habits that can make you feel 10× bolder in class, at work, or wherever your dreams lead.

Swipe/play to learn how to:
1️⃣ Count yourself in (the 3-2-1 trick that melts nerves)
2️⃣ Give yourself 20 seconds of courage
3️⃣ Claim a literal seat at the table
4️⃣ Celebrate others so everybody rises
5️⃣ Borrow confidence from what you already do well
6️⃣ Mark every win—big or small

🔗 Hit play and imagine what you could achieve with a little extra swagger today.

Six behaviors to increase your confidence | Emily Jaenson | TEDxReno Research tells us that the way to get people to change is not to start with trying to change their attitudes alone, but to start with the behaviors associate...